The Great Alaskan Mystery

Infobox Film
name = The Great Alaskan Mystery


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director = Lewis D. Collins
Ray Taylor
producer = Henry MacRae
writer = Jack Foley
George H. Plympton
Maurice Tombragel
narrator =
starring = Milburn Stone
Marjorie Weaver
Edgar Kennedy
Samuel S. Hinds
Martin Kosleck
Ralph Morgan
music =
cinematography = Harry Neumann
William A. Sickner
editing = Irving Birnbaum
Jack Dolan
Ace Herman
Alvin Todd
Edgar Zane
distributor = Universal Pictures
released = 1944
runtime = 13 chapters (223 min)
country =
language = English
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amg_id = 1:150685
imdb_id = 0036878

"The Great Alaskan Mystery" is a 1944 Universal film serial about government agents trying to stop Nazi spies from getting their hands on futuristic weapons.

Cast

* Milburn Stone as Jim Hudson
* Marjorie Weaver as Ruth Miller
* Edgar Kennedy as Bosun Higgins
* Samuel S. Hinds as Herman Brock
* Martin Kosleck as Dr Hauss
* Ralph Morgan as Dr Miller
* Joseph Crehan as Bill Hudson
* Fuzzy Knight as "Grit" Hartman
* Harry Cording as Captain Greeder
* Anthony Warde as Brandon

Critical reception

Cline considers this to be a mediocre serial but possessing a good cast and all the necessary "ingredients" of a good serial. [cite book
last = Cline
first = William C.
title = In the Nick of Time
origyear = 1984
publisher = McFarland & Company, Inc.
isbn = 078640471X
pages = pp. 50
chapter = 3. The Six Faces of Adventure ]

Chapter titles

# Shipwrecked Among Icebergs
# Thundering Doom
# Battle in the Clouds
# Masked Murder
# The Bridge of Disaster
# Shattering Doom
# Crashing Timbers
# In a Flaming Plane
# Hurtling Through Space
# Tricked by a Booby Trap
# The tunnel of Terror
# Electrocuted
# The Boomerang_Source: [cite book
last = Cline
first = William C.
title = In the Nick of Time
origyear = 1984
publisher = McFarland & Company, Inc.
isbn = 078640471X
pages = pp. 237
chapter = Filmography ]

ee also

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

References

External links

*imdb title|id=0036878
*amg title|1:150685

Download or view online

* [http://www.archive.org/details/great_alaskan_mystery_all Great Alaskan Mystery at The Internet Archive] (several formats available)
* [http://www.archive.org/details/great_alaskan_mystery_chapter_1 Chapter 1 at The Internet Archive]
* [http://www.archive.org/details/great_alaskan_mystery_chapter_2 Chapter 2 at The Internet Archive]
* [http://www.archive.org/details/great_alaskan_mystery_chapter_3 Chapter 3 at The Internet Archive]
* [http://www.archive.org/details/great_alaskan_mystery_chapter_4 Chapter 4 at The Internet Archive]
* [http://www.archive.org/details/great_alaskan_mystery_chapter_5 Chapter 5 at The Internet Archive]
* [http://www.archive.org/details/great_alaskan_mystery_chapter_6 Chapter 6 at The Internet Archive]
* [http://www.archive.org/details/great_alaskan_mystery_chapter_7 Chapter 7 at The Internet Archive]
* [http://www.archive.org/details/great_alaskan_mystery_chapter_8 Chapter 8 at The Internet Archive]
* [http://www.archive.org/details/great_alaskan_mystery_chapter_9 Chapter 9 at The Internet Archive]
* [http://www.archive.org/details/great_alaskan_mystery_chapter_10 Chapter 10 at The Internet Archive]
* [http://www.archive.org/details/great_alaskan_mystery_chapter_11 Chapter 11 at The Internet Archive]
* [http://www.archive.org/details/great_alaskan_mystery_chapter_12 Chapter 12 at The Internet Archive]

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title=Universal Serial
before=Adventures of the Flying Cadets (1943)
years=The Great Alaskan Mystery (1944)
after=Raiders of Ghost City (1944)