Perils of Nyoka

Perils of Nyoka is a 1942 Republic Movie serial directed by William Witney. It starred Kay Aldridge as Nyoka the Jungle Girl, a character who first appeared in the Edgar Rice Burroughsinspired serial Jungle Girl.

Perils of Nyoka was budgeted at 169,296 although the final negative cost was 175,010 a 5,714, or 3.4, overspend. It was the most expensive Republic serial of 1942. It was filmed betweenMarch andMay 1942, with the outdoor action sequences shot primarily at the Iverson Movie Ranch in Chatsworth, Calif. The serials production number was 1197. The success of the original serial Jungle Girl prompted the sequel, but the studio did not want to pay licensing fees to Burroughs again, so it avoided any repetition of the term Jungle Girl, to which he had the rights. Instead, Nyoka, the name of the main character in the first film, was placed in the title of the sequel, because that name was an original creation of Republics writers, not of Burroughs.Perils of Nyokas official release date isJune 1942, although this is actually the date the seventh chapter was made available to film exchanges. The serial was rereleased onApril 1952, under the new title Nyoka and the Tigermen, between the first runs of Radar Men from the Moon and Zombies of the Stratosphere. ........

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