
The thrilling adventures of the daughters of Professor Stanton, scientist and explorer, in their search for hidden treasure in the Central African jungles..


Nitrate ghosts have teeth, and the first bite comes ninety seconds into A Dangerous Adventure when the youngest Stanton girl, Philippa—played by Derelys Perdue with the insolent eyebrows of a future jazz assassin—leans over the rail of a riverboat and sees her own reflection devoured by a crocodile’s shadow. The metap...
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" Nitrate ghosts have teeth, and the first bite comes ninety seconds into A Dangerous Adventure when the youngest Stanton girl, Philippa—played by Derelys Perdue with the insolent eyebrows of a future jazz assassin—leans over the rail of a riverboat and sees her own reflection devoured by a crocodile’s shadow. The metaphor is blunt, gorgeous, and entirely wordless: the empire that financed her father’s maps is already digesting her. From that instant, Frances Guihan’s screenplay jettisons every B..."
Frances Guihan, Sam Warner
United States

1933 · IMDb 7


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