Red Barry (serial)

Red Barry
Directed byFord Beebe
Alan James
Written byNorman S. Hall
Ray Trampe
Will Gould (comic strip)
Produced byHenry MacRae
Barney A. Sarecky (associate)
StarringBuster Crabbe
Edna Sedgewick
Frances Robinson
Cyril Delevanti
Frank Lackteen
CinematographyJerome Ash
Edited bySaul A. Goodkind
Louis Sackin
Alvin Todd
Music byCharles Previn
Distributed byUniversal Pictures
Release date
  • 1938 (1938)
Running time
13 chapters (256 minutes)
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Red Barry is a 1938 13-chapter Universal movie serial based on the comic strip Red Barry by Will Gould.[1]

Plot

An undercover police detective sets out to discover who stole $2 million in bonds.

Cast

  • 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

Source:[2]

  1. Millions for Defense
  2. The Curtain Falls
  3. The Decoy
  4. High Stakes
  5. Desperate Chances
  6. The Human Target
  7. Midnight Tragedy
  8. The Devil's Disguise
  9. Between Two Fires
  10. The False Trail
  11. Heavy Odds
  12. The Enemy Within
  13. Mission of Mercy

See also

  • List of film serials
  • List of film serials by studio

References

Notes

  1. 1 2 Cline, "2. In Search of Ammunition," p. 18.
  2. Cline, "Filmography," p. 222

Sources consulted

  • 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)


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