User Reviews

Apparently Richard Arlen who had appeared with Andy Devine in a series of B features at Universal was unavailable so his role obviously went to Don Terry with Leo Carillo taking on the major role of a heavily accented adventurer who wants to investigate the existence of a mysterious creature in Africa and gets the portly Devine to help him find Terry's doctor. A bland first half takes forever to get going, and by the time they get to the tropics,audience has most likely either falling asleep or tuned out. Louise Albritton, another Universal contract player, is also along for the ride.

This is notable because Devine's character isn't as annoying as he was in all of those secondary features with Arlen which are good for one view but not much else. The same can be said for this as until they start beating jungle drums and get sights of the weird creature, and all the usual cliches in jungle pictures take over including the presence of some one dimemsional Nazi's. It's all very silly and unrealistic, forced and somewhat tedious, with some rather eye rolling characterizations of jungle tribes who basically just run around with spears and scream out phrases straight out of the ooga booga school of thought. I suppose it was a great way for Universal to use standing sets and costumes from storage, but there's a little imagination put into the script, performances and action.