Mandrake the Magician (1939)

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
	Warren Hull	...	Mandrake the Magician
	Doris Weston	...	Betty Houston
	Al Kikume	...	Lothar, Mandrake's Assistant
	Rex Downing	...	Tommy Houston
	Edward Earle	...	Dr. Andre Bennett
	Forbes Murray	...	Professor Houston
	Kenneth MacDonald	...	James Webster
	Don Beddoe	...	Frank Raymond
	Dick Curtis	...	Dorgan - Thug (Chs. 6-8)
	John Tyrrell	...	Dirk, lead thug
	Stanley Brown	...	Green, thug [Chs. 1, 2, 4]
	Beatrice Curtis	...	Rest Home Nurse [Chs. 3,10]
	Robert Sterling	...	Henchman
	Sam Ash	...	George Regan, hypnotist [Chs. 3-5]
	Lester Dorr	...	Gray, gas station thug [Chs. 8-9]

Storyline

Columbia's 7th serial (between Flying G-Men and Overland With Kit Carson)was based on the King Features newspaper comic strip created by Lee Falk and Phil Davis, Mandrake the Magician, the world's foremost exponent of mind over matter, although most of us who read the strip over the years were never really certain whether Mandrake was really a magician, or just had even more ability to cloud men's minds than the Shadow. The serial does allow Mandrake to discard his tie and tails when he isn't performing professionally, but out of his top hat and cloak, he is mainly a fist-slugging detective in this serial. Mandrake and Luthor are working the cruise lines and meet Professor Hudson who has developed a radium energy machine, which is much coveted by "The Wasp", who sends his hordes of henchmen in waves to steal the invention, and they blow up a radio station, a power plant and a dam pdq just to show they mean business... Written by Les Adams <longhorn1939@suddenlink.net>  

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