The Beast of Borneo

The Beast of Borneo
Directed by	Harry Garson
Written by	Alfred Hustwick (screenplay) Alfred Hustwick (story) Frank J. Murray (story)
Produced by	Harry Garson (producer)
Starring	See below
Cinematography	Lewis W. Physioc
Edited by	William Faris
Release date	1934 (1934)
Running time	63 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

The Beast of Borneo is a 1934 American film directed by Harry Garson. The film is made up mostly of leftover footage from Universal Studio's 1931 'East of Borneo'. A couple of added dialogue scenes were spliced into what was essentially a travelogue and a series of close-ups of an enraged orangutan.

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 lovely 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 quite 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 simian kills the evil Dr. Borodoff.

Cast

• John Preston as Bob Ward
• Mae Stuart as Alma Thorne
• Eugene Sigaloff as Dr. Boris Borodoff
• Val Durand as Darmo
• Doris Brook as Nahnda
• Alexander Schoenberg as Controller Derrick van de Mark
• John Peters as Mr. Kruger

External links

• The Beast of Borneo at IMDb
• The Beast of Borneo is available for free viewing and download at the Internet Archive