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Manhunt in the Jungle

Manhunt in the Jungle

1958Movie⏱️ 1h 19mApproved
ActionAdventureBiographyDramaHistoryMystery
6.4
IMDB Rating
88 votes

Adventurer George M. Dyatt is sent to find a fellow adventurer, Colonel Percy Fawcett, who went missing in the Amazon jungle in 1925 while searching for the lost city of Z (changed to El Dorado in the movie). Based on true events.

Director
Tom McGowan
Writers
George M. Dyott, Sam Mervin, Owen Crump
Stars
Robin Hughes, Luis Álvarez, James Wilson
Release Date
March 13, 1959
Language
English
Country
United States
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Reviews
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🎭 Top Cast

Robin Hughes
Robin Hughes
as Cmdr. George M. Dyott
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Luis Álvarez
as Aloique
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James Wilson
as Col. P.H. Fawcett
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Jorge Montoro
as Carissimo
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Natalia Manzuelas
as Pedro's Wife
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John B. Symmes
as John B. Symmes
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Richard McCloskey
as Dr. Emmett Wilson
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Harry Knapp
as Portuguese Explorer
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Emilio Meiners
as Pedro
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Enrique González
as Bernadino

🎬 Technical Specs

Aspect Ratio
1.85 : 1
Filming Location
Amazon River, Brazil
Production
Warner Bros.

🏷️ Keywords

junglejungle adventurebare chested malemurderexplorer

🎯 Categories

Jungle AdventureActionAdventureBiographyDramaHistoryMystery

⭐ Featured Review

Jungle Fever
by telegonus2001-11-07
9/10

"This is a modest, exceptionally made sleeper that ought to be better known than it is. The search for a missing explorer and a lost treasure is what send its hero and his various guides and helpers downriver in a boat. Robin Hughes is sturdy as the one English-speaker, and it is he who narrates the story. That this is also a true story helps a good deal. It is the sort of thing Disney often did, but without the occasional gruesomeness, and also without the naturalism, which is here most appealing, and giving this movie, for all its ups and downs,--in all that senses of those words--a certain h..."

📖 Synopsis

Adventurer George M. Dyatt is sent to find a fellow adventurer, Colonel Percy Fawcett, who went missing in the Amazon jungle in 1925 while searching for the lost city of Z (changed to El Dorado in the movie). Based on true events.