The Hurricane Express
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| The Hurricane Express | |
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| Directed by | Armand Schaeffer J.P. McGowan |
| Written by | Colbert Clark Barney Sarecky Wyndham Gittens George Morgan J.P. McGowan |
| Starring | John Wayne Tully Marshall Conway Tearle |
| Distributed by | Mascot Pictures |
| Release date(s) | 1932 |
| Running time | 12 chapters (227 min) |
| Country |  United States |
| Language | English |
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The Hurricane Express is a 1932 12-episode film serial that stars John Wayne as an airplane pilot who goes after a man named "The Wrecker" who caused a train crash that killed his father.
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[edit] Plot
The character known as "The Wrecker" causes the same train (The Hurricane Express) to crash so that he can steal a shipment of gold that it's carrying. Another character (Frank Stratton) working with John Wayne's character steals the gold shipment himself and keeps it as leverage so that evidence that clears him of a past crime comes out into the open. The manager of the railroad company that owns the Hurricane Express along with numerous other characters is killed in the film. It is revealed at the end of the film that the character named Stevens, who was the railroad manager's right hand man, was The Wrecker. Frank Stratton and Mr. Gray (the airline manager) merge the railroad and airline companies and John Wayne's character is back with the company as the chief pilot.
[edit] Cast & Crew
Starring John Wayne, Tully Marshall, Conway Tearle, Shirley Gray, Edmund Breese, Lloyd Whitlock, Al Bridge, Mathew Betz, Joseph Girard, James Burtis, Ernie S. Adams, Charles King, J. Farrell MacDonald, Al Ferguson, and Glenn Strange
Written by Colbert Clark, Barney Sarecky, Wyndham Gittens, George Morgan, and J.P. McGowan
Directed by Armand Schaeffer and J.P. McGowan[1]
[edit] Chapter titles
- The Wrecker
- Flying Pirates
- The Masked Menace
- Buried Alive
- Danger Lights
- The Airport Mystery
- Sealed Lips
- Outside the Law
- The Invincible Army
- The Wrecker's Secret
- Wings of Death
- Unmasked
[edit] References
- ^ Names were taken from the title screen of the Hurricane Express
[edit] External links
- The Hurricane Express at the Internet Movie Database
- Dr Hermes Review of The Hurricane Express
- The Hurricane Express at Todd Gault's Movie Serial Experience
- The Serial Squadron
| Preceded by The Last of the Mohicans (1932) |
Mascot Serial The Hurricane Express(1932) |
Succeeded by The Devil Horse (1932) |
