1941 Universal

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SEA RAIDERS CHAPTER 9

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Sea Raiders is a 1941 Universal film serial. It was Universal's 120th serial (and the 52th with sound) of their total of output of 172. The serial is one of the three serials starring "The Dead End Kids and Little Tough Guys" who were under contract to Universal at the time. This was the teens stars' second of three serials, between Junior G-Men (1940) and Junior G-Men of the Air (1942). The plot of concerns the heroes foiling Nazi attacks on American shipping.

PLOT:

The Sea Raiders, a band of foreign agents, led by Carl Tonjes, and secretly by Elliott Carlton, blow up a freighter on which Billy Adams and Toby Nelson have stowed away to avoid Brack Warren, a harbor patrol officer assigned to guard a new type of torpedo boat built by Billy's brother, Tom Adams. Intended targets or not, getting blown up does not set well with Billy and Toby and, together with their gang coupled with the members of the Little Tough Guys, they find the Sea Raiders' island hideout, investigate the seacoast underground arsenal of these saboteurs, get blasted from the air, dragged to their doom, become victims of the storm, entombed in a tunnel and even periled by a panther before they don the uniforms of some captured Sea Raiders and board a yacht that serves as headquarters for the Raiders.

CHAPTER TITLES:

  1. The Raider Strikes

  2. Flaming Torture

  3. The Tragic Crash

  4. The Raider Strikes Again

  5. Flames of Fury

  6. Blasted from the Air

  7. Victims of the Storm

  8. Dragged to Their Doom

  9. Battling the Sea Beast

  10. Periled by a Panther

  11. Entombed in the Tunnel

  12. Paying the Penalty

BATTLING THE SEA BEAST

Chapter 9

WHILE Captain Meredith (Eddie Dunn) and his crew are harpooning a while, Captain Nelson (Stanley Blystone) and his hencemen escape from the brig and take command of the whaler. During the ensuing battle, Captain Meredith is killed.

NELSON throws the boys in the brig and heads for the island headquarters of the "SEA RAIDERS," where Carl Tonjes (Reed Hadley) is holding Leah Carlton (Marcia Walston), Tom (John McGuire) Aggie (Mary Field) and Brack Warren (William Hall) prisoners.

BILLY (Billy Halop), Toby (Huntz Hall) and Swab (Hally Chester) escape from the whaler, reach the island and are climbing up the rocky shore when . . . .