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Produced by
  
Henry MacRae

Cinematography
  
Jerome Ash

Directors
  
Ford Beebe, John Rawlins

Producer
  
Henry MacRae

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Music by
  
Charles Previn

Initial release
  
1940

Music director
  
Charles Previn

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Directed by
  
Ford Beebe John Rawlins

Starring
  
Billy Halop Huntz Hall Gabriel Dell Bernard Punsly Ken Lundy

Edited by
  
Saul A. Goodkind (supervising) Joseph Gluck Louis Sackin Alvin Todd

Written by
  
George H. Plympton, Basil Dickey, Rex Taylor

Cast
  
Huntz Hall, Billy Halop, Gabriel Dell, Bernard Punsly

Similar
  
Junior G‑Men of the Air, Winners of the West, The Spell of the Circus, Sky Raiders, Red Barry

Junior G-Men (1940) is a Universal film serial. It was Universal's 116th serial (and the 48th with sound) of their total of output of 137. It is one of the three serials starring "The Dead End Kids and Little Tough Guys" who were under contract to Universal at the time. The plot is a pre-World War II G-Man story about fifth columnists in the United States, with the FBI joining forces with children to save the country.

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A group of saboteurs called the "Order of the Flaming Torch" who are trying to undermine the "social order" of the United States kidnaps several prominent scientists, including the father of a local street gang member. The gang team up with the FBI and the "Junior G-Men" in order to stop the saboteurs.

The Dead End Kids and the Little Tough Guys

  • Billy Halop as Billy Barton
  • Huntz Hall as Gyp
  • Gabriel Dell as Terry
  • Bernard Punsly as Lug
  • Ken Lundy as Buck
  • Harris Berger as Sailor (uncredited)
  • Hally Chester as Murph, a Junior-G Man (uncredited)

    • Additional Cast

  • Kenneth Howell as Harry Trent
  • Roger Daniels as Midge
  • Phillip Terry as Jim Bradford
  • Russell Hicks as Colonel Robert Barton
  • Cy Kendall as Brand
  • Ben Taggart as Captain Severn
  • Victor Zimmerman as Al Corey, a thug
  • Edgar Edwards as Henchman Evans
  • Gene Rizzi as Henchman Foster
  • Florence Halop as Mary

    • Stunts

  • Dave Sharpe doubled Billy Halop as Billy Barton.

    • Chapter titles

    1. Enemies Within
    2. The Blast of Doom
    3. Human Dynamite
    4. Blazing Danger
    5. Trapped by Traitors
    6. Traitors' Treachery
    7. Flaming Death
    8. Hurled Through Space
    9. The Plunge of Peril
    10. The Toll of Treason
    11. Descending Doom
    12. The Power of Patriotism

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    References

    Junior G-Men (serial) Wikipedia
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