Radio review – Lux – “The Naked Jungle” (1954) ***1/2

Very silly and lots of fun with Charlton Heston in fine glowering form as the plantation owner who buys himself a wife (here played by Donna Reed, not Eleanor Parker) and is upset to find out she's been married before. Then killer ants come and threaten to devour everything. This story had it's origin as a radio tale so it adapts very well - you can let your imagination run riot at the thought of these ants eating their way across the jungle. I enjoyed the melodrama of the married couple at the beginning too.