Haunted Harbor

Infobox Film
name = Haunted Harbor


director = Spencer Gordon Bennet
Wallace Grissell
producer = Ronald Davidson
writer = Royal Cole
Basil Dickey
Jesse Duffy
Grant Nelson
Joseph Poland
Ewart Adamson "(novel)"
starring = Kane Richmond
Kay Aldridge
Roy Barcroft
Clancy Cooper
Marshall J Reed
Oscar O'Shea
cinematography = Bud Thackery
distributor = Republic Pictures
released = Flagicon|USA 26 August 1944 "(serial)"cite book
last = Mathis
first = Jack
title = Valley of the Cliffhangers Supplement
origyear = 1995
publisher = Jack Mathis Advertising
isbn = 0-9632878-1-8
pages = pp. 3, 10, 78-79
chapter = ]
Flagicon|USA 26 September 1951 "(re-release)"
runtime = 15 chapters / 243 minutes "(serial)"
country = USA
language = English
budget = $170,099 (negative cost: $207,856)
awards =
imdb_id = 0036900

"Haunted Harbor" (1944) is a Republic Movie serial, based on the novel by Ewart Adamson.

Cast

*Kane Richmond as Jim Marsden
*Kay Aldridge as Patricia Harding
*Roy Barcroft as Carter (AKA Kane)
*Clancy Cooper as Yank
*Marshall J. Reed as Tommy
*Oscar O'Shea as John Galbraith
*Forrest Taylor as Dr Oliver Harding
*Hal Taliaferro as Lawson

Production

"Haunted Harbor" was based on a novel by Ewart Adamson (writing as Dayle Douglas). [cite book
last = Cline
first = William C.
title = In the Nick of Time
origyear = 1984
publisher = McFarland & Company, Inc.
isbn = 078640471X
pages = pp. 11
chapter = 2. In Search of Ammunition ]

The serial was budgeted at $170,099 although the final negative cost was $207,856 (a $37,757, or 22.2%, overspend).

It was filmed between 14 April and 18 May 1944. The serial's production number was 1395.

No other Jungle serial was released by Republic for nine years after "Haunted Harbor".cite book
last = Cline
first = William C.
title = In the Nick of Time
origyear = 1984
publisher = McFarland & Company, Inc.
isbn = 078640471X
pages = pp. 37
chapter = 3. The Six Faces of Adventure ]

This was the last serial adaptation made by Republic.

This was writer Ronald Davidson's first time as a film producer. His first writing credit is the 1937 Republic serial "The Painted Stallion".

Release

Theatrical

"Haunted Harbor"'s official release date is 26 August 1944, although this is actually the date the seventh chapter was made available to film exchanges.

The serial was re-released on 26 September 1951, under the new title "Pirates' Harbor", between the first runs of "Government Agents vs. Phantom Legion" and "Radar Men from the Moon". It began a pattern of re-releasing an old serial between every new release, which lasted until Republic's last new serial was released in 1955. Three years of purely re-releases then followed.

Critical reception

Cline writes that this "jungle-horror-mystery-sea-story" includes all of the "cliffhanging tricks Republic could muster."

Chapter titles

# Wanted for Murder (25min 1s)
# Flight to Danger (15min 33s)
# Ladder of Death (15min 33s)
# The Unknown Assassin (15min 33s)
# Harbor of Horror (15min 33s)
# Return of the Fugitive (15min 32s)
# Journey into Peril (15min 34s)
# Wings of Doom (15min 33s)
# Death's Door (15min 33s)
# Crimson Sacrifice (15min 33s)
# Jungle Jeopardy (15min 33s)
# Fire Trap (15min 34s)
# Monsters of the Deep (15min 34s)
# High Voltage (15min 34s)
# Crucible of Justice (15min 33s)_Source: [cite book
last = Cline
first = William C.
title = In the Nick of Time
origyear = 1984
publisher = McFarland & Company, Inc.
isbn = 078640471X
pages = pp. 238
chapter = Filmography ]

References

ee also

* List of film serials by year
* List of film serials by studio

External links

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title=Republic Serial
before=The Tiger Woman (1944)
years=Haunted Harbor (1944)
after=Zorro's Black Whip (1944)