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Perils of Pauline is a american film of genre Action directed by Ray Taylor released in USA on 5 november 1933 with Evalyn Knapp

Perils of Pauline (1933)

Perils of Pauline
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Released in USA 5 november 1933
Directed by
OriginUSA
Genres Action,    Adventure
Rating61% 3.093983.093983.093983.093983.09398

The Perils of Pauline is a 1933 American Pre-Code film serial, and sound film remake, of the Pathé original. The 12-chapter "cliffhanger" was produced by Universal Studios. Evalyn Knapp, herself a graduate of Pathé silent short subjects, starred as the heroine, Pauline Hargraves. Historic newsreel footage of the 1930 flight of the Dornier Do X seaplane is featured in chapter eight.

Each episode in the serial is approximately 20 minutes long. The first one to two minutes of each episode are taken up with a title sequence and an intertitle describing the action from the previous serial. This is followed by about three minutes of the previous serial's closing moments.

Synopsis

Pauline Hargraves (Evalyn Knapp) is the intrepid daughter of Professor Hargraves (James Durkin), a noted doctor of chemistry and archeology. She and Willie Dodge (Sonny Ray), her father's cowardly secretary, have accompanied Prof. Hargraves to Asia in search of a legendary ivory disk which may contain the chemical recipe for a deadly gas created by an ancient Egyptian named Confu. Unfortunately, the villainous Asian warlord, Dr. Bashan (John Davidson), is also after the disk, along with his right-hand-man and assassin, Fang (Frank Lackteen).

Actors

Evalyn Knapp

(Pauline Hargrave)
Craig Reynolds

(Robert Ward (as Robert Allen))
John Davidson

(Dr. Bashan)
Robert (Tex) Allen

(Robert Warde)
William Desmond

(Professor Thompson (chapters 9 through 12))
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