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The Return of Chandu is a 1934 American 12-episode fantasy film serial based on the radio series Chandu the Magician. It was produced by Sol Lesser and directed by Ray Taylor, and starred Béla Lugosi as Frank Chandler (known professionally as Chandu the Magician).

The serial was originally offered to theaters in any one of three ways: as a conventional serial of 12 weekly chapters running 20 minutes each; as a 76-minute feature film comprising the first four episodes, to be followed by the remaining eight episodes in weekly serial format; or as the 76-minute feature as a self-contained attraction, ending not with cliffhanger but with a specially filmed ending resolving the story. In 1935, the remaining eight episodes of the serial were also edited into a second feature film, 65 minutes long, released as Chandu on the Magic Island.

The Return of Chandu cast Lugosi against type as a romantic lead. It marked one of the few times that Lugosi played a protagonist rather than an antagonist: in fact, Lugosi had played Roxor, the main villain, in the 1932 film Chandu the Magician.

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