Scouts to the Rescue
1939 film by Alan James, Ray Taylor
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Scouts to the Rescue is a 1939 Universal film serial directed by Alan James and Ray Taylor. It starred Jackie Cooper and Bill Cody Jr.
Directed byAlan James
Ray Taylor
Ray Taylor
Written byIrving Crump
Wyndham Gittens
George H. Plympton
Basil Dickey
Joseph F. Poland
Wyndham Gittens
George H. Plympton
Basil Dickey
Joseph F. Poland
Produced byHenry MacRae
StarringJackie Cooper
David Durand
Bill Cody, Jr.
Vondell Darr
William Ruhl
David Durand
Bill Cody, Jr.
Vondell Darr
William Ruhl
| Scouts to the Rescue | |
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| Directed by | Alan James Ray Taylor |
| Written by | Irving Crump Wyndham Gittens George H. Plympton Basil Dickey Joseph F. Poland |
| Produced by | Henry MacRae |
| Starring | Jackie Cooper David Durand Bill Cody, Jr. Vondell Darr William Ruhl |
| Cinematography | William A. Sickner |
| Edited by | Saul A. Goodkind Irving Birnbaum Joseph Gluck Louis Sackin Alvin Todd |
| Music by | Charles Previn |
| Distributed by | Universal Pictures |
Release date |
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Running time | 12 chapters (231 minutes) |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Premise
A troop of Boy Scouts use a treasure map to find a stash of counterfeit notes and a lost tribe with a secret Radium deposit.
Cast
- Jackie Cooper as Bruce Scott, leader of the Scout Troop
- David Durand as Rip Rawson
- Bill Cody, Jr. as Skeets Scanlon
- Vondell Darr as Mary Scanlon
- William Ruhl as Hal Marvin, a G-Man on the trail of the counterfeiters
- Sidney Miller as Hermie, a Boy Scout
- Ivan Miller as Turk Mortensen
- Edwin Stanley as Pat Scanlon
- Ralph Dunn as Pug O'Toole, a gangster
- George Regas as Lukolu, high priest of the lost tribe
- Jack Mulhall as Scoutmaster Hale
- Jason Robards, Sr. as Doc, a gangster
- Dick Botiller as Leeka, Leader of Warriors
- Victor Adams as Hurst, a heavy
- Max Wagner as Joe, a henchman