The Hurricane Express

The Hurricane Express (1932)

Un suspans pe șenile în 12 episoade

Un criminal misterios îi ține în teroare pe pasagerii companiei de căi ferate L&R. Fantoma cunoscută doar ca „Mascatul” deraiază trenurile, ucigând mulți oameni. Printre victime se numără și tatăl liderului Hurricane Express, pilotul Larry Baker (John Wayne). Baker începe imediat să-l investigheze pe „Mascat” și găsește în curând o armată de suspecți. Cu toate acestea, alegerea ucigașului adevărat dintre ei nu este deloc ușoară. „Omul Mascat” este renumit pentru că se poate deghiza în altcineva în câteva secunde, mai mult decât atât, nimeni nu i-a văzut niciodată chipul real...

Data lansării
1932-08-01
TMDB
5.4 / 10 (17)
Durată
3 h 47 min
Genuri
Aventuri, Mister, Crimă, Acțiune
Regizor
J.P. McGowan, Armand Schaefer

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The Hurricane Express is a 1932 American Pre-Code 12-chapter Mascot Pictures film serial. Written by Colbert Clark, Barney Sarecky, Wyndham Gittens, George Morgan, and J.P. McGowan, the serial was directed by Armand Schaeffer and J.P. McGowan and produced by Nat Levine. The Hurricane Express stars John Wayne as aircraft pilot Larry Baker. Wayne goes after a mystery villain named "The Wrecker", who was responsible for a train crash that killed Baker's father.

Production

During the 1930s, after starring in The Big Trail (1930), its subsequent commercial failure meant that Wayne was relegated to minor roles in A-pictures, or starring, with his name over the title, in many low-budget Poverty Row Westerns, mostly at Monogram Pictures and serials for Mascot Pictures Corporation, such as The Hurricane Express.

The Hurricane Express was cheaply staged and relied heavily on studio sets for interior sequences. Two elements, however, were critical, the use of a train and an aircraft. Airline pilot Larry Baker flies as the co-pilot on a Trans World Airlines Ford Trimotor (c/n NC8411). The aircraft flew from the Grand Central Airport in Glendale, California, a favourite locale for Hollywood films featuring aviation.

While the Ford Trimotor appears in the first two chapters, the Curtiss "Jenny" is used in an aircraft-to-train transfer (a favourite stunt in the 1920s was a transfer from aircraft to aircraft, or other moving vehicles). A Fokker Trimotor also appears.

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