Evengyny Thanks for the memories!

ChicRawIdol A brilliant film that helped define a genre

Chirphymium It's entirely possible that sending the audience out feeling lousy was intentional

WillSushyMedia This movie was so-so. It had it's moments, but wasn't the greatest.

utgard14 Another Bomba the Jungle Boy movie starring Johnny Sheffield. Here our junior Tarzan is battling diamond smugglers who are forcing natives to work as slaves. Laurette Luez plays the daughter of one of them. She's certainly a looker. Not that Bomba would notice. Lyle Talbot plays the leader of the diamond smugglers, who first enters the picture posing as a hunter and fooling stupid Andy (Leonard Mudie). At this point Mudie has become a series regular. Woody Strode has a bit part as a jungle mailman (!). The jungle telegraph stuff is the highlight of the picture and that's saying something since most people will probably find it pretty ridiculous. There's the expected rear projection and stock footage, used to cheap effect. Bomba's fight with a lion is probably the weakest in the series up to this point. At its best the Bomba series was nothing special and only of interest as middling adventure stories. This is not the series at its best. Actually, this is one of the worst. Even at just 70 minutes the movie drags and feels like it takes forever. Of some minor interest for series fans but nothing here for casual viewers.

Michael_Elliott African Treasure (1952) * 1/2 (out of 4) The seventh film in Monogram's series finds Bomba (Johnny Sheffield) trying to stop some diamond smugglers (one played by Lyle Talbot) who are trying to get rich while abusing some local natives. African TREASURE is as cheap as the previous six films but there's very little entertainment to be found here. At just 70-minutes the film seems way too long and even worse is the fact that very little happens throughout the movie. The biggest problem is the actual screenplay that doesn't give the characters anything to do. For the most part we have three or four groups who are constantly wondering around and talking about what they're going to do when they run into one of the other groups. We hear the natives call Bomba the "White Devil" and we get such politically incorrect lines as a jungle girl telling them they don't have to fear him because he's white. Yes, there's a jungle girl here played by Laurette Luez and she tries to bring a love story but even this here falls flat. The only good thing that can be said about the film are a couple fine performances. Sheffield is obviously very comfortable in the role and he has no problem as he at least appears to be giving it his all. Talbot, a classic bad guy, also makes for some fun but one wishes he had more to do. You can look quickly for a young Woody Strode. Outside of these things there's pretty much nothing else going on. We see Bomba fight a fake lion and of course he has to rescue people.

sol ***SPOILERS*** Things didn't seem quite right for British Province Colonial Commissioner Andy Barnes, Leonard Maudie, when American big game hunter Pat Gilroy, Lyle Talbot, showed up, by boat, unannounced at his outpost deep in the African jungle. It's later in the movie when Barnes gets a post office wanted poster, from the Jungle Mailman, of escaped criminal Roy DeHaven that he realizes that both Gilroy and DeHaven are one and the same person! But by then DeHaven got the drop on Bearns and took him hostage in order to get, also by boat, to the Nujuli Crater where his two partners in crime Greg, not Laural, and Hardy, Arthur Space & Lane Bradford, are digging for the crater's mother load of diamonds with the help Pedro Sabastian, Martin Garralaga, and the Nomgola villagers. It was Pedro & the Nomgola villagers that Greg & Hardy took hostage after wiping out almost the entire Nomgola village and the members, including Prof.Catesby, of the Catesby Expedition who were staying there!Now where does the star of the movie Bomba, Johnny Sheffield, the Jungle Boy come into the picture? He's swinging on the jungle vines with his good friend and companion Kimbobo the Chimp when he spots this gorgeous young teenage girl and her guide walking through the dangerous jungle underbrush! Being attacked by a 500 pound male lion Bomba puts the big cat away without as much as breaking into a sweat. It's then that Bomba gets the lowdown from the girl Lita, Laurette Luez, in what she was doing there risking her life in the very inhospitable jungle!Lita's father-Pedro Sabastiant-was a member of the doomed Catesby Expedition who was taken prisoner together with the survivors of the Nomgola village massacre by Greg & Hardy to mine the diamonds at the Nujuli Crater! It's now up to Bomba the save Pedro and the villagers before Greg & Hardy have them buried alive after they mined all the diamonds for them. That's in order to keep them for talking to the police or the British Colonial Commissinor, Andy Bearns, about Greg & Hardy as well as the guy who's to fence the precious stones Roy DeHaven! It's Later that DeHaven is apprehended by the local natives lead by Berns' loyal native butler Eli, Smoki Whitefield, who stopped him from getting to Greg & Hardy before he and his hostage Bearns could make it to his boat. Bomba doesn't waste any time going into action but Greg & Hardy are a lot tougher then what he, and we in the audience, thought that they were. Getting himself easily clubbed beaten and tied up by the bad guys, which wasn't like him, Bomba has to rely on his good friend Kimbobo to pull his chestnuts out of the fire. Kimbobo does that by pelting Greg & Hardy with rocks and coconuts whenever they happened to get the best of his friend Bomba. It's later that Bomba, with the help of Kimbobo the Chimp, finally puts both Greg & Hardy in their place and behind bars. That's when they tired to make their escape by boat with the diamonds before Bomba and his jungle friends, monkeys exotic birds big cats and elephants, get a hold of them! Which in fact they, or at least Bomba & Kimbobo, did!P.S Check out former L.A Rams football great Woody Strode in a cameo part, if you blink you'll probably miss him, as the Jungle Mailman.

Leslie Howard Adams Andy Barnes (Leonard Mudie) gets word by short wave that two of the three geologists who passed through his district some weeks before were known diamond smugglers, and that nothing since has been heard of the trio. And he also learns that a hunter, Pat Gilroy (Lyle Talbot), who has just arrived at the compound is really an escaped convict named Roy DeHaven.Obviously, time to call in Bomba the Jungle Boy (Johnny Sheffield). He is summoned via the jungle drum wireless-telegraph, and Barnes asks Bomba to go to the cheesy back lot set and try to locate Gatesby, the geologist who was with Greg (Arthur Space) and Hardy (Lane Bradford.)Bomba finds the body of Gatesby but...lucky him and the viewer---he also finds Lita Sebastian (Laurette Luez), who is out in the jungle looking for her father, Pedro (Martin Garralaga),a Portuguese guide, and the cheesy jungle set now looks better than it did.Through the help of jungle drums and his animal friends, all stock footage except Kimbbo the Chimp, Bomba leads Lita to where her father, and a large number of natives, are being held as slaves by Greg and Hardy, who have found diamonds in the crater of an extinct volcano, known locally as The Mountain of Diamonds. Lita is captured by Greg, but Bomba has summoned help and Gerg and Hardy flee but not without first staring a landslide on the enslaved workers.Bomba has a lot of work to do before he can restore order to this jungle.