The Naked Jungle (1954) |
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| Director(s) | Byron Haskin |
| Producer(s) | George Pal |
| Top Genres | Action, Adventure, Drama, Horror, Romance, Thriller/Suspense |
| Top Topics | Romance (Drama) |
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Eleanor Parker(as Joanna Leiningen)
The Naked Jungle
Released
1954
The Naked Jungle
Released
1954
Eleanor Parker
(as Joanna Leiningen)
Charlton Heston(as Christopher Leiningen)
The Naked Jungle
Released
1954
The Naked Jungle
Released
1954
Charlton Heston
(as Christopher Leiningen)
William Conrad(as Commissioner)
The Naked Jungle
Released
1954
The Naked Jungle
Released
1954
William Conrad
(as Commissioner)
Douglas Fowley(as Medicine Man)
The Naked Jungle
Released
1954
The Naked Jungle
Released
1954
Douglas Fowley
(as Medicine Man)
The Naked Jungle Overview:
The Naked Jungle (1954) was a Adventure - Drama Film directed by Byron Haskin and produced by George Pal.
The Naked Jungle BlogHub Articles:
The Naked Jungle (1954, Byron Haskin)
If there are faults with The Naked Jungle, ones not the result of having to follow the Hays Code–which the film skirts thanks to Ben Maddow and Ranald MacDougall’s excellent dialogue, Eleanor Parker’s fantastic, intelligent performance and Charlton Heston’s brute force approa... Read full article
The Naked Jungle
The Naked Jungle (Byron Haskins, 1954) This wonderful adventure movie starring Charlton Heston as Christopher Leiningen, a wealthy self-made man living on his cocoa plantation in Amazonia, diserves much praise than it actually received. Christopher has built his fortune with his own hands and boug... Read full article
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The Naked Jungle Quotes:
Joanna Leiningen:
If you knew anything about music, you'd know that the best piano is one that's been played.
Joanna Leiningen:
Everything I say seems to make things worse. I'm trying not to irritate you.
Christopher Leiningen: I've noticed that. I find it irritating.
Christopher Leiningen: I've noticed that. I find it irritating.
Commissioner:
Leiningen, you're up against a monster twenty miles long and two miles wide... forty square miles of agonizing death! You can't stop it!
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Stock footage of this movie was used in Trumbo's World, in which MacGyver and a plantation owner fight an army of ants.
Charlton Heston improvised during the argument scene between Eleanor Parker and himself. It was not scripted that he splash perfume all over her. This move intensified the action and a surprised Parker was able to react accordingly.
"Lux Radio Theater" broadcast a 60 minute radio adaptation of the movie onJune 7, 1954 with Charlton Heston reprising his film role.
While preparing to shoot the sequence where Leiningen pours oil on himself to repel the ants, Charlton Heston was told that oil would ruin his wardrobe so syrup would be used instead. Heston spent a miserable day on location as the "oil" attracted every insect for miles.
William Conrad, who plays the commissioner in this movie, played the lead role of Leiningen in the 1948 radio play, "Leiningen vs. the Ants", the original story upon which this movie was based.