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Director
  
Sam Nelson

Sequel
  
Overland with Kit Carson

Cinematography
  
Benjamin H. Kline

Language
  
English

7/10
IMDb

Genre
  
Action, Adventure

Music director
  
Morris Stoloff

Duration
  

Country
  
United States

Mandrake the Magician (serial) movie poster

Writer
  
Joseph F. Poland
,
Basil Dickey
,
Ned Dandy
,
Phil Davis
,
Lee Falk

Release date
  
7 December 1939

Cast
  
Warren Hull
(Mandrake the Magician),
Doris Weston
(Betty Houston),
Al Kikume
(Lothar),
Rex Downing
(Tommy Houston),
Edward Earle
(Dr. Andre Bennett),
Forbes Murray
(Professor Houston)

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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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Tagline
  
BLACK MAGIC Conjures Up A Holocaust Of Thrills!

Mandrake the Magician (1939) is the seventh serial released by Columbia Pictures. It was based upon the comic strip of the same name.

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Plot

Mandrake and his assistant Lothar are working the cruise lines and make the acquaintance of Professor Houston who has developed a radium energy machine, which is much coveted by a masked Crime Lord known as "The Wasp". The Wasp unleashes his army of accomplices in waves to steal the invention by any means necessary. Mandrake and his allies finally catch up to "The Wasp" and discover the crime lord is actually a scientist who posed as a close friend of Houston's.

Cast

  • Warren Hull as Mandrake the Magician
  • Doris Weston as Betty Houston
  • Al Kikume as Lothar, Mandrake's Assistant
  • Rex Downing as Tommy Houston
  • Edward Earle as Dr. Andre Bennett/the Wasp
  • Forbes Murray as Professor Houston
  • Kenneth MacDonald as James Webster
  • Don Beddoe as Frank Raymond
  • Dick Curtis as Dorgan, a henchman
  • John Tyrrell as Dirk, the "spearpoint heavy" (chief henchman)

    • Chapter titles

    1. Shadow on the Wall
    2. Trap of the Wasp
    3. City of Terror
    4. The Secret Passage
    5. The Devil's Playmate
    6. The Fatal Crash
    7. Gamble for Life
    8. Across the Deadline
    9. Terror Rides the Rails
    10. The Unseen Monster
    11. At the Stroke of Eight
    12. The Reward of Treachery

    Source:

    References

    Mandrake the Magician (serial) Wikipedia
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    Mandrake the Magician (serial) IMDb Mandrake the Magician (serial) themoviedb.org