utgard14 The penultimate Bomba movie starring Johnny Sheffield has our hero helping a movie star (Beverly Garland) trying to find her embezzler husband. But look out, Bomba, there's a killer leopard on the loose! At this point in the series it's becoming increasingly hard to care what Bomba is up to and why. Sheffield tries but it's all just so talky and dull, battle with the leopard notwithstanding. Pretty Beverly Garland is nice in this early role. Her in a bathing suit is one of the movie's only highlights. She would go on to much bigger things than most who guest-starred in this series. Regulars Smoki Whitfield and Leonard Mudie offer decent support. There's an unintentionally funny bit from actor Bill Walker as a native who, when we first meet him, is lying on the ground screaming "Bomba help!" in the most unconvincing manner possible. Picture the little old lady from the commercials shouting "I've fallen and I can't get up" and you'll get the idea.Despite being jungle adventure films aimed mostly at kids, the Bomba series was more often than not pretty unexciting stuff. This is especially true of the later movies. This one drags even thought it's just 70 minutes long. The only real excitement comes from stock footage of animals and a fight scene between Bomba and a leopard that looks suspiciously like one from a previous Bomba movie. Fans will perhaps be amused by Bomba becoming involved with the marital problems between the movie star and her crook husband. Everybody else might want to find another to kill an hour.

sol1218 ***SPOILERS*** Bomba, Johnny Sheffield, the jungle boy now at age 23 is getting a bit too big for his kid or juvenile size loincloth gets involved with illegal diamond smuggling as well as a killer black leopard who's attacking and eating the local native population. It's Fred Winters, Donald Murphy,the abused husband, in him always being in his wife's shadow, of big time Hollywood actress Linda Winters,Beverly Garland,who decided to make it on his own by embezzling his wife's employer, Allied Artists, of $20,000.00. Not satisfied with the 20 grand Fred is now looking to buy diamonds off African diamond mine supernatant Saunders, Harry Cordine, at cut rate prices, since such a transaction is illegal, and at least double his money!It's Linda herself who travels to darkest Africa to get Fred to turn himself into the police where he'll end up only getting a slap on the wrists in that she paid out of her own pocket the 20 G's that he stole. Shocked that his old lady Linda bails him out as well as his crime being discovered so soon Fred in what seems to be a fit of madness still decides to go on foot with his American guide Charlie Pulham, Barry Bernard, to the far off diamond mines and buy the diamonds off Supt.Saunders! Even if it means he'll end up behind bars for doing it! While all this is going on Bomba is recruited by Linda to track down her husband and knock some sense into his head before he ends up getting himself killed: By either his partners in crime Supt. Saunders and his greedy and double crossing guide Charlie Pulham or the on the loose and hungry for human flesh killer leopard! It's the killer leopard that in fact makes the movie interesting in that he doesn't need to read and remember the ridicules script in the movie. In that his acting is purely natural, and mostly in stock footage, in that all he has to do is just be himself and not have to put on an embarrassing act,like Bomba Linda & Fred,at all!***SPOLIERS*** Bomba in first finding Fred is now confronted with the killer leopard in who's hideout, a hidden cave, Charlie Pulham's body was hidden in by his killer Supt. Saunders. Charlie like Fred got a bit too greedy in wanting more of a cut, from the illegal diamonds, from Saunders that the two agreed upon and ended up paying for it with his life. Bomba in a stock footage scene from an earlier Bomba movie, "Bomba on Panther Island", dispatched the killer leopard and ends up swinging through the jungle as the movie finally ends.P.S Check out actor Charles Stevens as bar owner Tony Gonzales who tipped off Linda to where her cheating husband Fred is. Stevens just happens to be the grandson of the famous and notorious Apache chief Gernoimo himself!

bkoganbing This entry in the Bomba The Jungle Boy series has Johnny Sheffield with two problems. Movie star Beverly Garland has come to Africa trailing her worthless husband who has embezzled all kinds of money and the cops also want him. But Garland wants to make it right. But while she's out hunting him, there's a Killer Leopard on the lose and he's on the prowl for any and all concerned.The husband is Donald Murphy and he's hired guide Barry Bernard to go into the interior to get some diamonds out for a little illegal smuggling. He really isn't interested in being Mr. Movie Star's husband any longer. Still Garland has a mission and she's got Bomba along for help.Watching Garland and Murphy I was thinking of two show business marriages that of Fanny Brice and Nicky Arnstein and that of Doris Day and Marty Melcher. The writers could have been inspired by either or both of those.Killer Leopard is an above average Bomba picture even though Sheffield is clearly getting too old to be a convincing jungle boy.

moonspinner55 Johnny Sheffield's next-to-last "Bomba" vehicle before the serial called it quits and Sheffield went into acting retirement. Here, the Jungle Boy (with his loincloth hiked-up to cover his naval) tracks a bloodthirsty black leopard through the African wilds while an American movie actress needs Bomba's help in finding her embezzler husband (in the country to illegally acquire some hot diamonds). Typically over-saturated with stock footage and stock villains, this talky, colorless jungle adventure doesn't even allow Sheffield any exciting scenes (his tussle with the title leopard not withstanding). Pretty Beverly Garland brings the picture some class, but Garland isn't allowed any semblance of a personality, and literally treads water while following Sheffield's lead. *1/2 from ****