Mandrake the Magician (1939) is the seventh serial released by Columbia Pictures. It was based upon the King Features comic strip of the same name.
Mandrake the Magician | |
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Directed by | Norman Deming Sam Nelson |
Written by | Joseph F. Poland Basil Dickey Ned Dandy Screenplay, based on the comic strip by Phil Davis and Lee Falk |
Produced by | Jack Fier |
Starring | Warren Hull Doris Weston Al Kikume Rex Downing |
Cinematography | Benjamin H. Kline |
Edited by | Richard Fantl Jerry Thoms |
Music by | Morris Stoloff musical director Sidney Cutner and Floyd Morgan additional music |
Distributed by | Columbia Pictures |
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Running time | 12 chapters (215 minutes) |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Mandrake and his assistant Lothar are working the cruise lines and make the acquaintance of Professor Houston who has developed a radium energy machine, which is much coveted by a masked crime lord known as "The Wasp".[1] The Wasp unleashes his army of accomplices in waves to steal the invention by any means necessary. Mandrake and his allies finally catch up to "The Wasp" and discover the crime lord is actually scientist Dr. Andre Bennett, posing as a close friend of Houston.
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Preceded by Flying G-Men (1939) |
Columbia Serial Mandrake the Magician (1939) |
Succeeded by Overland with Kit Carson (1939) |
Films directed by Sam Nelson | |
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