Mamba [Blu-ray]

Director: Albert Rogell Albert Rogell

Overview

One of the most ambitious productions ever to emerge from parsimonious Tiffany Studios, Mamba is also one of the few 1930s horror films to be lensed in Technicolor. The story takes place in East Africa, where bestial August Bolte (Jean Hersholt), also known as Mamba, holds the local Zulu population in a grip of terror. Bolte's villainy apparently knows no bounds, extending all the way to his native Germany, where for $40,000 he "purchases" virginal Helen von Linden (Eleanor Boardman) from her greedy mother. En route to Africa, Helen falls in love with ship's captain Karl von Reiden (Ralph Forbes), who vows to rescue the girl from Bolte's slimy clutches. But Bolte proves a near-invulnerable enemy -- at least until the Zulus rise up against him and mete out their own gruesome justice. Only a few existing prints of Mamba are in color; most available copies are black-and-white dupes.

Product Details

Release Date:	05/10/2022
UPC:	0738329258788
Original Release:	1930
Rating:	NR
Source:	Kino Classics
Language:	English
Time:	1:14:00
Sales rank:	34,914

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Eleanor Boardman	Helen von Linden
Ralph Forbes	Karl von Reiden
Josef Swickard	Count von Linden
Claude Fleming	Maj. Cromwell
Will Stanton	Cockney Servant
William von Brincken	Maj. von Schultz
Noble Johnson	Hassim
Hazel Jones	Hassim's Daughter
Andreas de Segurola	Guido
Jean Hersholt	Mamba
Edward Martindel	Fullerton
Torben Meyer	German Soldier
Arthur Stone	British Soldier
James Bradford	Composer

Technical Credits