Nerve! 1932

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Introductory intertitle reads: "How would you like to enter a lion's den, after having been badly mauled a month before! As a supreme test of nerve, this requires some beating... as Clyde Beatty the trainer, shows."

M/S through bars of a cage showing lions being let into an enclosed space....

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Data

Cataloguer:
Jenny
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
51186
Sort Number:
PSP 734
Time in/Out:
01:01:44:00 / 01:03:21:00
Canister:
PSP 734
Film ID:
1590.02
Issue Date:
28/04/1932

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