Safari Drums is a 1953 American adventure film and starring Johnny Sheffield as Bomba. It was the ninth in the 12-film Bomba, the Jungle Boy series, based on the Bomba series of juvenile adventure books.
Plot A millionaire brings a tiger and film crew to Africa in hopes of staging a battle between the tiger and a lion. Commissioner Barnes learns that one of the crew is a murderer and asks Bomba to find out which one. The Lost Volcano erupts again (this film makes use of previously seen footage) and there is a battle between a lion and a tiger.
Cast Johnny Sheffield as Bomba Douglas Kennedy Brad Morton Barbara Bestar as Peggy Jethro Emory Parnell as Larry Conrad Paul Marion as Steve Leonard Mudie as Deputy Commissioner Barnes Smoki Whitfield as Eli Russ Conway as Collins
Reception The Los Angeles Times called this "one of the most exciting jungle pictures you have ever seen."
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