The Lion Hunters

75 minutesCountryUnited StatesLanguageEnglish

The Lion Hunters is a 1951 American adventure film directed by Ford Beebe and starring Johnny Sheffield, Morris Ankrum, Douglas Kennedy and Ann E. Todd in her final feature film. It was the fifth in the 12-film Bomba, the Jungle Boy series,^[1][2] based on the Bomba series of juvenile adventure books. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Dave Milton and Vin Taylor.

Plot Summary

A lion trapper [and his daughter] rendezvous with his hardheaded partner in the African jungle. Bomba befriends the girl, Jean, and explains to her why trapping lions is not right, and she comes to understand him; he later sabotages the men's plans, and with assistance from local Masai natives and lions, runs them off. In this film, Bomba uses the word "Ungawa" for the first time.

Cast

• Johnny Sheffield as Bomba
• Morris Ankrum as Tom Forbes
• Ann E. Todd as Jean Forbes
• Douglas Kennedy as Marty Martin
• Smoki Whitfield as Jonas
• Davis Roberts as Lohu
• Woody Strode [in his first credited role] as Walu

References

External links

• The Lion Hunters at IMDb
• The Lion Hunters at TCMDB
• The Lion Hunters at AllMovie
• The Lion Hunters at the AFI Catalog of Feature Films