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...KING COBRA&151;Mark Channing&151;Lippincott ($2). No detective story, but a bold adventure of the Indian Secret Service is this tale of a secret castle, tribal uprising and malevolent villain with temper of tried and true romance...
...scenes may be questioned, this film maintains a sustained interest until the end for the person who is admittedly a wild animal fan. Although the technical realist may be unconvinced by the well-photographed hand-to-hand encounters of Frank Buck with a giant python and king cobra in turn, such scenes may prove quite absorbing...
Only a few of the larger animals give Frank Buck occasional trouble. This picture shows him dancing uneasily around a cobra, escaped from its crate; herding wild elephants into a corral; scooping a man-eating tiger out of a hole in the ground; catching a leopard in a snare. Other animals which appear in Wild Cargo are flying foxes, water buffalo, mouse-deer, gibbons, orangutans, tapirs. Most appealing are a white Rhesus monkey and a honey bear engaged in a calm, incompetent wrestling bout; most alarming, the python who slithers forlornly through Wild Cargo, strangling a black panther, frightening...
Singapore (by Robert Keith; John Henry Mears, producer) differs from all other mammy-palaver plays in that it includes in its cast a real live cobra...
...Cobras. Snakeman Ditmars last week introduced a new cobra to his zoo, housed him in a cage with an old cobra named Beelzebub. Within a few minutes both cobras were spitting & biting, tying each other into angry knots. Dr. Ditmars watched impassively. "Let them fight it out," said he. "That's the only way they'll get used to each other." At length Beelzebub crawled off into a corner of the cage, his head bloody & swollen. Dr. Ditmars fed him a six-foot gopher snake, turned a hose on his conqueror...