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Released in the U.S. by United Artists, 1942, the feature-length documentary Jacare was filmed in Brazil. Former Universal newsreel editor Charles E. Ford was responsible for assembling this filmed record of James Dannaldson's hunting expedition into the jungles of the Amazon River. The film is jam-packed with wild-animal footage, including a pulse-pounding attack by a 28-foot anaconda. To "hype" the film's bankability in America, according to film critic Hal Erickson, producer Jules Levey included a narration by Frank Buck. The music for Jacare was provided by Miklos Rosza. The critics were enthusiastic:

"Frank Buck's new animal hunting picture, Jacare, now at the Globe, was filmed in the Amazon jungle with a Buck protégé, James Dannaldson...Dannaldson's movie making, as evidenced in Jacare, isn't up to his master's, but as you can judge from his thrilling battle with jacare [the Brazilian name for a man-eating caiman or alligator, sometimes 20 feet long], his courage and resourcefulness fully justified Buck's confidence. 'The meanest, toughest, most malignant animal alive in the jungle today,' says Frank Buck, the film's narrator." PM New York, December 27, 1942.