KING OF THE WILD (1931) Walter Miller, Nora Lane & Boris Karloff | Action, Adventure | B&W

King of the Wild is a 1931 American pre-Code Mascot movie serial. The complete serial is available on DVD from Alpha Video.

A seven-reel feature version of the serial was later released in South America under the title Bimi.

SYNOPSIS
American adventurer Richard Grant is falsely accused of murdering an Indian noble and escapes to Africa in search of diamond field and the real culprit.

Robert Grant, framed for a coup in the Indian country of Ranjapur, escapes from prison to Africa in search of the real villains. Here he meets Sheik Mustapha (Boris Karloff), who has evidence to clear him and the location of a secret diamond mine.

CAST & CREW
Walter Miller as Robert Grant
Nora Lane as Muriel Armitage
Dorothy Christy as Mrs LaSalle
Tom Santschi as Harris, Villainous Animal trapper
Boris Karloff as Mustapha, an African sheikh
Arthur McLaglen as Bimi, the Ape man
Carroll Nye as Tom Armitage
Victor Potel as Peterson
Albert DeWinton as Cyril Wainwright
Martha Lalande as Mrs Colby
Mischa Auer as Dakka, an escaped lunatic
Lafe McKee as Officer

Directed by B. Reeves Eason, Richard Thorpe
Written by Wyndham Gittens, Ford Beebe
Produced by Nat Levine
Cinematography Benjamin H. Kline, Edward A. Kull
Music by Lee Zahler
Distributed by Mascot Pictures
Release date May 1, 1931
Running time 12 chapters (248 min)
Country United States
Language English

NOTES
The stars of King of the Wild were originally intended to be Harry Carey and Edwina Booth, but filming on the MGM film Trader Horn (1931) went over-schedule, forcing Mascot to recast the serial with Walter Miller and Nora Lane instead.

Also appearing in the serial was real-life explorer Albert DeWinton. He later went after explorer Percy Fawcett, who had disappeared in Brazil several years earlier. DeWinton also disappeared in the Amazon in early 1934 and was presumed dead.[2] Bimi, the Ape Man, was played by actor Victor McLaglen's brother Arthur, and Mischa Auer plays an escaped lunatic named Dakka.

King of the Wild is sometimes misreported as an alternate title for the serial King of the Kongo, which also co-starred Boris Karloff.

Chapter titles
Man Eaters
Tiger of Destiny
The Avenging Horde
Secret of the Volcano
Pit of Peril
Creeping Doom
Sealed Lips
Jaws of the Jungle
Door of Dread
Leopard's Lair
The Fire of the Gods
Jungle Justice

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