The Great Alaskan Mystery

The Great Alaskan Mystery
Directed by Lewis D. Collins
Ray Taylor
Produced by Henry MacRae
Written by Jack Foley
George H. Plympton
Maurice Tombragel
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
Release dates
1944 (1944)
Running time
13 chapters (223 min)
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

James 'Jim' Hudson, an adventurer and accompanied by allies, goes after Nazi agents who have a new death ray called the Paratron...

Cast

Critical reception

Cline considers this to be a mediocre serial but possessing a good cast and all the necessary "ingredients" of a good serial.[1]

Chapter titles

  1. Shipwrecked Among Icebergs (18 min 03s)
  2. Thundering Doom (18 min 56s)
  3. Battle in the Clouds (17 min 02s)
  4. Masked Murder (17 min 32s)
  5. The Bridge of Disaster (17 min 46s)
  6. Shattering Doom (16 min 34s)
  7. Crashing Timbers (15 min 35s)
  8. In a Flaming Plane (17 min 24s)
  9. Hurtling Through Space (17 min 19s)
  10. Tricked by a Booby Trap (17 min 04s)
  11. The Tunnel of Terror (16 min 37s)
  12. Electrocuted (33 min 42s)
  13. The Boomerang (16 min 34s)

Source:[2]

See also

References

  1. 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.
  2. Cline, William C. (1984). "Filmography". In the Nick of Time. McFarland & Company, Inc. p. 237. ISBN 0-7864-0471-X.

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Preceded by
Adventures of the Flying Cadets (1943)
Universal Serial
The Great Alaskan Mystery (1944)
Succeeded by
Raiders of Ghost City (1944)


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