1941 Universal

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SEA RAIDERS CHAPTER 6

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

BLASTED FROM THE AIR

Chapter 6

BILLY (Billy Halop) and TOBY (Huntz Hall), trying desperately to clear themselves of the theft of the torpedo boat, succeed in exposed Elliot Charlton (Edward Keene) as head of the Sea Raiders.

BRACK WARREN (William Hall) boards the yacht to arrest Charlton, and he and Tom Adams (John McGuire), who with Captain Lester (Morgan Wallace) is also aboard, are attacked by Charlton's henceman.

DURING the fight, Captain Lester is knocked overboard. Billy and Toby rescue him and, reaching Lester's hydroplane attempt to stop the yacht, which is speeding out to sea . . . .