Starring John Hart, Rosemary La Planche, Claire James, Joe Brown, Pierre Watkin
Directed by Wallace Fox
(actor & director credits courtesy IMDB.com)
The heroic Jack Armstrong and his friends trace a kidnapped scientist to a South Seas island, from where an evil mastermind is plotting to dominate the world.
I enjoyed this movie serial from Columbia Pictures, based on the radio series Jack Armstrong, The All-American Boy, and infused with sci-fi elements including a death ray and spaceship. Charles Middleton, best known as Ming The Merciless in the Flash Gordon serials, is good as the villain, although strangely uncredited in each chapter's cast listing. Comparatively, John Hart, as Armstrong, is a rather bland hero, but the stuntwork on display is pretty nice, and I liked the supporting cast, including Watkin, later to play Perry White in the Superman serials, and Brown, offering some silly humor as the dim-witted and perpetually hungry Billy Fairfield.
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