Of interest to a very few, other than myself, today on TCM I caught Bomba on Panther Island. It’s the second movie in the “Bomba the Jungle Boy” series and it features my very first childhood crush, Allene Roberts.
Allene’s dress early in the movie seemed familiar.
Yep, just as I thought. It’s the same dress that Allene wore later in “The Haunted Lighthouse”, her first of three appearances in The Adventures of Superman.
They weren’t kidding about “Poverty Row,” the term that was coined in the movie business for the ultra-low budget studios! Maybe it was one of the dresses Allene’s seamstress mother made for her.
Allene goes swimming with Johnny Sheffield, who before playing Bomba was “Boy” in the Weissmuller Tarzan series. Allene bears something of a resemblance here to Maureen O’Sullivan, who was also in the Tarzan movies with Sheffield.
Speaking of Allene, eBay currently has a couple of unique items. I had a tough time deciding which one to bid on.
