Mamba (1930) |
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| Director(s) | Albert S. Rogell |
| Producer(s) | No producer listed for this movie |
| Top Genres | Drama |
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Jean Hersholt
(as August Bolte)
Eleanor Boardman
(as Helen von Linden)
Torben Meyer
(as German soldier)
Noble Johnson
(as Hassim)
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Mamba (1930) was a Drama - Film directed by Albert S. Rogell .
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According to the authors of Forgotten Horrors, only "about 12 minutes of silent footage" remains.
This was the sixth feature-length talkie to be produced in color, after On with the Show! and Gold Diggers of Broadway. Three other all-color talkies were in production at the same time, all of them musicals. It was the first such project that was not a musical, and the first not to be produced by Warner Bros.
Only four of the nine original Vitaphone disks are known to survive. However, a complete film print surfaced in rural Australia in 2009.
Mamba's successful opening broke all records at the Gaiety for the first two weeks of its run.
This production was a huge gamble. Tiffany was a 'poverty row' company and sank all their assets into this film, which turned out to be very successful.