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La ruée sauvage des éléphants

Original title: Elephant Stampede
  • 1951
  • Approved
  • 1h 11m
IMDb RATING
5.2/10
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Donna Martell and Johnny Sheffield in La ruée sauvage des éléphants (1951)
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Elephant poachers Joe Collins and Bob Warren plan to steal a load of ivory which the natives want to give to the missionary, Miss Banks, but Bomba the Jungle Boy calls on friendly elephants ... Read allElephant poachers Joe Collins and Bob Warren plan to steal a load of ivory which the natives want to give to the missionary, Miss Banks, but Bomba the Jungle Boy calls on friendly elephants to trample them to death.Elephant poachers Joe Collins and Bob Warren plan to steal a load of ivory which the natives want to give to the missionary, Miss Banks, but Bomba the Jungle Boy calls on friendly elephants to trample them to death.

  • Director
    • Ford Beebe
  • Writers
    • Roy Rockwood
    • Ford Beebe
  • Stars
    • Johnny Sheffield
    • Donna Martell
    • John Kellogg
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  • IMDb RATING
    5.2/10
    213
    YOUR RATING
    • Director
      • Ford Beebe
    • Writers
      • Roy Rockwood
      • Ford Beebe
    • Stars
      • Johnny Sheffield
      • Donna Martell
      • John Kellogg
    • 14User reviews
    • 4Critic reviews
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    Johnny Sheffield
    Johnny Sheffield
    • Bomba
    Donna Martell
    Donna Martell
    • Lola
    John Kellogg
    John Kellogg
    • Bob Warren
    Myron Healey
    Myron Healey
    • Joe Collins
    Edith Evanson
    Edith Evanson
    • Miss Banks
    Leonard Mudie
    Leonard Mudie
    • Andy Barnes
    Martin Wilkins
    • Chief Nagalia
    Guy Kingsford
    • Mark Phillips
    James Adamson
    • Malako
    • (uncredited)
    Jimmy Payne
    • Native
    • (uncredited)
    Maxie Thrower
    • Native
    • (uncredited)
    • Director
      • Ford Beebe
    • Writers
      • Roy Rockwood
      • Ford Beebe
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    4wes-connors

    Reading or Romance

    Elephants are strolling around as muscular Bomba (Johnny Sheffield) rides one through the African jingle. Bomba must swing into action when a snake threatens his bird. After this, Bomba visits attractive Donna Martell (as Lola). This shapely brunette is helping "old maid" schoolteacher Edith Evanson (as Miss Banks) teach the natives to read. Bored with her job, Ms. Martell is much more excited to be tutoring Bomba on the side. The jungle boy is a quick study, in academic areas...

    Bomba learns to spell "L.I.O.N", but Ms. Martell is more interested in "L.O.V.E." A good jungle boy, Bomba is not interested in finding a mate. Frustrated, Martell decides to make Bomba jealous by seeming to be sexually available for trigger-happy John Kellogg (as Bob Warren) and amorous Myron Healey (as Joe Collins). On safari, this dastardly duo is out to shoot elephants and steal local ivory. Lola's idea is dumb and dangerous. You could say: Whatever Lola wants, Lola doesn't get.

    **** Bomba: Elephant Stampede (10/28/51) Ford Beebe ~ Johnny Sheffield, Donna Martell, John Kellogg, Myron Healey
    5gridoon2025

    Equal-opportunity eye-candy

    The least that can be said about "Elephant Stampede" (1951) is that it offers equal-opportunity eye-candy to both genders of viewers: Bomba (Johnny Sheffield) looks jacked and hunky, and his female friend in this episode, Donna Martell, has an especially nice back. Other than that, the plot of this film could not be more standard (ivory hunters....again), though at least it does deliver on the title promise by the end, even if only on a small scale. There is also one particular shot, of the bad guys shooting a vine that Bomba is swinging on, that I think I've seen reused in every Bomba film so far! ** out of 4.
    5bkoganbing

    Pachyderms In Peril

    This segment of the Bomba the Jungle Boy series finds Bomba trying to better himself by learning to read. Teaching him is the lovely Donna Martell, teaching assistant to Edith Evanson at the local native village. She'd like to further Bomba's education in other ways, but Bomba has his mind on book learning.

    All that comes to an end when ivory poachers arrive in the territory in the persons of John Kellogg and Myron Healey. They murder their professional hunting guide and assume his identity. And Healey starts moving in on Martell which bothers everyone.

    Elephant Stampede marked the appearance of Leonard Mudie as Commissioner Andy Barnes. The character appeared in the first Bomba film with another actor, but was then dropped. Mudie played Barnes throughout the rest of the series and was the only other regular besides Johnny Sheffield as Bomba.

    If you know the Tarzan series and know his relationship with the elephant community and how they mutually aid each other you know something about how this turns out. And Bomba does need the aid of his pachyderm friends.

    One of the better in the Bomba series.
    4a_chinn

    Most bearable of the Bomba films I've seen thus far

    Yet another cheap Monogram Pictures' Bomba film, with it's signature phony looking backlot jungle, poorly done rear projection, and an overuse of stock jungle footage. The entry has Bomba stopping evil ivory hunters and is less racist than most entries and also a slightly more enjoyable film than the rest of the series. After having watched five of the 12 Bomba films, I'm not sure I really need to see any more, though I'll probably make myself to just say I've seen all of them. Still, this was probably the most bearable of them that I've seen thus far.
    Michael_Elliott

    Decent Entry

    Elephant Stampede (1951)

    ** (out of 4)

    While Bomba (Johnny Sheffield) is in the jungle having a pretty teacher's aid (Donna Martell) teach him to reach, a couple poachers are killing elephants for their ivory. Soon the two men find out about Bomba and must kill him so that they can get back to their business. The sixth film in the series actually turns out to be one of the most entertaining but than again this is a cheap Bomba movie from Monogram so one shouldn't be expecting an actual good movie. I think there are some pretty funny and campy moments throughout and not the ones we're used to seeing like the stock footage o rear projection stuff. There's an entire side-story dealing with this young, beautiful school assistant wanting to have fun with Bomba but he keeps pushing her away instead preferring to learn his ABCs. This leads to her wanting to make him jealous and take off with the two poachers who are constantly sexually harassing her. I'm not sure how many children in the audience knew this or cared about it but I'm sure the majority of the adults watching, then and now, couldn't help but laugh at Bomba for rejecting such a beauty. The film is actually quite dark for children because there's quite a bit of violence against elephants and especially Bomba. Poor jungle boy takes quite a beating here including being pistol whipped and knocked out a couple times. This action does help keep the film moving and I'd say that at times Bomba comes off as such a jerk you really don't mind it. Sheffield is certainly very comfortable in the part by now and he turns in a fine performance. Martell clearly steals the film as the teacher's aid. The support is pretty good as well, which is rare for this series. All in all, fans of the series should be some entertainment out of this but just don't expect something great.

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    • Trivia
      Asian elephants were used because African elephants are hard to train. Since Asian elephants have smaller ears than African ones, larger fake ears were attached to them.
    • Goofs
      The story takes place in Africa, but all of the elephants, except those seen in brief snippets of archive footage, are Indian, not African; in some of the sequences, obviously lifted out of previous films, large, artificial ears have been attached to the Indian elephants to make them look more like their African cousins, but the results are nothing more than ludicrous.
    • Quotes

      Joe Collins: It must be pretty dull around here for a pretty little thing like you...

      Lola: Oh, no - I have my Bomba...

      Joe Collins: Bomba? What's that - your pet water buffalo?

      Lola: Bomba is a white boy who lives in the jungle. He is good, and strong, and he talks to the animals...

      Joe Collins: You have quite an imagination!

    • Connections
      Followed by African Treasure (1952)

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    • Release date
      • October 28, 1951 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Elephant Stampede
    • Filming locations
      • Los Angeles County Arboretum & Botanic Garden - 301 N. Baldwin Avenue, Arcadia, California, USA
    • Production company
      • Monogram Pictures
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    • Runtime
      • 1h 11m(71 min)
    • Color
      • Black and White
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.37 : 1

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