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A serial, or cliffhanger, was a popular form of movie entertainment that dated back to Edison's What Happened to Mary? of 1912. Usually filmed with low budgets, serials were action-packed stories that usually involved a hero or heroes battling an evil bad guy and rescuing a damsel in distress. The villain would continually place the hero into inescapable deathtraps and situations, or the heroine would be placed into a deathtrap and the hero would bravely come to her rescue, usually pulling her away from certain death only instants before she met her doom. The hero and heroine would face one trap after another, battling countless thugs and lackeys, before finally defeating the villain "once and for all"even though the villain would almost always get away at the end, to return at a future date.
From roughly 1935 to 1950, serials consisting of a dozen or more episodes of fifteen to twenty minutes each were a popular form of movie entertainment, and the form was best suited to action, adventure, and suspense stories. Typically, each episode would end with a cliffhanger.
The Great Alaskan Mystery 1944
Former
marine flyer Jim Hudson (Milburn Stone), sidekick Bosun (Edgar Kennedy), and the
lovely Ruth Miller (Marjorie Weaver) fight to retrieve a super-weapon stolen by
Nazi spies.
Director: Lewis D. Collins & Ray Taylor
Producer: Henry MacRae
Production Company: Universal Pictures
Audio/Visual: sound, black & white
13 Part Universal Serial - Former marine flyer Jim Hudson (Milburn Stone), sidekick Bosun (Edgar Kennedy), and the lovely Ruth Miller (Marjorie Weaver) fight to retrieve a super-weapon stolen by Nazi spies.
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