Bruce Gentry

Bruce Gentry (1949)

MYSTERIOUS FLYING DISCS THREATEN WORLD! SPECTACULAR SERIAL EXPOSES AMAZING WEAPON!

Famed aviator Bruce Gentry is working with scientist Andrew Benson, setting out to uncover the origin of a deadly secret weapon---an electronically controlled flying disc which can be directed at moving or stationary targets. The disc was master-minded by an enemy agent known only as "The Recorder" because...he speaks entirely via recordings. Aided by rancher Frank Farrell and his sister Juanita "Nita" Hodges, Gentry consistently foils "The Recorders" schemes, which are carried out by "The Recorder's" henchmen, Krendon, Allen and Chandler, including an attack on the Panama Canal.

Date of release
1949-02-10
TMDB
8.0 / 10 (3)
Runtime
4h 6m
Genres
Adventure, Action, Crime
Director
Spencer Gordon Bennet, Thomas Carr

Casting

Interesting facts

Bruce Gentry – Daredevil of the Skies is a 15-episode Columbia Pictures movie serial released in 1949 based on the Bruce Gentry comic strip created by Ray Bailey. It features the first cinematic appearance of a flying saucer, as the secret weapon of the villainous Recorder.

Production

The flying disc is described by Harmon and Glut as "an embarrassingly bad animated cartoon drawn over the action scenes." Animation also appears in the resolution of a cliffhanger, in which an animated Gentry is used instead of a stuntman.

The flying disc, however, may be the first cinematic appearance of a flying saucer.

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