Hellen I like the storyline of this show,it attract me so much

Maidexpl Entertaining from beginning to end, it maintains the spirit of the franchise while establishing it's own seal with a fun cast

Deanna There are moments in this movie where the great movie it could've been peek out... They're fleeting, here, but they're worth savoring, and they happen often enough to make it worth your while.

Wyatt There's no way I can possibly love it entirely but I just think its ridiculously bad, but enjoyable at the same time.

classicsoncall If you like Tarzan flicks and jungle movies, you'll be right at home with "Bomba, The Jungle Boy". I used to hunt these pictures down as a kid because I liked wild animals a lot; watching today the films are still somewhat entertaining but notably deficient in the areas of acting and story development. I had to get a kick out of the scene where Bomba (Johnny Sheffield) helps Pat (Peggy Ann Garner) onto a log in the river, setting off on a quest to find Pat's father and his expedition. In just the prior sequence of events, Bomba had returned from an area of the jungle where he found evidence of the Harland party, and it was in a totally opposite direction, and he didn't have to cross a river to find it!Oh well, if you expect these stories to make sense you'll be extremely disappointed. Matinée fans of the day turned out for the jungle animals and perhaps more notably, to admire the trim athletic figures of the principals. Now Peggy Ann Garner may not be Maureen O'Sullivan, but she did cut a cute figure in the leopard skin, which by the way, did anyone else wonder who the jungle seamstress might have been to put that thing together? On a more positive note, there were a couple of animal scenes that got my attention here, the first being the slow motion photography of those jumping impalas that seemed to defy gravity. Then there was a really incredible sequence involving a lioness actually pulling a warthog out of a den to feed the rest of the pride. Granted, these were part of the stock footage the picture utilized quite freely, but someone at some time got that footage and it was absolutely amazing. Just about as exciting was a scene later on in the story when native hunters speared a lion to prevent it's attack. Very cool.With all that going on, the story itself is almost superfluous. As travel photographers, George Harland (Onslow Stevens) and his daughter Pat (Garner) are in Africa to photograph wild game and bring their story back to civilization. Sidetracked when Pat's guide is killed by a leopard and she gets lost, the rest of the picture involves Bomba helping Pat get back to her Dad in safe and timely fashion. Still, someone needs to explain to me how one of the native guides, examining the footprints next to the dead leopard (killed by Bomba), was certain they belonged to a white man.

bkoganbing Johnny Sheffield who had grown too old to play Boy in the Tarzan films got a nice break from Monogram Pictures and was able to extend his career with the Bomba The Jungle Boy series of films. Like Tarzan, Bomba grows up in the jungle and in fact this film bears no small resemblance to Tarzan, the Ape Man.Bomba's Jane is in the person of former child star Peggy Ann Garner who is a visiting photographer with her father Onslow Stevens. She gets separated from Stevens and enjoys an idyll of sorts with Bomba who is more articulate than those early Weissmuller Tarzans.The only other regular in the Bomba series is Commissioner Andy Barnes who is a glorified game warden here and played by Charles Irwin. In later films Barnes would be played by Leonard Mudie.Some stock jungle footage is integrated nicely into the film, better I would say than a lot of the Tarzan films done at RKO at the same time with Lex Barker. Not a bad beginning for the series.

sol1218 ***SPOILERS*** The first of a dozen "Bomba the Jungle Boy" movies has Bomba,Johnny Sheffield, together with his pet monkey Oto get involved with the Harland's Pat & George, Peggy Ann Gardner & Onslow Stevens, who traveled to darkest Africa to photograph the wildlife there. Not that he wanted too,Bomba always likes to keep to himself and his animal friends, but by saving Pat's life from a killer leopard he was stuck to be with her until he could reunite Pat with her father who in thinking that Bomba had kidnapped Pat wanted nothing more then to put a bullet between his eyes.The film has Pat who at first thought that Bomba was some kind of a coconut in his weird ideas of civilization soon began to realize that his type of lifestyle suited her better then the one back home in Indana in that life was far more interesting and exciting in Bomba's world, "The Valley of the Monkeys", then her's back in the states. It was later in the movie when Pat's pop and his good friend Andy Berns, Charles Irwin, and native guide Eli, Smoki Whitfield, caught up with her that she decided to go back home leaving Bomba a bit disappointed in what he did for Pat and her father in saving their lives from the lion worshiping native cult the Basis who without his help would have massacred the whole lot together with Andy & Eli!Nice stock footage of the jungle and those animals who inhabit it including a real life Lion hunt by the Basi warriors where they took on and killed a charging lion after he took down and mauled a number of them. We also get to see that Bomba unlike Tarzan, who's son Boy he played in some half dozen movies, knows enough English to be able to get by and be understood which shows that he was brought up by an Englishman, old hermit naturalist Cody Carson, not a family of apes like the ape man was.P.S Johnny Sheffield who made a career of swinging on jungle vines and tree branches, as both Boy & Bomba, as effortlessly as the apes and monkeys in the jungle tragically died after slipping off a tree he was pruning in his back yard on October 15, 2010! Either Johnny was too old and out of shape or just forget how to grab and hold on to the tree breaches at the time by him being retired from making Bomba and Boy movies for over 55 years!

Chris Gaskin Bomba, the Jungle Boy is the first of the Bomba movies with Johnny Sheffield (Boy from the Weismuller Tarzan movies) as Bomba.In this first movie, a safari in Africa including a girl and her dad are photographing and filming the wildlife when the girl, Pat gets lost and Bomba finds her. They become friends and he helps her to look for the rest of the party, facing several dangers along the way including lions, leopards, a huge swarm of locusts and unfriendly natives. She is reunited with the others at the end and Bobma disappears back into the jungle.Joining Johnny Sheffield in the cast is Peggy Ann Garner as Pat, Onslow Stevens (Them!) as her dad and Bomba regular Smoki Whitfield.Bomba, the Jungle Boy is worth watching if you can get hold of a copy. Rating: 3 stars out of 5.