Hell's Headquarters

Hell's Headquarters

1932 · 63 min · ★ 4.3 · Romance, Drama, Mystery

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...

Directed by Andrew L. Stone · Written by Norton S. Parker

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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)

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