Jungle Drums

I love the Fleischer Superman cartoons. The animation is smooth and fluid with vivid colors. The distinct art-deco style, vintage science fiction imagery, and use of noirish shadows gave them a look unlike any other cartoons. The music and voice work is superb. They're fun, accessible, enduring animation classics. While this is a cartoon from Fleischer Studios' successor, Famous Studios, it still tries to maintain the Fleischer style.

Fifteenth in the Superman series is about a group of Nazis hiding out in the jungle, masquerading as some kind of cult leaders to a (presumably) African tribe. Lois Lane's plane is shot down and she is taken prisoner by the Nazis. When she refuses to tell them the location of some top secret papers, they turn her over to the native tribe, which plans to burn her at the stake. Will Superman show up in time to save her? Some cool visuals with the temple and statues and the tribal stuff but there's surprisingly little Superman or action in this. Still, some good bits and the last bit with Hitler was a plus.