Manhunt of Mystery Island
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Manhunt of Mystery Island is a 1945 science fiction movie serial. It was the thirty-sixth serial produced by Republic Pictures (of a total of sixty-six) and the first released in 1945.[2]
Manhunt of Mystery Island | |
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Directed by | Spencer Gordon Bennet Yakima Canutt Wallace Grissell |
Written by | Albert DeMond Basil Dickey Jesse Duffy Alan James Grant Nelson Joseph Poland |
Produced by | Ronald Davidson |
Starring | Richard Bailey Linda Stirling Roy Barcroft Kenne Duncan Forrest Taylor Forbes Murray Jack Ingram Harry Strang |
Cinematography | Bud Thackery |
Distributed by | Republic Pictures |
Release dates | |
Running time | 15 chapters (219 minutes (serial)[1] 100 minutes (TV)[1] |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Budget | $167,912 (negative cost: $182,388)[1] |
It is the penultimate 15-chapter serial to be released by the studio. The year 1945, the end of the Golden Age of Serials,[3] was the last in which Republic released any 15-chapter serials, the remainder being either 12 or 13 chapters in length.
In 1966 footage from the serial was edited together into the 100-minute film Captain Mephisto and the Transformation Machine.
Three of the serial's cliffhanger gags and set pieces are copied in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom.