Welcome to the Jungle
by joe_538 | created - 20 Apr 2013 | updated - 2 months ago | PublicAdventures set in the jungles, plains, and rain forests of Africa, Asia, South America, New Guinea, etc... Spanning over 100 years, mostly old-fashioned safari films, as well as the more dramatic ones that came later (Everything from Tarzan to Blood Diamond).
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1. The Ghost and the Darkness (1996)
R | 110 min | Adventure, Drama, Thriller
A bridge engineer and an experienced old hunter begin a hunt for two lions after they start attacking local construction workers.
Director: Stephen Hopkins | Stars: Michael Douglas, Val Kilmer, Tom Wilkinson, John Kani
Votes: 50,071 | Gross: $38.62M
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2. Wamba, a Child of the Jungle (1913)
Drama, Short
Wamba, a half-breed woman, and her Portuguese husband, Pete, live near a jungle in British East Africa. One day Wamba's child falls sick and she asks her inebriated husband to get Dr. Rice,... See full summary »
Director: Colin Campbell | Stars: Tom Santschi, Bessie Eyton, Frank Clark, Eugenie Besserer
3. The Mysterious Man of the Jungle (1914)
Adventure
Director: Thomas S. Nash | Star: Otto Breitkreutz
4. Perils of the Jungle (1915)
Short, Drama
Director: E.A. Martin | Stars: Edwin Wallock, Marion Warner, William Stowell, Vivian Reed
5. Tarzan of the Apes (1918)
Not Rated | 73 min | Action, Adventure
The plot follows the novel more closely than does any other Tarzan movie. John and Alice Clayton take ship for Africa. Mutineers maroon them. After his parents die the newborn Tarzan is ... See full summary »
Director: Scott Sidney | Stars: Elmo Lincoln, Enid Markey, True Boardman, Kathleen Kirkham
Votes: 548 | Gross: $3.27M
6. The Romance of Tarzan (1918)
70 min | Action, Adventure
Tarzan and Jane are to sail for England. They are attacked by natives and Tarzan is believed to have been killed. The Greystoke relatives return to England, the Porters (Jane's family) goes... See full summary »
Director: Wilfred Lucas | Stars: Elmo Lincoln, Enid Markey, Thomas Jefferson, Cleo Madison
Votes: 17
7. Allan Quatermain (1919)
Adventure
Director: Horace Lisle Lucoque | Stars: Albert Lawrence, H.J. Hamlin, Raymond Brown, Mabel May
Votes: 10
8. The Son of Tarzan (1920)
248 min | Action, Adventure
The scenario follows the book closely. Tarzan's son Jack (Korak to the apes) is kidnapped from England by Tarzan's old enemy Paulovich. He escapes into the African jungle with the help of ... See full summary »
Directors: Arthur J. Flaven, Harry Revier | Stars: Kamuela C. Searle, P. Dempsey Tabler, Nita Martan, Karla Schramm
Votes: 58
9. The Leopard Woman (1920)
68 min | Adventure
An epic of passion, intrigue, and espionage set in the African Jungle.
Director: Wesley Ruggles | Stars: Louise Glaum, House Peters, Noble Johnson, Benny Ayers
Votes: 15
10. Terror Island (1920)
Not Rated | 55 min | Mystery
An inventor travels to the South Seas, where there is buried treasure belonging to a girl. The girl's father is being held captive by cannibals until she returns a pearl that belongs to one of their idols.
Director: James Cruze | Stars: Harry Houdini, Jack Brammall, Lila Lee, Wilton Taylor
Votes: 126
11. The Revenge of Tarzan (1920)
90 min | Action, Adventure
Tarzan and Jane are sailing for France in answer to a call for help from Countess de Coude who is being persecuted by her brother Rokoff. After a duel with the Countess' jealous husband, ... See full summary »
Directors: Harry Revier, George M. Merrick | Stars: Gene Pollar, Karla Schramm, Estelle Taylor, Armand Cortes
Votes: 23
12. The Lost City (1920)
Action, Adventure
Director: E.A. Martin | Stars: Juanita Hansen, George Chesebro, Frank Clark, Hector Dion
13. The Adventures of Tarzan (1921)
Passed | 60 min | Action, Adventure
Tarzan spurns the love of La, Queen of Opar. When he isn't trying to keep the Bolshevik Rokoff and Clayton (pretender to the Greystoke estate) from reaching Opar, he is attacked ... See full summary »
Directors: Robert F. Hill, Scott Sidney | Stars: Elmo Lincoln, Louise Lorraine, Scott Pembroke, Frank Whitson
Votes: 82
14. Hunting Big Game in Africa with Gun and Camera (1922)
Documentary
Directors: H.A. Snow, Sidney Snow | Stars: H.A. Snow, Sidney Snow
15. The Lost World (1925)
Unrated | 106 min | Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
The first film adaptation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's classic novel about a land where prehistoric creatures still roam.
Director: Harry O. Hoyt | Stars: Wallace Beery, Bessie Love, Lloyd Hughes, Lewis Stone
Votes: 3,821 | Gross: $0.55M
16. Livingstone (1925)
Biography
The story of Dr. David Livingstone and his work in Africa to stop slavery and bring education to the locals.
Director: M.A. Wetherell | Stars: M.A. Wetherell, Molly Rogers, Henry Walton, Reginald Fox
Votes: 10
17. Tarzan and the Golden Lion (1927)
57 min | Action, Adventure
Flora Hawks is in love with the overseer of Tarzan's African estate. After a search for a legendary city of diamonds, Tarzon races with his pet lion Jad-bal-ja to save Haws from being sacrificed to a lion-god.
Director: J.P. McGowan | Stars: James Pierce, Frederick Peters, Edna Murphy, Harold Goodwin
Votes: 104
18. Chang: A Drama of the Wilderness (1927)
Passed | 69 min | Adventure, Documentary
Elephants disrupt the lives of a family deep in the jungles of Northern Siam, and an entire village.
Directors: Merian C. Cooper, Ernest B. Schoedsack | Stars: Kru, Chantui, Nah, Ladah
Votes: 774
19. Tarzan the Mighty (1928)
Action, Adventure
Mary and Bobby Trevor are castaways befriended by Tarzan. When Lord arrives, looking for the family heir, Black John tries to fill that role and marry Mary in England. Tarzan shows up and marries her instead.
Directors: Jack Nelson, Ray Taylor | Stars: Frank Merrill, Al Ferguson, Natalie Kingston, Bobby Nelson
Votes: 16
20. West of Zanzibar (1928)
TV-G | 65 min | Drama, Mystery
A magician seeks vengeance upon the man who paralyzed him and the illegitimate daughter he sired with the magician's wife.
Director: Tod Browning | Stars: Lon Chaney, Lionel Barrymore, Mary Nolan, Warner Baxter
Votes: 1,302 | Gross: $0.92M
21. The King of the Kongo (1929)
Action, Adventure, Romance
A Secret Service agent searches the jungle for his missing brother, also an agent. He encounters a young woman there who is also searching, but for her missing father. They encounter a gang... See full summary »
Director: Richard Thorpe | Stars: Jacqueline Logan, Walter Miller, Richard Tucker, Boris Karloff
Votes: 20
22. Seven Footprints to Satan (1929)
Passed | 60 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
A young man of society wants to make an expedition to Africa, but his fiancée asks him for help about one of her fathers guests shortly before his planed departure. Her suspects about that ... See full summary »
Director: Benjamin Christensen | Stars: Thelma Todd, Creighton Hale, Sheldon Lewis, William V. Mong
Votes: 223
23. Stark Mad (1929)
Passed | 70 min | Action, Adventure, Crime
An expedition sets out through the jungle to find a missing explorer, but stumbles upon an ancient Mayan temple that houses a giant ape.
Director: Lloyd Bacon | Stars: H.B. Warner, Louise Fazenda, Jacqueline Logan, Henry B. Walthall
24. Tarzan the Tiger (1929)
Passed | 266 min | Action, Adventure
After Tarzan's estate is destroyed by Arabs Jane is sold into slavery by a man posing as a friendly scientist. Tarzan develops amnesia after a blow to the head. When he recovers his memory ... See full summary »
Director: Henry MacRae | Stars: Frank Merrill, Natalie Kingston, Al Ferguson, Lillian Worth
Votes: 73
25. Ingagi (1930)
75 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy
An expedition enters an area of the Congo jungle to investigate reports of a gorilla-worshipping tribe. After many dangerous adventures, they come upon the tribe they sought, only to watch ... See full summary »
Director: William Campbell | Stars: Sir Hubert Winstead, Charles Gemora, Daniel Swayne, Arthur Clayton
Votes: 30 | Gross: $4.00M
26. The Man Hunter (1930)
Passed | Action, Adventure, Romance
A dramatic story of love and intrigue in Darkest Africa along the Ivory Coast, where all the dangers of the tropics beset the white man and the white man's dog. Once Rinty gets acclimated ... See full summary »
Director: D. Ross Lederman | Stars: Rin Tin Tin, Charles Delaney, Nora Lane, John Loder
Votes: 11
27. Vengeance (I) (1930)
Passed | 66 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
John Meadham, has for years been in charge of a West Africa trading post, wire the home office in London that he is tired and worn out, and they need to send a replacement to take over. The... See full summary »
Director: Archie Mayo | Stars: Jack Holt, Dorothy Revier, Philip Strange, George C. Pearce
Votes: 13
28. East of Borneo (1931)
77 min | Adventure
Woman treks through jungle to find her missing husband.
Director: George Melford | Stars: Rose Hobart, Charles Bickford, Georges Renavent, Lupita Tovar
Votes: 127
29. The Blonde Captive (1931)
Passed | 59 min | Action, Adventure, Thriller
An expedition is sent into the rugged Australian outback to search for a lost white woman.
Directors: Clifton Childs, Paul Withington | Stars: Clifton Childs, Lowell Thomas, Paul Withington
Votes: 28
30. Danger Island (1931)
Passed | 220 min | Action, Adventure, Thriller
The daughter of a man who has discovered radium on an African island is befriended by two people whose real goal is to keep the discovery to themselves.
Director: Ray Taylor | Stars: Kenneth Harlan, Lucile Browne, Tom Ricketts, Walter Miller
31. King of the Wild (1931)
Passed | 248 min | Action, Adventure, Horror
American adventurer Richard Grant is falsely accused of murdering an Indian noble and escapes to Africa in search of diamond field and the real culprit.
Director: Richard Thorpe | Stars: Walter Miller, Nora Lane, Tom Santschi, Boris Karloff
Votes: 53
32. Rango (1931)
66 min | Adventure
The frame story is narrated by a white father to his son. He explains that man's closest relative in nature is the orangutan, which translates literally as "man of the forest." He then ... See full summary »
Director: Ernest B. Schoedsack | Stars: Jaro Fürth, Claude King, Rango, Roby Roberts
Votes: 7
33. Trader Horn (1931)
Passed | 122 min | Adventure, Romance
Two white traders in the darkest Africa of the 1870s find a missionary's daughter, who was captured as a child by a savage tribe and now worshiped as a goddess.
Director: W.S. Van Dyke | Stars: Harry Carey, Edwina Booth, Duncan Renaldo, Mutia Omoolu
Votes: 745
34. Tarzan the Ape Man (1932)
Passed | 100 min | Action, Adventure, Romance
A trader and his daughter set off in search of the fabled graveyard of the elephants in deepest Africa, only to encounter a wild man raised by apes.
Director: W.S. Van Dyke | Stars: Johnny Weissmuller, Neil Hamilton, C. Aubrey Smith, Maureen O'Sullivan
Votes: 6,069
35. Kongo (1932)
Passed | 86 min | Drama, Horror
This remake of West of Zanzibar (1928) made four years later tries to outdo the Lon Chaney original in morbidity. From a wheelchair a handicapped white man rules an area of Africa as a ... See full summary »
Director: William J. Cowen | Stars: Walter Huston, Lupe Velez, Conrad Nagel, Virginia Bruce
Votes: 689
36. The Savage Girl (1932)
Passed | 66 min | Adventure, Comedy
A white jungle goddess is protected by a fierce killer gorilla.
Director: Harry L. Fraser | Stars: Rochelle Hudson, Walter Byron, Harry Myers, Adolph Milar
Votes: 134
37. Trader Mickey (1932)
8 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
Mickey Mouse and Pluto are traveling up an African river with a cargo of goods (including several musical instruments). They hit land and are captured by cannibals who plan to eat them. As ... See full summary »
Directors: Burt Gillett, David Hand | Stars: Pinto Colvig, Walt Disney
Votes: 186
38. Jungle Mystery (1932)
Passed | 240 min | Action, Adventure
In Africa, two hunters meet a girl and her father who are searching for her lost brother. Their search is complicated by rival hunters who are after ivory and by a tribe of hostile natives.
Director: Ray Taylor | Stars: Tom Tyler, Noah Beery Jr., Cecilia Parker, William Desmond
Votes: 12
39. Hell's Headquarters (1932)
Not Rated | 63 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance
Doctor Smith and his wife, Mary,depart a riverboat and are met by Phil Talbot. Phil informs Dr. Smith that Jessup, the only other white man in the village, has died while the doctor and his... See full summary »
Director: Andrew L. Stone | Stars: Jack Mulhall, Barbara Weeks, Frank Mayo, Phillips Smalley
Votes: 31
40. The Most Dangerous Game (1932)
Not Rated | 63 min | Adventure, Horror, Mystery
An insane hunter arranges for a ship to be wrecked on an island where he can indulge in some sort of hunting and killing of the passengers.
Directors: Irving Pichel, Ernest B. Schoedsack | Stars: Joel McCrea, Fay Wray, Leslie Banks, Robert Armstrong
Votes: 8,237
Features the jungle set from King Kong.
41. Bring 'Em Back Alive (1932)
TV-G | 65 min | Adventure, Documentary
American animal trapper Frank Buck travels with Ali, his "number one boy," on an expedition into the Malayan jungle. From their jungle headquarters just north of Singapore, Frank, Ali and a... See full summary »
Director: Clyde E. Elliott | Star: Frank Buck
Votes: 67
42. So This Is Africa (1933)
Passed | 61 min | Comedy, Musical
Bert Wheeler and Robert Woolsey play a couple of broke, hungry vaudevillians who are holed up in a hotel room with a few (tame) lions. They are hired by a movie producer who wishes to send ... See full summary »
Director: Edward F. Cline | Stars: Robert Woolsey, Bert Wheeler, Raquel Torres, Esther Muir
Votes: 64
43. King of the Jungle (1933)
Passed | 73 min | Action, Adventure
A white youth who is raised in the jungle by the animals is captured by a safari and brought back to civilization as an attraction in a circus.
Directors: H. Bruce Humberstone, Max Marcin | Stars: Buster Crabbe, Frances Dee, Sidney Toler, Nydia Westman
Votes: 60
44. King Kong (1933)
Not Rated | 100 min | Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi
A film crew goes to a tropical island for an exotic location shoot and discovers a colossal ape who takes a shine to their female blonde star. He is then captured and brought back to New York City for public exhibition.
Directors: Merian C. Cooper, Ernest B. Schoedsack | Stars: Fay Wray, Robert Armstrong, Bruce Cabot, Frank Reicher
Votes: 70,488 | Gross: $10.00M
45. Nagana (1933)
62 min | Drama
A doctor searches for the cure for nagana, the sleeping sickness caused by the tsetse fly.
Director: Ernst L. Frank | Stars: Tala Birell, Melvyn Douglas, Miki Morita, Onslow Stevens
46. Jungle Bride (1933)
Passed | 63 min | Adventure, Crime, Drama
A young woman believes that an actor committed the murder for which her brother has been imprisoned, and she gets her fiancé--a newspaper reporter--to accompany her in following the ... See full summary »
Directors: Harry O. Hoyt, Albert H. Kelley | Stars: Anita Page, Charles Starrett, Kenneth Thomson, Eddie Borden
Votes: 68
47. Tarzan the Fearless (1933)
Unrated | 200 min | Action, Adventure
In the African Jungle, a group of Europeans come across the fabled white man who was raised by apes. Tarzan takes an immediate liking to the blond Mary Brooks and rescues her during a nasty... See full summary »
Director: Robert F. Hill | Stars: Buster Crabbe, Julie Bishop, Edward Woods, Philo McCullough
Votes: 522
48. Fury of the Jungle (1933)
Passed | 68 min | Drama
Joan Leesom is stranded in a remote South American jungle village. She is pursued by the rapacious Taggart Taggart, however, has been involved with the beautiful native girl Chita. Chita ... See full summary »
Director: Roy William Neill | Stars: Donald Cook, Peggy Shannon, Alan Dinehart, Harold Huber
Votes: 7
49. The Lost Jungle (I) (1934)
243 min | Adventure, Sci-Fi
Animal trainer Clyde Beatty heads a rescue party in search of his girl, Ruth, and her father who get lost looking for an uncharted island. His dirigible crashes into the jungles of the ... See full summary »
Directors: David Howard, Armand Schaefer | Stars: Clyde Beatty, Cecilia Parker, Syd Saylor, Warner Richmond
Votes: 171
50. Beyond Bengal (1934)
Passed | 62 min | Action, Adventure
The record of an expedition deep into the Malayan jungle.
Director: Harry Schenck | Stars: Harry Schenck, Joan Baldwin, John Martin, Nain Sei
Votes: 28
51. The Beast of Borneo (1934)
63 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama