Junior G-Men (1940)
1940 · Short film · 35 min · dir. Ford Beebe
12 Chapters of Super-Thrills!
- Adventure
- Crime
- Action
Synopsis
A gang of urban street kids and a club of suburban would-be federal agents, at first rivals, join forces to rescue the father of one of the kids, the inventor of a super-explosive and its remote detonator, from the clutches of a band of foreign subversives call the "Flaming Torch Gang". A 12-episode movie serial with the chapters: •1. Enemies Within •2. The Blast of Doom •3. Human Dynamite •4. Blazing Danger •5. Trapped By Traitors •6. Traitors' Treachery •7. Flaming Death •8. Hurled Through Space •9. The Plunge of Peril •10.The Toll of Treason •11.Descending Doom •12.The Power of Patriotism
Synopsis from TMDb
Details
- Director
- Ford Beebe
- Writer
- Basil Dickey
- Studio
- Universal Pictures
- Released
- 1940-11-01
- Running time
- 35 minutes
- Language
- English
Subjects on the Internet Archive
- G-Men
- 1940
- drama
Cast & crew
Ford Beebe Director
Billy Halop
Huntz Hall
Gabriel Dell
Bernard Punsly- Ken Lundy
Kenneth Howell
Roger Daniel
Phillip Terry
Reviews on the Internet Archive
★★★ · Junior G Men · terracesider · 2006-06-30
I found the first couple of episodes quite hard work but then, after the characters had been established, it suddenly became fun to watch, despite the regular audio sync problems. Overall, I think it is well worth viewing, if only as a period piece.