Jacare (1942)
1942 · Feature film · 57 min · dir. Charles E. Ford
Men With Guts Vs. Prowling Death!
- Adventure
Synopsis
This documentary follows a group of adventurers into the Amazon jungle as they attempt to catch animals to be shipped to zoos in the USA.
Synopsis from TMDb
Details
- Director
- Charles E. Ford
- Composer
- Miklós Rózsa
- Cinematography
- James B. Shackelford
- Studio
- Mayfair Productions Inc.
- Released
- 1942-11-27
- Running time
- 57 minutes
Cast & crew
- Charles E. Ford Director
- James Dannaldson
Frank Buck
Reviews on the Internet Archive
★★★ · User Reviews 29 August 2001 | by jim riecken · Ynot_tony · 2010-10-22
This documentary follows a group of adventurers into the Amazon jungle to catch animals to be shipped to zoo's in the USA. The ease in which the hunters catch the animals and how quickly they become tame once in captivity indicates most of the footage shot in this film was rehearsed. One sequence where one of the adventurers battles a boa constrictor is obviously staged. One scene the narrator describes a caiman as an alligator, even though alligators are native to Florida and China and not Brazil. The title comes from the local word for caiman, in which the film describes as the "terror of…
★ · Frank Buck · jimelena · 2006-10-24
This movie has Frank Buck in it so it might be okay. But I couldn't get any sound so I didn't watch it. I've tried to watch it several times but never any sound.
