Mamba

Mamba

78 mins | Drama | March 9, 1930

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.

Mamba

78 mins | Drama | March 9, 1930

Mamba
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.
IMDb rating 5.7
Producers Color Art Productions
Original title Mamba
Directors Albert S. Rogell
Writers Winifred Dunn, Tom Miranda

Cast

Jean Hersholt

as August Bolte (Mamba)

Eleanor Boardman

as Helen von Linden

Ralph Forbes

as Karl von Reiden

Claude Fleming

as Major Cromwell

Will Stanton

as Cockney servant

Wilhelm von Brincken

as Major von Shultz

Hazel Jones

as Hassim's daughter

Arthur Stone

as British soldier /