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  • Film buffs may be interested to know that "Leiningen" made it to the screen as The Naked Jungle, starring Charlton Heston, Eleanor Parker, and William Conrad.

    The Greatest Survival Stories Ever Told Underwood, Lamar 2001

  • This is an especially serious issue because Leiningen is a virgin.

    Marabunta! 2008

  • Leiningen freaks when he finds out that his talented, pleasant and very attractive new wife is a widow – yes kids, another man has already had carnival knowledge of her.

    Marabunta! 2008

  • One of the characters compares his life to “Lennigan versus the ants,” a reference to the classic Carl Stephenson story ‘Leiningen versus the Ants.’

    VinceKeenan.com 2004

  • Leiningen’ was filmed as THE NAKED JUNGLE (1954), one of the many movies in which Charlton Heston wears a neckerchief.

    VinceKeenan.com 2004

  • Dawn found a thoroughly refreshed and active Leiningen riding along the edge of the ditch.

    The Greatest Survival Stories Ever Told Underwood, Lamar 2001

  • As the war between his brain and the "act of God" reached its climax, the very shadow of annihilation began to pale to Leiningen, who now felt like a champion in a new Olympic game, a gigantic and thrilling contest, from which he was determined to emerge victor.

    The Greatest Survival Stories Ever Told Underwood, Lamar 2001

  • At length, two of the men's nerves broke: Leiningen saw a naked Indian leap over the north side of the petrol trench, quickly followed by a second.

    The Greatest Survival Stories Ever Told Underwood, Lamar 2001

  • The Ottomans were obliged to withdraw (Feb. 1853) under threats from Austria (Leiningen mission).

    4. Montenegro 2001

  • But such disasters, Leiningen contended, merely strengthened his argument that intelligence, directed aright, invariably makes man the master of his fate.

    The Greatest Survival Stories Ever Told Underwood, Lamar 2001

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