Queen of the Jungle (1935)

Queen of the Jungle (1935)

The Triumphant Wild Animal Spectacle! 1935-04-12 United States of America 197 Min. PG-13
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Overview

A 12-chapter serial built around stock footage from a 1922 silent serial, "The Jungle Goddess",young David Worth and Joan Lawrence are children with a group of explorers that are seeking African radium deposits. They are playing in the basket of the party's air balloon when the bag takes off with Joan aboard, last seen sailing over the back-lot jungle. This puts a chill on the expedition and all hands return to whence they came. The end of chapter 1, "Lost in the Clouds", finds Marilyn's balloon being shot down by the flaming arrows of a native tribe. Chapter 2,"Radium Rays", reveals that Joan survived her descent and the tribe named "the child from the sky" as their queen and priestess.A flash forward of about 18 years finds that the now-adult David has returned to Africa to search for his long-lost childhood friend.He hits the trail and is quickly captured by the tribesmen and is brought to their sadistic ruler,who turns out to be a now-grown Joan. Unaware of his or her own true ...

Cast

Mary Kornman is Joan Lawrence / Mary Lawrence
Joan Lawrence / Mary Lawrence
Reed Howes is David Worth / Frank Worth
David Worth / Frank Worth
Marilyn Spinner is Joan Lawrence as a child
Joan Lawrence as a child
Dickie Jones is David Worth as a child
David Worth as a child
William Welsh is John Lawrence
John Lawrence
George Chesebro is Ken Roberts (uncredited)
Ken Roberts (uncredited)