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Cast: Kru [the Lao tribesman], Chantui [Chantui, his wife], Nah [Nah, son and heir to the House of Kru], Ladah [Ladah, their daughter], Bimbo the monkey

Famous Players-Lasky Corporation production; distributed by Paramount Pictures Corporation [A Cooper-Schoedsack Production]. / Cinematography by Ernest B. Schoedsack and Merian C. Cooper. Titles (intertitles written) by Achmed Abdullah. Presented by Adolph Zukor and Jesse L. Lasky. / Premiered 29 April 1927 in New York, New York. General release, 3 September 1927. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / Silent film.

Drama-Documentary.

Synopsis: Asian family fights jungle animals for survival.

Survival status: Print exists in the Museum of Modern Art film archive.

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Keywords: Animals: Elephants, Monkeys - Thailand

Listing updated: 27 December 2010.

References: Film credits, film viewing : Baer-Film p. 44; Basten-Technicolor p. 50; Everson-American pp. 235-236; Gallagher-Ford p. 220; Shipman-Cinema p. 96 : ClasIm-204 p. 3 : Website-IMDb.

Home video: Blu-ray Disc; DVD.