Sea Raiders (1941)

The Dead End Kids go after a gang known as the Sea Raiders, which is sinking Allied shipping.

Directors:

Ford Beebe, John Rawlins

Writers:

Clarence Upson Young (original screenplay), Paul Huston (original screenplay)

Stars:

Billy Halop, Huntz Hall, Gabriel Dell

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Billy Halop	...	Billy Adams
Huntz Hall	...	Toby Nelson
Gabriel Dell	...	Bilge
Bernard Punsly	...	Butch
Hal E. Chester	...	Swab (as Hally Chester)
Joe Recht	...	Lug
William Hall	...	Brack Warren
John McGuire	...	Tom Adams
Mary Field	...	Aggie Nelson
Edward Keane	...	Elliott Carlton [Chs. 1-7]
Marcia Ralston	...	Leah Carlton
Reed Hadley	...	Carl Tonjes
Stanley Blystone	...	Capt. Olaf Nelson
Richard Alexander	...	Jenkins
Ernie Adams	...	Zeke - Skipper of the 'Mary Lou'

Storyline

The Sea Raiders, a band of foreign agents, led by Carl Tonjes and Elliott Carlton, blow up a freighter on which Billy Adams and Toby Nelson are stowaways, seeking to avoid Brack Warren, a harbor patrol officer assigned to guard a new type of torpedo boat built by Billy's brother, Tom Adams. Intended targets or not, getting blown up does not set well with Billy and Toby and, together with their gang coupled with the members of the Little Tough Guys, they find the Sea Raiders' island hideout, investigate the seacoast underground arsenal of these saboteurs, get blasted from the air, dragged to their doom, become victims of the storm, entombed in a tunnel and even periled by a panther before they don the uniforms of some captured Sea Raiders and board a yacht that serves as headquarters for the Raiders.

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Plot Keywords:

gang | storm | island | victim | dead end kids | 

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Taglines:

SOCK-CRAMMED! SHOCK-CRAMMED! - Each chapter a cargo of death-defying thrills! (original posters)

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Genres:

Action | Adventure | Crime | War

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Certificate:

Approved

Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

14 October 1941 (USA)

Also Known As:

Os Piratas dos Mares das Trevas

Company Credits

Production Co:

Universal Pictures

Technical Specs

Runtime:

229 min 229 min (12 episodes)

Sound Mix:

Mono (Western Electric Mirrophonic Recording)

Color:

Black and White

Aspect Ratio:

1.37 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

Chapter Titles:

• 1. The Raiders Strikes (PCA #6781)
• 2. Flaming Torture (PCA #6782)
• 3. The Tragic Crash (PCA #6783)
• 4. The Raiders Strikes Again (PCA #6784)
• 5. Flames of Fury (PCA #6785)
• 6. Blasted From the Air(PCA #6786)
• 7. Victims of the Storm(PCA #6787)
• 8. Dragged To Their Doom(PCA #6788)
• 9. Battling the Sea Beast(PCA #6789)
• 10.Periled By a Panther(PCA #6790)
• 11.Entombed in the Tunnel(PCA #6791)
• 12. Paying the Penalty(PCA #6791)

User Reviews

Average Universal serial

Some good action sequences in this otherwise routine Universal serial. Fans of the "Dead End Kids" will get a kick out of it, especially all the ad-libbing. The Rossini classical music tracks heard periodically are wildly inappropriate.