The Call of the Savage | |
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Directed by | Lew Landers |
Produced by | Milton Gatzert Henry MacRae |
Written by | Basil Dickey Nate Gatzert George H. Plympton |
Starring |
Noah Beery Jr. Dorothy Short Harry Woods Bryant Washburn |
Cinematography | William Sickner Richard Fryer |
Edited by |
Irving Applebaum Saul A. Goodkind Alvin Todd Edward Todd |
Distributed by | Universal Pictures |
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Running time
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12 chapters (231 min) |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
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.
Two teams of scientists scour the dark jungles of Africa to find a secret formula.
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.
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