Monday, June 10, 2013

Clyde Beatty #3



The Movies:

1. TARZAN, THE APE MAN - MGM, 1932. Beatty was an uncredited animal man, working in the winter of 1931.
He returned to Peru and went out with Hagenbeck-Wallace for 1932.
2. THE BIG CAGE - Universal, 1933 - Starring as himself.
3. THE LOST JUNGLE - Mascot, 1934 - Starring. Title was both a 12-chapter serial, and a feature.
4. DARKEST AFRICA - Republic, 1936 - Starring. 15-chapter serial was Republic's first. Re-released in 1949 as
KING OF JUNGLELAND, again in 1966 as BATMEN OF AFRICA
5. CAT COLLEGE - A Pete Smith Specialty (short subject), 1940. Filmed at the Beatty Jungle Zoo, Ft. Lauderdale.
6. CLYDE BEATTY'S ANIMAL THRILLS - A Castle Film (#610), 1941. Also filmed at Ft. Lauderdale.
7. CAPTIVE WILD WOMAN - Universal, 1943. Has footage of Beatty's act, with Milburn Stone in close-ups. Uses
Beatty's name, but he does not appear in a role. Picture had 2
subsequent re-releases under different titles.
8. AFRICA SCREAMS - Nassour Studios, 1949. Co-starred with Abbott & Costello, Frank Buck, Hillary Brooke.
9. DANGER IS OUR LOVE - Nassour Studios, 1949. Clyde and Harriett Beatty. The film's fate remains uncertain.
10. PERILS OF THE JUNGLE - Commodore Productions-Lippert Studios, 1953. Starring.
11. THE PIT OF UMANGI - Commodore Productions, 1953. Starring. History of this film remains unclear.
12. RING OF FEAR - Warner Bros., 1954. Starring. A John Wayne-Robert Fellows Production (just before Wayne
formed his Batjac Productions, which now owns the film.)


Posted by Buckles at 6/10/2013 05:51:00 AM

6 comments:

Eric said...

An unbilled Clyde Beatty also appears (via stock footage lifted from THE BIG CAGE) in the 1940 serial THE GREEN HORNET. This occurs in Chapter 12 ("Panic in the Zoo.") In addition to CLYDE BEATTY'S ANIMAL THRILLS Castle Films also issued a cut-down version of THE BIG CAGE, which remained in their catalog from 1958 until 1966.

10 June, 2013 11:05
Roger Smith said...

Great notes, ERIC. I had not known of him seen in THE GREEN HORNET. I did know Castle cut THE BIG CAGE into their format of "home movies"--8 mm reels for those who had projectors at home. Castle's output was sort of cheesy, but filled with nostalgia, and aside from newsreels, often the only way the public saw film of the outside world.

A special tribute is due DAVE PRICE for knowledge of Clyde Beatty films. I knew of most of them, and had seen them mostly in re-release. But DAVE is an astute scholar, advanced in education, and exceptionally discerning of superb fact from easily accepted fiction. For the movie history I posted today, the greatest credit belongs to DAVE, who labored devotedly for years to compile his conclusive accuracy.

10 June, 2013 17:15
Chic Silber said...


This photo cropped as shown was

used in several souvinir books in

the early 60s on Beatty - Cole

10 June, 2013 22:28
Chic Silber said...


Might this have been used as the ad

for Rolex Watches (also a trade)

11 June, 2013 10:08
Ole Whitey said...

Chic: This photo was taken in 1955 and I believe the 1957 program was the first to run it.

One of the great lines: "Clyde Beatty wears two tiger cubs and a Rolex watch."

That campaign started in 1959.

11 June, 2013 11:06
Ole Whitey said...

Thanks, Roger. Astute? I dunno about that. You left out "humble."
You've been at Beatty research nearly as long as I have.

11 June, 2013 11:21

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