Junior G-Men (serial)

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Junior G-Men
Directed by Ford Beebe
John Rawlins
Produced by Henry MacRae
Written by George H. Plympton
Basil Dickey
Rex Taylor
Starring Billy Halop
Huntz Hall
Gabriel Dell
Bernard Punsly
Ken Lundy
Music by Charles Previn
Cinematography Jerome Ash
Editing by Saul A. Goodkind (supervising)
Joseph Gluck
Louis Sackin
Alvin Todd
Distributed by Universal Pictures
Release date(s) 1940
Running time 12 chapters (240 min)
Country Flag of the United States United States
Language English
Preceded by You're Not So Tough (Little Tough Guys)
Followed by Junior G-Men of the Air (sequel)
Give Us Wings (Little Tough Guys)
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Junior G-Men (1940) is a Universal movie serial. It was Universal's 116th serial (and the 48th with sound) of their total of output of 137. It is one of the three serials starring "The Dead End Kids and Little Tough Guys" who were under contract to Universal at the time. The plot is a pre-World War II G-Man story about fifth columnists in the United States, with the FBI joining forces with children to save the country.

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[edit] Plot

A group of saboteurs who are trying to undermine the government kidnap several prominent scientists, including the father of a local street gang member. The gang team up with the FBI and the "Junior G-Men" in order to stop the saboteurs.


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[edit] Chapter titles

  1. Enemies Within
  2. The Blast of Doom
  3. Human Dynamite
  4. Blazing Danger
  5. Trapped By Traitors
  6. Traitor's Treachery
  7. Flaming Death
  8. Hurled Through Space
  9. The Plungle of Peril
  10. The Toll of Treason
  11. Descending Doom
  12. The Power of Patriotism

[edit] Stunts

Dave Sharpe doubled Billy Halop as Billy Barton.

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Preceded by
Winners of the West (1940)
Universal Serial
Junior G-Men (1940)
Succeeded by
The Green Hornet Strikes Again (1941)