The Hidden Jungle

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.