The Naked Jungle (1954) | |
| Director(s) | Byron Haskin |
| Producer(s) | George Pal |
| Top Genres | Action, Adventure, Drama, Horror, Romance, Thriller/Suspense |
| Top Topics | Romance (Drama) |
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The Naked Jungle (1954) was a Adventure - Drama Film directed by Byron Haskin and produced by George Pal.
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The Naked Jungle (1954, Byron Haskin)
By Andrew Wickliffe on Sep 25, 2015 From The Stop ButtonIf there are faults with The Naked Jungle, ones not the result of having to follow the Hays Code–which the film skirts thanks to Ben Maddow and Ranald MacDougall’s excellent dialogue, Eleanor Parker’s fantastic, intelligent performance and Charlton Heston’s brute force approa... Read full article
The Naked Jungle
By Michael on Feb 23, 2011 From Le Mot du CinephiliaqueThe Naked Jungle (Byron Haskins, 1954) This wonderful adventure movie starring Charlton Heston as Christopher Leiningen, a wealthy self-made man living on his cocoa plantation in Amazonia, diserves much praise than it actually received. Christopher has built his fortune with his own hands and boug... Read full article
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Joanna Leiningen:
Do you think this moat will stop them?
Christopher Leiningen: Ants are strictly land creatures. They can't swim. Right, Incacha?
Incacha: Monkeys not swim also. They cross rivers even so.
Christopher Leiningen: The intelligence of monkeys is more than ants, less than man.
Incacha: Is so.
[laughing]
Incacha: When ants come, monkeys run.
Joanna Leiningen: If you knew anything about music, you'd know that the best piano is one that's been played.
Commissioner: Leiningen, you're up against a monster twenty miles long and two miles wide... forty square miles of agonizing death! You can't stop it!
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Christopher Leiningen: Ants are strictly land creatures. They can't swim. Right, Incacha?
Incacha: Monkeys not swim also. They cross rivers even so.
Christopher Leiningen: The intelligence of monkeys is more than ants, less than man.
Incacha: Is so.
[laughing]
Incacha: When ants come, monkeys run.
Joanna Leiningen: If you knew anything about music, you'd know that the best piano is one that's been played.
Commissioner: Leiningen, you're up against a monster twenty miles long and two miles wide... forty square miles of agonizing death! You can't stop it!
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Facts about
While preparing to shoot the sequence where Leiningen pours oil on himself to repel the ants, Charlton Heston was told that oil would ruin his wardrobe so syrup would be used instead. Heston spent a miserable day on location as the "oil" attracted every insect for miles.
Charlton Heston improvised during the argument scene between Eleanor Parker and himself. It was not scripted that he splash perfume all over her. This move intensified the action and a surprised Parker was able to react accordingly.
Stock footage of this movie was used in Trumbo's World, in which MacGyver and a plantation owner fight an army of ants.
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Charlton Heston improvised during the argument scene between Eleanor Parker and himself. It was not scripted that he splash perfume all over her. This move intensified the action and a surprised Parker was able to react accordingly.
Stock footage of this movie was used in Trumbo's World, in which MacGyver and a plantation owner fight an army of ants.
read more facts about The Naked Jungle...
