The Hidden Jungle Filming Locations
Where was The Hidden Jungle filmed? The Hidden Jungle was filmed in 3 locations across United States and Mozambique in the following places:
The Hidden Jungle Filming Locations
Junction is a city in and the seat of Kimble County, Texas, United States. Its population was 2,451 at the 2020 census.
Cedar Creek is an unincorporated community in Bastrop County, Texas, United States. It is located about 11 miles west of the city of Bastrop. The community takes its name from Cedar Creek, a tributary of the Colorado River that is close to the area.
Mozambique is a southern African nation whose long Indian Ocean coastline is dotted with popular beaches like Tofo, as well as offshore marine parks. In the Quirimbas Archipelago, a 250km stretch of coral islands, mangrove-covered Ibo Island has colonial-era ruins surviving from a period of Portuguese rule. The Bazaruto Archipelago farther south has reefs which protect rare marine life including dugongs.
The Hidden Jungle (1990)
The Hidden Jungle is a childrens action-adventure movie about the misadventures of a sabotaged NASA Shuttlecraft mission. It was written and produced by Warren Chaney and directed by Steve McCurdy. Executive Producer was Beverly Wilson and the films distributor was Intercontinental Releasing Corporation. Dr. Beverly Owens (Charity Merrill) survives a space shuttle crash landing in an African terrorist nation unfriendly to the United States. She is taken prisoner by Akmed Najah (Charles Charpiot) who seeks to use a new satellite's plutonium payload as material for a nuclear weapon. The U.S. President (Warren Chaney) sends covert CIA operative Bill Murphy (William Brown) to ask aerial flight ace Zach Taylor (Chuck Stockdale) to lead a secret in-country search and rescue effort. Murphy and Taylor team up with Desirée Jones (Lesley Chaney), daughter of a famous archeologist and Jason (Jason Chaney), a small boy whose parents were killed when he was three. Together they search for evidence of the downed spacecraft and the missing astronaut. Najah discovers they are in is country and sends trained terrorists to stop them. The Dacoits or trained killers led by Akmed Najahs son Taj-a-tali, nearly captures Zach and his party but is himself captured. Taj is rescued but is ordered to death by Nahjah who sees the sons failure as incompetence. Taylor and Desirée locate Najahs lair and manage to rescue the Astronaut and retrieve the plutonium. Najah dies in hand-to-hand combat but his Dacoits surround the escaping parties. Jason flies Zachs plane to where they are located but nearly crash-lands the craft in his rescue effort. Together, they defeat the Dacoit and fly off to safety taking with them, Taj-a-tali. In an emotional scene, Murphy learns that Taj-a-tali was not Akmed Najahs son but a kidnapped American. Murphy discovers that Taj is the son that he thought had been killed twelve years earlier by Najah. The film closes as Zach, leaving Desirée and Jason, flies toward the horizon of a setting African sun.