James W. Horne

Holt of the Secret Service (1942)

Cast: Jack Holt James W. Horne Evelyn Brent Tristram Coffin C. Montague Shaw   

Tags: Action Thriller Action 

Length: 225min

Granite-jawed Jack Holt plays himself-or at least the screen version of "himself"-in the 15-chapter Columbia serial Holt of the Secret Service. To get the goods on a counterfeiting ring, federal agent Holt poses as master criminal Nick Farrel. The...

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Captain Midnight [Serial] (1942)

Cast: James W. Horne Ray Teal Dave "Tex" O'Brien Bryant Washburn Al Ferguson   

Tags: Action Adventure Thriller 

Length: min

Captain Midnight is a 15-episode serial based on the radio adventure series of the same name. Captain Albright (Dave O'Brien), an ace aviator better known as Captain Midnight, is assigned to neutralize the evil enemy scientist Ivan Shark (James...

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The Spider Returns (1941)

Cast: James W. Horne Warren Hull Dave "Tex" O'Brien Bryant Washburn Kenne Duncan   

Length: min

The sequel to Columbia's 1938 hit The Spider's Web, this typical war-time serial again starred the stalwart Warren Hull as the crime-fighting Richard Wentworth alias The Spider and Blinky McQuade, and Kenne Duncan as Ram Singh, the hero's turban clad...

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The Iron Claw (1941)

Cast: James W. Horne James C. Morton Hal Price Norman Willis Charles King   

Length: min

One of silent serial queen Pearl White's best efforts, The Iron Claw was remade by Columbia Pictures starring brunette Joyce Bryant as the imperiled heroine. Bryant, alas, was no Pearl White, and needed a strong male lead in order to defeat that...

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Deadwood Dick (1940)

Cast: James W. Horne Lee Shumway Charles King Lane Chandler Donald Douglas   

Tags: Western 

Length: min

Don Douglas, a rather bland supporting actor from Scotland, was elevated to the starring role in this low-budget Western serial produced by Columbia Pictures. Yet another reworking on the old Zorro theme, Deadwood Dick took 15 instalments to tell the...

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Terry and the Pirates [Serial] (1940)

Cast: James W. Horne Dick Curtis William Tracy Forrest Taylor Jack Ingram   

Tags: Adventure Drama Adventure 

Length: min

Best remembered today as the upwardly mobile errand boy in Ernst Lubitsch's The Shop Around the Corner (1940), busy juvenile actor William Tracy starred in the title-role of this popular action serial that very same year. Released in fifteen chapters...

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The Green Archer [Serial] (1940)

Cast: James W. Horne Kit Guard Victor Jory Fred Kelsey Forrest Taylor   

Tags: Detective Film Mystery 

Length: min

In this 15-episode serial, Detective Spike Holland must solve the mystery of Garr Castle. He does so after he is hired to look into the disappearance of Valerie Howett's sister Elaine. Within the haunted walls of the castle he finds a maze of secret...

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White Eagle (1941)

Cast: James W. Horne Buck Jones Raymond Hatton Charles King John Merton   

Tags: Western Traditional Western 

Length: 290min

Serials usually spawned feature film versions, but with this film, it was the other way around. A 1932 Buck Jones Western, White Eagle was made into a serial nine years later, again starring Jones in the title role, a (supposedly) Native American Pony...

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The Shadow [Serial] (1940)

Cast: James W. Horne Veda Ann Borg Victor Jory Frank LaRue Edward Peil Sr.   

Tags: Superhero Film Adventure 

Length: min

Based upon the classic radio series and pulp magazine character, The Shadow is a 15-episode serial in which scientist Lamont Cranston (Victor Jory) dons the garb of The Shadow to track down the elusive -- and indeed, invisible -- villain known only as...

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