Perils of Nyoka
Released: June 27, 1942Runtime: 261 min
Professor Campbell's expedition into the hills of Libya obtains a papyrus which might reveal the hiding place of the Golden Tablets of Hippocrates, containing lost medical secrets. Also in the region is intrepid Nyoka Gordon, still seeking her father, lost on a previous expedition. She alone can translate the papyrus, which directs our heroes through deadly perils (including the Tunnel of Bubbling Death) into the land of the Tuaregs. Opposing them are Vultura, Queen of the Desert, and her Arab ally Cassib, both greedy for the treasure...
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Kay Aldridge
as Nyoka Gordon
Clayton Moore
as Dr. Larry Grayson
William Billy Benedict
as Red Davis
Lorna Gray
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Charles Middleton
as Cassib
Tristram Coffin
as Benito Torrini [Chs.1-10]
Forbes Murray
as Prof. Douglas Campbell
Robert Strange
as Prof. Henry Gordon [Chs. 4-15]
George Pembroke
as John Spencer
Georges Renavent
as Maghreb - Vultura's High Priest [Chs.1-4,7,9,15]
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