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The Lion Hunters: Directed by Ford Beebe. With Johnny Sheffield, Morris Ankrum, Ann E. Todd, Douglas Kennedy. Bomba the Jungle Boy informs ne'er-do-well lion hunters that the lions were meant to roam the jungle freely.
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- Adventure
- Ford Beebe
- 1951-03-25
The Lion Hunters is a 1951 American adventure film directed by Ford Beebe and starring Johnny Sheffield, Morris Ankrum, Douglas Kennedy and Ann E. Todd in her final feature film. It was the fifth in the 12-film Bomba, the Jungle Boy series, based on the Bomba series of juvenile adventure books.
In The Lion Hunters, Bomba comes into conflict with unscrupulous lion hunters and finds himself attracted to Jean Forbes, the daughter of one of them (an echo of the original Tarzan-Jane courtship). But in the end, having made the jungle safe once again for animals and Massai tribesmen, Bomba bids her goodbye.
- Ford Beebe, Edward Morey Jr.
- Johnny Sheffield
Shot on the border between Niger and Mali over a period of seven years, THE LION HUNTERS is Jean Rouch's documentation of the lion hunt performed by the gow hunters of the Songhay people.
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Bomba the Jungle Boy finds a wounded lion dying a slow and painful death, he finds a group on safari trapping lions for sale to zoos, which were unable to obtain such animals during the war.
A lion trapper and his daughter rendezvous with their hardheaded partner in the African jungle. Bomba, with assistance from a local tribe, strives to run them off.
