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Mystery of the River Boat
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Directed by Lewis D. Collins
Ray Taylor
Produced by Henry MacRae
Written by Ande Lamb
Maurice Tombragel
Starring Robert Lowery
Eddie Quillan
Marion Martin
Marjorie Clements
Lyle Talbot
Arthur Hohl
Music by Paul Sawtell
Cinematography William A. Sickner
Editing by Irving Birnbaum
Jack Dolan
Ace Herman
Alvin Todd
Edgar Zane
Distributed by Universal Pictures
Release date(s) 24 October 1944
Running time 13 chapters (218 min)
Country United States
Language English

Mystery of the River Boat (1944) is a Universal movie serial.

Cast[]

  • Robert Lowery as Steve Langtry
  • Eddie Quillan as Jug Jenks
  • Marion Martin as Celeste Eltree, river boat singer
  • Marjorie Clements as Jenny Perrin, Captain Perrin's daughter
  • Lyle Talbot as Rudolph Toller, foreign agent
  • Arthur Hohl as Clayton
  • Oscar O'Shea as Captain Ethan Perrin, captain of the river boat The Morning Glory
  • Francis McDonald as Batiste
  • Mantan Moreland as Napoleon, ship steward
  • Eddy Waller as Charles Langtry
  • Ian Wolfe as Herman Einreich, villainous land speculator
  • Byron Foulger as Dr. H. Hartman
  • Earle Hodgins as Jean Duval
  • Anthony Warde as Bruno Bloch
  • Alec Craig as the Chief Engineer

Production[]

Stunts[]

  • John Daheim doubling Robert Lowery
  • Carey Loftin doubling Robert Lowery
  • Eddie Parker doubling Dick Curtis
  • Tom Steele doubling Arthur Hohl

Critical reception[]

Cline considers this to be an average serial but one with a good cast and all the necessary "ingredients" of a good serial.[1]

Chapter titles[]

  1. The Tragic Crash
  2. The Phantom Killer
  3. The Flaming Inferno
  4. The Brink of Doom
  5. The Highway of Peril
  6. The Fatal Plunge
  7. The Toll of the Storm
  8. The Break in the Levee
  9. Trapped in the Quicksands
  10. Flaming Havoc
  11. Electrocuted
  12. Risking Death
  13. The Boomerang

Source:[2]

See also[]

References[]

  1. Cline, William C. (1984). "3. The Six Faces of Adventure". In the Nick of Time. McFarland & Company, Inc.. pp. 50. ISBN 0-7864-0471-X. 
  2. Cline, William C. (1984). "Filmography". In the Nick of Time. McFarland & Company, Inc.. pp. 238. ISBN 0-7864-0471-X. 

External links[]

Preceded by
Raiders of Ghost City (1944)
Universal Serial
Mystery of the River Boat (1944)
Succeeded by
Jungle Queen (1945)


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