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Duel in the Jungle (Warners) need never have happened if somebody at Warners had spoken to his wife about it first. The story concerns a wealthy Englishman named Henderson (David Farrar) who is squandering his substance in an attempt to develop some offshore diamond fields. But as every bride knows, there is no point whatsoever in developing new diamond fields. Those at Kimberley, South Africa, more than supply the world with engagement rings.

Anyway, the Englishman takes out a $2,000,000 insurance policy, and a few days later is drowned at sea. Or was he? The insurance company sends Dana Andrews to investigate. Dana's way is barred by large numbers of hostile fauna -- cobras, stuffed leopards, baboons, Jeanne Grain, elephants, hippos -- but he comes through grandly, with nothing more than a case of explorer's knee, to the climactic "Mr. Henderson, I presume."

In Henderson's opinion, he does indeed presume, and soon there is the usual thrashing about in the undergrowth, and rather more than the usual slithering of crocodiles toward dainty feminine morsels. And when Heroine Grain says for what must surely be the thousandth time in this kind of picture. "I can make a bandage out of my petticoat," even the lion who is about to eat her looks fed up.

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