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The Naked Jungle

The Naked Jungle

Adventure · Romance · Drama · 1954

The Leiningen South American cocoa plantation is threatened by a 2-mile-wide, 20-mile-long column of army ants.

Movie details

The Naked Jungle

“The picture about the Marabunta!”

1954 Adventure · Romance · Drama 1h 35m

Critical arithmetic

The consensus, allegedly.

IMDb

6.7 / 10

4.3K votes

Rotten Tomatoes

88 %

Tomatometer

TMDB

6.5 / 10

Community rating

External scores via OMDb · CC BY-NC 4.0. Values normalized for display; availability varies by title.

The Leiningen South American cocoa plantation is threatened by a 2-mile-wide, 20-mile-long column of army ants.

CriticWise case file

What this film says about your taste.

Not a recommendation score. A measure of how closely the film’s taste signals resemble yours.

The archetype split

Who fights over The Naked Jungle?

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Names above the title

The people responsible.

Directed by

Byron Haskin

Written by

Ranald MacDougall · Philip Yordan · Carl Stephenson

Eleanor Parker

Eleanor Parker

Joanna Leiningen

Charlton Heston

Charlton Heston

Christopher Leiningen

Abraham Sofaer

Abraham Sofaer

Incacha

William Conrad

William Conrad

Commissioner

Romo Vincent

Romo Vincent

Boat Captain

Douglas Fowley

Douglas Fowley

Medicine Man

John Dierkes

John Dierkes

Gruber

Court is in session

Put The Naked Jungle on trial.

Two incompatible taste archetypes. One film. Read the arguments, then issue a completely binding cultural ruling.

The defence The Sentimental Softie

“Sincerity is not manipulation.”

The film risks embarrassment to make emotion communal, and that openness is harder than fashionable detachment.

The prosecution The Cool Ironist

“The strings are showing.”

Every cue tells you exactly what to feel and when, leaving sentiment to do the work character should have done.