This one is quite ambitious - big decors, plausible jungle setting, ambitious staging. Unfortunately the film has the excessive talk of work of four years earlier and the familiar plot elements - bandits, wild animals, aviation, scouts - are not deployed effectively. Add in the dumbest wonder dog in movies.
Despite the evidence of quite a bit of money being spent (possibly on other productions whose elements this one poaches) the technical standards are often shoddy - uneven sound levels, out of focus shots. The slack pacing is at odds with the chaotic parade of incident which make the best serials entertaining and which the producers aspire to. We are left with an oddity, alternately large scale and shoddy Unfamiliar face cast. We can only wonder what Harry O. Hoyt of the silent LOST WORLD contributed.
Despite the evidence of quite a bit of money being spent (possibly on other productions whose elements this one poaches) the technical standards are often shoddy - uneven sound levels, out of focus shots. The slack pacing is at odds with the chaotic parade of incident which make the best serials entertaining and which the producers aspire to. We are left with an oddity, alternately large scale and shoddy Unfamiliar face cast. We can only wonder what Harry O. Hoyt of the silent LOST WORLD contributed.