screenshots / Lord of the Jungle / 1955 Allied Artist Pictures

This is the 12th and final movie in the Bomba the Jungle Boy series starring Johnny Sheffield, and also the actor's last appearance in a theatrical film.

At the age of 24 Johnny Sheffield would trade in his leopard loincloth in favor of a zebra print and took on the role of Bantu the Zebra Boy in an unsold 1956 TV pilot for a proposed weekly series titled Bantu.

Actor Leonard Mudie made his last appearance as Commissioner Andy Barnes, having played the role since 1951's Elephant Stampede.

Returning for the seventh time as Eli, this was the ninth appearance in a Bomba film for actor Smoki Whitfield, who also in 1955 was cast on episode 7 of the Jungle Jim TV series starring former Tarzan Johnny Weismuller.

After the Bantu television series failed to sell, Johnny Sheffield enrolled in college at UCLA where he studied business and afterwards became involved in farming, real estate, and construction.

Exterior filming was done at the Los Angeles County Arboretum & Botanic Garden, Arcadia, California.

Johnny Sheffield passed in 2010 at the age of 79.

Leonard Mudie passed in 1965 at the age of 82.

Smoki Whitfield passed in 1967 at the age of 49.