| The Great Alaskan Mystery | |
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| Directed by | Lewis D. Collins Ray Taylor |
| Written by | Jack Foley George H. Plympton Maurice Tombragel |
| Produced by | Henry MacRae |
| Starring | Milburn Stone Marjorie Weaver Edgar Kennedy Samuel S. Hinds Martin Kosleck Ralph Morgan |
| Cinematography | Harry Neumann William A. Sickner |
| Edited by | Irving Birnbaum Jack Dolan Ace Herman Alvin Todd Edgar Zane |
| Distributed by | Universal Pictures |
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| Running time | 13 chapters (223 minutes) |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
The Great Alaskan Mystery is a 1944 Universal film serial about government agents trying to stop Nazi spies from getting their hands on futuristic weapons.
Plot
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James 'Jim' Hudson, an adventurer and accompanied by allies, goes after Nazi agents who have a new death ray called the Paratron...
Cast
- Milburn Stone as Jim Hudson
- Marjorie Weaver as Ruth Miller
- Edgar Kennedy as Bosun Higgins
- Samuel S. Hinds as Herman Brock
- Martin Kosleck as Dr Hauss
- Ralph Morgan as Dr Miller
- Joseph Crehan as Bill Hudson
- Fuzzy Knight as "Grit" Hartman
- Harry Cording as Captain Greeder
- Anthony Warde as Brandon
Critical reception
The author of a book on movie serials, William C. Cline, considers this to be a mediocre serial but possessing a good cast and all the necessary "ingredients" of a good serial.
Chapter titles
- Shipwrecked Among Icebergs (18 min 03s)
- Thundering Doom (18 min 56s)
- Battle in the Clouds (17 min 02s)
- Masked Murder (17 min 32s)
- The Bridge of Disaster (17 min 46s)
- Shattering Doom (16 min 34s)
- Crashing Timbers (15 min 35s)
- In a Flaming Plane (17 min 24s)
- Hurtling Through Space (17 min 19s)
- Tricked by a Booby Trap (17 min 04s)
- The Tunnel of Terror (16 min 37s)
- Electrocuted (17 min 42s)
- The Boomerang (16 min 34s)
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See also
- List of American films of 1944
- List of film serials by year
- List of film serials by studio
- List of films in the public domain in the United States
References
- Cline, William C. (1984). "3. The Six Faces of Adventure". In the Nick of Time. McFarland & Company, Inc. p. 50. ISBN 0-7864-0471-X.
- Cline, William C. (1984). "Filmography". In the Nick of Time. McFarland & Company, Inc. p. 237. ISBN 0-7864-0471-X.
External links
Download or view online
- Great Alaskan Mystery at The Internet Archive (several formats available)
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| Preceded byAdventures of the Flying Cadets (1943) | Universal Serial The Great Alaskan Mystery (1944) |
Succeeded byRaiders of Ghost City (1944) |
| Films directed by Ray Taylor | |
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- 1944 films
- American World War II films
- World War II films made in wartime
- American black-and-white films
- 1940s English-language films
- Universal Pictures film serials
- Films directed by Lewis D. Collins
- Films directed by Ray Taylor
- 1944 adventure films
- American adventure films
- Films about Nazis
- Films with screenplays by George H. Plympton
- English-language adventure films
- Adventure film stubs