The Perils of Pauline is a movie serial, and sound film

Sound film

A sound film is a motion picture with synchronized sound, or sound technologically coupled to image, as opposed to a silent film. The first known public exhibition of projected sound films took place in Paris in 1900, but decades would pass before sound motion pictures were made commercially...

 remake

Remake

A remake is a piece of media based primarily on an earlier work of the same medium.-Film:The term "remake" is generally used in reference to a movie which uses an earlier movie as the main source material, rather than in reference to a second, later movie based on the same source...

, of the Pathé

Pathé

Pathé or Pathé Frères is the name of various French businesses founded and originally run by the Pathé Brothers of France.-History:...

 original

The Perils of Pauline (1914 serial)

The Perils of Pauline is a motion picture serial shown in weekly installments featuring Pearl White as the title character. Pauline has often been cited as a famous example of a damsel in distress, although some analyses hold that her character was more resourceful and less helpless than the...

. The 1933 12-chapter "cliffhanger

Cliffhanger

A cliffhanger or cliffhanger ending is a plot device in fiction which features a main character in a precarious or difficult dilemma, or confronted with a shocking revelation at the end of an episode of serialized fiction...

" was produced by Universal Studios

Universal Studios

Universal Pictures , a subsidiary of NBCUniversal, is one of the six major movie studios....

. Evalyn Knapp

Evalyn Knapp

Evalyn Knapp was an American film actress of the late 1920s, 1930s, and into the 1940s. She was a leading B-movie serial actress in the 1930s....

, herself a graduate of silent Pathé short subjects, starred as heroine Pauline Hargrave. Historic footage of the 1930 flight of the Dornier Do X

Dornier Do X

The Dornier Do X was the largest, heaviest, and most powerful flying boat in the world when it was produced by the Dornier company of Germany in 1929. First conceived by Dr. Claudius Dornier in 1924, planning started in late 1925 and after over 240,000 work hours it was completed in June 1929...

 seaplane is featured, with episodes set in Indonesia actually filmed in South America.

Cast

• Evalyn Knapp
  Evalyn Knapp
  Evalyn Knapp was an American film actress of the late 1920s, 1930s, and into the 1940s. She was a leading B-movie serial actress in the 1930s....
  
   as Pauline Hargrave
• Craig Reynolds
  Craig Reynolds (actor)
  Craig Reynolds was an American film actor of the 1930s and 1940s.-Early life and career:Born Harold Hugh Enfield in Anaheim, California in 1907, Reynolds enjoyed a film career spanning the 1930s and 1940s, although the majority of his roles occurred during the first decade of his career.As an...
  
   as Robert Ward
• William Desmond
  William Desmond (actor)
  William Desmond was an Irish-born American actor. He appeared in 205 films between 1915 and 1948. He was nicknamed "The King of the Silent Serials."...
  
   as Professor Thompson
• James Durkin as Professor Hargrave, Pauline's father
• John Davidson
  John Davidson (actor)
  John Davidson was an American film actor. He appeared in 148 films between 1915 and 1963.He was born in New York, New York and died in Los Angeles, California.-Selected filmography:...
  
   as Doctor Bashan, the villain
• Sonny Ray as Willie Dodge, comic relief
• Frank Lackteen
  Frank Lackteen
  Frank Lackteen was a Lebanese-born American film actor best known for his antagonistic roles. He appeared in nearly 200 films between 1916 and 1965, including several Three Stooges shorts. He was born in Kubber-Ilias, Lebanon and died in Los Angeles, California...
  
   as Fang

Chapter titles

1. The Guns of Doom
2. The Typhoon of Terror
3. The Leopard Leaps
4. Trapped by the Enemy
5. The Flaming Tomb
6. Pursued by Savages
7. Tracked by the Enemy
8. Dangerous Depths
9. The Mummy Walks
10. The Night Attacks
11. Into the Flames
12. Confu's Sacred Secret

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