The Mystery Squadron

Infobox Film
name = The Mystery Squadron


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director = Colbert Clark
David Howard
producer = Nat Levine
writer = Sherman L. Lowe
Al Martin
Barney A. Sarecky
Colbert Clark
David Howard
Wyndham Gittens
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starring = Bob Steele
Guinn "Big Boy" Williams
Lucile Browne
Jack Mulhall
Purnell Pratt
music = Lee Zahler
cinematography = Ernest Miller
William Nobles
Alvin Wyckoff
editing = Wyndham Gittens
Earl Turner
distributor = Mascot Pictures
released = Flagicon|USA 22 December 1933
runtime = 12 chapters (220 min)
country = USA
language = English
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imdb_id = 0024367

"The Mystery Squadron" (1933) is a Mascot movie serial.

This serial has four recap chapters (a cost cutting measure similar to a clipshow).

Plot

A dam being built by Hank Davis comes under attack from the mysterious pilot, The Black Ace, and his "Mystery Squadron" of similarly masked pilots.

Cast

*Bob Steele as Fred Cromwell, old stunt pilot friend of Hank Davis
*Guinn "Big Boy" Williams as Bill "Jellybean" Cook, old stunt pilot friend of Hank Davis
*Lucile Browne as Dorothy Gray
*Jack Mulhall as Hank Davis, dam foreman and ex-stunt pilot
*Purnell Pratt as Lafe Johnson
*Robert Frazer as Dr Flint
*J. Carrol Naish as Collins
*Bob Kortman as Bracken
*Lafe McKee as Stephen Gray

Production

tunts

*Yakima Canutt
*George Magrill

Chapter titles

# The Black Ace
# The Fatal Warning
# The Black Ace Strikes
# Men of Steel
# The Death Swoop
# Doomed
# Enemy Signals
# The Canyon of Calamity
# The Secret of the Mine
# Clipped Wings
# The Beast at Bay
# The Ace of Aces_Source: [cite book
last = Cline
first = William C.
title = In the Nick of Time
origyear = 1984
publisher = McFarland & Company, Inc.
isbn = 078640471X
pages = pp. 209
chapter = Filmography ]

ee also

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

References

External links

*imdb title|id=0024367|title=The Mystery Squadron

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title=Mascot Serial
before=The Wolf Dog (1933)
years=The Mystery Squadron (1933)
after=The Lost Jungle (1934)