Young Eagles

Because of their good deeds ,two young scouts win a trip to Africa but when the plane crashes and the pilot is wounded (a broken leg) they are finally on their own.

This movie was made for the whole family to enjoy but today it's doubtful that today's kids will dig the story:the studio jungle looks like an exotic public garden where they would introduce wild animals;and the plot is that of a comic strip of a long ago "the Hardy bros take a trip to wild Africa" style."Young Eagles" may appeal to an older audience who feels nostalgic for their childhood when absolutely anything could happen;

This one is quite ambitious - big decors, plausible jungle setting, ambitious staging. Unfortunately the film has the excessive talk of work of four years earlier and the familiar plot elements - bandits, wild animals, aviation, scouts - are not deployed effectively. Add in the dumbest wonder dog in movies.

Despite the evidence of quite a bit of money being spent (possibly on other productions whose elements this one poaches) the technical standards are often shoddy - uneven sound levels, out of focus shots. The slack pacing is at odds with the chaotic parade of incident which make the best serials entertaining and which the producers aspire to. We are left with an oddity, alternately large scale and shoddy Unfamiliar face cast. We can only wonder what Harry O. Hoyt of the silent LOST WORLD contributed.

Bobby Ford and Jim Adams, two scouts win a trip to a boy scout troop in South America, As a reward for their good deeds. En route, the pilot Angus MacLean, encounters a storm and the plane crash lands in South America. MacLean breaks his leg and Bobby and Jim try to find food, but find a dying explorer who gives them a treasure map. The scouts must evade wild animals, natives, and a band of pirates while trying to find their way home, while MacLean, who has wandered off, tries to find help for him and the scouts. The "film" has terrible script, direction, acting, editing, cinematography, and every other film terminology imaginable. The pacing of the film is ridiculously slow where a story (if you can call it that) that would fit in a 15 minute short is stretched to 3 and half hours. Cox and Vance are the worst leads to appear in a serial, acting like they're stand-ins. The characters they play are stupid as well, totally uncharacteristic of scouts. I find it amazing that I was able to sit through this film. No surprise that much of the cast and crew were seldom, if ever, heard from again. Probably the worst film I have ever seen. Rating, based on serials (and even compared to my dad's home movies), 0.