Mystery of the River Boat

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Mystery of the River Boat
Mystery of the River Boat FilmPoster.jpeg
Directed byLewis D. Collins
Ray Taylor
Written by
Produced byHenry MacRae
StarringRobert Lowery
Eddie Quillan
Marion Martin

Lyle Talbot
Arthur Hohl
Cinematography
Edited by
Jack Dolan
Ace Herman
Alvin Todd
Music byPaul Sawtell
Distributed byUniversal Pictures
Release date
  • October 24, 1944 (1944-10-24)
Running time
13 chapters (218 minutes)
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Mystery of the River Boat, Chapter 1, The Tragic Crash

Mystery of the River Boat is a 1944 Universal movie serial directed by Lewis D. Collins and Ray Taylor. It co-starred Lyle Talbot, Robert Lowery and Mantan Moreland.

Cast[]

  • Robert Lowery as Steve Langtry
  • Eddie Quillan as Jug Jenks
  • Marion Martin as Celeste Eltree, river boat singer
  • Marjorie Clements as Jenny Perrin, Captain Perrin's daughter
  • Lyle Talbot as Rudolph Toller, foreign agent
  • Arthur Hohl as Clayton
  • Oscar O'Shea as Captain Ethan Perrin, captain of the river boat The Morning Glory
  • Francis McDonald as Batiste
  • Mantan Moreland as Napoleon, ship steward
  • Eddy Waller as Charles Langtry
  • Ian Wolfe as Herman Einreich, villainous land speculator
  • Byron Foulger as Dr. H. Hartman
  • Earle Hodgins as Jean Duval
  • Anthony Warde as Bruno Bloch
  • Alec Craig as the Chief Engineer

Production[]

Stunts[]

  • John Daheim doubling Robert Lowery
  • Carey Loftin doubling Robert Lowery
  • Eddie Parker doubling Dick Curtis
  • Tom Steele doubling Arthur Hohl

Critical reception[]

Cline considers this to be an average serial but one with a good cast and all the necessary "ingredients" of a good serial.[1]

Chapter titles[]

  1. The Tragic Crash
  2. The Phantom Killer
  3. The Flaming Inferno
  4. The Brink of Doom
  5. The Highway of Peril
  6. The Fatal Plunge
  7. The Toll of the Storm
  8. The Break in the Levee
  9. Trapped in the Quicksands
  10. Flaming Havoc
  11. Electrocuted
  12. Risking Death
  13. The Boomerang

Source:[2]

See also[]

References[]

  1. ^ Cline, William C. (1984). "3. The Six Faces of Adventure". In the Nick of Time. McFarland & Company, Inc. pp. 50. ISBN 0-7864-0471-X.
  2. ^ Cline, William C. (1984). "Filmography". In the Nick of Time. McFarland & Company, Inc. pp. 238. ISBN 0-7864-0471-X.

External links[]

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Mystery of the River Boat (1944) 		Succeeded by


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