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The Naked Jungle

1954

Byron Haskin

Charlton Heston, Eleanor Parker, William Conrad, Abraham Sofaer ...

6.5

8,422

Adventure. Drama A plantation owner, living in a South American jungle, sends off to New Orleans for a mail-order-bride. When the woman finally arrives, she finds life difficult in the steamy, uncivilized landscape. In addition to bearing the pain of a loveless marriage, she soon faces a natural disaster of near biblical proportions when a multitudinous brigade of fire ants threatens to destroy the entire estate.

	Media	Author	Review
		Bosley Crowther The New York Times	"Credit Philip Yordan and Ranald MacDougall for the script, which is literate as well as dramatic—a comparatively uncommon thing. And credit Byron Haskin for directing in a slow rhythm and a mordant style. But credit, too, Mr. Heston for performing with a fine, intense restraint and Miss Parker for playing the lady with spirit and dignity".
		Variety	"An interesting feature that mixes in jungle adventure with a science-fiction touch (...) Smart, suspense-building and actionful direction"
		Time Out	"A weird and wonderful combination of melodrama, sexual symbolism and exotic adventure (...) Sumptuously shot, intelligently and literately scripted, it somehow, miraculously, holds absurdity at bay"
		TV Guide	"Heston gives a good performance. Parker is impressive. Of all the movies of people threatened by insects, this is probably the best, and certainly the most realistic"

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