Word: pythons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Central Africa, the short, stocky, reddish-haired white man who reached Manhattan on a slow transatlantic boat last week is known as The Young Python. But his passport, the Social Register, the 1914 Harvard Classbook, the tax rolls of Rockland County, N. Y. and the corporation registry of Lugene (swank Manhattan opticians) all list him as Frederic Grosvenor Carnochan. Always well off, he could afford to become an amateur ethnologist. During the past decade he concentrated on the Wanyamwesi, a long-nosed, curly-haired tribe of 4,000,000 members who inhabit 30,000 sq. mi. south of Lake Victoria...
...reality of some of the 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...
...jungle adventures of animal-catching vary from the grim struggle of a black leopard with a fifteen-foot python to the more humorous clowning of waggish gibbons that were caught early in the picture to stage wrestling bouts for the duration of the film. The high spots in the process of rounding up the "wild cargo" are probably the captures of an albino water buffalo and a real man-eating tiger, who, if we may take Mr. Buck's word for it, had been playing havoc with the natives of Jahore until the up-to-date animal-catcher from America...
...creature, half-bear, half-cat." Presently the binturong is laughing in a cage. When Frank Buck pitches a camp, white monkeys swarm on the roof. When he looks at a tree, there is a leopard in it. When a friendly potentate gives him a pig for Thanksgiving dinner, a python crawls halfway into the pig's pen, eats the pig, finds itself trapped. To catch langur monkeys, he makes a one-inch hole in a coconut shell, puts rice inside. The monkey can reach into the shell but can not withdraw its closed paw with the rice...
...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 a mouse-deer, biting Frank Buck. The python ends in a cage as does an Indian rhinoceros whose capture, when he has eluded Buck's wire corral and stumbled foolishly into a water hole, forms the climax...