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  Auction History Result #7987 KING OF THE WILD 8 Chap 8 LCs 31 serial Date Sold 9/23/2003Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. Complete Set of 8 Original Vintage Theatrical Chapter #8 Movie Lobby Cards (measure 11" x 14") (Learn More) King of the Wild, the 1931 B. Reeves Eason & Richard Thorpe Africa jungle adventure horror serial ("A Mascot Serial"; "An all-talking serial in twelve stirring chapters"; written by Ford Beebe) starring Walter Miller, Nora Lane, Dorothy Christy, Tom Santschi, Boris Karloff, Victor Potel, Carroll Nye, and Arthur McLaglen (as Bimi the Ape Man). Note that this movie was made prior to "Frankenstein", which resulted in Boris Karloff being fifth billed, and he is pictured on very few posters. Had the movie been released a year later, no doubt he would have been top billed! Also, this serial didn't start production with "all-talking" in mind, and some of the actors did not have very good speaking voiced and not much dialog was written. Though no one is actually credited, a great deal of narration was added to the serial in Post Production. It is generally thought that Boris Karloff (who had lots of stage experience) did all the voice-over narration. NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Important Added Info: Note that an entire set of lobby cards from a early 1930s serial is rarely ever found intact. This set has a cool monster shadow image on the title card, and one of the scene cards has a great image of the monster in a cage choking a man! Condition: very good to fine. Each card has darkened somewhat around the edges and has other minor border defects, but overall the cards are in nice condition especially considering they are 72 years old! Learn More about condition grades 
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