The Great Alaskan Mystery is a 1944 Universal film serial about government agents trying to stop Nazi spies from getting their hands on futuristic weapons.
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| Directed by | Lewis D. Collins Ray Taylor |
| Written by | Jack Foley George H. Plympton Maurice Tombragel |
| Produced by | Henry MacRae |
| Starring | Milburn Stone Marjorie Weaver Edgar Kennedy Samuel S. Hinds Martin Kosleck Ralph Morgan |
| Cinematography | Harry Neumann William A. Sickner |
| Edited by | Irving Birnbaum Jack Dolan Ace Herman Alvin Todd Edgar Zane |
| Distributed by | Universal Pictures |
Release date |
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Running time | 13 chapters (223 minutes) |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Plot
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James 'Jim' Hudson, an adventurer and accompanied by allies, goes after Nazi agents who have a new death ray called the Paratron...
Cast
edit- Milburn Stone as Jim Hudson
- Marjorie Weaver as Ruth Miller
- Edgar Kennedy as Bosun Higgins
- Samuel S. Hinds as Herman Brock
- Martin Kosleck as Dr Hauss
- Ralph Morgan as Dr Miller
- Joseph Crehan as Bill Hudson
- Fuzzy Knight as "Grit" Hartman
- Harry Cording as Captain Greeder
- Anthony Warde as Brandon
Critical reception
editThe author of a book on movie serials, William C. Cline, considers this to be a mediocre serial but possessing a good cast and all the necessary "ingredients" of a good serial.[1]
Chapter titles
edit- Shipwrecked Among Icebergs (18 min 03s)
- Thundering Doom (18 min 56s)
- Battle in the Clouds (17 min 02s)
- Masked Murder (17 min 32s)
- The Bridge of Disaster (17 min 46s)
- Shattering Doom (16 min 34s)
- Crashing Timbers (15 min 35s)
- In a Flaming Plane (17 min 24s)
- Hurtling Through Space (17 min 19s)
- Tricked by a Booby Trap (17 min 04s)
- The Tunnel of Terror (16 min 37s)
- Electrocuted (17 min 42s)
- The Boomerang (16 min 34s)
Source:[2]
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ Cline, William C. (1984). "3. The Six Faces of Adventure". In the Nick of Time. McFarland & Company, Inc. p. 50. ISBN 0-7864-0471-X.
- ^ Cline, William C. (1984). "Filmography". In the Nick of Time. McFarland & Company, Inc. p. 237. ISBN 0-7864-0471-X.
External links
editDownload or view online
edit- Great Alaskan Mystery at The Internet Archive (several formats available)
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