PERILS OF NYOKA
15 CHAPTER SERIAL
1942

Also Known As:
Nyoka and the Lost Secrets of Hippocrates, and Nyoka and the Tigermen

Perils of Nyoka was an unofficial sequel to the previous year’s Jungle Girl (with Frances Gifford), but now the setting had shifted from the jungle to the desert, and her surname changed from Meredith to Gordon (in order to save on royalties to the Burroughs estate). Aldridge’s Nyoka is a little tougher than Gifford’s, as she (actually stunt-man Dave Sharpe with a blonde wig) leaps from rocky slags onto horse-riding villains, plunges eighty feet into water, and dangles precariously over bubbling lava. She fights the wicked temptress, Vultura, rescues Larry from Vultura’s Gorilla, Satan, and kills men with deadly marksmanship. Also starring Clayton Moore, better known as 'The Lone Ranger'.

PLOT:
Professor Campbell's expedition into the hills of Libya obtains a papyrus which might reveal the hiding place of the Golden Tablets of Hippocrates, containing lost medical secrets. Also in the region is intrepid Nyoka Gordon, still seeking her father, lost on a previous expedition. She alone can translate the papyrus, which directs our heroes through deadly perils (including the Tunnel of Bubbling Death) into the land of the Tuaregs. Opposing them are Vultura, Queen of the Desert, and her Arab ally Cassib, both greedy for the treasure.

CAST:
Kay Aldridge ....  Nyoka Gordon
Clayton Moore ....  Dr. Larry Grayson
Lorna Gray ....  Vultura
Charles Middleton ....  Cassib
William 'Billy' Benedict ....  Red Davis
Forbes Murray ....  Prof. Douglas Campbell
George Pembroke ....  John Spencer
Tristram Coffin ....  Benito Torrini
Robert Strange ....  Prof. Henry Gordon
Kenneth Duncan ....  Abu, expedition headman
Georges Renavent ....  Maghreb, Vultura's high priest
John Davidson ....  Lhoba, Tuareg high priest
Ken Terrell ....  Ahmed, Arab henchman
George J. Lewis ....  Batan, Arab henchman
Art Dupuis ....  Hassan, Arab henchman

CHAPTERS:
1. Desert Intrigue
2. Death's Chariot
3. Devil's Crucible
4. Ascending Doom
5. Fatal Second
6. Human Sacrifice
7. Monster's Clutch
8. Tuareg Vengeance
9. Buried Alive
10. Treacherous Trail
11. Unknown Peril
12. Underground Tornado
13. Thundering Death
14. Blazing Barrier
15. Satan's Fury

RUNNING TIME: 261 MIN