Booloo (1938)
A Saga of the Jungle
White hunters in a Malayan jungle stalk a white tiger and bait their trap with a native girl. Captain Rogers to the rescue but falls for the Colonel's daughter.
- Date of release
- 1938-07-29
- TMDB
- 7.7 / 10 (3)
- Runtime
- 1h 1m
- Genres
- Adventure
- Director
- Clyde E. Elliott
Casting
- Colin Tapley — Captain Robert Rogers
- Jayne Regan — Kate Jaye
- Mamo Clark — Native Girl
- Ratna Asmara — Native girl (credited as Swiatna Asmara)
Interesting facts
Booloo is a 1938 American adventure film directed by Clyde E. Elliott. It stars Colin Tapley as a British soldier who attempts to prove the existence of a legendary tiger.
Production
In August 1937, Paramount signed a contract with Indonesian dramatist, Andjar Asmara, as a screenwriter after the last show of his theatrical troupe Bolero in Medan, and goes to Singapore on 14 August. They gave Andjar's wife, Ratna, a role as Sakai girl who was sacrificed in a ritual sacrifice to a white tiger.
Paramount wanted another jungle adventure film after The Jungle Princess proved popular, and they recruited Clyde E. Elliott to shoot a film in Singapore. Elliott's two previous Malayan films, Bring 'Em Back Alive and Devil Tiger, had been criticized for lacking authenticity. Booloo addressed these concerns by using Asian actors when available. The film was half complete on 4 March 1938.
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