QUEEN OF THE JUNGLE (1935) Mary Kornman, Reed Howes & Lafe McKee | Action | B&W

Queen of the Jungle is a 1935 independent film serial produced by Herman Wohl and released theatrically by Screen Attractions.

SYNOPSIS
An expedition sets off for the last land of Mu, where legend has it that a killer death ray is emitted from the eye of a golden idol.

David Worth travels into Africa to find his old friend Joan Lawrence, who disappeared in a hot air balloon as a child while the pair were with an expedition searching for radium deposits. Unknown to David, she was discovered by an African tribe and became their queen.

CAST & CREW
Reed Howes as David Worth
Mary Kornman as Joan Lawrence
Marilyn Spinner as Joan Lawrence (as a child)
Dickie Jones as David Worth (as a child)
William J. Wals as John Lawrence
Lafe McKee as Kali
Eddie Foster as Rocco

Directed by Robert F. Hill
Written by Griffin Jay
Produced by H.A. Wohl
Edited by Carl Himm
Music by Hal Chasnoff
Distributed by Screen Attractions
Release date 1935
Running time 12 chapters (197 minutes) (serial), 65 minutes (film)
Country United States
Language English

NOTES
Most of the action footage in this serial came from the 1922 silent serial The Jungle Goddess, a co-production by William N. Selig Productions and Warner Bros., for financial reasons, and the same script was used, with the principal actors in the new scenes made up and costumed on indoor jungle mockups to match the old outdoor footage. Nonetheless, considering the changes in filming and dramatic technique that have taken place over 13 years, plus the fact that silent films were projected at a different speed than sound films, this resulted in several continuity errors.

Screen Attractions released Queen of the Jungle in 1935 as both a 12-chapter serial and a 65-min feature film.

The film was given an international release, being released in Brazil under the title A Rainha do Sertão ("Queen of the Sertão").