The Call of the Savage

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The Call of the Savage
The Call of the Savage FilmPoster.jpeg
Directed byLew Landers
Written byBasil Dickey
Nate Gatzert
George H. Plympton
Produced byMilton Gatzert
Henry MacRae
StarringNoah Beery Jr.
Dorothy Short
Harry Woods
Bryant Washburn
CinematographyWilliam Sickner
Richard Fryer
Edited by

Alvin Todd
Edward Todd
Distributed byUniversal Pictures
Release date
  • 1935 (1935)
Running time
12 chapters (231 min)
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

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.

Plot[]

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

Cast[]

  • Noah Beery Jr. as Jan Trevor
  • Dorothy Short as Mona Andreas
  • Harry Woods as Borno
  • Bryant Washburn as Dr. Harry Trevor
  • Walter Meller as Dr. Frank Bracken
  • Fred MacKaye as Dr. Charles Phillips
  • John Davidson as Prince Samu
  • J. Frank Glendon as Speaker at conference
  • William Desmond as Allen
  • Grace Cunard as Mrs. Camerford Amster
  • Viva Tattersall as Georgia Trevor

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.[1][2]

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

Source:[3]

See also[]

References[]

  1. ^ Harmon, Jim; Donald F. Glut (1973). "6. Jungle "Look Out The Elephants Are Coming!"". The Great Movie Serials: Their Sound and Fury. Routledge. p. 132. ISBN 978-0-7130-0097-9.
  2. ^ Cline, William C. (1984). "2. In Search of Ammunition". In the Nick of Time. McFarland & Company, Inc. pp. 11. ISBN 0-7864-0471-X.
  3. ^ Cline, William C. (1984). "Filmography". In the Nick of Time. McFarland & Company, Inc. pp. 212. ISBN 0-7864-0471-X.

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