The Lost City (1935 serial)

The Lost City is an independently made fantasy film serial produced in 1935 directed by Harry Revier.

The film took the premise of that years The Phantom Empire but transferred the lost civilization motif from the west to another popular serial locale, the African jungle.Sherman S. Krellberg had the serial edited into four different feature versions over time, perhaps setting a record for feature versions of a serial. The first feature consisted of the first three episodes of the serial and the first reel of the fourth episode edited together, and supplemented with footage not part of the serial itself which drew the adventure to a loose conclusion and the second was compiled from material in the first and last four chapters of the serial, omitting the adventures with the slave traders, the spider people and Queen Rama, but ending as did the serial. Both these features were made and released in 1935 and both were also called The Lost City. The first of these was also designed so that it could be followed over successive weeks by the remaining chapters in the serial. ........

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