DARKEST AFRICA
15 CHAPTER SERIAL
1936

Darkest Africa (1936) is a Republic movie serial. This was the first serial produced by Republic Pictures and was a loose sequel to a Mascot Pictures serial called The Lost Jungle, also starring Clyde Beatty. Mascot, and other companies, had been taken over in 1935 by Consolidated Film Laboratories and merged to become Republic. Producer Nat Levine was formerly the owner of Mascot Pictures.

PLOT:
While on Safari in East Africa, Clyde Beatty runs into a loincloth wearing boy, Baru, and his pet ape Bonga. Baru reveals that he has escaped from the lost city of Joba, King Solomon's sacred city of the Golden Bat, but that his sister, Valerie, remains there. She was found by High Priest Dagna as a child and declared to be Joba's goddess as part of his quest for power. Her escape could cause a revolt among the city's citizens. Clyde agrees to help Baru rescue Valerie and they set out to Joba, through the Valley of Lost Souls.
Meanwhile, the unscrupulous Durkin and Craddock notice the green diamond Baru is wearing and follow them to plunder the city for similar jewels. Dagna receives word of the heroes approach from his Bat-men and makes plans to stop them.

CAST:
Clyde Beatty ... Clyde Beatty
Manuel King ... Baru Tremaine
Elaine Shepard ... Valerie Tremaine
Lucien Prival ... Dagna
Wheeler Oakman ... Durkin
Edward McWade ... Gorn
Edmund Cobb ... Craddock
Ray Turner ... Hambone
Donald Reed ... Negus

CHAPTERS:
1. BARU - Son of the Jungle
2.The Tiger-Men's God
3. Bat-Men of Joba
4. The Hunter Lions of Joba
5. Bonga's Courage
6. Prisoners of the High Priest
7. Swing for Life
8. Fang and Claw
9. When Birdmen Strike
10. Trial by Thunder-Rods
11. Jars of Death
12. Revolt of the Slaves
13. Gauntlet of Destruction
14. The Divine Sacrifice
15. The Prophecy of Gorn

RUNNING TIME: 269 MIN