Bring 'Em Back Alive (film)

Bring 'Em Back Alive is a 1932 American Pre-Code jungle adventure documentary filmed in Malaya starring Frank Buck.

The huge reptile was being photographed from a short distance when suddenly it shot forward, aiming at the film boxes, which lay under the camera tripod.

[6] The wild animals did a good deal of their fighting where there was enough light to photograph them, but some of the fiercest bouts continued in the jungle growth where it was not possible to take a picture.

officials had decided it was so good that they would give it a tremendous ballyhoo, take a private theatre (the Mayfair on Times Square) and do the job in Hollywood style.

I made personal appearances, and for the first time people saw the face of the man who had brought to zoos and menageries of America the animals they had marveled at for so many years.

[9] In a 1973 episode of Adam-12, entitled “The Capture,” reference is made to this film, and specifically Frank Buck, as officers Malloy and Reed rescue a man in a diabetic coma who is guarded by a Dobermann.

Left to right: Cameramen Nicholas Cavaliere, cinematographer Carl Berger, director Clyde E. Elliott, and star Frank Buck ready to leave for the far east to film Bring 'Em Back Alive
New York premiere of Bring 'Em Back Alive