Mala

Mala

Date of Birth: 27 Dec 1906

Country: USA

Biography: Ray Mala portrayed Inuits and also Hawaiian characters in films. He appeared in more than 25 movies, such as Eskimo (1933), Last of the Pagans (1935)--based on the book "Typee" by Herman Melville-- The Great Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok (1938), from which a 29-cent postal stamp was put out in the US, Honolulu Lu (1941), Red Snow (1952) and many more.

Total Credits at Criticker: 11 (Actor)

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    Robinson Crusoe of Clipper Island
    A 14-episode serial in which Mala, a Polynesian in the employ of U.S. Intelligence investigates sabotage on Clipper Island. A gang of spies causes the eruption of a volcano, for which our hero is blamed. He convinces the local Princess Melani of his innocence and helps her ward off a takeover by rival high priest Porotu. (imdb)
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    The Tuttles of Tahiti
    After a long absense from the island, Chester Tuttle returns to Tahiti to find that little has changed. His large family, particularly his scheming Uncle Jonas, would rather dance and romance than earn a living. When Jonas loses the family plantation in a cockfight, Chester saves the day by towing in a large ship abandoned at sea and claiming the salvage. (imdb)
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    Eskimo
    The happy life of an Eskimo is disastrously changed when he mingles with an unscrupulous white trader. (imdb)
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    Call of the Yukon
    A fur trader guides a writer and her animals to safety in the Yukon territory when wolves are about to attack. (imdb)
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    The Devil\
    A secretary sends a coded plea for help in her monthly report; two detectives investigate and find out that men are jailed on phony charges, forced to work in oil fields and then murdered if they try to escape. (imdb)
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    Hawk of the Wilderness
    An expedition arrives on an uncharted jungle island to rescue the local natives, led by a jungle boy, from a volcano that is about to erupt. (imdb)
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    The Girl from Alaska
    In this drama, set during the gold-rush, an unsuccessful prospector prepares to leave Alaska. But first he has a grand, drunken send-off. During the celebration a lawman is killed. The prospector is the prime suspect, and so he escapes to keep from being arrested. While on the lam, he encounters a wealthy but avaricious Englishman who is planning on robbing and killing an aged sourdough who has just found a productive stream. (allmovie.com)
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    Mutiny on the Blackhawk
    Story deals with slave-running between Hawaii and California in 1840, featuring a wild mutiny aboard a slave ship on the high seas, the bartering of natives for slavery in a tropical paradise, and battle scenes between enraged California settlers and the Mexican Army. (imdb)
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    Last of the Pagans
    Two South Sea Islanders (Mala, Lotus Long) fall in love, followed by a hurricane.
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    Zanzibar
    A beautiful young woman organizes an expedition to Africa to search for a sacred skull that is worshiped by the locals.
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    Red Snow
    Lieutenant Johnson, a U. S. Air Force pilot, on the tip of Alaska, a few miles from the Bering Straits from Siberia, helps foil a Soviet plot to test a new secret weapon by loyal Alaskan Eskimos. He is aided by Sergeant Koovuk, an Alaska native Eskimo also in the U.S. military service. Along the way there is an ice-floe evacuation, an air-ice rescue and a fight with a polar bear.
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