Bring 'Em Back Alive (1932)

User Rating:

6.3/10   

Director:

Clyde E. Elliott

Writers:

Frank Buck (book) and
Edward Anthony (book)

Release Date:

19 August 1932 (USA)

Genre:

Adventure | Documentary

Plot:

American animal trapper Frank Buck travels with Ali, his "number one boy," on an expedition into the Malayan jungle...

Plot Keywords:

Leopard | Tiger | Jungle | Python | Native

Cast

Frank Buck

...

Himself and narrator

Also Known As:

Frank Buck's Bring 'Em Back Alive (USA) (complete title)
Jungle (USA) (working title)

Runtime:

65 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Black and White

Aspect Ratio:

1.37 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono (RCA Photophone System)

Certification:

USA:Approved (PCA #1433-R, 4 September 1935 for re-release) | USA:TV-G (TV rating)

Filming Locations:

Malaya

Company:

Van Beuren Studios

Trivia:

When the Motion Picture Herald reviewer doubted the authenticity of the animal fight sequences, Terry Ramsaye, editor of Motion Picture Herald, defended the film's authenticity, claiming that the animal action was all shot "in a compound adjacent to the city of Singapore, in the Straits Settlements." Ramsaye added, "The scenes staged and recorded in the compound may be accepted as dramatically reasonable reconstructions of what actually happens in the open jungle."

Movie Connections:

Featured in Cinerama Adventure (2002)

Wonderful and Horrifying at the same time

You will never find a better time capsule of 1933 than Bring 'Em Back Alive. This spectacular and horrifying documentary gets you inside the world and mind of one of the most celebrated hunters (and anthropologists!) of all time. This should be seen as one of the few surviving cinematic treatises on the state of wildlife in 1933 and also as a very telling piece of history.