{"product_id":"0644827334926","title":"King Of The Wild [Serial]","description":"Set in India, Arabia, and Darkest Africa, this 12-chapter Mascot Pictures serial had been created for Harry Carey and Edwina Booth, the stars of MGM's highly anticipated \u003ci\u003eTrader Horn\u003c\/i\u003e (1930). That film, however, needed quite a bit of re-tooling and producer Nat Levine had to settle for lesser names Walter Miller and Nora Lane. A top serial leading man of the 1920s, Miller played a soldier of fortune, falsely accused of murder, who tracks the real killer to the jungles of Africa. Once there, he aligns himself with a young girl (Lane), whose brother (Carroll Nye) has stumbled on a secret diamond mine. Boris Karloff, in his fourth and last serial for Mascot, played one of the villain's henchmen. In the serial's second chapter, \"Man-Eaters,\" the future \u003ci\u003eFrankenstein\u003c\/i\u003e monster flings poor Carroll Nye into a pit containing -- of all things -- the first and only African tiger. The redoubtable Nye survives not only this surprising encounter, but is also confronted with a bizarre half-man, half-beast creature named Bimi and played by Cyril McLaglen, brother of Victor. Containing one of the more eclectic casts in any serial, \u003ci\u003eKing of the Wild\u003c\/i\u003e also featured the delightful Mischa Auer as an escaped lunatic, Laurel and Hardy regular Dorothy Christy as a society dame, veteran action star Tom Santschi as the killer, and real-life explorer\/actor Albert DeWinton. In a case of life imitating art, DeWinton disappeared and apparently perished during an expedition to the Amazon River shortly after finishing this serial. \u003ci\u003eKing of the Wild\u003c\/i\u003e was filmed at Yuma, AZ, and Bronson Caverns (the future \"Bat-Cave\") in Los Angeles' Griffith Park. A seven-reel feature version was released under the title \u003ci\u003eBimi\u003c\/i\u003e.","brand":"NOSTALGIA FAMILY VIDEO, INC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47092579827952,"sku":"0644827334926","price":11.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/0644827334926_p0.jpg?v=1763501983","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/0644827334926","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}