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Director
  
Ray Taylor

Country
  
United States

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Duration
  

Language
  
English

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Release date
  
1932 (1932)

Writer
  
Talbot Mundy (based on the story by "The Ivory Trail"), Ella ONeill (screenplay), Basil Dickey (screenplay), George Morgan (screenplay), George H. Plympton (screenplay)

Jungle Mystery is a 1932 American Pre-Code Universal 12-chapter movie serial directed by Ray Taylor. Set in Zanzibar, it depicts the search by various parties for a missing man named Jack Morgan (Onslow Stevens), as well as a legendary cache of ivory. The jungle mystery involves a creature (half man, half ape) named Zungu (played by Sam Baker). Tom Tyler played the hero, Kirk Mongomery, and Cecilia Parker played the heroine, Barbara Morgan, searching for her missing brother. A 1935 feature version was also released, running 75 minutes.

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Cast

  • Tom Tyler as Kirk Montgomery
  • Noah Beery Jr. as Fred Oakes
  • Cecilia Parker as Barbara Morgan
  • William Desmond as John Morgan (Barbara's father)
  • Philo McCullough as Georgie Coutlass
  • Carmelita Geraghty as Belle Waldron
  • James A. Marcus as Boris Shillov
  • Anders Van Haden as Comrade Krotsky (Shillov's chief henchman)
  • Frank Lackteen as Kazimoto
  • Peggy Watts as Azu (Barbara's servant)
  • Sam Baker As Zungu (the title character; half-man, half-ape)
  • Onslow Stevens as Jack Morgan (Barbara's missing brother; uncredited)
  • Ralph Morgan as Recap Narrator (voice; uncredited)

    • Production

    Jungle Mystery was based on "The Ivory Trail" by Talbot Mundy.

    The film is noteworthy for its extensive use of stock footage of various jungle animals, many of them repeated frequently throughout the serial. (There's even a shot of tigers, which are not native to Africa.) Apart from one sequence filmed in Bronson Canyon, it was shot entirely on the Universal backlot and soundstages.

    Although it had been believed lost for many years, the original nitrate negative was in fact still in the Universal vaults. It was preserved in 2016 (along with the cutdown feature version, released in 1935 and running approximately 75 minutes) and officially re-premiered at the Cinecon Classic Film Festival in Hollywood, CA during the 2016 Labor Day weekend.

    Chapter titles

    1. Into the Dark Continent
    2. The Ivory Trail
    3. The Death Stream
    4. Poisoned Fangs
    5. The Mystery Cavern
    6. Daylight Doom
    7. The Jaws of Death
    8. Trapped by the Enemy
    9. The Jungle Terror
    10. Ambushed!
    11. The Lion's Fury
    12. Buried Treasure

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    References

    The Jungle Mystery Wikipedia
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    The Jungle Mystery IMDb