The Green Hornet Strikes Again!

Infobox Film
name = The Green Hornet Strikes Again!


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director = Ford Beebe
John Rawlins
producer = Henry MacRae
writer = George H. Plympton
Basil Dickey
Sherman L. Lowe
Fred MacIsaac
Fran Striker "(characters)"
narrator =
starring = Warren Hull
Keye Luke
Pierre Watkin
Anne Nagel
Wade Boteler
Eddie Acuff
music = Charles Previn
cinematography = Jerome Ash
editing = Saul A. Goodkind "(supervising)"
Joseph Gluck
Louis Sackin
Alvin Todd
distributor = Universal Pictures
released = 4 January 1941
runtime = 15 chapters (293 min)
country = USA
language = English
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preceded_by = The Green Hornet (1940)
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amg_id = 1:144949
imdb_id = 0032559

"The Green Hornet Strikes Again!" (1941) is a Universal movie serial based on the The Green Hornet radio series by George W. Trendle. It a sequel to the earlier, 1940 serial "The Green Hornet". This was Universal's 117th serial (the 49th with sound) of the 137 the studio produced. The plot involves racketeering and is unusual for a film serial in having mostly stand alone episodes instead of a continuous story (although this was also the case for the original Green Hornet serial).

Plot

The Green Hornet as his sidekick Kato face Boss Crogan and varied rackets across the city.

Cast

*Warren Hull as Britt Reid and his alterego The Green Hornet. Hull replaced Gordon Jones in this role and also provided the voice of the Hornet (instead of radio voice Al Hodge in the original serial).
*Wade Boteler as Michael Axford, Britt Reid's bodyguard
*Anne Nagel as Lenore "Casey" Case, Britt Reid's secretary
*Keye Luke as Kato, the Green Hornet's sidekick
*Eddie Acuff as Ed Lowery, a reporter
*Pierre Watkin as Boss Crogan, racketeer
*James Seay as Bordine, one of Boss Crogan's henchmen
*Arthur Loft as Tauer, Boss Crogan's chief henchman
*Joe Devlin as Dolan, one of Boss Crogan's henchmen
*William Hall as DeLuca, one of Boss Crogan's henchmen
*Dorothy Lovett as Frances Grayson, an aluminum heiress, and Stella Merja, an actress hired to replace her

Chapter titles

# Flaming Havoc
# The Plunge of Peril
# The Avenging Heavens
# A Night of Terror
# Shattering Doom
# The Fatal Flash
# Death in the Clouds
# Human Targets
# The Tragic Crash
# Blazing Fury
# Thieves of the Night
# Crashing Barriers
# The Flaming Inferno
# Racketeering Inferno
# Smashing the Crime Ring_Source: [cite book
last = Cline
first = William C.
title = In the Nick of Time
origyear = 1984
publisher = McFarland & Company, Inc.
isbn = 078640471X
pages = pp. 228
chapter = Filmography ]

References

External links

*imdb title|id=0032559|title=The Green Hornet Strikes Again!
*amg title|id=1:144949
* [http://thenostalgialeague.com/olmag/hornet.htm Nostalgia League review of The Green Hornet Strikes Again!]

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title=Universal Serial
before=Junior G-Men (1940)
years=The Green Hornet Strikes Again! (1941)
after=Sky Raiders (1941)