An adventurer goes after Nazi spies who have a new death ray called the Paratron.An adventurer goes after Nazi spies who have a new death ray called the Paratron.An adventurer goes after Nazi spies who have a new death ray called the Paratron.
Jack Rube Clifford
- Agent Dunn, Posing as Trapper [Ch. 1]
- (as Jack Clifford)
Tom Keene
- Burger [Ch. 11]
- (as Richard Powers)
Joel Allen
- Bob
- (uncredited)
Ray Bennett
- Henchman
- (uncredited)
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- TriviaChapter Titles: 1. Shipwrecked Among Icebergs 2. Thundering Doom 3. Battle in the Clouds 4. Masked Murder. 5. The Bridge of Disaster 6. Shattering Doom 7. Crashing Timbers 9. Hurtling Through Space 10. Tricked by a Booby Trap 11. The Tunnel of Terror 12. Electrocuted 13. The Boomerang
- GoofsIn Chapter: 13; henchmen cover their eyes before the flash from the unexpected grenade explosion.
- Quotes
Ruth Miller: [Ch. 13] Did you expect him to be wearing a Stormtroopers uniform?
- Crazy creditsOpening title is composed of snowflakes.
- ConnectionsEdited from The White Hell of Pitz Palu (1929)
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Doc from Gunsmoke makes a very beat-up action hero
The Great Alaskan Mystery isn't the greatest of serials, but it is certainly far from the worst. The animated title card at the beginning is a nice touch by Universal, which did the same for The Mystery of the Riverboat.
Milburn Stone has to be the most beat-up, bruised, drowned, shot and has been in the most near-death truck plunges of any action hero in any serial. The story notes that to begin with his character is a wounded soldier returning home. Martin Kosleck makes a great scientist/bad guy, though he does not quite yet have the evil glee that he threw into those roles in later years (such as in The Flesh Eaters). Edgar Kennedy is almost unrecognizable, but provides some nice comic touches. The rest of the cast is pretty unremarkable, except for Anthony Warde, who delivers his usual solid performance as the main henchman.
There are a lot of nice visuals in this serial, though many are obviously stock footage. There are also a number of really bad cliffhangers...the kind in which you know there is no bloody way the hero is going to survive. That doesn't necessarily detract from the chapterplay as a whole, since by the time the worst one happens (involving a falling mine elevator and a crate of dynamite) you already know that Milburn Stone's character can really take the punishment.
Milburn Stone has to be the most beat-up, bruised, drowned, shot and has been in the most near-death truck plunges of any action hero in any serial. The story notes that to begin with his character is a wounded soldier returning home. Martin Kosleck makes a great scientist/bad guy, though he does not quite yet have the evil glee that he threw into those roles in later years (such as in The Flesh Eaters). Edgar Kennedy is almost unrecognizable, but provides some nice comic touches. The rest of the cast is pretty unremarkable, except for Anthony Warde, who delivers his usual solid performance as the main henchman.
There are a lot of nice visuals in this serial, though many are obviously stock footage. There are also a number of really bad cliffhangers...the kind in which you know there is no bloody way the hero is going to survive. That doesn't necessarily detract from the chapterplay as a whole, since by the time the worst one happens (involving a falling mine elevator and a crate of dynamite) you already know that Milburn Stone's character can really take the punishment.
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By what name was The Great Alaskan Mystery (1944) officially released in Canada in English?
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