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The Call of the Savage

The Call of the Savage
The Call of the Savage FilmPoster.jpeg
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
Release date
  • 1935 (1935)
Running time
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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