The Naked Jungle (1954)★ 6.7/10
- Adventure
- Drama
- Thriller
Directed by: Byron Haskin
Written by: Philip Yordan, Ranald MacDougall, Carl Stephenson, Ben Maddow
The Leiningen South American cocoa plantation is threatened by a 2-mile-wide, 20-mile-long column of army ants.
- Original title
- The Naked Jungle
- Storyline
- It's 1901. At 19, tough, stubborn Christopher Leiningen came to South America and built levees to claim thousands of acres of Rio Negro river land for a chocolate plantation. Now 34, with no knowledge of women, he recruits a mail-order bride in New Orleans. She's beautiful, independent, and arrives ready to be his stalwart helpmate; however, no one has told him she's a widow. He rejects her. During the next week, as she awaits the boat to take her back to the US, they learn that legions of army ants will strike in a few days' time. She joins the fight to save the plantation; their courage and his probable loss of all he's worked for may crack his resolve to send her away.
- Rating
- 6.7 / 10 · 4,912
- Companies
- Paramount Pictures, AFEX, Paramount British Pictures, Film AB Paramount, National Broadcasting Company (NBC), Paramount Home Entertainment, Warner Archive Collection, Epoca, TF1
- Release dates
- US March 3, 1954
- BE June 4, 1954
- PE June 24, 1954
- HK June 25, 1954
- DK July 2, 1954
- NL July 9, 1954
- SE September 4, 1954
- PT September 10, 1954
- FR September 17, 1954
- XWG September 17, 1954
- AR October 20, 1954
- AT November 1, 1954
- IE December 20, 1954
- ES January 10, 1955
- FI January 14, 1955
- ZA July 2, 1956
- TR February 18, 1957
- PH November 9, 2004
- SG June 25, 2013
- AE August 18, 2021