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Heinkel Flugzeugwerke (German pronunciation: [ˈhaɪŋkəl ˈfluːktsɔʏkˌvɛʁkə]) was a German aircraft manufacturing company founded by and named after Ernst Heinkel. It is noted for producing bomber aircraft for the Luftwaffe in World War II and for important contributions to high-speed flight, with the pioneering examples of a successful liquid-fueled rocket and a turbojet-powered aircraft in aviation history, with both Heinkel designs' first flights occurring shortly before the outbreak of World War II in Europe.
Following the successful career of Ernst Heinkel as the chief designer for the Hansa-Brandenburg aviation firm in World War I, Herr Heinkel's own firm was established at Warnemünde in 1922, after the restrictions on German aviation imposed by the Treaty of Versailles were relaxed. The company's first great success was the design of the Heinkel He 70 Blitz high-speed mail plane and airliner for Deutsche Luft Hansa in 1932, which broke a number of air speed records for its class. It was followed by the two-engine Heinkel He 111 Doppel-Blitz, which became a mainstay of the Luftwaffe during World War II as a bomber. Heinkel's most important designers at this point were the twin Günter brothers, Siegfried and Walter, and Heinrich Hertel. The firm's headquarters was in Rostock later known as Heinkel-Nord (Heinkel-North), possessing a factory airfield in the northwestern, coastal Schmarl neighborhood of the city (then known as "Marienehe") with an additional Heinkel-Süd facility in Schwechat, Austria, after the Anschluss in 1938.
Actors: Peter Greenaway (writer), Jordi Mollà (actor), Pauline Burt (miscellaneous crew), Kees Kasander (producer), Ana Torrent (actress), Peter Greenaway (director), Anna Galiena (actress), Roger Rees (actor), Roberto Citran (actor), Renata Litvinova (actress), Jordi Mollà (actor), Ornella Muti (actress), Elly Verduyckt (miscellaneous crew), Valentina Cervi (actress), Antoni Solé (producer),
Genres: Adventure, Biography, Drama, Romance, Thriller, War,Actors: Cy Kendall (actor), Wilton Graff (actor), Lumsden Hare (actor), Boyd Irwin (actor), Budd Buster (actor), Edmund Cobb (actor), Sherry Hall (actor), Oliver Blake (actor), Harry Cording (actor), Cyril Delevanti (actor), Douglass Dumbrille (actor), George Eldredge (actor), Arno Frey (actor), Joel Fluellen (actor), Colin Kenny (actor),
Plot: Universal Pictures 63rd sound-era serial (between "Mystery of the River Boat" and "The Masater Key") finds that Nazi agents are trying to arouse the tribes of the middle jungle in Africa to revolt against the British. Americans Bob Elliott ('Edward Norris' (qv)) and Chuck Kelly ('Eddie Quillan' (qv)) arrive to help the British agents. Lothel ('Ruth Roman' (qv)), the mysterious Queen of the Jungle, appears and disappears always in the nick of time to save them, and also Pam Courtney ('Lois Collier' (qv)), niece of the explorer Alan Courtney ('Boyd Irwin' (q)). Dr. Elise Bork ('Tala Birell' (qv)) and her henchman Lang ('Douglass Dumbrille' (qv)) are the Nazi chiefs, posing as scientists. Lang has great influence on some of the tribesman, especially with Chief Maata (Napoleon Simpson') who wants to keep Kyba ('Clarence Muse' (qv)) from becoming judge over all the tribes. A Secret Sword is the key to the ruler of the jungles, and the holder of this secret is sought by both the British and the Nazis. Courtney is the only white man who knows the secret but is killed before he can reveal it to his niece Pamela. The forces of good finally prevail in Chapter 13, "The Secret of the Sword!", through the help of Lotel, who disappears in the same sheet of flame that has marked her coming and going.
Keywords: 1940s, africa, airplane-crash, airplane-pilot, ambush, american, attacked-by-lion, brush-fire, ceremonial-cave, character-name-in-title