Jungle Moon Men

Jungle Moon Men 1955 is the fifteenth Jungle Jim film produced by Columbia Pictures. It features Johnny Weissmuller in his second performance as the protagonist adventurer Johnny Weissmuller. The film was directed by Charles S. Gould and written by Dwight Babcock and Jo Pagano.

Adventurer Johnny Weissmuller Johnny Weissmuller is roped in by Egyptian archaeologist Ellen Marsten Jean Byron to traverse the African jungle of Baku. They seek to rescue an acquaintance, Marro Benjamin F. Chapman, Jr., from his captors, pygmies known as the Moon Men. The Moon Men are devoted to a Moon Goddess Oma Helen Stanton, who is apparently an immortal whose only weakness is sunlight. Marro is chosen to be Omas chief religious official.After being joined by Marstens friend Bob Prentice Bill Henry, the team of Weissmuller, Marstern, and Prentice, set off for Baku. They find Marro and urge him to escape. However, he dies the moment he steps outside the parameters of the jungle. Interrogating a pygmy Damu Billy Curtis, Weissmuller learns that Marro was fed a voodoo potion that would kill him once he tried to escape Baku. Just then, the Moon Men overpower the team and capture them. Prentice is selected to take over Marros position, while Weissmuller and Marstern are brought to Omas temple. ........

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