1941 Universal

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SEA RAIDERS CHAPTER 3

Lobby Card Set

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

THE TRAGIC CRASH

Chapter 3

BILLY (Billy Halop) and TOBY (Huntz Hall), convinced they can square themselves with Brack Warren (William Hall) by recovering the stolen blue prints of Tom Adams' (John McGuire) torpedo boat, steal aboard Captain Nelson's (Stanley Blystone) fishing barge to search for them.

DISCOVERD by the crew, the boys jump into Nelson's speed boat and escape to their hideout.

But SWAB (Hally Chester), an unwanted member of Billy's gang, betrays them, and the waterfront police, headed by Brack Warren, raid their hideout. While attempting to elude Warren in Nelson's speed boat . . . .