Law of the Jungle is a 1942 American adventure film directed by Jean Yarbrough.
Plot An American singer, Nona Brooks, is stranded at a hotel in a British West African colony (implicitly from dialogue, Sierra Leone)On screen dialogue makes reference to "going up the coast to Freetown." because her passport is missing. It turns out agents of Nazi Germany, in collaboration with corrupt/sleazy hotel owner Simmons, have stolen her papers, then try to use her for their nefarious schemes.
Brooks flees and encounters American paleontologist Larry Mason in the jungle. He and his assistant Jefferson Jones give her shelter, then fend off unfriendly natives while Simmons is murdered by the villainous German agents. All looks hopeless until the tribal chief turns out to be a reasonable, Oxford-educated man who helps Larry and Nona out of their jam.
Cast Arline Judge as Nona Brooks John 'Dusty' King as Larry Mason Mantan Moreland as Jefferson 'Jeff' Jones Arthur O'Connell as Simmons C. Montague Shaw as Sgt. Burke Guy Kingsford as Constable Whiteside Laurence Criner as Chief Mojobo - an Oxford Graduate Victor Kendall as Grozman Feodor Chaliapin, Jr. as Belts Martin Wilkins as Bongo
Soundtrack Arline Judge - "Jungle Moon" (Written by Edward J. Kay as Edward Kay)
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