Bomba (Johnny Sheffield) becomes involved with a safari out to capture footage of wild animals and must stay with them, despite his condemnation of some of their behavior, because an unknown member of the safari had murdered a geologist and had stolen both diamonds and a map to a diamond mine. The contriving necessary to make use of some stock footage was a bit too much, although it did give the filmmakers the opportunity to make it clear that, as a young man living far from civilization in Africa, Bomba had never seen a tiger. The backer of the safari is a bit unsympathetic, and his employees not much, if at all, better. On the other hand, it was good to see both Bomba’s cleverness, in seeing through attempts to manipulate him, and also the commissioner’s reliance on him. This is thus an OK entry in the series, even if the identity of the killer was a bit disappointing.

  Mildly recommended. Otto judiciously thinks this movie is OK, but not great.

Movie 47 for 2021.