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 |
Edited by | Saul A. Goodkind (supervising) Joseph Gluck Louis Sackin Alvin Todd |
Distributed by | Universal Pictures |
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Running time
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12 chapters (240 min) |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Junior G-Men (1940) is a Universal film 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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Synopsis
A group of saboteurs called the "Order of the Flaming Torch" who are trying to undermine the "social order" of the United States kidnaps 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.
Cast
The Dead End Kids and the Little Tough Guys
- Billy Halop as Billy Barton
- Huntz Hall as Gyp
- Gabriel Dell as Terry
- Bernard Punsly as Lug
- Ken Lundy as Buck
- Harris Berger as Sailor (uncredited)
- Hally Chester as Murph, a Junior-G Man (uncredited)
Additional Cast
- 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
Production
Stunts
- Dave Sharpe doubled Billy Halop as Billy Barton.
Chapter titles
- Enemies Within
- The Blast of Doom
- Human Dynamite
- Blazing Danger
- Trapped by Traitors
- Traitors' Treachery
- Flaming Death
- Hurled Through Space
- The Plunge of Peril
- The Toll of Treason
- Descending Doom
- The Power of Patriotism
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See also
References
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External links
- Lua error in Module:WikidataCheck at line 28: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value). Junior G-Men at IMDb
- Junior G-Men is available for free download at the Internet Archive
- Junior G-Men at AllMovie