There were still three films to go in Johnny Sheffield's "Bomba, the Jungle Boy" series, but already Monogram was looking for ways to freshen things up. In this entry, Bomba has to play detective after a geologist is murdered in the jungle. When he gets word that the killer belongs to a film crew shooting location footage nearby, he signs up as their guide to ferret out the killer. After establishing his jungle credentials as Boy in the Johnny Weissmuller Tarzan series at MGM and RKO, Sheffield moved on to star in 12 pictures inspired by Roy Rockwood's 1920s juvenile novels. They were all shot on studio back lots, with occasional location footage taken from other films. In addition, all were directed by B-movie specialist Ford Beebe, who also worked on the Flash Gordon and Buck Rogers films. He had started writing the films with Bomba on Panther Island (1949) and added producing chores with this film. The Bomba films were fast-paced and unpretentious, adding just enough stock animal footage to keep their mostly younger audiences happy while whipping Sheffield through their plots in near-record time.

By Frank Miller