Valley of Head Hunters (1953) DVD-R

Starring Johnny Weissmuller, Christine Larsen, Robert Foulk, Steven
Ritch, Nelson Leigh
Directed by William Berke

Print: black/white
Runtime: 67 min.
Genre: adventure
Print Quality: B

Valley of the Headhunters was number eleven in Columbia's "Jungle Jim"
series. Johnny Weissmuller returns as Jim, while his leading lady on this
safari is Christine Larson. Things get under way when Jim is assigned to
help a government representative attain the mineral rights to a tribal
valley. Meanwhile, a gang of diamond smugglers discovers that the
coveted land is rich with oil. The crooks persuade the villagers to pose
as headhunters, thereby scaring off Jim and the other white men. Only
slightly less believable than the plotline of Valley of the Headhunters are
the antics of Jungle Jim's faithful chimp Tamba, who at one point gets
"drunk" on a bottle of ether (the slow-motion gags which ensue are
straight out of the "Little Rascals" lexicon).