Hell's Headquarters

Story

Synopsis

Doctor Smith and his wife, Mary,depart a riverboat and are met by Phil Talbot. Phil informs Dr. Smith that Jessup, the only other white man in the village, has died while the doctor and his wife were off on a two-day holiday. Unknown to Smith, Jessup and his partner, Ross King, had a large cache of ivory tusks in the jungle, and he had told Phil about it. Meanwhile, Mary Smith has decided to steam-boat down the Congo River to Capetown for an extended holiday. Kuba, King's gun-bearer, asks Smith to write a letter to King, currently residing at a New York City Explorer's Club, and advise him that his partner has died. Talbot sends a letter to his stateside sweetheart, Diane Cameron, and her father, asking them to come to Africa and join him on an ivory-treasure expedition, and replenish their family-fortune lost in the recent stock-market crash. What Mr. Cameron and Diane don't know about Talbot is that his years in Africa have unhinged him...

Director

Andrew L. Stone

Writers

Norton S. Parker

Language

English

Country

United States of America

Release date

15 April 1932

Ensemble

Cast

• 

  Jack Mulhall

  Ross King

• 

  Barbara Weeks

  Diane Cameron

• 

  Frank Mayo

  Phil Talbot

• 

  Phillips Smalley

  Mr. Cameron

• 

  Fred Parker

  Dr. Smith

• 

  Everett Brown

  Kuba

• Joe De La Cruz

  Baki - the Half-Breed (uncredited)