Tailspin Tommy

Tailspin Tommy (1934)

Hal Forrest's great cartoon heroes on the screen in a screaming serial of the skyways!...Breathless excitement awaits you. Come! TWELVE TERRIFIC EPISODES!

A young mechanic gets a job with a small airline, which he helps win a mail contract. A rival airline plots to destroy it in order to get the contracts for itself.

Date of release
1934-10-29
TMDB
7.5 / 10 (2)
Runtime
4h 8m
Genres
Adventure, Thriller, Romance, Crime, Action
Director
Lew Landers
Collection
Tailspin Tommy

Casting

Interesting facts

Tailspin Tommy is a 12-episode 1934 Universal film serial based on the Tailspin Tommy comic strip by Hal Forrest. Directed by Lew Landers and produced by Milton Gatzert, the serial was the 97th serial of the 137 released by that studio. The plot of Tailspin Tommy concerns a conflict over a government airmail contract.

Production

Tailspin Tommy was the first serial to be based on a comic strip. From 1936 to 1945, Universal almost made more serial adaptations of comic strips than both of their rivals, Columbia and Republic, combined. Jimmy Allen was a rival radio serial character to the Tailspin Tommy newspaper strip. He featured in the film The Sky Parade. Grant Withers played the sidekick in this film as well as both Tailspin Tommy serials.

The aircraft used in Tailspin Tommy included:

Travel Air B 4000, c/n 1337, NC406N and c / n 1323, NC688K

Alexander Eaglerock A2, c / n 207, NC1412

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