Commendably lacking in plot, Frank Buck's Wild Cargo" does a good job in transmitting to the screen the series of adventures involved in rounding up the big game catch of a jungle expedition. Despite the fact that the spontaneous reality of some of the scenes may be questioned, this film maintains a sustained interest until the end for the person who is admittedly a wild animal fan. Although the technical realist may be unconvinced by the well-photographed hand-to-hand encounters of Frank Buck with a giant python and king cobra in turn, such scenes may prove quite absorbing.

The jungle adventures of animal-catching vary from the grim struggle of a black leopard with a fifteen-foot python to the more humorous clowning of waggish gibbons that were caught early in the picture to stage wrestling bouts for the duration of the film. The high spots in the process of rounding up the "wild cargo" are probably the captures of an albino water buffalo and a real man-eating tiger, who, if we may take Mr. Buck's word for it, had been playing havoc with the natives of Jahore until the up-to-date animal-catcher from America went to Asia. By the time the picture has run its course, so simple a thing as the coralling of a whole herd of elephants becomes just a matter of course. We are incidentally given to very definitely understand that Frank Buck is really quite a fellow when it comes to animal baiting.

Mr. Buck, who undoubtedly merits the position of premier dramatic big-game hunter, also includes kin his narration such additional curiosities of pygmy doors and armored rhinoceri. Unless you have a distinct aversion to the annals of the jungle, "Wild Cargo" should prove interesting.

If you are willing to east aside all your realistic prejudices and keep you tongue in your cheek during the movie version of the comic strip. "Harold Teen," you may be amused, Often the worldly and sage Harvard man can gain a kind of indirect pleasure by disinterestedly smiling, with his easy attitude of superiority, at such a Hollywood travesty as "Harold Teen." Hal LeRoy plays the vacuous Harold Teen with an inanity at is marvelous to behold, He also manages to fit some of his dancing in at the end of the picture. Rochelle Hudson, too, seems to realize that she is in the funny papers, and adapts her dynamic portrait of Harold's high-school sweetheart, Lillums, accordingly. The high-school girls are like those in this particular version of secondary school life, we shall seriously consider abandoning Harvard for another fling at life among the lower schools.