1941 Universal

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SEA RAIDERS CHAPTER 7

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

VICTIMS OF THE STORM

Chapter 7

ELLIOT CHARLTON (Edward Keene) grants the tearful plea of his daughter, Leah (Marcia Ralston), and sends Tom Adams (John McGuire) and Brack Warren (William Hall) adrift in a lifeboard.

CARL TONJEA (Reed Hedley), Charlton's chief lieutenant, furious over the release of the prisoners, destroys the lifeboat and kills Charlton.

BILLY (Billy Halop) and TOBY (Huntz Hall) rescue Tom and Brack in Tom's torpedo boat.

BILLY, TOBY, BUTCH (Bernard Punsly) and BILGE (Gabriel Dell) follow one of Nelson's hencemen aboard an old schooner and are shanghaied by Nelson, who puts out to sea in a terrific storm and . . . .