12 Feb 1932
Shanghai Express
A beautiful temptress re-kindles an old romance while trying to escape her past during a tension-packed train journey.
Mamba
FORBIDDEN LOVE...PASSIONATE HATE!
August Bolte, the richest man in a settlement in German East Africa in the period before World War I, is called "Mamba" by the locals, which is the name of a deadly snake. Despised by the locals and the European settlers alike for his greed and arrogance, Bolte forces the beautiful daughter of a destitute nobleman to marry him in exchange for saving her father from ruin. Upon her arrival in Africa, she falls in love with an officer in the local German garrison. When World War I breaks out, Bolte, unable to avoid being conscripted, foments a rebellion among the local natives.
Top Billed Cast
Jean Hersholt August Bolte (Mamba)
Eleanor Boardman Helen von Linden
Ralph Forbes Karl von Reiden
Claude Fleming Major Cromwell
Will Stanton Cockney servant
Wilhelm von Brincken Major von Shultz
Hazel Jones Hassim's daughter
Arthur Stone British soldier
Andrés de Segurola 
Edward Martindel 
Noble Johnson 
Josef Swickard
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