The Lost City
About The Lost City
Electrical disasters draw the scientist Bruce Gordon (Kane Richmond) to a sealed complex in Africa. There Zolok (William "Stage" Boyd), last of the Lemurians, holds Dr. Manyus (Josef Swickard) and his daughter Natcha (Claudia Dell), and has forced Manyus to turn local people into giant slaves and the spider-worshipping Wangas into thin white men. Gordon gets the two out. On the way they meet the slaver Ben Ali and Queen Rama, who helps them. Gordon returns to the mountain and stops Zolok. The story is told in twelve chapters.
Cast & crew
More about The Lost City
Sherman S. Krellberg created and produced the serial. Harry Revier directed. Edward Linden and Roland Price photographed it. George F. Hayes plays Butterfield, Billy Bletcher plays Gorzo, and Margot D'Use plays Queen Rama.
Themes
Notes
- Krellberg cut the chapters into feature versions: two in 1935 called The Lost City, one in the early 1940s called City of Lost Men, and another City of Lost Men assembled in the 1970s.
- The early City of Lost Men feature is treated as lost. Tapes sold under that title come from the 1970s cut.
- One 1935 feature uses chapters 1 and 12 and pieces of 2 through 5, and leaves out the slavers, the spider people, and Queen Rama.
- Eddie Fetherston plays Jerry Delaney. Gino Corrado plays Ben Ali. Sam Baker plays Hugo.
Scenes
- Gordon finds Zolok's mountain complex and the giant slaves Manyus has been forced to make.
- Queen Rama sides with Gordon against the slaver Ben Ali.
Influenced by
- The Phantom Empire (1935)
Also available
- Internet Archive (TheLostCity1935)
