Jungle Menace (1937) was the first serial released by Columbia Pictures.
Based on the success of Republic's1936 serial Darkest Africa, starring real-life animal trainer Clyde Beatty, Columbia made this exotic jungle serial starring real-life animal collector Frank "Bring 'Em Back Alive" Buck. Set in the fictional land of Seemang in Asia, Buck plays thr ole of Frank Hardy, a soldier of fortune who intervenes in and investigates attempts to run a rubberplantation owner and his daughter off their land.
In 1946 material from this serial was re-edited into the 70-minute feature film Jungle Terror.