Another Part of the Jungle

I just watched this episode on YouTube. Paul Templin (Brett Halsey) wants to find out if the reported death two years before of famed writer Henry Dana Jackson is true. He was reported lost at sea. But a recent best selling book appears to be in the same style of Jackson, but the writer is listed as a man named Conlin, who lives in a remote native village in New Guinea.

Paul finds that Jackson's wife Margaret (Patricia Owens) is on her way to New Guinea to find out whether Conlin is actually her husband, whom she divorced after his disappearance. After some initial mistrust, the two join forces and work together. Soon, a mutual attraction develops for them.

They arrive in the jungle village and meet the supposed author (Michael Pate), but something doesn't ring true. Is Conlin actually the writer, or is Henry Dana Jackson lurking nearby?

I found this episode riveting. It really keeps the viewer's interest all the way to the end. Patricia Owens is totally gorgeous and worth watching the episode for by herself.

Check "Another Part of the Jungle" out on YouTube if you get the chance. It's really good.

7th episode of the 20th Century Fox produced for ABC TV series Follow the Sun, second one directed by Francis D. Lyon (South Seas Adventure) and first written by the first producer of this series Anthony Wilson (Banacek).

Paul (Brett Halsey, Desire in the Dust), one of the two Honolulu freelance magazine writers of the series, gets a new potential sensational scoop: the famous writer Henry Dana Jackson (David McLean, Tate) should not be dead but hidden somewhere in New Guinea, continuing to write while taking the name of T. R. Conlon (Michael Pate, Green Mansions). As Paul approaches Henry's widow Margaret (Patricia Owens, Seven Women from Hell), she is at first reluctant, but as they share the same doubts, they go together to Port Moresby, capital of the Australian territories of Papua and New Guinea, where they are welcomed by the custom officer Mayhew (Harold Gould, The Yellow Canary).

There, Paul and Margaret learn that Conlon lives in the wild interior of the north, near Yamu in the Madang province, "the most primitive and dangerous area on the globe", a "hard, inaccessible and dangerous bush country", where "murder is a ritual for the tribes". As they arrive by plane at Yamu, the territorial officer Cooper (Guy Doleman, The Ipcress File) gives them for guide the rough Oscar (Alan Dexter, Days of our Lives), who'll conduct them deep into the highlands.

Will they manage to get through the impenetrable jungle and its dangers? Will they succeed in finding the mysterious Conlon? And should Conlon be really the writer Henry still alive? This small TV series episode is shot in Los Angeles studio, all the exteriors and Papuan crowd scenes being taken from the marvelous pictures of the Australian drama Walk into Paradise.