THE ASTOR REVIEW

An astonishing cinema archive revelation! The King Tut tomb of movie vault discoveries!

A night of Hollywood history with amazing vintage clips, a fabled lost film now discovered intact and presented as lost Hollywood heritage. Imagine if someone told you that in 1929, at the dawn of sound, ten years before GONE WITH THE WIND one ambitious Hollywood studio produced the first full length sound feature film epic that was also full length Technicolor. The Industry’s very first all sound, all colour, all epic drama. Well it is true and the film is called MAMBA. For 80 years thought lost it has been found in Australia, and film historian Paul Brennan hosts an evening of discovery, and fascinating insight into the plight of this lost treasure, now destined for full restoration status. The purpose of this evening is to raise awareness and hear about the incredible story of the ambitious tiny studio, Tiffany, crushed by its competition and disappeared together with all traces of its bold attempt to enter the big league.

Special Prices apply. Adults $19, Concession $17.

IMDB SYNOPSIS

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.