Jungle Siren

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Jungle Siren
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Original film poster
Directed by Sam Newfield
Written by George Wallace Sayre (story) and
Milton Raison (story)
George Wallace Sayre (screenplay) and
Sam Robins (screenplay)
Produced by Sigmund Neufeld (producer)
Starring Ann Corio
Buster Crabbe
Cinematography Jack Greenhalgh
Edited by Holbrook N. Todd
Distributed by Producers Releasing Corporation
Release date
  • 14 August 1942 (1942-08-14)
Running time
68 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Jungle Siren is a 1942 American film directed by Sam Newfield.

Contents

Plot

Captain Hart and Sergeant Jenkins, two Americans in the Free French Engineering Corps in Africa are sent to the jungle city of Carraby to do surveying for an airfield. They run across a pair on Germans acting as a Fifth Column using Chief Selangi to bring in a German invasion force.

Hart and Jenkins are helped by a fearless jungle girl named Kuhlaya.

Cast

Soundtrack


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