The Green Hornet Strikes Again

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The Green Hornet Strikes Again
Directed by Ford Beebe
John Rawlins
Produced by Henry MacRae
Written by George H. Plympton
Basil Dickey
Sherman L. Lowe
Fred MacIsaac
Fran Striker (characters)
Starring Warren Hull
Keye Luke
Pierre Watkin
Anne Nagel
Wade Boteler
Eddie Acuff
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) 4 January 1941
Running time 15 chapters (293 min)
Country Flag of the United States United States
Language English
Preceded by The Green Hornet (1940)
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The Green Hornet Strikes Again (1941) is a Universal movie serial based on the The Green Hornet radio series by George W. Trendle. It a sequel to the earlier, 1940 serial The Green Hornet. This was Universal's 117th serial (the 49th with sound) of the 137 the studio produced. The plot involves racketeering and is unusual for a film serial in having mostly stand alone episodes instead of a continuous story (although this was also the case for the original Green Hornet serial).

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[edit] Plot

The Green Hornet as his sidekick Kato face Boss Crogan and varied rackets across the city.


[edit] Cast

  • Warren Hull as Britt Reid and his alterego The Green Hornet. Hull replaced Gordon Jones in this role and also provided the voice of the Hornet (instead of radio voice Al Hodge in the original serial).
  • Wade Boteler as Michael Axford, Britt Reid's bodyguard
  • Anne Nagel as Lenore "Casey" Case, Britt Reid's secretary
  • Keye Luke as Kato, the Green Hornet's sidekick
  • Eddie Acuff as Ed Lowery, a reporter
  • Pierre Watkin as Boss Crogan, racketeer
  • James Seay as Bordine, one of Boss Crogan's henchmen
  • Arthur Loft as Tauer, Boss Crogan's chief henchman
  • Joe Devlin as Dolan, one of Boss Crogan's henchmen
  • William Hall as DeLuca, one of Boss Crogan's henchmen
  • Dorothy Lovett as Frances Grayson, an aluminum heiress, and Stella Merja, an actress hired to replace her

[edit] Chapter titles

  1. Flaming Havoc
  2. The Plunge of Peril
  3. The Avenging Heavens
  4. A Night of Terror
  5. Shattering Doom
  6. The Fatal Flash
  7. Death in the Clouds
  8. Human Targets
  9. The Tragic Crash
  10. Blazing Fury
  11. Thieves of the Night
  12. Crashing Barriers
  13. The Flaming Inferno
  14. Racketeering Vultures
  15. Smashing the Crime Ring

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Preceded by
Junior G-Men (1940)
Universal Serial
The Green Hornet Strikes Again (1941)
Succeeded by
Sky Raiders (1941)