The Perils of Pauline (1933 serial)

The Perils of Pauline is a 1933 American PreCode film serial, and sound film remake, of the Path original. The 12chapter cliffhanger was produced by Universal Studios. Evalyn Knapp, herself a graduate of Path 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.

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 fathers 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 righthandman and assassin, Fang Frank Lackteen.In The Guns of Doom, the Hargraves party arrives in China, where the disk is in the Tsai Tsin temple. Civil war has broken out, and the city is under attack. Dr. Hargraves and Dodge go to the temple, followed by Fang and his gang of thugs. Pauline goes to warn her father hes being followed, but is attacked by Fang. Shes rescued by Robert Warde Robert Tex Allen, an American railroad engineer. As shells fall all around, Pauline and Warde go to the temple, where Pauline finds the disk. But only half the disk exists a map shows where the other half may be found. Dr. Bashan kidnaps Pauline while Warde takes her wounded father to a hotel. Bashan takes the disk, but Pauling escapes. Bashan takes a ship to Sarawak, where the map shows the rest of the disk is located. The Hargraves party follows Bashan in The Typhoon of Terror, narrowly escaping a government gunboat which fires on them. Bashans ship is caught in a hurricane, allowing the Hargraves ship to catch up. The disk is retrieved, although Pauline is nearly washed overboard. Dr. Bashan is locked in a cabin. In The Leopard Leaps, the Hargraves team arrive in Sarawak and travel upriver toward an ancient Egyptian temple. The ships captain frees Dr. Bashan having no reason to imprison him, and Bashan pursues the Hargaves in a faster ship. Bashan catches up to the Hargraves party at night, and Fang attempts to kill Pauline. But a prowling leopard attacks him and he is captured. Fang escapes into

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