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Sheena , also known as Sheena: Queen of the Jungle , is a superhero film [ 2 ] based on a comic-book character that first appeared in the late s, Sheena, Queen of the Jungle. A hybrid of action-adventure, superhero film and soap opera—style drama, Sheena was shot on location in Kenya. It tells the tale of a heroine raised in the fictional African country of Tigora by the fictional Zambouli tribe.

Since then, it has been considered a cult film. While investigating rumors of a mystical "healing earth" whose powers are said to flow forth from the sacred Gudjara Mountain, geologists Philip and Betsy Ames Michael Shannon and Nancy Paul are killed in a cave-in , leaving their young daughter, Janet, an orphan. Janet is adopted by Shaman , a woman of the native Zambouli tribe Princess Elizabeth of Tooro , and because of a prophecy about the cave-in "when the sacred mountain cries out" , she is viewed as a child of the gods and renamed Sheena, "Queen of the Jungle".

As Sheena Tanya Roberts grows up, she learns much from Shaman about the lore of the jungle and the ways of all its creatures.

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She is even entrusted with the secret of telepathic communication with the animals. Outsiders rarely disturb their territory, since that part of Tigora is under the special protection of King Jabalani Clifton Jones. Trouble is brewing in Tigora. Experiencing a vision foretelling the death of the king, Shaman hastens to Tigora's capital of Azan to try to warn him, but is arrested by corrupt police officers working for Zanda.