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Oh, Dad, this is getting monotonous.

Every year we do the same thing.

We go to Saratoga.

We go to Newport.

Then we come to Glencoe for the yacht races.

I always win the trophy.

As long as I have a better crew on my

boat, that we always win.

Maybe.

But I wish to goodness there was something else we

could do.

Nice lines.

Bruce, you know, this trip of ours to Africa in

search of the city of the dead will be the

most thrilling experience in our lives.

My man, we're going to see things that nobody has

laid eyes on, at least not for centuries.

Maybe, Andy.

But I'm from Missouri.

You'll have to show me.

Hello.

Hello.

Can you imagine that?

For the past few minutes, I've been staring at my

own fiance's back.

Come on.

Now, don't say anything.

I knew it was you all the time.

Of course you knew it was me all the time.

Oh, I could see your father couldn't I?

Oh, by the way.

Oh, no introduction necessary.

Met you at the adventurer's club, recall?

Of course.

Yes, sit down.

Thank you.

Sit down.

Thank you.

What are you doing here?

What's all this I hear about you starting off on

an African jaunt again?

Yeah, it's a fact.

And you're looking at the number two man.

I'm going with him.

No.

Well, I didn't know you were interested in hunting wild

game, Ruth.

Well, I'm not really.

I'm doing my hunting with a camera.

I'm going to try to get some shots of a

city that's been lost to civilization for centuries.

They call it the city of the dead.

Now, just a minute.

Where do I come in?

You think I'm going to sit here waiting while you

spend the rest of your life in Africa looking for

a...

Darling.

Darling.

Africa is no place for a lady.

I've been every place else in the world.

Why not Africa?

No, Bruce is right.

One of our family there is enough.

My brother Jim is known as the jungle priest.

He's been in Africa for 30 years teaching the natives

and, oh, you know, whatever a missionary does in Africa.

His last time out of there was eight or ten

years ago.

You haven't seen him in all that time, eh?

No.

How much as I'd like to.

Well, why don't you come along?

Join us.

Make it a foursome.

Say, that's an idea.

Why, surely.

While we're hunting for the city of the dead, you

could visit your brother.

A moment ago, you didn't want it.

Thinking about those long, lonesome jungle nights?

They do say that those nights are gorgeous, gorgeous.

Think of the surprise we could have walking in on

Uncle Jim in the middle of the jungle.

That's just it, my dear.

I don't like walking.

No, we'll stay home.

Well, I guess that leaves you out, Betty.

While Annie and I are having the adventure of our

lives, you'll stay home.

That's what you think.

Dad.

You've always been a good sport.

I'll toss a coin.

Heads, we go.

Tails, we stay.

I'll finish the coin.

Oh, no, no, no, no.

No, I think not.

Afraid to take a chance?

Oh, all right.

Go ahead.

Toss your own coin.

You ready?

Yes.

Heads, we go.

Heads, we go.

And perhaps it's heads we lose.

A souvenir, Betty, of how you won your trip to

Africa.

Thanks, Bruce.

Two heads are better than one.

Friday.

Jungle.

Tell him to come.

Jungle.

Hello, Friday.

Jungle.

What's on your mind?

You want me?

Father Jim.

He wants.

Father Jim.

OK.

Anything wrong, Father?

Nothing important.

Just an old man getting lonesome, I guess.

Cigarette?

No, thanks.

You know, sometimes the stillness of the jungle gets me.

Eh, it isn't the jungle that gets me, Father.

It's the thought that after five years of work, I

may have failed in what I came here for.

Oh, no.

The formula that you sent through to the states will

be made up just as you want it.

When it's returned to Africa, it'll be the serum to

cure the dread Malika fever.

Yes.

But suppose it isn't successful?

Impossible.

Efforts for good, my son, always pay dividends.

Now, don't forget that.

Hello.

Now what?

Thank you.

Not bad news, I hope.

On the contrary, the best news I've had in years.

My brother and his daughter, along with some others of

his party, are en route to Africa.

Say, this was sent three weeks ago.

They must be here right now.

You are not pleased?

No, not at a time like this.

I didn't tell you, Father, but when I came through

Oposa Village last week, I found a half a dozen

new cases of Malika.

Bad ones, too.

There was nothing I could do.

Nothing I could do for anyone until that serum gets

here from the states.

You believe we'll have another epidemic?

I hope not.

That's why I'm not pleased at the thought of your

brother and his daughter coming at this time.

Besides, if there isn't one danger in Africa, it's another.

Yes, the jungle is always a menace.

However you like, all men are menace.

Always fearing the worst.

Now, I don't look at it that way.

I like to look at the brighter side.

Are you sure you're on the right trail?

Oh, well, of course, certainly.

I was over this very same trail in 1920.

In 1920?

And you're sure that none of the landmarks have changed

since then?

That is not that you can remember.

I'm sorry right now we ever left that main safari.

Oh, don't worry, Mr. Kellogg.

I've never lost a safari in the jungle yet.

Well, there's always a first time for everything, you know.

Yeah, that's what I...

Excuse me, I...

Reaching for a leaf, I...

I go!

You know, Dad, I have a feeling that eyes are

always on us.

I have the same thought myself.

After all, this is Africa, and it's filled with animal

life.

Oh!

Betty, I told you we're never going to leave the

safari at any time.

I'm sorry, Bruce.

Thanks a lot, Andy.

I promise to be good from now on.

All right, dear.

Let's get underway.

Trying to get a shot of those monkeys back there

was a silly thing for me to do, wasn't it?

I'll say it was.

Andy hadn't been quick on the trigger.

Well, I hate to think of what would have happened.

So do I.

Especially after I looked at that leopard.

You know, Betty, I was in India last year.

The natives there always seemed to carry their women with

them on the march.

We had half a dozen or so with us.

Well, we warned them not to stray away from camp

or do what you did today, leave the line of

march.

One of them stopped to adjust her pack and got

lost somehow.

We never did know.

Our native boys have been working all morning trying to

scare up a tiger for us.

Now what?

The lion's ahead.

Oh, Andy, that's about all I need right now to

be chased by a lion.

What did you expect to find in Africa?

Seals?

No.

Oh, don't be so irritable, Dad.

I had every comfort a man could want back home.

I allowed myself to be talked into flipping a coin.

Home or Africa.

Well, there's really nothing to be worried about.

On one safari, I killed six lions all by myself.

Just like that.

That.

High go.

Let's

go.

What does the drum say, Friday?

It say white men.

One white woman.

That must be your party, Father.

They've come through.

No, no, no, no, no, no.

They're just like children.

In no time at all, every man, woman, and child

will be on the run to see who's coming.

I guess I'm the only one that's not happy over

the affair.

You will be when you see my niece.

Same to you.

What'd he say?

Who, me?

Yeah, you.

Well, uh, I think, uh, I think he said, uh,

go away.

His, uh, his people don't like us.

You know, take a walk.

Mm, doke, mocha, son.

Me bring message welcome.

Come.

Come.

Jim, I'm

glad to see you again.

I am happy, too, William, more than I can tell

you.

So this is Betty.

I'm Dr. Hammond.

My name is Bruce Kellogg.

You're the first white people we've seen in a long

time.

Seems kind of funny looking at our own race again.

Come in, come in.

It's been so long since I've had company.

I forgot getting my manners.

Come on in.

Father Jim must have been so excited he forgot to

introduce us.

Oh, it's Betty Graham.

It's Dr. Hammond.

How do you do?

How do you do?

The man the natives call Junga?

Father Jim has written me so much about you and

the work you're doing in the jungle, I feel as

if I almost know you, Junga.

Now sit down and make yourselves at home.

That's a nice little place you got here.

Yeah, one learns to do with very little in the

jungle.

Very little?

With a tiger rug on the floor?

You know, it looks like one I used to have.

I gave it to the elks at Peoria.

The only difference is, mine had his mouth wide open,

like that.

Ah!

Damn Satan.

Don't be alarmed.

He's perfectly harmless.

I picked him up in one of the Malay states.

He was just a little kitten then.

He's been with me ever since.

And gentlemen, I vouch that Satan is the only tiger

in all Africa.

Is that a fact?

Believe it or not, Father, that's the man who headed

our safari.

Merciful heavens, I wonder you ever arrived here.

Thinking my Satan was a stuffed rug.

Shame on you.

You keep him here in your heart all the time?

Afraid you'll step on him in the middle of the

night, William?

Don't worry.

He sleeps by my bed like a great big overgrown

dog.

I have no worries with him here, nor will you.

After a while, he'll be eating right out of your

hand.

Not my hand.

And Andy is right about the city of the dead

being in this section.

Of course, I don't know exactly where it is because,

well, because no one has ever found it and come

back alive.

You mean even if someone finds it, something happens to

them?

That's right.

I'll call it superstition or anything you like.

But the legend is that those who gaze upon the

city of the dead become part of it.

Well, we've come at least 9,000 miles, more or

less.

And I know that I'm going to get one shot

of it with my camera before we go back.

I'll have to tell Andy.

You've spent five years in this wilderness.

Don't you regret it?

No.

Not a day, not a second.

If I accomplish what I came out here to do.

What is that?

To stamp out a fever.

The natives call it malika, which means certain death.

Up until the time I came here, no one tried

to find out why it raged or why its victims

never recovered.

I finally found a serum which I think will stamp

it out.

How soon will you know?

Well, when the serum comes back from the States.

Much as I want you to try out your serum,

I hope you don't get the chance while we're here.

I hope so, too.

You may not know it, but you're going to a

banquet tonight.

Really?

That's right.

Your host is going to be the chief of the

Posa tribe.

Come along.

I've got to remind Father Jim.

Pop, you're going to a native banquet tonight.

Better get out your dressed clothes.

What?

Not necessary, William.

You don't dress in the jungle.

And the Posa chief is very informal.

Oh, civilized, I hope.

Half and half.

Think you'll like me?

Enough to make you his white goddess.

What are we supposed to do with this?

Eat it.

What with?

a.

Thing is when better before for it.

Don't let him know you don't like it oh that's

one thing you must do.

Never hurt their feelings.

To.

Give it to.

What something you wear you won't go away until you

do.

See you with him I wish you'd persuade your friends

not to go in search of the old don't tell

me you are superstitious not a bit of a native

dog where Bruce and Andy won't let that stop them.

I'm sure that if you'll give us a rough map

that will lead us into the island country from there

on we can pick up the trail to the city

of the dead and I'd rather not Andy but if

you insist I'm glad to help all I can how

long does it take and it's hard to say in

Africa one doesn't count the days or the weeks or

even the month.

After getting underway tomorrow.

Tomorrow.

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the there a bit is Yeah, this map is cool

but it will get you into the country you're looking

for Is there anything in particular I should know about

in the jungle your eyes should never close Bruce Now

a day's march from here will bring you into the

cobi country They're still headhunters and believe me the enemy

of the white man, you know something I never had

an enemy in my life Except maybe you want to

count that blonde and you will in the cobi Goodbye,

dear.

Goodbye, Bruce.

Lots of luck.

You do want me to come back, don't you?

Of course.

Why shouldn't I?

I don't know.

I've just had the strangest feeling ever since we've been

here.

Silly.

Goodbye, father.

Well, good luck and come back.

Thank you.

All right, boys, let's go.

Hi-ho, hi-ho.

They will come back, won't they?

I hope so.

Hello?

Anybody home?

What's this?

Well, you will agree she's pretty.

Who is she?

Sorry, no understand.

Oh, don't be so fussy.

I'm not going to take it.

I only want to look at it.

Uh, where's the doctor?

I mean, Junga.

Junga?

He get roots in jungle.

You do speak English.

Little.

How the gyms teach.

Well, you're doing fine.

Digging for worms, little boy?

I'll admit that's what it looks like.

But on the contrary, some of these roots may save

some of the natives from turning into, Or shall we

say, fuzzy little worms?

Oh, I hate worms.

Lonesome, huh?

Uh-huh.

Who wouldn't be?

Well, you're never alone in the jungle.

Always got something to look at.

Birds, monkeys, sometimes even a snake.

Don't mention snakes.

They make me feel creepy.

Then you better keep your eyes open.

And tend to one you won't find them on the

ground either.

They'll be above you in the trees.

What do they do?

Well, the lucky devils, they...

they wrap themselves around you and squeeze the life out

of you.

Nice country.

Well, guess I'll run along.

Must you?

Don't you think I'd better?

Now listen, you go straight back the way you came.

Don't wander around loose.

Don't worry.

William, you must impress on Betty not to walk away

from the settlement alone.

Oh, I told her a dozen times.

Friday says it was a half hour ago she started

out looking for jungle.

Well, if she's with him, it's all right.

Aah!

What is it?

Don't move.

Stand perfectly still.

All right.

And don't be afraid.

Move deliberately.

Keep your eye on him.

Come on.

Hello, Dad.

What's the matter?

How many times must I tell you not to leave

the settlement alone?

Oh, shush, Pop.

I'm not alone, am I?

Well, no, not now, of course.

Jungle?

Bad news.

Very bad.

One of the cats get a native again?

No.

Our shortwave radio picked up a message saying the steamer

Macon was sunk.

Torpedoed by a submarine.

The Macon?

The ship that was carrying the serum?

Yes.

It means months of waiting again.

It means a lot more than just months, Father.

I'm so sorry.

I know how much that serum meant to you.

Oh, it's not what it means to me.

It's what it means to millions of natives as well

as whites who live in this fever-infested jungle.

It's what it means to countless babies born here and

die before they ever reach the walking stage.

You're not beaten.

They still have that formula.

They can make up more of it and send it

on to you.

Yes, but when will that be?

Not today or not tomorrow.

It'll be months again.

Months.

And if an epidemic breaks out, all I can do

is stand by and watch.

Just watch them die like flies.

Oh, I'm sorry.

I guess I sound bitter.

It's also very important.

I understand.

Hey, Buckthorn.

What kind of a game is this?

We've been crawling on our hands and knees for a

half hour now.

You're looking for the city of the dead, not me.

And the map says to go this way.

This way.

Well, I'm not going on all fours from this point

on, I'll tell you that.

Well, monkeys do, and they make very good time.

Now, wait a minute.

You wait here and get your breath and I'll go

on ahead.

You follow me in five minutes straight through, uh...

there.

Five minutes.

Well, if I could go nice in time like this.

I'd rather have a scotch and soda.

I'll join you.

Well, it was a nice thought anyway.

Got your breath yet?

Oh, so-so.

Say, we better not let Buck get too far ahead

of us.

If I never see that guy again, I'll be just

as happy.

I go.

Bruce!

Bruce!

Bruce!

Andy!

Get him back!

Andy!

Get him off!

Get him off!

Bruce!

Help!

Help!

Andy!

Get him off!

Well, I did it.

I got him.

Quick.

Get him out of the coils before it's too late.

I'm lucky if I don't have a half a dozen

cracked ribs.

Yeah, you're lucky you're not inside of that snake.

Hey, what's that saying out of the frying pan into

the fire?

What do you call those?

I don't know.

They don't look like the tribe that we've been with.

Cobies.

Headhunters.

They're heading back in the direction from which we came.

Maybe they're on a friendly visit to the Posa tribe.

If they're heading for the Posa tribe, they're gonna stock

up on provisions for the winter.

Let's get out of here.

He's safe.

Man's sick in Posa village.

One day's march.

Ask him how many are sick.

Three.

Tell him I'll go at once.

I go.

Take me with you.

Maybe I can help.

Maybe Malika.

And if it is, it's not a pleasant sight to

see.

What's the difference?

They're human beings, aren't they?

You're going to help them.

Why shouldn't I?

Because I don't know what causes it, nor why.

Do you think I'm crazy to allow you to expose

yourself?

No.

Thanks is the same.

Dad, I'm going with him.

No, my child, you must not.

Oh, but I am.

William, you must stop her.

Stop her?

You don't know Betty.

I didn't want to come to Africa, but I'm here.

Perhaps it's just as well I turn to this.

I never did understand women.

Surprised?

Not in the least, knowing you.

Listen, Betty, you can't go with me.

You'll have to go back with a native.

I'm afraid you really don't know me.

The city of the dead.

What a sight.

Well, get your camera and go to work.

That's what we came for, isn't it?

And how?

Oh, boy, uh, camera!

Well, this is the end of the line for me.

You guys can do all the exploring you want to.

I'll be right here when you're through.

Afraid?

Who, me?

I...

well...

Come on.

Come on, you've got enough.

Let's get out of here.

Where are the boys?

They were right here when I went to sleep.

Did you see some...

They're gone.

Yes, and so are we gone.

They've taken our provisions.

Hey, we'd better make tracks back to the settlement, and

fast.

Kobe men.

They're bad.

They hate to oppose the tribe.

They'd never miss a chance to kill one of them.

Think they're headed for the settlement?

No, no, I don't think so.

They'd like to get as far as the gym, but

a few of them wouldn't chance it.

Have to be a war party with them.

Go on.

Oh, Kobe.

Thank you, Satan.

Oh, he's the cutest thing I've ever seen.

They're all cute when they're young.

I wish you hadn't touched him, though.

Why?

Because he'll be an outcast from now on.

The other lions will probably kill him.

Why would they do that?

Because you've been petting him, he'll carry the human scent.

We'll take him home with us.

I don't like it.

Oh, all right.

Come along.

Malika.

We're too late.

Malika!

Malika!

Malika!

Malika!

Do you think you can save him?

I don't know.

If I only had that serum.

You stay here.

I'll look at the others.

Betty!

Betty!

You can't

go on, fellas.

But you've got to.

Do you want those Kobes to catch us?

I don't care.

Come on, Bruce.

We know you're sick, but you've got to come on.

Come on, get out of here.

Come on, Bruce.

We've got to run for it.

Buck!

They got Buck.

Come on.

Mother damn!

White man come!

They're back!

What happened?

He's been sick for three days.

Buck was killed.

We found the city of the dead, all right.

Is it?

He has all the symptoms.

Malika.

Oh, no, it can't be.

You must be mistaken.

I wish I were.

You must do something.

You've got to save him.

I'll do all I can.

I know you will.

Betty, in my hut, bring medicine bag.

Medicine?

Father Jim.

Yes?

In that radio broadcast on the sinking of a Mekong,

did they give their position?

Yes.

How far was she from the coast?

They were preparing to unload her cargo into lighters at

day camp.

Why?

There's just one chance I can get that serum off

that ship.

Boy, you can't do that.

I can try.

Betty.

Yes?

Keep Bruce quiet and keep cold compresses on his head.

When Friday gets back with my medicine case, you'll find

a small bottle marked AAXX.

Every hour, give him a teaspoonful.

That's all you can do.

All right.

Keep your chin up.

One more trip to the wreck and we'll make it.

There won't be any more trips.

You've lost two of my boys already.

You're not going to feed any more of them to

the sharks.

You don't seem to realize, Captain, that human lives depend

on us getting into that freighter.

Take me out there.

I'll do the diving myself.

I said no.

I'm taking you out there for the last time.

With or without your help, I'm getting into the Mekong.

He's a fool.

He saw the sharks get the boys, and now he's

taking a chance with his own neck.

He got out all right.

Yeah, but wait till he starts to die.

He's still below.

Well, I'll be.

When did Bruce die?

Five days ago.

He was delirious two days before he went.

Betty never left his side, day or night.

When did she collapse?

This morning.

Now what?

Nothing.

Except to wait.

Yes, Betty.

It's Junga.

Oh, we've won.

We've won.

Lucero, did you get it?

You're my first guinea pig.

It's nice being your guinea pig.