

Adventures of Captain Africa
1955 Directed by Spencer Gordon BennetFilled from front to back with stock footage taken from the Columbia serials "The Phantom-1943" and, primarily, "The Desert Hawk-1944", with John Hart and the always-dull Rick Vallin making less-than-adequate substitutes for Tom Tyler and Gilbert Roland, this Sam Katzman "production" finds the mighty jungle avenger and legendary Captain Africa - A "Phantom" rip-off that side-stepped the need to pay King Features another fee for using the character - pledging to see that the legitimate Arabian caliph, Hamid, is restored to the throne which a tyrannical rival has usurped. He is joined in this enterprise by adventurer Ted Arnold, wild-animal trapper Nat Coleman, and his assistant Omar and, to cover all bases

John Hart
....................................................Captain Africa

Rick Vallin
....................................................Ted Arnold

Ben Welden
....................................................Omar
June Howard
....................................................Princess Rhoda

Bud Osborne
....................................................Nat Coleman

Paul Marion
....................................................Abdul el Hamid

Paul Marion
....................................................Boris - Henchman
Director
...........................................................Spencer Gordon Bennet
Producer
...........................................................Sam Katzman
Assistant Director
...........................................................Horace Hough
Screenplay
...........................................................George H. Plympton
Story
...........................................................George H. Plympton
Director of Photography
...........................................................Ira H. Morgan
Editor
...........................................................Earl Turner
Production Companies
...................................................Columbia Pictures
Production Countries
........................................................United States of America
Spoken Languages
....................................................Genres
....................................................Adventure
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