Lost City of the Jungle

Infobox Film
name = Lost City of the Jungle


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director = Lewis D. Collins
Ray Taylor
producer = Morgan Cox
Joseph O'Donnell
writer = Joseph F. Poland
Paul Huston
Tom Gibson
narrator =
starring = Russell Hayden
Jane Adams
Lionel Atwill
Keye Luke
music =
cinematography = Gus Peterson
editing = Irving Birnbaum
Jack Dolan
Joseph Gluck
D. Pat Kelley
Alvin Todd
Edgar Zane
distributor = Universal Pictures
released = 23 April 1946
runtime = 13 chapters (265 min)
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language = English
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amg_id = 1:30140
imdb_id = 0038703

"Lost City of the Jungle" (1946) is a Universal movie serial.

Cast

* Russell Hayden as Rod Stanton, United Peace Foundation operative
* Jane Adams as Marjorie Elmore
* Lionel Atwill as Sir Eric Hazarias, villain acting under the pseudonym Geoffrey London
* Keye Luke as Tal Shan
* Helen Bennett as Indra
* Ted Hecht as Doc Harris
* John Eldredge as Doctor Elmore
* John Mylong as Malborn, the "real" villain of the serial, posing as Geoffrey London's servant
* John Miljan as Doctor Gaffron
* John Gallaudet as Professor Grebb
* George Lynn as Marlow, one of Hazarias' henchmen
* Dick Curtis as Johnson, one of Hazarias' henchmen
* Arthur Space as "System" Reeves
* Frances Chung as Lakana Shan
* Gene Roth as Police Captain Hammond

Production

Lionel Atwill died of pneumonia while filming this serial. Atwill was playing the mastermind villain, Sir Eric Hazarias, a foreign spy chief. Universal could not afford to throw out the footage already filmed so they were forced to adapt the serial. First, another villain (Malborn, played by John Mylong, who was originally just a servant of Sir Eric) was introduced as the boss of Atwill's character to take over most of the villain requirements of the film. Secondly, a double of Atwill was used to complete his remaining scenes. The double was filmed from behind and remained silent. The villain's henchmen were filmed repeating their orders back to the silent double and stock footage of Atwill was edited in to show a response.cite book
last = Harmon
first = Jim
coauthors= Donald F. Glut
authorlink = Jim Harmon
title = The Great Movie Serials: Their Sound and Fury
origyear = 1973
publisher = Routledge
isbn = 9780713000979
pages = pp. 363-364
chapter = 14. The Villains "All Bad, All Mad" ]

"Lost City of the Jungle" was Universal's last Jungle serial. [cite book
last = Cline
first = William C.
title = In the Nick of Time
origyear = 1984
publisher = McFarland & Company, Inc.
isbn = 078640471X
pages = pp. 35
chapter = 3. The Six Faces of Adventure ]

Chapter titles

# Himalaya Horror
# The Death Flood
# Wave Length for Doom
# The Pit of Pendrang
# Fiery Danger
# Death's Shining Face
# Speedboat Missing
# Fire Jet Torture
# Zalabor Death Watch
# Booby Trap Rendezvous
# Pendrang Guillotine
# Jungle Smash-up
# Atomic Vengeance_Source: [cite book
last = Cline
first = William C.
title = In the Nick of Time
origyear = 1984
publisher = McFarland & Company, Inc.
isbn = 078640471X
pages = pp. 243
chapter = Filmography ]

ee also

* List of film serials
* List of film serials by studio

References

External links

*imdb title|id=0038703|title=Lost City of the Jungle
*amg title|id=1:30140|title=Lost City of the Jungle

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title=Universal Serial
before=The Scarlet Horsemen (1946)
years=Lost City of the Jungle (1946)
after=The Mysterious Mr. M (1946)