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Perils of Nyoka (1942)

Professor Campbell's expedition into the hills of Libya obtains a papyrus which might reveal the hiding place of the Golden Tablets of Hippocrates, containing lost medical secrets. Also in the region is intrepid Nyoka Gordon, still seeking her father, lost on a previous expedition. She alone can translate the papyrus, which directs our heroes through deadly perils (including the Tunnel of Bubbling Death) into the land of the Tuaregs. Opposing them are Vultura, Queen of the Desert, and her Arab ally Cassib, both greedy for the treasure...

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Top billed cast

Kay AldridgeNyoka Gordon
Clayton MooreDr. Larry Grayson
Lorna GrayVultura
Charles MiddletonCassib
William BenedictRed Davis
Tris CoffinBenito Torrini
Forbes MurrayProf. Douglas Campbell
Robert StrangeProf. Henry Gordon
George PembrokeJohn Spencer
Georges RenaventMaghreb - Vultura's High Priest

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