***SPOILERS*** Bomba, Johnny Sheffield, the jungle boy now at age 23 is getting a bit too big for his kid or juvenile size loincloth gets involved with illegal diamond smuggling as well as a killer black leopard who's attacking and eating the local native population. It's Fred Winters, Donald Murphy,the abused husband, in him always being in his wife's shadow, of big time Hollywood actress Linda Winters,Beverly Garland,who decided to make it on his own by embezzling his wife's employer, Allied Artists, of $20,000.00. Not satisfied with the 20 grand Fred is now looking to buy diamonds off African diamond mine supernatant Saunders, Harry Cordine, at cut rate prices, since such a transaction is illegal, and at least double his money!
It's Linda herself who travels to darkest Africa to get Fred to turn himself into the police where he'll end up only getting a slap on the wrists in that she paid out of her own pocket the 20 G's that he stole. Shocked that his old lady Linda bails him out as well as his crime being discovered so soon Fred in what seems to be a fit of madness still decides to go on foot with his American guide Charlie Pulham, Barry Bernard, to the far off diamond mines and buy the diamonds off Supt.Saunders! Even if it means he'll end up behind bars for doing it!
While all this is going on Bomba is recruited by Linda to track down her husband and knock some sense into his head before he ends up getting himself killed: By either his partners in crime Supt. Saunders and his greedy and double crossing guide Charlie Pulham or the on the loose and hungry for human flesh killer leopard! It's the killer leopard that in fact makes the movie interesting in that he doesn't need to read and remember the ridicules script in the movie. In that his acting is purely natural, and mostly in stock footage, in that all he has to do is just be himself and not have to put on an embarrassing act,like Bomba Linda & Fred,at all!
***SPOLIERS*** Bomba in first finding Fred is now confronted with the killer leopard in who's hideout, a hidden cave, Charlie Pulham's body was hidden in by his killer Supt. Saunders. Charlie like Fred got a bit too greedy in wanting more of a cut, from the illegal diamonds, from Saunders that the two agreed upon and ended up paying for it with his life. Bomba in a stock footage scene from an earlier Bomba movie, "Bomba on Panther Island", dispatched the killer leopard and ends up swinging through the jungle as the movie finally ends.
P.S Check out actor Charles Stevens as bar owner Tony Gonzales who tipped off Linda to where her cheating husband Fred is. Stevens just happens to be the grandson of the famous and notorious Apache chief Gernoimo himself!
It's Linda herself who travels to darkest Africa to get Fred to turn himself into the police where he'll end up only getting a slap on the wrists in that she paid out of her own pocket the 20 G's that he stole. Shocked that his old lady Linda bails him out as well as his crime being discovered so soon Fred in what seems to be a fit of madness still decides to go on foot with his American guide Charlie Pulham, Barry Bernard, to the far off diamond mines and buy the diamonds off Supt.Saunders! Even if it means he'll end up behind bars for doing it!
While all this is going on Bomba is recruited by Linda to track down her husband and knock some sense into his head before he ends up getting himself killed: By either his partners in crime Supt. Saunders and his greedy and double crossing guide Charlie Pulham or the on the loose and hungry for human flesh killer leopard! It's the killer leopard that in fact makes the movie interesting in that he doesn't need to read and remember the ridicules script in the movie. In that his acting is purely natural, and mostly in stock footage, in that all he has to do is just be himself and not have to put on an embarrassing act,like Bomba Linda & Fred,at all!
***SPOLIERS*** Bomba in first finding Fred is now confronted with the killer leopard in who's hideout, a hidden cave, Charlie Pulham's body was hidden in by his killer Supt. Saunders. Charlie like Fred got a bit too greedy in wanting more of a cut, from the illegal diamonds, from Saunders that the two agreed upon and ended up paying for it with his life. Bomba in a stock footage scene from an earlier Bomba movie, "Bomba on Panther Island", dispatched the killer leopard and ends up swinging through the jungle as the movie finally ends.
P.S Check out actor Charles Stevens as bar owner Tony Gonzales who tipped off Linda to where her cheating husband Fred is. Stevens just happens to be the grandson of the famous and notorious Apache chief Gernoimo himself!