Red Barry (serial)
Appearance
Red Barry | |
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Directed by | Ford Beebe Alan James |
Written by | Norman S. Hall Ray Trampe Will Gould (comic strip) |
Produced by | Henry MacRae Barney A. Sarecky (associate) |
Starring | Buster Crabbe Edna Sedgewick Frances Robinson Cyril Delevanti Frank Lackteen |
Cinematography | Jerome Ash |
Edited by | Saul A. Goodkind Louis Sackin Alvin Todd |
Music by | Charles Previn |
Distributed by | Universal Pictures |
Release date |
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Running time | 13 chapters (256 minutes) |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Red Barry is a 1938 13-chapter Universal movie serial based on the comic strip Red Barry by Will Gould.[1]
Plot
[edit]An undercover police detective sets out to discover who stole $2 million in bonds.
Cast
[edit]- Buster Crabbe as Red Barry. This was one of the few serial roles for Buster Crabbe in normal clothing.[1]
- Edna Sedgewick as Natacha
- Frances Robinson as Mississippi
- Cyril Delevanti as Wing Fu
- Frank Lackteen as Quong Lee
- Wade Boteler as Inspector Scott
- Hugh Huntley as Harry Dycer, aka Valentine Vane
- Philip Ahn as Hong Kong Cholly
- William Ruhl as C.E. Mannix
- William Gould as Commissioner
- Wheeler Oakman as Weaver
- Stanley Price as Petrov
- Earl Douglas as Igor
- Charles Stevens as Captain Moy
- Eric Wilton as Tubbs, Vane's Butler
Chapter titles
[edit]Source:[2]
- Millions for Defense
- The Curtain Falls
- The Decoy
- High Stakes
- Desperate Chances
- The Human Target
- Midnight Tragedy
- The Devil's Disguise
- Between Two Fires
- The False Trail
- Heavy Odds
- The Enemy Within
- Mission of Mercy
See also
[edit]References
[edit]Notes
[edit]Sources consulted
[edit]- Cline, William C. (1984). In the Nick of Time. McFarland & Company, Inc. ISBN 0-7864-0471-X.
- Mayer, Geoff. Encyclopaedia of American Film Serials (McFarland, 2017)
External links
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Categories:
- 1938 films
- American black-and-white films
- American detective films
- 1930s English-language films
- Films based on comic strips
- Universal Pictures film serials
- Films directed by Ford Beebe
- Films directed by Alan James
- 1938 mystery films
- American mystery films
- 1930s American films
- English-language mystery films
- Mystery film stubs
- Comics film stubs