Junior G-Men (serial)
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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 | 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] Cast
- Billy Halop as Billy Barton
- Huntz Hall as Gyp
- Gabriel Dell as Terry
- Bernard Punsly as Lug
- Ken Lundy as Buck
- Kenneth Howell as Harry Trent
- Roger Daniels as Midge
- Phillip Terry as Jim Bradford
- Russell Hicks as Colonel Robert Barton
- Cy Kendall as Brand
- Ben Taggart as Captain Severn
- Victor Zimmerman as Al Corey, a thug
- Edgar Edwards as Henchman Evans
- Gene Rizzi as Henchman Foster
- Florence Halop as Mary
[edit] Chapter titles
- Enemies Within
- The Blast of Doom
- Human Dynamite
- Blazing Danger
- Trapped By Traitors
- Traitor's Treachery
- Flaming Death
- Hurled Through Space
- The Plungle of Peril
- The Toll of Treason
- Descending Doom
- 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) |
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