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SEA RAIDERS CHAPTER 1

Sea Raiders was not Rereleased

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Sea Raiders is a 1941 Universal film serial. It was Universal's 120th serial (and the 52th with sound) of their total of output of 172. The serial is one of the three serials starring "The Dead End Kids and Little Tough Guys" who were under contract to Universal at the time. This was the teens stars' second of three serials, between Junior G-Men (1940) and Junior G-Men of the Air (1942). The plot of concerns the heroes foiling Nazi attacks on American shipping.

PLOT:

The Sea Raiders, a band of foreign agents, led by Carl Tonjes, and secretly by Elliott Carlton, blow up a freighter on which Billy Adams and Toby Nelson have stowed away 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.

CHAPTER TITLES:

  1. The Raider Strikes

  2. Flaming Torture

  3. The Tragic Crash

  4. The Raider Strikes Again

  5. Flames of Fury

  6. Blasted from the Air

  7. Victims of the Storm

  8. Dragged to Their Doom

  9. Battling the Sea Beast

  10. Periled by a Panther

  11. Entombed in the Tunnel

  12. Paying the Penalty

Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12

THE RAIDER STRIKES

Chapter 1

BILLY ADAMS (Billy Halop) and his pal, Toby Nelson (Huntz Hall), leaders of a gang of tough waterfront boys, arouse the ire of wharf detective Brack Warren (William Hall) and Billy's older brother Tom (John McGuire), who threaten to banish them from the ocean to the desert.

TO escape being sent away from the ocean they so dearly love, Billy and his friends attempt to over take and board the freighter "Dolphin", unaware it has run into a timebomb device planted by Captain Nelson (Stanley Blystone), Toby's uncle, who secretly works for Elliot Carlton (Edward Keene), the mysterious Sea Raider . . . .