The read
A Balasaur Score of 57 out of 100, drawn from IMDb 5.9/10. It runs long at 3h 44m. Streaming on Tubi.
Synopsis
An internationally-notorious criminal scientist returns to the US to sell his latest invention, a disintegrating gas, to a foreign power. When he arrives, however, he is spotted by a young Coast Guard man, whom he kills - and thus earns the enmity of the entire US Coast Guard, but especially the murdered Guardsman's older brother who, together with his reporter-girlfriend and her comical photographer, vigorously sets to tracking him down and interfering with his plans to develop the city-melting gas in quantity. A Republic Serial in 12 Chapters.
Ratings
IMDb5.9/10
9 audience votes
Key crew
- William WitneyDirector
- Alan JamesDirector
- Franklin AdreonScreenplay
- Barry ShipmanScreenplay
Cast
- Bela LugosiBoroff
- Ralph ByrdLt. Terry Kent
- Maxine DoyleJean Norman
- Richard AlexanderThorg
- Lee FordSnapper McGee
- Herbert RawlinsonCmdr. Boyle
- John PicorriG.A. Rackerby [Chs. 2-12]
- Allen ConnorDick Norman
- Thomas CarrEns. Jim Kent [Ch. 1]
- Lawrence GrantRabinisi - Boroff's Spokesman at Screening [Ch. 1]
- Carleton YoungHenchman Dodds [Ch. 4]
- George ChesebroL.H. Degado - Chief Thug [Ch. 5]
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Themes
inventioncoast guardmad scientistmurdercriminal gangmovie serialforeign agentdisintegrating gasfemale reporteravenging brother