The 1954 film The Naked Jungle starring Charlton Heston and Eleanor Parker centres on the story of a Peruvian cocoa plantation that is threatened by destruction by which typoe of creatures ?
The Naked Jungle The Naked Jungle The Naked Jungle is a 1954 film directed by Byron Haskin, and starring Charlton Heston and Eleanor Parker. Telling the story of an attack of army ants on a Brazilian cocoa plantation, it was based on the 1937 short story "Leiningen Versus the Ants" by Carl Stephenson. In 1970, it aired on WVUE-TV in New Orleans, Louisiana, as part of its highly publicized switch of channel positions with that city's PBS member station, WYES-TV. In 1901, mail-order bride Joanna (Eleanor Parker) arrives from New Orleans at a South American cocoa plantation to meet her new husband, plantation
Leiningen Versus the Ants In 1948, the story was adapted into a radio play as part of the CBS Radio series, "Escape" with William Conrad providing the voice of Leiningen for the January 14th debut broadcast. "Escape" revived the story twice, on May 23, 1948 (again with Conrad as Leiningen) and on August 4, 1949 (with Tudor Owen as Leiningen). It was adapted in 1954 by Ranald MacDougall and Ben Maddow into the film "The Naked Jungle", starring Charlton Heston as Leiningen and Eleanor Parker as his mail order bride Joanna, and featuring William Conrad as the commissioner. The story was again adapted into