Passed | 20min | Action, Adventure, Drama, Horror | 1 March 1931 (USA)
American adventurer Richard Grant is falsely accused of murdering an Indian noble and escapes to Africa in search of diamond field and the real culprit.
Director: Richard Thorpe
Writers: Wyndham Gittens, Ford Beebe
Stars: Walter Miller, Nora Lane, Tom Santschi
American adventurer Richard Grant is falsely accused of murdering an Indian noble and escapes to Africa in search of diamond field and the real culprit.
Director: Richard Thorpe
Writers: Wyndham Gittens, Ford Beebe
Stars: Walter Miller, Nora Lane, Tom Santschi
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00:30The
00:57king of the wild is a monster half ape, half jungle man, which Harris the hunter has captured
01:03in Africa and trained to do his bidding. Harris and the monster are followed by an Arab. The
01:08seeming Arab is Robert Grant, a young American. Accused of a crime he did not commit, Grant
01:14has escaped from prison to find and convict the guilty man. His real identity is known
01:20only to Muriel Armitage, who is also in the jungle. Muriel is following a trail left by
01:27her brother Tom, who, while unconscious from a bullet wound, has been spirited away by
01:32agents of an Arab named Mustafa. Mustafa is trying to make Tom reveal the location of
01:38a rich diamond deposit, a secret which Harris is also trying to obtain. Harris is trailing
01:45those captors with the aid of his monster ape man, Bini, but has been forced to seek
01:50shelter in the crater of an extinct volcano to offend a pack of African warriors. The
01:56natives besieged the entrance, imprisoning Harris along with Muriel and Mrs. Colby, a
02:01secret service agent whose real identity is unknown to any of the party. Meanwhile, in
02:07Mustafa's camp, Grant believes that he has located Tom Armitage in a pit covered by a
02:12tent, but in reality, the occupant of this pit is a tiger.
02:42The jungle of this dangerous beast. May the wrath of Allah be on your head.
03:02Tom. Tom. This is Grant, a friend of your sister's. I'm going to try and get you out of here.
03:10Arrange to remove the body of this strange Arab from the tiger pit. I will go to this sick boy, and at the first sign of consciousness, force him to talk.
03:22Yes, Master.
03:27He's gone! He's gone!
03:32Imbecile! You have allowed the most valuable thing we have in camp to be spirited away!
03:38Master, we cannot be far. There was a segment over the tiger, and it's the area we must escape from the tent.
03:57Oh, God, what in the...
04:09Oh, God, what in the...
04:22The little rabble has no more of India.
04:26Take hold. Get all men to scour the jungle before he wander far. Bring him back, or you answer to Mustafa.
04:34Yes, Master.
04:55Help! Oh, somebody help me!
05:18How you happen to fall down there?
05:20I didn't fall. Somebody tripped me with a stick.
05:23Help! Muriel! Where are you? Help! Help! Muriel! Help me up!
05:30What you been doing, huh?
05:32What happened?
05:33How did you get here?
05:35Oh, when you didn't come back, I became so frightened, I followed along. I got as far as this when a man came running along and pulled me over.
05:45What kind of a man?
05:47Oh, he was a great big man. The only thing I noticed about him, he wore dark glasses.
05:53There must be somebody else here beside ourselves.
05:56Well, there's that prospective skeleton in there. You don't expect it to walk, do you?
06:01Well, when I was looking for another way out of the crater this afternoon, I saw a man's footprints in the mud.
06:07There must be a maniac running loose, and he's probably using this old volcano for a hideout. We've got to get out of here.
06:13But how are we going to get out with those cannibals guarding the only exit?
06:34I got an idea.
06:35You're free.
06:44They think it's going to work!
06:57The lions which lived in the cave are dead. The white witches who slew our king are within.
07:02Who will be brave enough to go in with me and bring them out?
07:05Who?
07:08Be not afraid. The matabela is master over everything in the jungle.
07:14Oh, my warriors.
07:17We'll find you.
07:20We'll find you.
07:23We'll find you.
07:25We'll find you.
07:26We'll find you.
07:28We'll find you.
07:30We'll find you.
07:32We'll find you.
07:34We'll find you.
07:36warriors. It is the soul of your dead king who speaks.
07:44Arm not these whites, for it was not they who struck me down.
07:51Name the one who did it. Name him. Oh master, so we may avenge your death.
07:57Return to your village, knowing that a worse fate than you could devise
08:02Awaits my murderer. Go.
08:22By Jango, I sure am glad that works. Bibby, come here.
08:32Don't be afraid. He won't hurt you, as long as I'm here.
08:41I don't trust him. He grabbed me when we were on board the ship the night Mrs. LaSalle was killed.
08:46You can't blame him for her death. Mrs. LaSalle was shot, and Bibby knows nothing about guns.
08:52I don't know who it was, but they sure are going to find out who killed my Helen.
09:02Which way, little banger? I'm going to get back to civilization.
09:14Well, I'm going to continue on the way taken by whoever it is that has my brother.
09:18Well, I guess I've had growing virtue. It's better that we travel together to the jungle
09:23for our own protection. First of his elements, then shipwrecks, then cannibals, then murder,
09:29then skeletons. My goodness, I'm afraid to think what's going to happen next.
09:48He disappeared. He's gone.
09:50Go ahead. That's been bad. They don't trust that house.
10:04What do you suppose has happened to him? They think he fooled us.
10:08He's been after that fellow Mustapha. Maybe he followed him to his camp.
10:12For goodness sakes, do something. Let's get out of here.
10:17That animal may have murdered him. He may come back after us.
10:21We shall go.
10:29Any sign of the boy? It is useless, Hildren. We have looked everywhere.
10:33It is an enemy of our master. Although we failed to find the sick boy,
10:49we may take care of the chief by capturing this man.
11:34Now, let's go.
11:54Phoebe!
11:55I think I see a chance to get some horses and make a getaway.
12:13You stay here and keep quiet till I come back. Do you understand?
12:55Yes, sir.
13:06Any news of the sick boy? No, master.
13:09You get another horse. Bring him to my tent.
13:19We have trailed far into the jungle and been in need of food and drink.
13:25Oh, what a hot country. First, I must see your chief.
13:32Mustapha? Yes, ma'am.
13:38Didn't you say Harris was going to head for Mustapha's camp?
13:42Yes, I did. It's funny that he followed me to this camp.
13:47Well, I want to get out of this country as fast as I can.
13:50Now, we eat first. Something will happen pretty soon now.
13:54I hope so.
14:12Ah, now is my day made perfect. It is the grace of Allah that brings
14:18such a charming lady to my camp. I'm Miss Armitage, and I've come to
14:24thank you for caring for my brother and to take him back to Lubanga.
14:29I do not understand. I am Mustapha.
14:35This is my camp, but there are no strangers here.
14:40I know positively that my brother has been here.
14:43May it please the master, the hunting party has returned,
14:46and hopes that what they have brought will meet with your favor.
14:51Excuse, please, this interruption. You wait in the comfort of my tent till I return.
15:03You will see that the young lady does not leave my tent.
15:07Yes, my Mustapha.
15:09Miss Armitage, will you please come closer so that I can talk without being heard by the others?
15:20This man, Mustapha, has been holding your brother prisoner.
15:24But why?
15:25Your brother knows the location of vast diamond fields,
15:28and Mustapha doesn't intend to release him until he learns the truth.
15:31I don't know.
15:32I don't know.
15:33I don't know.
15:34I don't know.
15:35I don't know.
15:36I don't know.
15:37I don't know.
15:38He will keep on releasing them until he learns where they are.
15:39Where is Tom now?
15:41We were getting ready to escape when you came into the camp.
15:43He's hiding in a competitive mouth, in that time over there.
15:52Inquisitive man, foolish master!
15:54I will save your life, killing you and bringing your final death, I want to see.
16:03Isn't it a mistake?
16:05We meet again.
16:06The last time we meet, I'll look at you from the ground when you make an enemy of Mustafa.
16:17That is bad.
16:21Bring the prisoner and follow me.
16:31I do know where the diamonds are.
16:33It would be dangerous for you if they found it out.
16:37Oh, I'll tell anything to get Tom out of the clutches of these people.
16:40It wouldn't do you any good.
16:42They'd hold you both until they found you were telling the truth, and then silence you forever.
16:47You stay here until I come back.
16:55Make sure that the white people who come to the camp do not leave.
16:58Yes, sir.
16:59Fill in the tiger pit so no one will know this strange Arab has been killed.
17:05Yes, sir.
17:28You fiend. You have him in that pit and you're covering him up.
17:32Oh, you know he's in the pit, huh?
17:35Yes, I do, and I know you're trying to force him to tell where he discovered a field of diamonds.
17:41If I gave you that information, would you stop torturing him?
17:45You... you do not know where the diamonds are.
17:49Would these convince you that I know?
17:52You alone can stop the men from filling in that pit.
17:57See where the diamond field is hidden, and the men will be ordered away.
18:04The strange beast, the tiger, is here.
18:06Stop all of you also following.
18:52All right.
18:53To protect my brother, I'll tell you where the diamonds are.
18:58Go back along the trail toward the Matabele village.
19:01There on the right of the trail, partly hidden behind some vines...
19:21To be continued...