Valley of the Head Hunters (aka Valley of Head Hunters) | |
Director: | William Berke |
Producer: | Sam Katzman |
Starring: | Johnny Weissmuller |
Music: | Mischa Bakaleinikoff |
Cinematography: | William P. Whitley |
Editing: | Gene Havlick |
Studio: | The Katzman Corporation |
Distributor: | Columbia Pictures |
Runtime: | 67 minutes |
Country: | United States |
Language: | English |
Valley of the Head Hunters (reissued as Valley of Head Hunters) is a 1953 adventure film directed by William Berke and starring Johnny Weissmuller[1] in his eleventh appearance as Jungle Jim.
The District Commissioner sends out his representatives to have the native chiefs sign their lands over to the Crown for mineral exploration and mining. A small criminal syndicate seek the land themselves to gain the oil concessions. To obtain the land for themselves and eliminate the unwilling native chiefs they create a sham headhunter tribe.