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The Call of the Savage

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Director
  
Lew Landers

Story by
  
Otis Adelbert Kline

Country
  
United States

6.4/10
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Genre
  
Adventure

Duration
  

Language
  
English

The Call of the Savage movie poster

Release date
  
1935 (1935)

Writer
  
Otis Adelbert Kline (novel), Nate Gatzert (screenplay), George H. Plympton (screenplay), Basil Dickey (screenplay)

Screenplay
  
George H. Plympton, Basil Dickey, Nate Gatzert

Cast
  
Noah Beery, Jr.
(Jan Trevor),
Dorothy Short
(Mona Andrews),
Harry Woods
(Borno),
Bryant Washburn
(Dr. Harry Trevor),
Walter Miller
(Dr. Frank Bracken),
Fred MacKaye
(Dr. Charles Phillips)

Similar movies
  
Related Lew Landers movies

Tagline
  
12 CHAPTERS OF DARING JUNGLE ADVENTURES and 12,000 THRILLS!

The Call of the Savage (1935) is a Universal serial based on the story Jan of the Jungle by Otis Adelbert Kline. It was directed by Lew Landers and released by Universal Pictures.

Contents

Plot

Two teams of scientists scour the dark jungles of Africa to find a secret formula.

Production

Call of the Savage features "Jan, the Jungle Boy" and was based on "Jan of the Jungle" by Otis Adelbert Kline, a successful pulp story which rivalled the Tarzan series.

In 1956 material from this serial was edited into a 70-minute film called Savage Fury.

Chapter titles

  1. Shipwrecked
  2. Captured by Cannibals
  3. Stampeding Death
  4. Terrors of the Jungle
  5. The Plunge of Peril
  6. Thundering Waters
  7. The Hidden Monster
  8. Jungle Treachery
  9. The Avenging Fire God
  10. Descending Doom
  11. The Dragon Strikes
  12. The Pit of Flame

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References

The Call of the Savage Wikipedia
The Call of the Savage IMDb The Call of the Savage themoviedb.org