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Music director
  
Lee Zahler

Producer
  
Nat Levine

Language
  
English

6.2/10
IMDb

Genre
  
Action, Adventure

Screenplay
  
Al Martin

Duration
  

Country
  
United States

Burn Em Up Barnes movie poster

Director
  
Colbert Clark Armand Schaefer

Writer
  
Colbert Clark
,
Sherman L. Lowe
,
Al Martin
,
John Rathmell
,
Barney A. Sarecky
,
Armand Schaefer

Release date
  
June 16, 1934 (1934-06-16)

Directors
  
Armand Schaefer, Colbert Clark

Cast
  
Lola Lane
(Marjorie Temple),
Francis McDonald
(Ray Ridpath - Henchman),
Jack Mulhall
('Burn-'em-Up' Barnes),
Frankie Darro
(Bobbie Riley),
Edwin Maxwell
(Lyman Warren),
Jason Robards Sr.
(John Drummond)

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Burn 'Em Up Barnes is a 1934 American Pre-Code movie serial produced and distributed by Mascot Pictures, along with a feature version of the serial bearing the same title. It was a loose remake of the 1921 silent film of the same name.

Contents

Cast

  • Jack Mulhall as Burn-'em-Up Barnes, racing driver nicknamed the "King of the Dirt Track" and shortly the co-owner of the Temple Barnes Transportation school bus company
  • Frankie Darro as Bobbie Riley, Barnes' kid sidekick and ward following his brother's accidental death
  • Lola Lane as Marjorie Temple, owner of the Temple (later Temple Barnes) Transportation school bus company and land with a hidden wealth of oil
  • Julian Rivero as Tony, Marjorie's bumbling Italian-accented mechanic
  • Edwin Maxwell as Lyman Warren
  • Jason Robards as John Drummond, crooked race promoter who knows that Marjorie's land is really worth millions and will stop at nothing to get it
  • Francis McDonald as Ray Ridpath, villainous driver working for Drummond

    • Chapter titles

    1. King of the Dirt Tracks
    2. The Newsreel Murder
    3. The Phantom Witness
    4. The Celluloid Clue
    5. The Decoy Driver
    6. The Crimson Alibi
    7. Roaring Rails
    8. The Death Crash
    9. The Man Higher Up
    10. The Missing Link
    11. Surrounded
    12. The Fatal Whisper

    Source:

    DVD release

    Burn 'Em Up Barnes was released on Region 0 DVD by Alpha Video on November 27, 2007. A feature-length version of the serial was released on Region 0 DVD-R by Alpha Video on October 30, 2012, but this is not the same as the feature version originally prepared by Mascot Pictures; its origins are unknown. The 1921 silent version of the serial was released on Region 0 DVD-R by Alpha Video on July 7, 2015.

    References

    Burn 'Em Up Barnes Wikipedia
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    Burn Em Up Barnes IMDb Burn Em Up Barnes themoviedb.org