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Sheena Queen of the Jungle includes 6 Features

Buster Crabbe (Actor), Irish McCalla (Actor), Various (Director) Rated:
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Format: DVD
3.2 3.2 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
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Enjoy a rumble in the jungle with classic 40s and 50s films all about action, mystery and menacing encounters in the untamed wilds of Africa. Handsome heroes and headstrong heroines team up against savage jungle beasts and dangerous criminals.

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  • Is Discontinued By Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ No
  • MPAA rating ‏ : ‎ NR (Not Rated)
  • Product Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 0.7 x 7.5 x 5.4 inches; 2.72 ounces
  • Director ‏ : ‎ Various
  • Media Format ‏ : ‎ NTSC
  • Run time ‏ : ‎ 5 hours and 15 minutes
  • Release date ‏ : ‎ December 6, 2016
  • Actors ‏ : ‎ Buster Crabbe, Irish McCalla, Don C. Harvey, Chris Drake
  • Dubbed: ‏ : ‎ English
  • Studio ‏ : ‎ Echo Bridge
  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B01LXWBBDN
  • Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 1
  • Customer Reviews:
    3.2 3.2 out of 5 stars 6 ratings

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3.2 out of 5 stars
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Donald Chastain
1.0 out of 5 stars b&w dvd
Reviewed in the United States on February 9, 2021
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Black and white dvd movies of old tv series. NOT WORTH BUYING.
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Lora Perkins
1.0 out of 5 stars oops
Reviewed in the United States on January 31, 2017
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I ordered the wrong one
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Claudia Natale
3.0 out of 5 stars Horrible picture quality in this once amazing television series
Reviewed in the Netherlands on January 1, 2024
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In the mid 1950s Irish McCalla took the Jungle-girl genre to a whole new level. There had been a number physically & visually equally or even more stunning Jungle-girls from the mid 1930s onwards, but Sheena was largely filmed on location (I believe in Mexico) rather than in incredibly cheap papier-mache "studios". Sheena was an instant hit that continued to captivate audiences to date, which is no small accomplishment given the immense competition. Sure, from today's perspective the plots and the sillyness of it all are intolerable, and if being honest there's very little "jungle" in Irish other than the leopard skins she wears so well. But she shared a unique feature with her two great successors in the part, Tanya Roberts and Gena Lee Nolin, all looking both stunning and disarmingly naive, as in 'naturel'. Even in the most silly cardboard plots you believe that McCalla means well. As a child, watching some re-run of this, I was captivated. And since our early 1970s black & white TV-set had even more scrappy picture quality than the broadcast, I wasn't used to anything better.

The bad news: the Sheena episodes were filmed on the tab of a second rate company that was apparently so happily surprised by the immense success that instead of investing in it, they continued to film in low budget quality and feast on the profits. Even more amazingly, they discontinued one of the most popular series of the time, if not the most popular one, after only two seasons. The episodes that survived the company's default and sell out, apparently on second and third generation copies that were perpetually resold to broadcasters globally, eventually made it to VHS. And there you have it: the degenerate VHS-copies are the source for all DVD issues of the original Sheena series. These DVDs are simply unwatchable. I'm undecided as to whose fault this is – perhaps this is simply what it is, there's nothing better around anymore. Frankly, with this horrible VHS picture quality as source, any attempt at remastering is pointless. It seems they actually ran some program on it though for this particular DVD-set, which pixelized and ruined things further lol. Unless you really MUST see McCalla in these Sheena episodes, it is simply unwatchable.

Intriguingly, some fans online have made the most out of these episodes and placed them on YouTube in FAR BETTER quality for free, apparently having better sources or done a better job on them, from the heart so to say. Two issues on YouTube have even been AI-colorized and AI-enhanced by I'm guessing the Topaz program. Even online in YouTube quality it was a huge improvement. If that were done professionally, I'd happily buy the entire series again in blue-ray.

Finally: there's at least six competing DVD issues of the whole series or parts of it extant. I've bought them all, HOPING one or two would have a shade better picture quality or derive from a better source... alas, they all used the same worn VHS tapes, and likely the last DVD issues copied from the first DVD issues (and DVD is a tremendously compressed format, you're not watching a 100% copy of the original VHS, which, on a good VHS player, could yield far superior results). So, as far as this and the other 1950s Sheena DVDs are concerned: don't bother UNLESS... you're happy with the various outstanding cover designs – the studio did great photo promo shoots! And McCalla POSED a far better Sheena than she acted her (well, she didn't really act now, did she? But neither did Roberts and Nolin and, inexplicably, they all make the most of that role).
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TheTruth
5.0 out of 5 stars Info on actors is wrong, but a good item
Reviewed in Canada on June 18, 2018
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After reading the reviews on here I decided to check IMDB as well. Could not find anything about a Sheena Of The Jungle movie starring Joseph Calleia & Rosemary De Camp. I did find a 1942 version of The Jungle Book starring those 2 people. But no Sheena movie featuring them. I have no idea of what this is supposed to be. Irish MaCalla starred in the 1955-1956 tv series. No mention anywhere of Calleia & De Camp starring in any sort of Sheena movie at all.

Update: I have now received my copy of this, and it is 2 episodes of the Sheena Queen Of The Jungle tv series and 4 Jungle movies mostly featuring Buster Crabbe. Joseph Calleia & Rosemary De Camp are not featured on anything on this release. I had previously asked Amazon to make corrections to the product info posted up here, but as I am typing this, they have still not done so. The product details for this release need to be seriously corrected.

The 6 features on it are the following...

Sheena Queen Of The Jungle "Forbidden Cargo" episode 8 of the 1956 tv series with Irish McCalla.
Jungle Siren (movie) with Ann Corlo & Buster Crabbe.
Nabonga (movie) with Buster Crabbe.
Sheena Queen Of The Jungle "The Rival Queen" episode 20 of the 1956 tv series with Irish McCalla.
Forbidden Jungle (movie) with Don C. Harvey.
Jungle Man (movie) with Buster Crabbe.

Total running time going by the stated lengths of each item is 5 hours and 35 minutes. Or 335 minutes. Claimed as being 315 minutes on packaging, so at best the total time can be estimated.

Additional update...

I should mention that nobody lied about there being 6 features. A feature can be anything from a full length movie to a tv series episode or a part of a movie serial collection. There are 6 features. The quality of the picture is great for the age of these movies. A few minor brief flaws in places, but few and minor. Some sound issues at a couple points in the movie Jungle Siren. But nothing major. Over-all the remastering is quite good all things considered.

There are 4 movies and 2 Sheena tv series episodes. Running order of the content is Jungle Siren (movie), Drums Of Africa (movie), Forbidden Jungle (movie), Nabonga Gorilla (movie), Sheena Queen Of The Jungle (tv series episode 8) "Forbidden Cargo" & Sheena Queen Of The Jungle (tv series episode 20) "The Rival Queen".

Another thing I should mention is the movie Jungle Man was re-titled Drums Of Africa back in 1951. Says Jungle Man on the packaging and dvd menu, but when the film starts the re-titled title will appear on the screen, but it is the Jungle Man movie. Likewise with Nabonga - the full name of the movie appears to be Nabonga Gorilla. I tried to find out if the word Nabonga means Gorilla, but online sources were no help at all.
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Sherlaw Combs
2.0 out of 5 stars Not much Sheena!!
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 20, 2017
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Be warned. Only two of the 6 "features" on this DVD are Sheena Queen Of The Jungle, the TV series starring Irish McCalla.
The other four are a collection of low budget, jungle set B movies.

JUNGLE SIREN 1942 Ann Corio and Buster Crabbe.
NABONGA 1944 Buster Crabbe and Barton MacLane
FORBIDDEN JUNGLE 1950 Don Harvey and Forrest Taylor
JUNGLE MAN 1941 Buster Crabbe and Charles Middleton.
An interesting collection to be sure, but disappointing if, like me, you bought it for Sheena.
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