Gang Busters [Blu-ray]

Director: Noel Smith, Ray Taylor Noel Smith

Overview

Based on a popular radio series, this Universal serial, produced in 13 chapters, starred two of the studio's better B-movie leads, Kent Taylor and Irene Hervey. Despite their fine work, the serial's preposterous plot -- a mad scientist assembling a League of Murdered Men to wreak havoc on the city -- proved too much even for die-hard serial fans. The League consisted of criminals who were injected with a death-stimulating drug and declared officially dead, only to rise from their graves fortified by Professor Mortis' reviving drug. The gangbusters of the title consisted of the mustachioed Mr. Taylor, his assistant Robert Armstrong and girlfriend Irene Hervey. The latter played a news photographer and mostly got in the way of what little action the serial offered. The leading villain was played by Ralph Morgan, brother of MGM stalwart Frank Morgan, an always watchable character actor who nevertheless often seemed to be called in whenever a studio failed to engage Boris Karloff or Lionel Atwill. Morgan had very little to work with this time around; considering Universal's proud heritage, the professor's scientific lab looked surprisingly mediocre.

Product Details

Release Date:	01/19/2021
UPC:	0089859907029
Original Release:	1942
Rating:	NR
Source:	Vci Entertainment
Region Code:	A
Presentation:	[B&W]
Sound:	[Dolby Digital Mono]
Language:	English
Time:	4:44:00
Sales rank:	28,992

Special Features

Gang Busters Original Theatrical Trailer; Junior G-Men of the Air - Coming Soon; Cartoon: A Tale of Two Kitties (1942)

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Kent Taylor	Bill Bannister
Robert Armstrong	Tim Nolan
Joseph Crehan	Chief O'Brien
Richard Davies	Happy Haskins
John Gallaudet	Wilkinson
Ralph Harolde	Halliger
Irene Hervey	Vicky Logan
Ralph Morgan	Prof. Mortis
George Watts	Mayor Hansen
Victor Zimmerman	Barnard
William Haade	Mike Taboni
Grace Cunard	Actor

Technical Credits