- Chapter after chapter the menace is Queen Vultura and her robed Arab followers, an anonymous blade-carrying horde whose functions are to seize the white heroine, guard looted treasure, and be cut down in the serial's battles. Vultura herself, a scheming desert queen who keeps a gorilla named Satan, exists solely to imperil Nyoka and finally dies by her own creature's thrown spear.
Perils of Nyoka (1942)
film · also released as: Nyoka and the Tigermen
- Distributor
- REP
- Cast
- Kay Aldridge, Lorna Gray, Clayton Moore, Robert Strange, Charles Middleton, George Renavent, George Lewis, Ken Terrel, John Bagni
- Production notes
- 15 episodes. Republic studios later edited the Nyoka serial, making it into a full-length feature entitled Nyoka and the Lost Secrets of Hippocrates (1966). Many television stations purchased and telecast the 1966 feature