Universal Monsters Wiki
Register
Advertisement
The Green Hornet Strikes Again!
Directed by Ford Beebe
John Rawlins
Produced by Henry MacRae
Written by George H. Plympton
Basil Dickey
Sherman L. Lowe
Fred MacIsaac
Fran Striker (characters)
Starring Warren Hull
Keye Luke
Pierre Watkin
Anne Nagel
Wade Boteler
Eddie Acuff
Music by Charles Previn
Cinematography Jerome Ash
Editing by Saul A. Goodkind (supervising)
Joseph Gluck
Louis Sackin
Alvin Todd
Distributed by Universal Pictures
Release date(s) January 4, 1941 (1941-01-04)
Running time 15 chapters (293 min)[1]
Country United States
Language English

The Green Hornet Strikes Again! (1941) is a Universal movie serial based on The Green Hornet radio series by George W. Trendle and Fran Striker. It a sequel to the 1940 serial The Green Hornet. This was Universal's 117th serial (the 49th with sound) of the 137 the studio produced. The plot involves racketeering and is unusual for a film serial in having mostly stand alone episodes instead of a continuous story (although this was also the case for the original Green Hornet serial).[2]

Plot[]

The Green Hornet and his sidekick Kato face Boss Crogan and his varied rackets across the city.

Cast[]

  • Warren Hull as Britt Reid and his alterego The Green Hornet. Hull replaced Gordon Jones in this role and also provided the voice of the Hornet (instead of radio voice Al Hodge in the original serial).[3]
  • Wade Boteler as Michael Axford, Britt Reid's bodyguard
  • Anne Nagel as Lenore "Casey" Case, Britt Reid's secretary
  • Keye Luke as Kato, the Green Hornet's sidekick
  • Eddie Acuff as Ed Lowery, a reporter
  • Pierre Watkin (listed in the credits as "Pierre Watkins") as Boss Crogan, racketeer
  • James Seay as Bordine, one of Boss Crogan's henchmen
  • Arthur Loft as Tauer, Boss Crogan's chief henchman
  • Joe Devlin as Dolan, one of Boss Crogan's henchmen
  • William Hall as DeLuca, one of Boss Crogan's henchmen
  • Dorothy Lovett as Frances Grayson, an aluminum heiress, and Stella Merja, an actress hired to replace her

Chapter titles[]

Source:[4]

  1. Flaming Havoc
  2. The Plunge of Peril
  3. The Avenging Heavens
  4. A Night of Terror
  5. Shattering Doom
  6. The Fatal Flash
  7. Death in the Clouds
  8. Human Targets
  9. The Tragic Crash
  10. Blazing Fury
  11. Thieves of the Night
  12. Crashing Barriers
  13. The Flaming Inferno
  14. Racketeering Vultures
  15. Smashing the Crime Ring

References[]

External links[]


Th UniversalMonsters This page uses content from Wikipedia. The original article was at The Green Hornet Strikes Again!.
The list of authors can be seen in the page history. As with Universal Monsters Wiki, the text of Wikipedia is available under the GNU Free Documentation License.
Advertisement