# Jambo, bwana! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 5, 2005, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jambo-bwana/320123 "2005-09-05T00:09:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2005, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jambo-bwana/320123/1 "2005-09-05T00:09:30Z")
Just got done watching Grace Kelly swooning all over the jungle in _Mogambo_. Not a bad flick, considering the time frame. I love these Africa location movies, particularly my faves: _Zulu_ and _Shaka Zulu_ But I remember seeing one about a hundred years ago that I can’t remember the name of. It had a lot of inserted African footage (as most of them do), and one of the scenes that stuck with me my entire life was one of a cat of some sort (my memory says leopard, but I knew from nuttin’ back then) being killed by a large constrictor of some sort. It was remarkable footage. Any help identifying this film is appreciated. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2005, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jambo-bwana/320123/2 "2005-09-06T01:52:39Z")
Man, this thread sank like…um…a thing that sinks real fast. Any help on this film? One bump only. ---
**Author:** ![Scott\_Plaid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/258eb7/32.png) [@Scott\_Plaid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scott_Plaid)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2005, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jambo-bwana/320123/3 "2005-09-06T02:00:15Z")
[Amazon.com](http://Amazon.com):"\ Later we see the jaguars take on a boa constrictor and the mother jaguar take time out to teach her youngster how to swim." [Jungle Cat (1960)](http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/6301707885/002-2381099-1792068?v=glance) ---
**Author:** ![DrMemory](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/977dab/32.png) [@DrMemory](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrMemory)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2005, 12:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jambo-bwana/320123/4 "2005-09-06T12:18:23Z")
Since you’re on an African themed movie jag, I always like **Hatari** with John Wayne. ---
**Author:** ![MMI](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/53a042/32.png) [@MMI](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MMI)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2005, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jambo-bwana/320123/5 "2005-09-06T14:36:49Z")
Button your collar, man! Where do you think you are? ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2005, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jambo-bwana/320123/6 "2005-09-06T14:40:08Z")
This has absolutely nothing to do with your thread, but yesterday, out of the blue more or less, I had a flashback to an old 1950’s movie I saw as a kid, back when throwing knives and shooting bows and arrows was the thing. It was a safari like thing where some dude with a bow and arrow was making unbelievable shots at long distances, killing African critters. It was well before _Hatari_ and was way better (as I recall) than any of the Tarzan movies. I was in a fix trying to remember the dude’s name. I know I had a Ben Pearson bow as a little kid, so I tried web searches on his name and associations with movies. No luck. Then I tried Fred Bear because I bought a Bear bow in my early 20’s, and still nothing showed up to convince me either of those guys was in that old movie I saw way back when. Then it suddenly hit me: Howard Hill. I checked links on his name and sure enough the move _Tembo_ seems to be what I was remembering. The shot I believe I’m recalling was a good 100 yard shot at this big elephant running toward the camera. As I say, no help on the thread topic, but something weirdly associated with it, at least to me. FWIW, I have a vague recollection of a scene such as described in the OP, with no ideas to help in that search. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2005, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jambo-bwana/320123/7 "2005-09-06T15:03:05Z")
> [@Scott Plaid](#): > > [Amazon.com](http://Amazon.com):"\ Later we see the jaguars take on a boa constrictor and the mother jaguar take time out to teach her youngster how to swim." > > [Jungle Cat (1960)](http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/6301707885/002-2381099-1792068?v=glance) Don’t think so. In the film I’m thinking of, the cat meets its end. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2005, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jambo-bwana/320123/8 "2005-09-06T15:04:19Z")
> [@DrMemory](#): > > Since you’re on an African themed movie jag, I always like **Hatari** with John Wayne. Yeah, and _Elephant Walk_ and _Snows of Kilimanjaro_. ---
**Author:** ![teela\_brown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d9b06d/32.png) [@teela\_brown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teela_brown)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2005, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jambo-bwana/320123/9 "2005-09-06T16:00:29Z")
I also recommend _King Solomon’s Mines_ and _The Naked Prey_. However, TNP gave me the willies, because I watched it when I was about nine years old in a drive-in and it haunted me for years. It still bothers me to this day. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2005, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jambo-bwana/320123/10 "2005-09-07T01:49:18Z")
> [@teela brown](#): > > I also recommend _King Solomon’s Mines_ and _The Naked Prey_. However, TNP gave me the willies, because I watched it when I was about nine years old in a drive-in and it haunted me for years. It still bothers me to this day. Is that the one with the soldier ants eating people? Scared the crap outa me, too. ---
**Author:** ![NDP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ndp/32/55_2.png) [@NDP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NDP)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2005, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jambo-bwana/320123/11 "2005-09-07T02:05:29Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > Is that the one with the soldier ants eating people? Scared the crap outa me, too. No, that was **The Naked _Jungle_**. ---
**Author:** ![teela\_brown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d9b06d/32.png) [@teela\_brown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teela_brown)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2005, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jambo-bwana/320123/12 "2005-09-07T15:33:25Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > Is that the one with the soldier ants eating people? Scared the crap outa me, too. _The Naked Prey_ was about a safari through hostile African territory - something went wrong, they pissed off a native tribe, and the tribe invented various creative tortures to perform on the members of the safari. Cornell Wilde escapes, however, and leads their best hunters on a manhunt through the jungle. It was the torture scenes that did me in. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2005, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jambo-bwana/320123/13 "2005-09-08T01:32:22Z")
> [@NDP](#): > > No, that was **The Naked _Jungle_**. I knew it had something to do with nudity. Hey, if someone revived the combined movie title, we could have **The Naked Blackboard Jungle Book**. I wouldn’t even attempt a plot line. ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Rieux](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@Dr.Rieux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Rieux)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2005, 8:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jambo-bwana/320123/14 "2005-09-08T08:06:22Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > I knew it had something to do with nudity. Hey, if someone revived the combined movie title, we could have **The Naked Blackboard Jungle Book**. I wouldn’t even attempt a plot line. Gives new meaning to “The Bare Necessities.” 😉