Elephant Stampede (1951)

Director:

Ford Beebe

Writers:

Roy Rockwood (character creator)
Ford Beebe (original screenplay)

Release Date:

28 October 1951 (USA)

Genre:

Action | Adventure | Crime | Thriller

Plot:

Elephant poachers Joe Collins and Bob Warren plan to steal a load of ivory which the natives want to give to the missionary...

Plot Keywords:

Elephant | Jungle | Bomba | Native | Guide

Cast

Johnny Sheffield	...	Bomba
Donna Martell	...	Lola
John Kellogg	...	Bob Warren
Myron Healey	...	Joe Collins
Edith Evanson	...	Miss Banks
Leonard Mudie	...	Andy Barnes
Martin Wilkins	...	Chief Nagalia
Guy Kingsford	...	Mark Phillips
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
James Adamson	...	Malako (uncredited)
Max Thrower	...	Native (uncredited)

Directed by
Ford Beebe

Writing credits
Roy Rockwood		(character creator)
Ford Beebe		(original screenplay)

Produced by
Walter Mirisch	....	producer

Original Music by
Raoul Kraushaar
Mort Glickman		(uncredited)

Cinematography by
William A. Sickner		(as William Sickner)

Film Editing by
William Austin

Art Direction by
Dave Milton		(as David Milton)

Set Decoration by
Vin Taylor

Production Management
Allen K. Wood	....	production supervisor

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
William A. Calihan Jr.	....	assistant director (as William Calihan)

Sound Department
John K. Kean	....	sound (as John Kean)

Special Effects by
Max Luttenberg	....	special effects

Production Companies

• Monogram Pictures

Distributors

• Monogram Pictures (1951) (USA) (theatrical)
• Associated British Film Distributors (ABFD) (1951) (UK) (theatrical)

Also Known As:

Runtime:

71 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Black and White

Aspect Ratio:

1.37 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono (Western Electric Recording)

Certification:

USA:Approved (PCA #15483) | USA:Passed (National Board of Review) | Finland:S | Sweden:Btl

Filming Locations:

Los Angeles County Arboretum & Botanic Garden - 301 N. Baldwin Avenue, Arcadia, California, USA

Company:

Monogram Pictures

Goofs:

Anachronisms: The story takes place in Africa, but all of the elephants, except those seen in brief snippets of archive footage, are Indian, not African; in some of the sequences, obviously lifted out of previous films, large, artificial ears have been attached to the Indian elephants to make them look more like their African cousins, but the results are nothing more than ludicrous.

Quotes:

Joe Collins:[referring to Bomba] He's tough, Bob. You'll never get anything out of him.

Movie Connections:

Followed by African Treasure (1952)

An enjoyable jungle adventure

I was lucky to get hold of a copy of this movie as it is quite hard to get hold of, as are all of the Bomba movies.

In this one, some illegal poachers arrive in the jungle and kill an elephant. After killing their leader, they try and kill more elephants but Bomba tries to stop them and eventually succeeds by getting a heard of elephants to trample them to death.

Johnny Sheffield plays Bomba once again and takes a good part. A lot of the scenes involving the elephants running is stock footage I think. Bomba also has a young lady who fancies him in this movie. She is learning him to read.

I enjoyed watching this movie. Watch it if you are lucky enough to get the chance.

Rating: 3 and a half stars out of 5.