The jungle calls
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | The jungle calls |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1936 |
| length | 105 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Harry Piel |
| script | Georg Mühlen-Schulte based on his novel "Die Buschhexe" |
| production | Harry Piel for Ariel-Film, Berlin |
| music | Fritz Wenneis |
| camera |
Karl Vass Georg Bruckbauer Hans Karl Gottschalk |
| cut | Hildegard Grebner |
| occupation | |
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The jungle is calling is a German adventure film by and with Harry Piel from 1935.
action
The wealthy American Dina Morris sails through the Indian Ocean on a yacht with her New York friends . When the ship suffers machine damage near the coast, it is decided to go ashore. An impenetrable jungle stretches right up to the beach. There the stranded pitch camp. The jungle is not uninhabited, the butterfly collector Prof. Helmer and his daughter Rose live here as well as the farmer Bobby Roeder, who has created a very personal jungle paradise with his wild animals. The Roeder inventory includes the Bhutan elephant, who helps Bobby with his herd of clearing work, the Puck monkey, who is useful in the household, and the tiger Byla, a bottle-born boy of Bobby, with whom he gets neatly when he is bored ruffles.
Dina meets Bobby on an exploration trip into the jungle, and they quickly enjoy each other. Only a self-proclaimed big game hunter disturbs harmony and peace in the jungle. Ironically, on the “Feast of the Holy Bull”, which is sacred to the natives, the Englishman William Edwards, a member of a travel and hunting company, hunted down a piece of jewelry from a white bull. Of course, that quickly leads to bad blood. Because the locals believe that Bobby killed the animal. He should atone for it and die. At the last second he can escape his angry captors. When he meets Edwards in the tent camp, Bobby wants to button him up, but Dina simply intervenes.
Edwards has nothing better on his mind than to go hunting again. This time he's aiming for a fine specimen of the King Tiger. However, this is Bobby's house cat Byla, in front of which her friend Rose stands protectively. Edwards pulls the trigger anyway and hits Rose in the upper arm. Disturbed in their jungle peace by the human intruders, the jungle animals, under the leadership of Bhutan, head towards the tent camp to drive the people away from there. The shipwrecked tour company escapes on their ship, the tent camp is trampled and razed to the ground. Bobby rides back into the jungle in Bhutan to check on Rose. Both now know that they belong together. The repaired yacht disappears with the tour company on the horizon.
Production notes
The Jungle Calls was filmed from late August to late September 1935. The shooting was done in the Jofa studios in Berlin-Johannisthal , the outdoor shots in Binz on Rügen and the surrounding area.
Georg Mühlen-Schulte wrote the screenplay based on his own novel "Die Buschhexe", published in 1930.
The film structures come from Karl Vollbrecht , Erich Grave and Artur Günther . The premiere took place on January 16, 1936 in Berlin's UFA-Palast am Zoo . In Austria, the film, which received the ratings "artistically valuable" and "popular education", ran on February 7, 1936 under the title "jungle".
Contemporary movie announcements
The Berliner Lokal-Anzeiger advertised the film with the words: "Look at Bobby Roeder, the man who takes his afternoon nap arm in arm with a tiger."
In a presentation of the strip in the Österreichische Film-Zeitung it says: "Harry Piel has known how to interweave many interesting and exciting animal shots in the plot: you can see elephants, buffalo, tigers, monkeys, parrots, flamingos and other inhabitants of the wilderness."
criticism
The lexicon of international films writes: "In his 101st film, Harry Piel assigns the main roles of his adventure fable to the animals: to an Indian elephant, a chimpanzee, a cockatoo and a tiger cat caressing him."
The Protestant film observer drew the following conclusion - 27 years after the premiere: “A pleasant reunion with the hero of numerous adventure films from the 1930s, which were geared towards youthful romance. Recommended for ages 14 and up. "
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ Berliner Lokal-Anzeiger January 17, 1936; Quote from Ariane Heimbach: The staged wilderness , in trivial tropes. Exotic travel and adventure films from Germany 1919 - 1939 , Munich: Edition text + Critique, 1997, p. 164
- ↑ "Jungle". In: Österreichische Film-Zeitung , February 14, 1936, p. 2 (online at ANNO ).
- ↑ The jungle calls in the Lexicon of International Films , accessed on November 24, 2013.
- ↑ Evangelischer Presseverband München, Review No. 223/1963
Web links
- The jungle is calling in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The jungle calls at filmportal.de