The third film in the Bomba series seems to be geared more towards the kids in the audience: it gives a big role to a little boy (ironic that Johnny Sheffield himself started his career as a boy in the Tarzan films; even though the boy in this film is not his son, it almost seems to make Tarzan a grandpa!), and what modicum of erotic tension existed in "Panther Island" is totally absent here: the dull female role (Marjorie Lord) is a wife, not a sister, and the exotic female role (Elena Verdugo) & Bomba show no attraction to each other, which doesn't make a lot of sense because he's a hunk and she's a babe and they're both single, as far as I know. All that said, there are a couple of gruesome deaths and near-deaths, in concept if not in unconvincing execution (python, landslide of giant rocks, lava) that might disturb very young viewers. The rest of the story relies mostly on stock footage (again), and such familiar tropes as a lost city filled with precious stones and a wrestling match with a crocodile. *1/2 out of 4.
Review of The Lost Volcano
