It's a mild crowd pleaser for people who are exhausted by blockbusters.

I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

A film of deceptively outspoken contemporary relevance, this is cinema at its most alert, alarming and alive.

A clunky actioner with a handful of cool moments.

Moderately enjoyable jungle adventure is set (and filmed) in the wilds of India, with American stars in the leads. Rod Cameron is macho great white hunter Steve Bentley, who was hired by the government to do something about the animal stampedes that have decimated various villages. Claiming that the animals in question looked like mammoths, he is soon venturing back into the jungle, in the company of a headstrong princess named Mari (lovely and appealing Marie Windsor) and her loyal associate Rama Singh (Cesar Romero).Led by director / producer William Berke, the filmmakers do seem determined to make this movie, to a large degree, a travelogue as well. This results in a fair bit of padding as we see the sights & sounds and a tiny bit of the culture of this exotic location. We also are witness to a few fights among the animal kingdom: a leopard vs. a boar, a cobra vs. a mongoose, and a bear vs. a tiger. Filmed in an aesthetically pleasing Sepia tone, the movie certainly looks good, but the slow pace might cause some viewers to fidget in their seats and/or check their watches. There is also a love triangle among our trio of main characters that adds a bit to the running time.Still, Cameron, Windsor, and Romero are all fine, and the viewer is ultimately rewarded with a passable action climax where we finally get to see our hairy, massive antagonists on the move.Decent, light entertainment.Six out of 10.

This is one strange film from Lippert Pictures. They spent a lot of time and trouble to take a film crew over to India with three Occidental players in Marie Windsor, Cesar Romero, and Rod Cameron. A lot of very nice background footage of India is sadly wasted on a rather unbelievable story.Today's computer graphics might have been able to come up with more convincing Ice Age type mammoths who are terrorizing contemporary elephants who are in turn running for their lives and trampling a lot of humans in the process in Marie Windsor's kingdom. The mammoths we see here look like today's pachyderms dressed up in raccoon coats.In any event Marie who has been learning western ways is summoned hastily back to her Indian kingdom after her father died. She has enemies herself who are opposed to any modernization and want to kill her which forms a subplot to this film.Ruling in her place until she got home was prime minister Cesar Romero who hired white hunter Rod Cameron to solve a problem of raiding elephants. Cameron was the lone survivor of an expedition where Romero's brother was killed and Cameron comes back with this tall tale about prehistoric mammoths.One thing is for certain. Mammoths were Ice Age creatures who died off when the earth's general climate warmed up. No way would they be living even in a remote area of the Indian jungle. But I guess no one thought of that in making The Jungle.

I remember this film fondly from seeing it in the theatre. I recently found a copy on VHS & it held up to my memory of it. While obviously not a "big budget" film, the acting is quite credible & the scenery, locales, & costumes are very well done. I only wish the Mammoths had been in more of the picture, but when you see them, they are also well done (remember, SFX was done in those days without benefit of computers, some poor devil had to actually put all that hair & fake tusks on real elephants!)...the same effect was used on the elephants in "Quest for Fire". A better than average adventure film & a chance for the star, Rod Cameron to play something besides a cowboy, which he also did very well over the years.

The Jungle is more of an adventure than a science fiction movie. The only sci-fi part is the Woolly Mammoths living in the present day.Elephants are attacking villages in a part of India and these attacks are also killing people. An expedition is sent to investigate and one of the members of this, an American hunter blames these elephants are being frightened by Woolly Mammoths, which are suppose to be extinct. Nobody believes him at first, but they do when the Mammoths appear at the end. An earthquake finishes them off.The Jungle was shot on location in India and has a lot of nice scenery and some good Indian music, including some songs which keep the movie moving along nicely. The Mammoths are actually real elephants with fur coats and long tusks stuck on.The cast includes Rod Cameron, Cesar Romero (The Lost Continent) and Marie Windsor (Cat-Women of the Moon).The Jungle is worth seeing, just for the scenery and music. Very enjoyable.Rating: 3 stars out of 5.