Perils of Nyoka
Perils of Nyoka is a 1942 Republic serial directed by William Witney. It stars Kay Aldridge as Nyoka the Jungle Girl, a character who first appeared in the Edgar Rice Burroughs-inspired serial Jungle Girl.
Plot
Nyoka, with help from Larry Grayson, attempts to discover the golden tablets of Hippocrates. The tablets contain the medical knowledge of the ancients and are being buried along with gold and other treasure. The search for the tablets take Larry and Nyoka from the jungles of Africa to the Arabian desert where Queen Vultura and her band of sword-wielding Arabs are also searching for them. As the search continues, Larry saves Nyoka from all manners of peril to include being captured and imprisoned by Vultura and Satan, her pet gorilla.
More details
| author | Ronald Davidson |
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| director | William Witney |
| genre | adventure fantasy |
| keywords | bury capture gold hippocrates nyoka nyoka the jungle girl search treasure |
| producer | William J. O'Sullivan |
| publisher | Republic Pictures |
| theme | sequel |