The Naked Jungle

The Naked Jungle
The Naked Jungle
	1960 reissue film poster
Directed by	Byron Haskin
Screenplay by	Ranald MacDougall; Ben Maddow; Philip Yordan
Based on	Leiningen Versus the Ants; by Carl Stephenson
Produced by	George Pal
Starring	Eleanor Parker; Charlton Heston; Abraham Sofaer; William Conrad
Cinematography	Ernest Laszlo
Edited by	Everett Douglas
Music by	Daniele Amfitheatrof
Color process	Technicolor
Production; company	Paramount Pictures
Distributed by	Paramount Pictures
Release date	March 3, 1954;
Running time	95 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Box office	$2.3 million (US/Canada rentals)

The Naked Jungle is a 1954 American adventure film directed by Byron Haskin, and starring Charlton Heston and Eleanor Parker. Telling the story of an attack of army ants on a Brazilian cocoa plantation, it was based on the 1937 short story "Leiningen Versus the Ants" by Carl Stephenson.^[2]

^ "1954 Boxoffice Champs". Variety. January 5, 1955. p. 59. Retrieved June 28, 2019 – via Internet Archive.
^ Crowther, Bosley (April 3, 1954). "The Screen: Three Films Arrive". The New York Times. Retrieved August 8, 2013.