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The Lost Tribe

1949

2/5

So, a "Lost Tribe" of pacifist white people, who aren't really lost because everyone knows about their supposedly "hidden city", want some greedy white people to leave them alone, so they enlist Jungle Jim as a courier to give them a peace offering of a bag of diamonds. Meanwhile Jungle Jim is fighting a rubber alligator that is supposed to be a crocodile. The greedy white people know about the lost tribe because of Chot, the son of the leader of the lost tribe. Chot is being conned by Calhoun and Norina, the head greedy white people. Because Chot thinks Norina is in love with him, he has given her a number of gifts from his tribe, who have discovered the largest diamond mine in the world apparently. After fighting a stuffed lion to save a man in a Bigfoot costume who's supposed to be a gorilla, Jim brings the diamonds back to the greedy people who, being greedy, don't accept the peace offering and just want to know where the hidden city is so they can steal all the diamonds. Meanwhile Jim fights a rubber shark. There's something in there about a deal between Calhoun and some Abbot and/or Costello sailor guys too and Calhoun or the sailors being mad about it or something, but it doesn't matter. The greedy white people capture Jim and one of the tribeswomen to try and find out where the city is, and Jim agrees to tell them as long as they stop throwing knives at the woman. On the way to the hidden city they run into two people in Bigfoot outfits, one of whom is named Simba apparently. Jim sends a secret signal to them and his pet crow, who rallies all of the BIgfoot outfit wearing people together. The greedy white people get to the hidden city and steal all the diamonds, but the people in Bigfoot outfits show up to hug all of them to death so that the city stays hidden. Also Chot gets shot (heh).

It's bad. It's incredibly cheap looking. It's boring. Johnny Weismuller can't act. But... it was better than the first one. At least it has a plot kind of.