''The Beast of Borneo'' is a 1934 American

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film directed by

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East of Borneo ''East of Borneo'' is a 1931 American Pre-Code adventure film directed by George Melford, co-written by Edwin H. Knopf and Dale Van Every, starring Rose Hobart, Charles Bickford, Georges Renavent, Lupita Tovar, and Noble Johnson, and release ...

'', made in 1931. A couple of added dialogue scenes were spliced into what was essentially a travelogue and a series of close-ups of an enraged

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Plot

A noted big game hunter, Bob Ward (John Preston), is visited in the jungles of Borneo by Russian scientist Boris Borodoff (Eugene Sigaloff) and his assistant Alma Thorne (Mae Stuart), who want to prove the evolutionary link between man and beast. Ward at first declines to lead the scientists to a tribe of orangutans, but Alma's charms finally convince him. Along with Ward's pet orangutan, Borneo Joe, they track the apes and actually manage to capture a male orangutan, whom Dr. Borodoff anaesthetizes with a shot of whiskey. Borodoff, it soon appears, is insane—and Bob, in an effort to calm him down, is knocked unconscious and dragged into the jungle by the tormented orangutan. He is rescued by Alma and Borneo Joe, but the trio can only watch as the enraged ape kills Dr. Borodoff.

Cast

* John Preston as Bob Ward * Mae Stuart as Alma Thorne * Eugene Sigaloff as Dr. Boris Borodoff * Val Duran as Darmo *

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as Nahnda * Alexander Schoenberg as Controller Derrick van de Mark * John Peters as Mr. Kruger

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* * 1934 films 1934 horror films 1934 adventure films American adventure films American black-and-white films Films set in Borneo Films directed by Harry Garson Films about apes 1930s English-language films 1930s American films {{1930s-horror-film-stub