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.
Jean Hersholt
as August Bolte (Mamba)
Eleanor Boardman
as Helen von Linden
Ralph Forbes
as Karl von Reiden
Claude Fleming
as Major Cromwell
Will Stanton
as Cockney servant
Wilhelm von Brincken
as Major von Shultz
Hazel Jones
as Hassim's daughter
Arthur Stone
as British soldier
Andrés de Segurola
as
Edward Martindel
as
Noble Johnson
as
Josef Swickard
as
