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THE REALLY WILD SHOWS

THE NAKED JUNGLE (1954)

farmer (Charlton Heston) in South America faces ruin because his plantation is in the path of ‘marabunta’, a horde of omnivorous army ants two miles across. Lesser men flee, but Chuck). The oil was in fact syrup, to encourage Heston’s tiny co-stars to crawl all over him.

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