This would be the final film for Johnny Sheffield. He would pass away 55 years later without appearing in another movie.
This was Johnny Sheffield's 12th and last appearance as Bomba. He had previously played "Boy" opposite Johnny Weissmuller in 8 M-G-M Tarzan films. Although he would survive for more than half a century after this film's release, Sheffield chose never to appear on screen again.
For the original film in this franchise, 1949's Bomba the Jungle Boy, a second unit filmed about a dozen versions of star Johnny Sheffield swinging through the jungle on various vines. Those 12 takes were then spliced into each of the succeeding Bomba movies, saving Poverty Row studio Monogram Pictures untold thousands in production costs.
For the sequence depicting rogue elephants going on a rampage and knocking down a jungle hut, this film "recycles" footage originally seen in a previous Bomba entry, Elephant Stampede.
In 1962, WGN acquired the rights to all 12 Bomba films and presented them as a prime-time series, re-titled Zim Bomba. Fred Silverman, who worked at WGN, explained that "zim" was Swahili for "son of." The series proved to be a local hit, and helped launch Silverman's career as a TV executive.