Stark Mad
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Story by Jerome Kingston Country USA | 3.6/10 IMDb Genre Action, Adventure, Crime Duration Language English | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Release date February 2, 1929 Writer Jerome Kingston (story), Harvey Gates (adaptation) Screenplay Harvey Gates, Francis Powers Cast Similar movies Gorilla , Untamed Mistress , The Mighty Gorga , The Gorilla Hunt , Fraidy Cat , Zamba Tagline See and Hear Terrible Adventure in Horrible Jungle of Central America! |
Stark Mad is 1929 American Pre-Code adventure film produced and distributed by Warner Bros. and directed by Lloyd Bacon. It starred H. B. Warner, Louise Fazenda, Jacqueline Logan and Henry B. Walthall.
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Plot
James Rutherford has organized an expedition to the jungles of Central America to find his missing son, Bob, and his guide, Simpson. Professor Dangerfield intercepts the party, bringing with him Simpson, whose jungle experience has made him a raving maniac. They go ashore and decide to spend a night at a Mayan temple. After Irene, Bob's fiancée, disappears, they come across a gigantic ape chained to the floor, and Captain Rhodes, commander of the yacht, is abducted by a strange monster with great hairy talons. Messages are found warning the party to leave. Sewald, an explorer, is mysteriously killed by an arrow. Simpson's reason returns, and he saves the party, revealing that the demented hermit, whom he has just killed, and who formerly occupied the ruins, murdered Bob two months before.
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Preservation status
The film was released in a silent version for theaters not converted to sound. Both sound and silent versions are lost.
The film is believed to be lost. The soundtrack, which was recorded separately on Vitaphone disks, may survive in private hands.
References
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