Everyone is after a golden Watusi idol that Bomba (Johnny Sheffield) has taken from the evil Ali Ben Mamoud (Paul Guilfoyle), who had stolen it. Among those after the treasure are a crooked ivory hunter, Joe Hawkins (Lane Bradford), who is brought into the matter by Mamoud but has plans of his own, and archaeologist …
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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 …
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After Johnny Sheffield was dropped from the Tarzan movies, he was signed by Monogram Pictures for a series of films bringing the children’s book character Bomba, the Jungle Boy, to the screen (at the same time, Johnny Weissmuller moved to Columbia to play Jungle Jim). Bomba and the Jungle Girl finds the young jungle dweller …
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