JUNGLE STORY

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 530, 13 May 1933, Page 2

JUNGLE STORY

UNUSUAL FILM OF WILD ANIMAL ; LIFE. "bring 'em back alive." " An nnusnal motion picture of jungle savage beasts in action is due for its first showing in this town. It is "Bring 'em Back Alive," visualising the adventures of Frank Buck in fetching the largest and most ferocions wild beasts from the jungle to the zoos of the world. The picture shows, among other events, a stalking, preying frothing female tiger cut a baby elephant olf from its mother. The bahy pachyderm is no higher from the ground than a medium sized police dog. Still whimpering for its mother's milk, it senses danger. Its miniature trunk trumpets an s.o.s. for mama. The tiger, relentless, tireless, intent on the kill, lopes along. The wee elephant runs this way and that,. It turns . . .its scampers to the brush wild with terror, while the tiger enemy trails it with drooling tongue ;and bared fangs. . ... .

' But Frank Buck is th'ere with a - long barrelled rifle. . a careful, easy, £ well-timed shot brings the tiger down. And then a wild chase to eapture the baby; elephant with his bare hands. Again, a litijle black homey-bear ambles into camp. It is so young its eyes are still unopened. Buck places it in a rough-hewn cabin built six feet off the ground. Dinnter-time, and a hungry cub, missing its mother, ; lifts the simple latch purely by accident. By instinct it rolls off to theli jungle. There's heart interest. Now comes the villain of the piece . . . a long, lithe, forked-tongued snake coiled in the sun . . . every ear and sense alive with hungry hope. And there's the little bear. Innocent, ambling, trusting. The forked tongue leaps out . . . the coiled body uncoils . . . dinner-time for Mr. Snake. Lights out for Mr. Bear? But no. Kindly providence, in the guise of Frank Buck's native boy, momentarily stops the snake and a little black honey-bear comes back home. Tlie more dynamic portions of "Bring 'em Back Alive," rko-Radio picture, shows actual combafjs between tigers and pythons, crocodiles, panther and water buffalo. Clyde e. Elllott directed this production in the Malay jungles for the Van Beuren ; Corporation. It will be shown at the ! Majestic Theatre opening on Monday, j May 15.