Brick Bradford (serial)

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Brick Bradford
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Directed by	Spencer Gordon Bennet Thomas Carr
Produced by	Sam Katzman
Written by	Lewis Clay Arthur Hoerl George H. Plympton Clarence Gray (comic strip) William Ritt (comic strip)
Starring	Kane Richmond Rick Vallin Linda Leighton Pierre Watkin Charles Quigley Jack Ingram Fred Graham John Merton
Music by	Mischa Bakaleinikoff
Cinematography	Ira H. Morgan
Editing by	Earl Turner
Distributed by	Columbia Pictures
Release date(s)	18 December 1947
Running time	15 chapters
Country	United States
Language	English
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Brick Bradford (1947) is a Columbia movie serial based on the comic strip Brick Bradford.

[edit] Plot

Brick Bradford is assigned by the government to aid Dr Tymak, who is working on an "Interceptor Ray" that can destroy incoming rockets. Unfortunately, it can also be used as a death ray, bringing it to the attention of foreign agent Laydron.

The action moves to the Moon as the ray requires a special element called Lunarium (with an atomic mass of 200) previously only found in a meteorite. Working with exiles in the lunar wasteland, the heroes overthrow Queen Khana and return with the Lunarium.

However, the device still requires a formula hidden on an uncharted island 200 years in the past, so Brick and Sandy travel in Dr Tymak's time machine, the Time Top, to retrieve it. The final third of the serial is spent on modern day Earth with more trouble from the spy Laydron.

[edit] Cast

• Kane Richmond as Brick Bradford
• Rick Vallin as Sandy Sanderson, Brick's sidekick
• Linda Leighton as June Salisbury
• Pierre Watkin as Professor Salisbury
• Charles Quigley as Laydron, Villainous Spy
• Jack Ingram as Albers, one of Laydron's henchmen
• Fred Graham as Black, one of Laydron's henchmen
• John Merton as Dr Gregor Tymak, scientist and inventor of the Interceptor Ray
• Leonard Penn as Eric Byrus, one of Dr Tymak's assistants
• Wheeler Oakman as Louis Walthar, one of Dr Tymak's assistants
• Carol Foreman as Queen Khana, despot of the Moon
• Charles King as Creed
• John Hart as Dent
• Helene Stanley as Carol Preston, daughter of the leader of the lunar Exiles

[edit] Chapter titles

1. Atomic Defense
2. Flight to the Moon
3. Prisoners of the Moon
4. Into the Volcano
5. Bradford at Bay
6. Back to Earth
7. Into Another Century
8. Buried Treasure
9. Trapped in the Time Top
10. The Unseen Hand
11. Poison Gas
12. Door of Disaster
13. Sinister Rendezvous
14. River of Revenge
15. For the Peace of the World

[edit] References

• Brick Bradford at the Internet Movie Database

[edit] External links

• Brick Bradford at the Internet Movie Database
• Brick Bradford at Todd Gault's Movie Serial Experience

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