The Adventures of Smilin Jack (serial)
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Screenplay Morgan Cox Duration Language English | 7.4/10 IMDb Genre Action, Adventure, War Country United States | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Release date 1943 (1943) Cast (Smilin Jack Martin), (Janet Thompson), (Capt Wing), (Tommy Thompson), (Gertrude Muller - aka Fraulein Von Teufel) Similar movies The Green Archer , Mysterious Doctor Satan , Son of Zorro , The Phantom Rider , Zorro's Fighting Legion , The Fighting Devil Dogs |
The Adventures of Smilin' Jack (1943) is a Universal movie serial based on the comic strip The Adventures of Smilin' Jack.
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Plot
In 1941, an American aviator, 'Smilin' Jack' Martin wishes to resign as an advisor to the Nationalist Chinese Army in order to return to the United States to enlist as an aviator in America's military buildup prior to the attack on Pearl Harbor. He is delayed when the Chinese discover that the neutral Tibetan like Mandon "Province" contains a secret road from India to China crucial for the Allied war effort. Determined to obtain the secret for themselves, or equally determined to have the secret destroyed is the Japanese espionage organisation "The Black Samurai" and the German intelligence agent Fräulein von Teufel who masquerades as an American newspaper reporter.
Cast
Production
The serial was based on the comic strip by Zack Moseley but it was not in the spirit of the strip as would normally be expected from a Universal production. Very little of the original comic strip was used and a new character, Tommy Thompson, was created by Universal. The similarity to Tommy Tomkins, of the Tailspin Tommy stories, may imply a crossover of sorts. Cline suggests that it was "a quick attempt to get a story on screen about a topical subject, and could have had almost any flyer with any name as a hero.”
Chapter titles
- The High Road to Doom
- The Rising Sun Strikes
- Attacked by Bombers
- Knives of Vengeance
- A Watery Grave
- Escape by Clipper
- Fifteen Fathoms Below
- Treachery at Sea
- The Bridge of Peril
- Blackout in the Islands
- Held for Treason
- The Torture Fire Test
- Sinking the Rising Sun
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Quotes
United Nations means united friends-Capt. Wing
References
The Adventures of Smilin' Jack (serial) WikipediaThe Adventures of Smilin Jack (serial) IMDb The Adventures of Smilin Jack (serial) themoviedb.org