The Green Hornet (serial)

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The Green Hornet
Directed by Ford Beebe
Ray Taylor
Produced by Henry MacRae
Written by George H. Plympton
Basil Dickey
Morrison Wood
Lyonel Margolies
Fran Striker (characters)
Starring Gordon Jones
Wade Boteler
Anne Nagel
Keye Luke
Phillip Trent
Cy Kendall
Cinematography Jerome Ash
William A. Sickner
Editing by Irving Birnbaum
Joseph Gluck
Alvin Todd
Distributed by Universal Pictures
Release date(s) Flag of the United States 9 January 1940
Numbers 13 chapters
Running time 258 min
Country Flag of the United States United States
Language English
Followed by The Green Hornet Strikes Again
All Movie Guide profile
IMDb profile

The Green Hornet (1940) is a Universal movie serial based on the The Green Hornet radio series by George W. Trendle.

Contents

The Green Hornet, secretly newspaper publisher Britt Reid, and his Korean valet Kato stop and expose several seemingly separate crimes. This leads them into continued conflict with The Leader, the criminal mastermind behind The Syndicate and the individual crimes.

The only listed stuntman for this serial is Dave Sharpe.

  1. ^ Harmon, Jim; The Great Radio Heroes; ISBN 0786408502

Preceded by
The Phantom Creeps (1939)		 Universal Serial
The Green Hornet (1940)		 Succeeded by
Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe (1940)
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Universal serials
Silent Serials
(1914-1929)		 Lucille Love, Girl of Mystery • The Master Key • The Trey o' Hearts • The Black Box • The Broken Coin • Graft • Under the Crescent • The Adventures of Peg o' the Ring • Liberty, A Daughter of the USA • The Mystery Ship • The Red Ace • The Gray Ghost • Voice on the Wire • The Brass Bullet • Bull's Eye • The Lion's Claw • The Lure of the Circus • The Red Glove • The Great Radium Mystery • The Lion Man • The Midnight Man • The Flaming Disc • The Moon Riders • King of the Circus • The Vanishing Dagger • The Dragon's Net • The Diamond Queen • Do or Die • The Secret Four • Terror Trail • The White Horseman • Winners of the West • The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe • In the Days of Buffalo Bill • Perils of the Yukon • The Radio King • With Stanley in Africa • Around the World in 18 Days • Beasts of Paradise • The Eagle's Talons • Ghost City • In the Days of Daniel Boone • The Oregon Trail • The Phantom Fortune • The Social Buccaneer • The Steel Trail • The Fast Express • The Fighting Ranger • The Iron Man • The Riddle Rider • Wolves of the North • The Ace of Spades • The Great Circus Mystery • The Scarlet Streak • Fighting With Buffalo Bill • Strings of Steel • The Winking Idol • Blake of Scotland Yard • The Fire Fighters • The Return of the Riddle Rider • Trail of the Tiger • Whispering Smith Rides • The Haunted Island • Tarzan the Mighty • The Vanishing Rider • The Diamond Master • A Final Reckoning • Pirate of Panama
Part-sound Serials
(1929-1930)		 The Ace of Scotland Yard • Tarzan the Tiger • The Jade Box • The Lightning Express • Terry of the Times • The Indians are Coming
Pre-war Sound Serials
(1931-1942)		 Finger Prints • Heroes of the Flames • Danger Island • Battling with Buffalo Bill • The Spell of the Circus • Detective Lloyd • The Airmail Mystery • Heroes of the West • The Jungle Mystery • The Lost Special • Clancy of the Mounted • The Phantom of the Air • Gordon of Ghost City • The Perils of Pauline • Pirate Treasure • The Vanishing Shadow • The Red Rider • Tailspin Tommy • Rustlers of Red Dog • The Call of the Savage • The Roaring West • Tailspin Tommy in the Great Air Mystery • The Adventures of Frank Merriwell • Flash Gordon • The Phantom Rider • Ace Drummond • Jungle Jim • Secret Agent X-9 • Wild West Days • Radio Patrol • Tim Tyler's Luck • Flash Gordon's Trip to Mars • Flaming Frontiers • Red Barry • Scouts to the Rescue • Buck Rogers • The Oregon Trail • The Phantom Creeps • The Green Hornet • Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe • Winners of the West • Junior G-Men • The Green Hornet Strikes Again • Sky Raiders • Riders of Death Valley • Sea Raiders
War-time Serials
(1942-1945)		 Don Winslow of the Navy • Gang Busters • Junior G-Men of the Air • Overland Mail • The Adventures of Smilin' Jack • Don Winslow of the Coast Guard • Adventures of the Flying Cadets • The Great Alaskan Mystery • Raiders of Ghost City • Mystery of the River Boat • Jungle Queen • The Master Key • Secret Agent X-9
Post-war Serials
(1945-1946)		 The Royal Mounted Rides Again • The Scarlet Horseman • Lost City of the Jungle • The Mysterious Mr. M
Actors and Actresses Buster Crabbe • Priscilla Lawson • Béla Lugosi • Frank Merrill • Charles B. Middleton • Jean Rogers • Frank Shannon
Production Crew Ford Beebe • Lewis D. Collins • Robert F. Hill • Lew Landers • Henry MacRae • J.P. McGowan • George H. Plympton • Clifford Smith • Ray Taylor
See also Film serials • List of film serials • List of film serials by studio
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American films of the 1940s
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