Radio Patrol (serial)

Radio Patrol
Cover of the 2009 DVD release.
Directed byFord Beebe
Clifford Smith
Written byWyndham Gittens
Norman S. Hall
Ray Trampe
Charlie Schmidt (comicstrip)
Eddie Sullivan (comicstrip)
Produced byBen Koenig
Barney A. Sarecky
StarringGrant Withers
Adrian Morris
Kay Hughes
CinematographyJerome Ash
Edited bySaul A. Goodkind (supervising)
Joseph Gluck
Louis Sackin
Alvin Todd
Distributed byUniversal Pictures
Release date
  • October 15, 1937 (1937-10-15) (U.S.)
Running time
12 chapters (242 minutes)
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Radio Patrol is a 1937 Universal movie serial based on the comic strip Radio Patrol.

Premise

Pat O' Hara, a police officer cop, joins forces with Molly Selkirk to try and stop an international criminal gang from getting their hands on the formula for a new flexible metal.

Cast

  • Grant Withers as Officer Pat O'Hara
  • Adrian Morris as Officer Sam Maloney
  • Kay Hughes as Molly Selkirk
  • Mickey Rentschler as Pinky Adams
  • Silver Wolf as Irish, the German Shepherd
  • Gordon Hart as W.H. Harrison
  • Frank Lackteen as Mr. Tahata/Warner the Great
  • C. Montague Shaw as Mr. Wellington
  • Harry Davenport as John P. Adams, inventor
  • Wheeler Oakman as Stevens, gang chemist
  • Max Hoffman Jr. as Harry Selkirk
  • Jack Mulhall as Desk Sergeant
  • Earl Dwire as Jeremiah Crockett
  • Leonard Lord as Franklin, the real Tahata
  • Dick Botiller as Zutta, a henchman
  • Tom London as Eddie Lewis (uncredited)
  • Ray Teal as Perkins (uncredited)

Production

Radio Patrol was based on the comic strip by Eddie Sullivan and Charles Schmidt.[1]

Stunts

  • George Magrill
  • Eddie Parker (doubling Grant Withers)
  • Tom Steele

Chapter titles

  1. A Million Dollar Murder
  2. The Hypnotic Eye
  3. Flaming Death
  4. The Human Clue
  5. The Flash of Doom
  6. The House of Terror
  7. Claws of Steel
  8. The Perfect Crime
  9. Plaything of Disaster
  10. A Bargain with Death
  11. The Hidden Menace
  12. They Get Their Man

Source:[2]

See also

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

References

  1. ↑ Cline, William C. (1984). "2. In Search of Ammunition". In the Nick of Time. McFarland & Company, Inc. pp. 18. ISBN 0-7864-0471-X.
  2. ↑ Cline, William C. (1984). "Filmography". In the Nick of Time. McFarland & Company, Inc. pp. 219. ISBN 0-7864-0471-X.


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