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Sky Raiders
Directed by Ford Beebe
Ray Taylor
Produced by Henry MacRae
Written by Eliot Gibbons
Clarence Upson Young
Paul Huston
Starring Donald Woods
Billy Halop
Robert Armstrong
Eduardo Ciannelli
Kathryn Adams
Music by Charles Previn
Cinematography Jerome Ash
William A. Sickner
Editing by Saul A. Goodkind (supervisor)
Joseph Gluck
Louis Sackin
Alvin Todd
Distributed by Universal Pictures
Release date(s) 8 April 1941
Running time 12 chapters (227 min)
Country File:Flag of the United States.svg United States
Language English

Sky Raiders (1941) is a Universal film serial.

Plot[]

Captain Dayton, owner of Sky Raiders, Inc., has invented a new fighter plane and bomb sight. Nazi agent Felix Lynx attempts to steal these inventions for his own country. Dayton recruits young Tim Bryant, a member of Air Youth of America, to help him.

Cast[]

  • Donald Woods as Captain Bob Dayton / John Kane, World War I ace and co-owner of Sky Raiders, Inc.
  • Billy Halop as Tim Bryant, member of the Air Youth of America
  • Robert Armstrong as Leiutenant Ed Carey, co-owner of Sky Raiders, Inc.
  • Eduardo Ciannelli as Felix Lynx, Nazi agent
  • Kathryn Adams as Mary Blake, Sky Raiders, Inc.'s secretary
  • Jacqueline Dalya as Innis Clair
  • Jean Fenwick as The Countess Irene
  • Reed Hadley as Caddens, one of Lynx's henchmen
  • Irving Mitchell as R.S. Hinchfield
  • Edgar Edwards as Teal, one of Lynx's henchmen
  • John Holland as Hess, one of Lynx's henchmen
  • Roy Gordon as Major General Fletcher
  • Alex Callam as Captain Long
  • Phil Warren as Bakeman, the crackpot with gun
  • Bill Cody, Jr. as Jack Hurd, a young boy

Production[]

Stunts[]

  • Dave O'Brien
  • Tom Steele
  • Ken Terrell

Chapter titles[]

  1. Wings of Disaster!
  2. Death Rides the Storm
  3. The Toll of Treachery
  4. Battle in the Clouds
  5. The Fatal Blast
  6. Stark Terror!
  7. Flaming Doom
  8. The Plunge of Peril
  9. Torturing Trials
  10. Flash of Fate
  11. Terror of the Storm
  12. Winning Warriors!

Source:[1]

See also[]

References[]

  1. Cline, William C.. "Filmography". In the Nick of Time. McFarland & Company, Inc.. pp. pp. 229. ISBN 0-7864-0471-X. 

External links[]

Preceded by
The Green Hornet Strikes Again! (1941)
Universal Serial
Sky Raiders (1941)
Succeeded by
Riders of Death Valley (1941)
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