The Golden Idol

1954 film directed by Ford Beebe

January 10, 1954 (1954-01-10)

Running time

71 minutesCountryUnited StatesLanguageEnglish

The Golden Idol is a 1954 American adventure film directed by Ford Beebe and starring Johnny Sheffield, Anne Kimbell and Paul Guilfoyle. It was the tenth in the 12-film Bomba, the Jungle Boy series,^[1] based on the Bomba series of juvenile adventure books. It was produced and distributed by Allied Artists

Plot

Prince Ali wants the Golden Idol of Watusi and hires a ruthless hunter to get it for him. Bomba has the idol and, with the help of Commissioner Barnes, Eli, and a beautiful archaeologist from the British Museum (Anne Kimbell), he foils Ali's plans. Ali and the hunter are noticeably more cold-blooded than most of Bomba's adversaries.

Cast

Johnny Sheffield as Bomba
Anne Kimbell as Karen Marsh
Paul Guilfoyle as Ali Ben Mamoud
Leonard Mudie as Commissioner Andy Barnes
Smoki Whitfield as Eli
Rick Vallin as Abdullah
Lane Bradford as Joe Hawkins

References

^ "GOLDEN IDOL, The". Monthly Film Bulletin. 22 (252). London: 9. 1 January 1955. ProQuest 1305820254.

External links

The Golden Idol at IMDb

Films directed by Ford Beebe

The Vanishing Legion (1931)
The Pride of the Legion (1932)
Law Beyond the Range (1935)
The Adventures of Rex and Rinty (1935)
The Man from Guntown (1935)
Stampede (1936)
Jungle Jim (1937)
West Bound Limited (1937)
Flash Gordon's Trip to Mars (1938)
The Phantom Creeps (1939)
Oklahoma Frontier (1939)
Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe (1940)
The Green Hornet (1940)
Son of Roaring Dan (1940)
The Masked Rider (1941)
Night Monster (1942)
Frontier Badmen (1943)
Enter Arsène Lupin (1944)
The Invisible Man's Revenge (1944)
Easy to Look At (1945)
My Dog Shep (1946)
Six-Gun Serenade (1947)
Courtin' Trouble (1948)
Shep Comes Home (1948)
Texas Manhunt (1949)
Satan's Cradle (1949)
The Dalton Gang (1949)
Bomba, the Jungle Boy (1949)
Bomba on Panther Island (1949)
The Lost Volcano (1950)
The Hidden City (1951)
The Lion Hunters (1951)
Elephant Stampede (1952)
African Treasure (1952)
Bomba and the Jungle Girl (1952)
Safari Drums (1953)
The Golden Idol (1954)
Killer Leopard (1954)
Lord of the Jungle (1955)

v t e Bomba, the Jungle Boy by Roy Rockwood
Films	Bomba, the Jungle Boy (1949) Bomba on Panther Island (1949) The Lost Volcano (1950) The Hidden City (1951) The Lion Hunters (1951) Elephant Stampede (1952) African Treasure (1952) Bomba and the Jungle Girl (1952) Safari Drums (1953) The Golden Idol (1954) Killer Leopard (1954) Lord of the Jungle (1955)
Personnel	Ford Beebe Walter Mirisch Johnny Sheffield Tarzan