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Danger Island (serial)
''Danger Island'' (1931) is a Universal pre-Code film serial. It is considered to be lost. Kenneth Harlan played Captain Drake (the hero), and Lucile Brown played heroine Bonnie Adams. The film also co-starred Andy Devine. Plot Bonnie Adams is told by her father Professor Adams on his death bed of his discovery of a radium deposit on an island off the coast of Africa. Ben Arnold and his girlfriend Aileen Chandos want the radium for themselves and befriend Bonnie for that purpose. The captain of the boat taking them to their destination, Harry Drake, falls in love with Bonnie en route. Cast * Kenneth Harlan as Harry Drake * Lucile Browne as Bonnie Adams * Tom Ricketts as Professor Adams * Walter Miller as Ben Arnold * William L. Thorne as Bull Black * Beulah Hutton as Aileen Calindos * Andy Devine as Briney * George Regas as Lascara * Everett Brown as Cebu Chapter titles # The Coast of Peril # Death Rides the Storm # Demons of the Pool # Devil Worshippers # Mutiny # The Ca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ray Taylor (director)
Raymond Edgar Taylor (1 December 1888 – 15 February 1952) was an American film director. He directed 159 films between 1926 in film, 1926 and 1949 in film, 1949. His List of directorial debuts, debut was the 1926 film serial ''Fighting with Buffalo Bill''. Ray Taylor was one of the few Hollywood directors who specialized in a single type of film: he was an action specialist. Many action directors would be called upon at one time or another to helm a mainstream drama, romance, or mystery, but Ray Taylor established himself early in westerns and action fare, and he worked in this capacity throughout his career. Even a brief tenure directing the campus-capers "Collegians" shorts for Universal Pictures, Universal was appropriate for Taylor, as these two-reel subjects often emphasized visual action. In the 1920s he worked for Twentieth Century-Fox, Fox as an assistant, and soon moved to Universal, where he was given a chance to direct. His effective staging of action scenes ear ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Film Serials
A list of film serials by year of release. 1910s 1920s 1930s Films still exist from this point on unless noted otherwise: 1940s 1950s See also * Serial (film) * List of film serials by studio References {{reflist External linksSerial Squadron * Serials |