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Scouts to the Rescue
Directed by Alan James
Ray Taylor
Produced by Henry MacRae
Written by Irving Crump
Wyndham Gittens
George H. Plympton
Basil Dickey
Joseph F. Poland
Starring Jackie Cooper
David Durand
Bill Cody, Jr.
Vondell Darr
William Ruhl
Music by Charles Previn
Cinematography William A. Sickner
Editing by Saul A. Goodkind
Irving Birnbaum
Joseph Gluck
Louis Sackin
Alvin Todd
Distributed by Universal Pictures
Release date(s) 5 November 1939
Running time 12 chapters (231 min)
Country US flag 49 stars.svg [[|]]
Language English

Scouts to the Rescue (1939) is a Universal film serial.

Plot[]

A troop of boy scouts use a treasure map to find a stash of counterfeit notes and a lost tribe with a secret Radium deposit.

Cast[]

  • Jackie Cooper as Bruce Scott, leader of the Scout Troop
  • David Durand as Rip Rawson
  • Bill Cody, Jr. as Skeets Scanlon
  • Vondell Darr as Mary Scanlon
  • William Ruhl as Hal Marvin, a G-Man on the trail of the counterfeiters
  • Sidney Miller as Hermie, a boy scout
  • Ivan Miller as Turk Mortensen
  • Edwin Stanley as Pat Scanlon
  • Ralph Dunn as Pug O'Toole, a gangster
  • George Regas as Lukolu, high priest of the lost tribe
  • Jack Mulhall as Scoutmaster Hale
  • Jason Robards, Sr. as Doc, a gangster
  • Dick Botiller as Leeka, Leader of Warriors
  • Victor Adams as Hurst, a heavy
  • Max Wagner as Joe, a henchman


Chapter titles[]

  1. Death Rides the Air
  2. Avalanche of Doom
  3. Trapped by the Indians
  4. River of Doom
  5. Descending Doom
  6. Ghost Town Menace
  7. Destroyed by Dynamite
  8. Thundering Hoofs [sic]
  9. The Fire God Strikes
  10. The Battle at Ghost Town
  11. Hurtling Through Space
  12. The Boy Scouts' Triumph

Source:[1]

See also[]

References[]

  1. Cline, William C.. "Filmography". In the Nick of Time. McFarland & Company, Inc.. pp. 223. ISBN 0-7864-0471-X. 

External links[]

Preceded by
Red Barry (1938)
Universal Serial
Scouts to the Rescue (1939)
Succeeded by
Buck Rogers (1939)
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