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词条 The Naked Jungle
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  1. Plot

  2. Cast

  3. Production

  4. Impact

  5. References

  6. External links

{{distinguish|text = the TV programme Naked Jungle}}{{Infobox film
| name = The Naked Jungle
| image = Thenakedjungle.jpg
| image size =
| caption = Promotional film poster
| director = Byron Haskin
| producer = George Pal
| writer = Ranald MacDougall
Ben Maddow
Philip Yordan
based on a story by
Carl Stephenson
| starring = Eleanor Parker
Charlton Heston
Abraham Sofaer
William Conrad
| music = Daniele Amfitheatrof
| cinematography = Ernest Laszlo
| editing = Everett Douglas
| distributor = Paramount Pictures
| released = {{Film date|1954|03|03}}
| runtime = 95 min.
| country = United States
| awards =
| language = English
| budget =
| gross = $2.3 million (US)[1]
}}The Naked Jungle is a 1954 film directed by Byron Haskin, and starring Charlton Heston and Eleanor Parker. Telling the story of an attack of army ants on a Brazilian cocoa plantation, it was based on the 1937 short story "Leiningen Versus the Ants" by Carl Stephenson.[2]

In 1970, it aired on WVUE-TV in New Orleans, Louisiana, as part of its highly publicized switch of channel positions with that city's PBS member station, WYES-TV.[3]

Plot

In 1901, mail-order bride Joanna (Eleanor Parker) arrives from New Orleans at a South American cocoa plantation to meet her new husband, plantation owner Christopher Leiningen (Charlton Heston), whom she has married by proxy.

Leiningen is cold and remote to her, rebuffing all her attempts to make friends with him. She is beautiful, independent, and arrives ready to be his stalwart helpmate; however, no one has told him that she is a widow. He rejects her because he had wanted to marry a virgin.

As she awaits the boat to take her back to the United States, they learn that legions of army ants - the "marabunta" - will strike in a few days' time. Leiningen refuses to give up the home he fought so hard to create. Instead of evacuating, he resolves to make a stand against this indomitable natural predator. Joanna joins the fight to save the plantation; their courage and his probable loss of all he has worked for crack his resolve to send her away.

Cast

{{columnslist|
  • Eleanor Parker as Joanna Leiningen
  • Charlton Heston as Christopher Leiningen
  • Abraham Sofaer as Incacha
  • William Conrad as Commissioner
  • Romo Vincent as Boat Captain
  • Douglas Fowley as Medicine Man
  • John Dierkes as Gruber
  • Leonard Strong as Kutina
  • Norma Calderón as Zala
  • Pilar Del Rey as Indian Wife
  • Bernie Gozier as Gruber's Indian
  • Jerry Groves as Gruber's Indian
  • Leon Lontoc as Indian
  • John Mansfield as Foreman
  • Ronald Alan Numkena as Indian Boy
  • Rodd Redwing as Indian
  • Jack Reitzen as Fat Man
  • Carlos Rivero as Indian Husband

}}

Production

The screenplay was co-written by Ranald MacDougall and the blacklisted writer Ben Maddow. The film was produced in Technicolor by George Pal, who also made The War of the Worlds, Tom Thumb, and The Time Machine.

William Conrad, who had starred as Leiningen in adaptations of Stephenson's story for the radio programs Escape and Suspense, appears in the film as a district commissioner.[4]

The unique "sound" of the ants devouring everything in their path was created by swirling a straw in a glass of water with crushed ice, which was then amplified. Much of the Rio Negro (Amazon) jungle riverscape, as well as the bridge dynamiting and sluice scenes, are second-unit stock footage shot in Florahome, Florida, according to IMDb.

Impact

The film was adapted for radio on the June 7, 1954 broadcast of the Lux Radio Theatre; Charlton Heston reprised his role as "Leiningen" and Donna Reed played "Joanna".

A scene from the film was used in the 1971 film The Hellstrom Chronicle.

The film strongly influenced the 1985 MacGyver episode "Trumbo's World", which also featured clips from the film.

References

1. ^{{cite journal |title=The Top Box-Office Hits of 1954 |magazine=Variety Weekly |date=January 5, 1955}}
2. ^{{cite news |url=https://movies.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=9F06E6DD173FE23BBC4B53DFB266838F649EDE |title=Bosley Crowther review |newspaper=nytimes.com |access-date=August 8, 2013 |first=Bosley |last=Crowther |author-link=Bosley Crowther |date=3 April 1954 |publisher=The New York Times Company |archive-url=http://archive.is/gntbI |archive-date=7 July 2013}}
3. ^{{Cite web |title=WVUE Channel 8 News Collection |url=http://library.uno.edu/specialcollections/inventories/319.htm |access-date=22 February 2016 |date=June 2005 |publisher=University of New Orleans |work=Earl K. Long Library |archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20160302080204/http://library.uno.edu/specialcollections/inventories/319.htm |archive-date=2 March 2016}}
4. ^{{cite web |url=http://www.escape-suspense.com/2007/04/escapeleiningen.html |title=Escape-Leiningen Versus the Ants |work=escape-suspense.com |access-date=August 8, 2013 |date=22 April 2017 |archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20121111053907/http://www.escape-suspense.com/2007/04/escapeleiningen.html |archive-date=11 November 2012}}

External links

  • {{IMDb title|id=0047264}}
  • {{Amg movie|34394|The Naked Jungle}}
Streaming audio
  • [https://archive.org/download/OTRR_Escape_Singles/Escape_48-01-14_-023-_Leiningen_vs_the_Ants_-national_broadcast-.mp3 Leiningen Versus the Ants] on Escape: January 14, 1948
  • [https://archive.org/download/Lux19/Lux-540607-49m08s-885hrt-NakedJungle-CHestonDReed.mp3 The Naked Jungle] on Lux Radio Theater: June 7, 1954
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