Darkest Africa

Darkest Africa
Directed byB. Reeves Eason
Joseph Kane
Written byTed Parsons
John Rathmell
Barney Sarecky
Produced byNat Levine
Barney Sarecky
StarringClyde Beatty
Manuel King
Elaine Shepard
Lucien Prival
Ray "Crash" Corrigan
Wheeler Oakman
CinematographyEdgar Lyons
William Nobles
Edited byDick Fantl
Music byArthur Kay
Distributed byRepublic Pictures
Release dates
  • February 15, 1936 (1936-02-15) (U.S. serial)[1]
  • May 21, 1936 (1936-05-21) (U.S. feature)[1]
  • November 10, 1948 (1948-11-10) (U.S. re-release)[1]
  • 1966 (1966) (U.S. TV)[1]
Running time
15 chapters / 269 minutes (serial)[1]
73 minutes (feature)[1]
100 minutes (TV)[1]
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$107,281 (negative cost: $119,343)[1]

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.

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h Mathis, Jack (1995). Valley of the Cliffhangers Supplement. Jack Mathis Advertising. pp. 3, 10, 12–13. ISBN 0-9632878-1-8.