Scouts to the Rescue

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Scouts to the Rescue
Directed byAlan James
Ray Taylor
Written by
Wyndham Gittens
George H. Plympton
Basil Dickey
Joseph F. Poland
Produced byHenry MacRae
StarringJackie Cooper
David Durand
Bill Cody, Jr.
Vondell Darr
William Ruhl
CinematographyWilliam A. Sickner
Edited by



Alvin Todd
Music byCharles Previn
Distributed byUniversal Pictures
Release date
  • November 5, 1939 (1939-11-05)
Running time
12 chapters (231 minutes)
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Scouts to the Rescue is a 1939 Universal film serial directed by Alan James and Ray Taylor. It starred Jackie Cooper and Bill Cody Jr.

Premise[]

A troop of Boy Scouts use a treasure map to find a stash of counterfeit notes and a lost tribe with a secret Radium deposit.

Cast[]

  • Jackie Cooper as Bruce Scott, leader of the Scout Troop
  • David Durand as Rip Rawson
  • Bill Cody, Jr. as Skeets Scanlon
  • Vondell Darr as Mary Scanlon
  • William Ruhl as Hal Marvin, a G-Man on the trail of the counterfeiters
  • Sidney Miller as Hermie, a Boy Scout
  • as Turk Mortensen
  • Edwin Stanley as Pat Scanlon
  • Ralph Dunn as Pug O'Toole, a gangster
  • George Regas as Lukolu, high priest of the lost tribe
  • Jack Mulhall as Scoutmaster Hale
  • Jason Robards, Sr. as Doc, a gangster
  • Dick Botiller as Leeka, Leader of Warriors
  • as Hurst, a heavy
  • Max Wagner as Joe, a henchman

Chapter titles[]

  1. Death Rides the Air
  2. Avalanche of Doom
  3. Trapped by the Indians
  4. River of Doom
  5. Descending Doom
  6. Ghost Town Menace
  7. Destroyed by Dynamite
  8. Thundering Hoofs [sic]
  9. The Fire God Strikes
  10. The Battle at Ghost Town
  11. Hurtling Through Space
  12. The Boy Scouts' Triumph

Source:[1]

See also[]

References[]

  1. ^ Cline, William C. (1984). "Filmography". In the Nick of Time. McFarland & Company, Inc. pp. 223. ISBN 0-7864-0471-X.

External links[]

Preceded by
Red Barry (1938)
 Universal Serial
Scouts to the Rescue (1939) 		Succeeded by
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