Bomba Movie Collection

In 1949, Monogram Pictures brought the character to the motion-picture screen,
in the person of Johnny Sheffield.[2] Sheffield was already established as an outdoor
star; he had portrayed the character Boy in the Tarzan movies with Johnny Weissmuller.
When the Bomba films, all set in Africa, proved popular with young audiences


Lord of the Jungle 1955
Killer Leopard 1954
The Golden Idol 1954
Safari Drums 1953
Bomba and the Jungle Girl 1952
African Treasure 1952
Elephant Stampede 1951
The Lion Hunters 1951
Bomba and the Hidden City 1950
The Lost Volcano 1950
Bomba on Panther Island 1949
Bomba, the Jungle Boy 1949


All 12 Movies on 3 DVD's

1. BOMBA THE JUNGLE BOY (1949 – 70 minutes)
Features: Johnny Sheffield. Peggy Ann Garner. Onslow Stevens. Charles Irwin. Smoki Whitfield.
Martin Wilkins. A photographer and his daughter arrive in Africa hoping to capture the local wildlife
on film. Instead, they encounter (and never end up photographing) a killer leopard, a swarm of locusts,
deadly lion worshippers, and Bomba the Jungle Boy. Bomba was raised by an aged naturalist,
Cody Casson (since deceased). He now lives beyond the Great Rift (similar to, but smaller than,
Tarzan's Escarpment). The photographer's daughter, wearing a well-tailored leopard skin, spends
most of the movie with Bomba, while her father, Commissioner Barnes, and Eli search for her.


2. BOMBA ON PANTHER ISLAND (1949 – 76 minutes)
Features: Johnny Sheffield. Allene Roberts. Lita Baron. Harry Lewis. Charles Irwin. Smoki Whitfield.
A developer brings his sister with him to Africa and plans to build a plantation. Commissioner Barnes
and Eli appear to lend him a hand, but unfortunately for them (and Bomba's monkey friend) a rogue
panther is on the loose. Bomba, with revenge on his mind, is hunting the panther when he comes
upon the construction site. He gets sidetracked by the sister and her exotic traveling companion,
but recovers in time to battle the panther.


3. THE LOST VOLCANO (1950 – 67 minutes)
Features: Donald Woods. Marjorie Lord. John Ridgely. Robert Lewis. Elena Verdugo. Don C. Harvey.
Grandon Rhodes. Tommy Ivo. The parents of a young boy think Bomba is just an imaginary friend.
Luckily, they learn differently after the boy is kidnapped by a pair of crooked jungle guides who are
searching for a lost city's treasure. [Johnny Sheffield] Bomba rescues the boy, battles a croc, and
with the help of an erupting volcano and a python, finishes off the bad guys.


4. THE HIDDEN CITY (1950 – 71 minutes)
Features: Sue England. Paul Guilfoyle. Damian O'Flynn. Leon Belasco. Charles La Torre.
Smoki Whitfield. A photographer and his guide meet a corrupt Emir with a dirty secret. Only Bomba
knows the truth and the Emir wants him silenced. Bomba defeats the Emir and his henchmen, returning
a lost princess to her throne. This is the first Bomba movie to be filmed outdoors.


5. THE LION HUNTERS (1951 – 75 minutes)
Features: Morris Ankrum. Ann B. Todd. Douglas Kennedy. Smoki Whitfield. Robert Davis.
Woody Strode. A lion trapper and his daughter rendezvous with their hardheaded partner in the
African jungle. Bomba, with some assistance from the local natives and lions, runs them off.
Bomba uses the word, "Umgawa," for the first time.


6. ELEPHANT STAMPEDE (1951 – 71 minutes)
Features: Donna Martell. John Kellog. Edith Evanson. Martin Wilkins. Myron Healey. Leonard Mudie.
Guy Kingsford. A school teacher has the locals learning to read. Her beautiful assistant is teaching
Bomba, when two ivory poachers arrive in the village, who try to force Bomba to lead them to a hidden
cache of ivory. Bomba calls on his elephant friends to deal out the fitting finish.
A new Commissioner Barnes shows up and he appears in all of the adventures which follow.


7. AFRICAN TREASURE (1952 – 70 minutes)
Features: Laurette Luez. Lyle Talbot. Arthur Space. Lane Bradford. Martin Garralaga. Smoki Whitfield.
Leonard Mudie. Two unscrupulous geologists force the locals to work in a hidden diamond mine.
Bomba, who narrowly avoids being buried alive, rescues them and defeats the villains. Bomba
demonstrates some communication skills as a jungle drummer (an ability that is used in all the
movies that follow). There is also some underwater action in this movie and a cameo by
Woody Strode.


8. BOMBA AND THE JUNGLE GIRL (1952 – 70 minutes)
Features: Karen Sharpe. Walter Sande. Suzette Harbin. Martin Wilkins. Morris Buchanan.
Leonard Mudie. Don Blackman. Bomba decides to find out who his parents were. He starts with
Cody Casson's diary and follows the trail to a native village. An ancient blind woman tells him his
parents, along the village's true ruler, were murdered by the current chieftain and his daughter.
With the aid of an inspector and his daughter, Bomba battles the usurpers in the cave where his
parents were buried.


9. SAFARI DRUMS (1953 – 71 minutes)
Features: Douglas Kennedy. Barbara Bestar. Paul Marion. Russ Conway. Emory Parnell.
Smoki Whitfield. Leonard Mudie. A millionaire brings a tiger and film crew to Africa in hopes of
staging a battle between the lion and a tiger. Commissioner Barnes learns that one of the crew
is a murderer and asks Bomba to find out which one. The Lost Volcano erupts again (this film
makes use of previously seen footage) and there is a battle between a lion and a tiger.


10. THE GOLDEN IDOL (1954 – 71 minutes)
Features: Anne Kimbell. Paul Guilfoyle. Leonard Mudie. Smoki Whitfield. Lane Bradford. Rick Vallin.
Prince Ali wants the Golden Idol of Watusi and hires a ruthless hunter to get it for him. Bomba has
the idol and, with the help of Commissioner Barnes, Eli, and a beautiful archeologist, he foils Ali's
plans. [Anne Kimbell] Ali and the hunter are noticeably more cold-blooded than most of Bomba's
adversaries.


11. KILLER LEOPARD (1954 – 70 minutes)
Features: Beverly Garland. Barry Bernard. Donald Murphy. Leonard Mudie. Smoki Whitfield.
Russ Conway. Rory Mallinson. Roy Glenn. Bomba is hunting a rogue leopard when Commissioner
Barnes asks him to assist a movie starlet trying to find her lost husband. The husband, wanting
nothing to do with his famous wife, isn't lost but is in Africa attempting to use money he embezzled
to purchase illicit diamonds.


12. LORD OF THE JUNGLE (1955 – 69 minutes)
Features: Wayne Morris. Nancy Hale. Paul Picerni. William Phipps. Smoki Whitfield. Leonard Mudie.
James Adamson. Bomba must locate a rogue elephant before a stubborn group of government agents
slaughter the entire herd. Surprisingly, Commissioner Barnes sides with the agents but his visiting
niece helps Bomba. After surviving a stampede (while tied up), Bomba identifies the guilty elephant
and rescues the herd.

 

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