Originaly a book titled "Linigin sp and the Ants" but I don't
remember who wrote it. (


It's actually a VERY short story, quite simple. The whole backstory of
the wife by proxy was dreamt up by a clever screenwriter.

You can read the whole story he
http://www.classicshorts.com/stories/lvta.html

After seeing the movie I was quite shocked to read the source when I
was 11 or 12 years old. Naked Jungle was also by director Haskin who
had just done War of the Worlds. Jungle seems like an older movie in
many respects, especially in the scripting, but it's still a far better
written movie. Of course we can't forget Sir Cedrick Hardwick reading
the opening of HG's classic as War of the Worlds opens.

RB
35s5
NY