This 12-chapter serial was filmed in 18 days, completed December 1932, and the first of Bela Lugosi's five serials.
There was a feature version of this 12-chapter serial, under the same title.
Chapter: 8; is a budget-saving recap episode where sequences from Chapter: 1 are shown for most of the running time.
Chapter Titles:
- 1. The Master Magician
- 2. The Collapsing Room
- 3. The All-Seeing Eye
- 4. The Shadow Strikes
- 5. Wanted For Murder
- 6. The Man Who Was Czar
- 7. The Double Doom
- 8. The Red Circle
- 9. The Fatal Secret
- 10. The Death Warrant
- 11. The Trap
- 12. King of the World