One of Frank Buck's few movies
Movie Lover:
Martin Grams from
Pennsylvania -- May, 12, 2005
Filmed in mid-1943, and released Thanksgiving weekend of 1943, TIGER FANGS is an escapist nightmare. For those who thrilled to Frank Buck and Clyde Beatty (both of whom vie for screen action and known as professional "lion tamers"), this movie came during an era when the only animal adventure came from radio dramas and the silver screen. Watching men tame wild beasts was probably a turn-on for women and adventure for men. Irene Thirer of the New York Post reviewed: "The animal shots are eye-filling, as usual, and especially well photographed...Sam Newfield directed with a good sense of melodramatic action, and it is Mr. Buck himself who gives the stand-out performance. The jungle fellow is a right natural actor." This was Buck's seventh of nine movies and the second to last in which he would play himself.
4.7/10
