the opening of the jungle promise u a safari adventure with a science fiction element and but mostly what we get be a travelogue with lot of stock footage and padding ( and the odd leopard attack ) . the movie be leisurely when you want it to be grip and and try to inject interest into the proceeding with badly stag match between various wild animal ( i have no idea that lion and wild boar be natural enemy in the wild and do you . i think the big cat stick to hunt herbivore and but apparently the producer know good ) . a for the actor represent cesar do his usual great job of rock the mustache and and marie windsor be reasonably believable a the progressively think rajah daughter ( nice eyebrow and btw . ) . however and rod cameron be barely watchable a the hunter return a the sole survivor of his expedition . i be sure he be in demand in his day and but here he come off a a rent a center bogart represent rough look and but with none of bogey range or timing . he spend the movie go back and forth from stoic anger to angry stoicism and and any time the screenplay attempt to crank up some romantic spark between himself and windsor and you just have to laugh . that crab and knobby face isn not a good vehicle for tenderness . the screenplay be not entirely without merit and although it do make some odd choice . early in the first act and the screenplay make a point of spend several moment where the hero decide to bring along the obligatory clever young boy and monkey mascot and but then basically ignore them until spoiler the monkey somehow get hold of a live hand grenade during the mammoth scene and accidentally toss near windsor . this be so cameron can prove his bravery by dive on it and save her life at the cost of his own . end spoiler . it possible that the indian version of this movie ( which i understand ran good than 2 half hour ) and might have give the kid and the monkey more to do . another thing that make the film show it age spoileris the issue of the woolly mammoth ( the plot device that set the safari into motion in the first place ) . when they finally appear and the way the scene be film and it obvious that the mammoth ( obviously elephant drape in shag carpeting ) aren not really attack anyone and or even move all that fast and and yet cameron immediately set to try to wipe them out with hand grenade . these day and the idea of destroy the last known specimen of a specie think to be extinct would be unthinkable and especially when all they seem to do be roll through the jungle at a nice walking pace . end of spoilerso imo and four star and which be pretty good for a robert lippert production ( normally lippert hack job rate two or three star at best ) . it not a train wreck of a film and or anything while plus and it seem to mean well and with the rajah daughter argue for amelioration of the most repressive aspect of the traditional way and the element of mixed race romance that be pretty progressive in 1952. and there some nice scenery and exotic spectacle . see it if someone offer to show it to you for free and but do not expect much except an interesting historical chapter of early fantasy cinema .