The company known as Video Treasures has done it. They have successfully raised a film from the dead A long, long, time ago a list was published called "The Lost Sound Serials" GHSA was one of them. There was no hope to ever see this story again, until Anchor Bay makes a fine print brought fromk Universals original film negatives. As for the movie, it's good but not great. Warren Hull brings more dignity to the role of GH. Keye Luke is a passable Kato, but expect no Bruce Lee, Kato rarley gets into a fight. The story is full of action, adventure and heart stopping cliffhangers. It's great fun for children and adults.

Reader Reviews
Universal Pictures present "GREEN HORNET STRIKES AGAIN" (1941) (300 mins/B&W) (Dolby digitally remastered) --- is a 15-Chapter Universal Movie Serial starring Warren Hull, Anne Nagel, Keye Luke & Eddie Acuff, relive those thrilling days week after week venue brought you to the theater, as you were mesmerized in your seat waiting for the final chapter ... exciting action within 15 episodes from Universal Serial, released in October 1940, story thus far, The Green Hornet (secretly publisher Britt Reid of the Daily Sentinel) uses his crime-fighting weaponry to track down the mysterious head of a city-wide racketeering ring ... he is ably assisted by and his trusted valet Kato. ... based upon characters from the popular radio and pulp series, what fate awaits our heroes Hull and Luke in this Universal classic cliffhanger.

A sequel to The Green Hornet, The Green Hornet Strikes Again is a 15-chapter serial that was based upon characters from the popular radio and pulp series. The Green Hornet (Warren Hull) is actually Britt Reid, fearless newspaper publisher, who dons the Hornet's guise to battle criminals that have managed to escape the long arm of the law -- aided, of course, by his invaluable sidekick, Kato (Keye Luke). As Strikes Again opens, Reid and Kato are enjoying a well-earned vacation in Hawaii. Their respite is short-lived, however, as they discover that master criminal Crogan (Pierre Watkin) has ratcheted up his operations and is starting a whole new series of rackets that require the Hornet's attention. After a rough crossing, they begin closing down Crogan's rackets -- including selling bombs to foreign agents -- one by one. Along the way, the duo encounter a number of close calls involving a plane crash, an explosion in a laboratory, a roof cave-in, electrocution, and driving a car into a warehouse loaded with explosives. In the end, of course, the Hornet brings down Crogan and all is once again well. For Strikes Again, Warren Hull, who had already played super-heroes The Spider and Mandrake the Magician, replaced Gordon Jones, the Hornet from the original serial.

Under Ford Beebe (Director), John Rawlins (Director), Henry MacRae (Associate Producer), George H. Plympton (Screenwriter), Basil Dickey (Screenwriter), Sherman L. Lowe (Screenwriter), Fred MacIsaac (Screenwriter), Fran Striker (Original Story Characters), Charles Previn (Stock Score), Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (Original Theme), Hans J. Salter (Stock Score), Frank Skinner (Stock Score), Jerome Ash (Cinematographer), Joseph Gluck (Editor), Louis Sackin (Editor), Alvin Todd (Editor), Ralph M. DeLacy (Art Director) ------ the cast includes Warren Hull (Britt Reid/Green Hornet), Wade Boteler (Michael Axford), Anne Nagel (Lenore "Casey" Case), Keye Luke (Kato), Eddie Acuff (Lowery), Pierre Watkin (Boss Crogan), James Seay (Bordine, a gangster), Arthur Loft (Tauer, chief gangster), Joe Devlin (Dolan, a gangster), William Hall (DeLuca, a gangster), Dorothy Lovett (Frances Grayson/Stella Merja), Jay Michael (Foranti, construction racketeer), Charles F. Miller (George K. Otterson), Jean Brooks (Gloria), William Forrest (Frederick Harper), C. Montague Shaw (Weaver, gang scientist),Roy Barcroft (Cop at Newspaper Truck Vandalism), Al Bridge (Ship's Captain), Lane Chandler (Cop car-chasing Foranti), Jack Cheatham (Pete, steelmill watchman), Eddie Dew (Henchman-Delivery Man), Frank Ellis (Bill, Steel Mill Guard), Jack Ellis (Franks, a gangster), Karl Hackett (Hansen, the Stranger), Reed Howes (Policeman at Breedon's House), Bob Kortman (Thug on guard at farmhouse), Tom London (Thug with explosives), Pierce Lyden (Tonjes, gang pilot), John Merton (Thug at Rear of Truck), Eddie Parker (Henchman with Dolan), Jack Perrin (Gunner, an army deserter), Jason Robards Sr.(Foley's Bodyguard), Barry Sullivan (Thug in car's back seat), Forrest Taylor (Snipe, Foranti thug), Ray Teal (Chief Guard at Steel Mill) ------ A sequel to The Green Hornet, The Green Hornet Strikes Again is a 15-chapter serial ... The Green Hornet is actually Britt Reid, fearless newspaper publisher, who dons the Hornet's guise to battle criminals that have managed to escape the long arm of the law, aided and by his side is Kato ... many close calls as the duo encounter a number of close calls involving a plane crash, an explosion in a laboratory, a roof cave-in, electrocution, and driving a car into a warehouse loaded with explosives, as they trail the foreign agents who are planning to sell bombs ... great stunt work by the Universal stunt personnel Eddie Parker (stunt double), Ken Terrell (stunt double) --- don't leave the theater until the final chapter "Smashing the Crime Ring" ... another winner from the vaults of Universal Pictures --- this is a must watch for the serial buffs in all of us.

CHAPTER TITLES:
1. Flaming Havoc
2. The Plunge of Peril
3. The Avenging Heavens
4. A Night of Terror
5. Shattering Doom
6. The Fatal Flash
7. Death in the Clouds
8. Human Targets
9. The Tragic Crash
10.Blazing Fury
11.Thieves of the Night
12.Crashing Barriers
13.The Flaming Inferno
14.Racketeering Vultures
15.Smashing the Crime Ring

BIOS:
1. Warren Hull (aka: John Warren Hull)
Date of birth: 17 January 1903 - Gasport, New York
Date of death: 14 September 1974 - Waterbury, Connecticut

2. Keye Luke
Date of birth: 18 June 1904 - Guangzhou, China
Date of death: 12 January 1991 - Whittier, California

3. Ford Beebe (Director)
Date of birth: 26 November 1888 - Grand Rapids, Michigan
Date of death: 26 November 1978 - Lake Elsinore, California

4. John Rawlins (Director)
Date of birth: 9 June 1902 - Long Beach, California
Date of death: 20 May 1997 - Arcadia, California

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5. Captain Video: Master of the Stratosphere (Judd Holdren & I. Stanford Jolley)
6. Dick Tracy's G-Men (Ralph Byrd)
7. Don Winslow of the Navy (Don Terry)
8. Don Winslow of the Coast Guard (Don Terry)
9. Drums of Fu Manchu (Henry Brandon)
10.Fighting Kit Carson (Johnny Mack Brown)
11.Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe (Buster Crabbe)
12.The Green Archer (Victory Jory)
13.Jungle Girl (Frances Gifford)
14.Jungle Jim (Grant Withers & Raymond Hatton)
15.Lost City of the Jungle (Russell Hayden & Keye Luke)
16.Mandrake the Magician (Warren Hull & Dick Curtis)
17.Miracle Rider (Tom Mix & Tony Jr)
18.The Painted Stallion (Ray "Crash" Corrigan)
19.The Phantom (Tom Tyler)
20.The Return of Chandu (Bela Lugosi)
21.Riders of Death Valley (Dick Foran, Leo Carrillo & Buck Jones)
22.Secret Agent X-9 (1937) (Scott Kolk & Henry Brandon)
23.Secret Agent X-9 (1945) (Lloyd Bridges & Keye Luke)
24.Sky Raiders (Donald Woods & Billy Halop)
25.Undersea Kingdom (Ray "Crash" Corrigan)
26.Winners of the West (Dick Foran, Harry Woods, Roy Barcroft & Charles Stevens)
27.Zane Greys "King of the Royal Mounted" (Allan "Rocky" Lane)
28.Zorro's Cliffhanger Collection (Reed Hadley, John Carroll & Linda Stirling)

Hats off and thanks to Les Adams (collector/guideslines for character identification), Chuck Anderson (Webmaster: The Old Corral/B-Westerns.Com), Boyd Magers (Western Clippings), Bobby J. Copeland (author of "Trail Talk"), Rhonda Lemons (Empire Publishing Inc) and Bob Nareau (author of "The Real Bob Steele") as they have rekindled my interest once again for B-Westerns and Serials --- looking forward to more high quality releases from the vintage serial era of the '20s, '30s & '40s and B-Westerns ... order your copy now from Amazon where there are plenty of copies available on VHS, stay tuned once again for top notch action mixed with deadly adventure --- if you enjoyed this title, why not check out VCI Entertainment where they are experts in releasing B-Westerns and Serials --- all my heroes have been cowboys!

Total Time: 300 mins on VHS ~ Anchor Bay Entertain ~ (12/16/1997)

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