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Going through my old movies, I watched JI again first time in a long while, I had forgotten how incredibly BAD it really is! (See my previous post). Worse than REEFER MADNESS, worse than anything Ed Wood could conjure up, in fact, a friend and I were amateur filmmakers in the '60s, with a hand-held 16mm camera & battery-operated tape recorder for sound, the junk we made were D.W.Griffith & Cecel B. DeMille epics compared to this one!! There is but one scene, the "Don't Swat a Fly" song & dance number of White and Albertson, but even that one has to be removed from the context of the whole film to enjoy at all.

If this was a sci-fi "thriller" of 1930, I'm glad I didn't live back then to imagine what 1980 would be like!! SSSOOO BAD, it can't even be classed as "so bad it's good". If there were a negative rating system, this one would be at the very top of the list, WWAAYY beyond classification in ANY category! Many films, good or poor, have been lost over time, but how this one survived is beyond my comprehension: It should have been destroyed in 1930, and the producers/writers court-ordered to pay back the money invested! I could go on and on, but anyone who posts to say it's any good, should be considered an enemy of society!

Although I accept the fact that this film is indeed lost, I've never seen it in my life, BUT, to contradict the reviewer above who says it was destroyed in a 1931 fire, at some point in the past ten years (cant remember exactly) I saw on internet a copy of this film was being shown at one of UCLA's theater programs. If that's true, there's at least one copy in someone's private collection, out there somewhere. Never give up hope! re: the Spanish version of Dracula Universal 1931 was considered lost for decades until someone found a print copy in a Havana Cuba Warehouse early 1990s, it's now restored and widely available! Keep hoping and keep searching: You'd be surprised where these "losties" turn up!