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The Great Alaskan Mystery
The Great Alaskan Mystery
Directed by	Lewis D. Collins; Ray Taylor
Written by	Jack Foley; George H. Plympton; Maurice Tombragel
Produced by	Henry MacRae
Starring	Milburn Stone; Marjorie Weaver; Edgar Kennedy; Samuel S. Hinds; Martin Kosleck; Ralph Morgan
Cinematography	Harry Neumann; William A. Sickner
Edited by	Irving Birnbaum; Jack Dolan; Ace Herman; Alvin Todd; Edgar Zane
Distributed by	Universal Pictures
Release date	April 25, 1944;
Running time	13 chapters (223 minutes)
Country	United States
Language	English

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.

Plot edit

James 'Jim' Hudson, an adventurer and accompanied by allies, goes after Nazi agents who have a new death ray called the Paratron...

Cast edit

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 edit

The author of a book on movie serials, William C. Cline, considers this to be a mediocre serial but possessing a good cast and all the necessary "ingredients" of a good serial.^[1]

Chapter titles edit

Shipwrecked Among Icebergs (18 min 03s)
Thundering Doom (18 min 56s)
Battle in the Clouds (17 min 02s)
Masked Murder (17 min 32s)
The Bridge of Disaster (17 min 46s)
Shattering Doom (16 min 34s)
Crashing Timbers (15 min 35s)
In a Flaming Plane (17 min 24s)
Hurtling Through Space (17 min 19s)
Tricked by a Booby Trap (17 min 04s)
The Tunnel of Terror (16 min 37s)
Electrocuted (17 min 42s)
The Boomerang (16 min 34s)

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References edit

^ Cline, William C. (1984). "3. The Six Faces of Adventure". In the Nick of Time. McFarland & Company, Inc. p. 50. ISBN 0-7864-0471-X.
^ Cline, William C. (1984). "Filmography". In the Nick of Time. McFarland & Company, Inc. p. 237. ISBN 0-7864-0471-X.

External links edit

The Great Alaskan Mystery at IMDb
The Great Alaskan Mystery at AllMovie

Download or view online edit

Great Alaskan Mystery at The Internet Archive (several formats available)

Chapter 1 is available for free viewing and download at the Internet Archive
Chapter 2 is available for free viewing and download at the Internet Archive
Chapter 3 is available for free viewing and download at the Internet Archive
Chapter 4 is available for free viewing and download at the Internet Archive
Chapter 5 is available for free viewing and download at the Internet Archive
Chapter 6 is available for free viewing and download at the Internet Archive

Chapter 7 is available for free viewing and download at the Internet Archive
Chapter 8 is available for free viewing and download at the Internet Archive
Chapter 9 is available for free viewing and download at the Internet Archive
Chapter 10 is available for free viewing and download at the Internet Archive
Chapter 11 is available for free viewing and download at the Internet Archive
Chapter 12 is available for free viewing and download at the Internet Archive

Preceded by Adventures of the Flying Cadets (1943)	Universal Serial The Great Alaskan Mystery (1944)	Succeeded by Raiders of Ghost City (1944)

[1] Cline, William C. (1984). "3. The Six Faces of Adventure". In the Nick of Time. McFarland & Company, Inc. p. 50. ISBN 0-7864-0471-X.

[2] Cline, William C. (1984). "Filmography". In the Nick of Time. McFarland & Company, Inc. p. 237. ISBN 0-7864-0471-X.

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