USA, 1935
96m
35mm film, black and white (tinted), 1.37:1
mono, English
An American fantasy film directed by Irving Pichel and Lansing C. Holden.
Plot Summary
Leo Vincey learns from his dying uncle about a lost world in Siberia. He puts together an expedition and sets off in search of the fabled land and its magical fire that bestows immortality on anyone who enters it. They eventually reach the lost city of Kor and meet its immortal queen, Ayesha, She Who Must Be Obeyed who believes that Vincey is her long-lost lover John Vincey, Leo’s ancestor who discovered Kor 500 years before.
Credits
* = uncredited
Crew
Directed by: Irving Pichel and Lansing C. Holden
Copyright MCMXXXV [1935] RKO Radio Pictures, Inc.
Radio Pictures presents a Merian C. Cooper production
Adaptation, Continuity and Dialogue by: Ruth Rose
Additional Dialogue by: Dudley Nichols
From the Novel by: H. Rider Haggard
Photographed by: J. Roy Hunt
Edited by: Ted Cheesman
Music by: Max Steiner
[Sound] Recorded by: John L. Cass
Costumes by: Aline Bernstein and Harold Miles
Make Up: Carl Axcelle *, Robert J. Schiffer *
Hair: Hollis Barnes *
Photographic Effects by: Vernon L. Walker
Matte Photography: Guy Newhard *
Optical Effects: Linwood G. Dunn *
Art Director: Van Nest Polglase
Cast
Helen Gahagan (Ayesha (She))
Randolph Scott (Leo Vincey)
Helen Mack (Tanya Dugmore)
Nigel Bruce (Horace Holly)
Julius Adler [high priest] *
Ray Corrigan, Jerry Frank [guards] *
Arnold Gray, Bill Wolfe [priests] *
Lumsden Hare [Dugmore] *
Samuel S. Hinds [John Vincey] *
Noble Johnson [Amahaggar chief] *
Jim Thorpe [Captain of the Guard] *
Gustav von Seyffertitz [Billali] *
References
Periodicals
- TV Times 16-22 September 1989 pp.23; 31 – review; credits
- Video Watchdog no.33 (1996) p.6 – illustrated note (She Who Must Be Uncut)
Books
- English Gothic: A Century of Horror Cinema by Jonathan Rigby p.15
- Reference Guide to Fantastic Films by Walt Lee p.432 – credits
- The RKO Features by James L. Neibaur pp.220-221 – credits, synopsis
- Spectacular! The Story of Epic Films by John Cary, edited by John Kobal p.158 – credits
