screenshots / Elephant Stampede starring Bomba the Jungle Boy / 1951 Monogram Pictures


Bomba (Johnny Sheffield) is learning how to read when his lessons are interupted by two ivory hunters who have murdered their jungle guide and eventually abduct the jungle boy to aid them in locating the elephant's graveyard.

This was the first appearance of actor Leonard Mudie as Commissioner Barnes (previously the role was played by Charles Irwin).

Scenes for this sixth entry in the Bomba series were filmed at the botanical gardens in Arcadia, California.

Cast as Chief Nagalia, actor Martin Wilkins had made appearances in a number of Tarzan and Bomba films - including: Tarzan's Secret Treasure (1941), Tarzan and the Slave Girl (1950), Bomba and the Jungle Girl (1952) and Killer Leopard (1954).

Martin Wilkins passed 1981 at the age of 82.