TAILSPIN TOMMY
12 CHAPTER SERIAL
1934
Tailspin Tommy was the first serial to be based on a comic strip.
PLOT:
A young mechanic gets a job with a small airline, which he helps win a mail contract. However, a rival airline plots to destroy it in order to get the contract for itself.
CAST:
Maurice Murphy ... Tailspin Tommy Tompkins
Noah Beery Jr. ... Peter 'Skeeter' Milligan
Patricia Farr ... Betty Lou Barnes
Walter Miller ... Bruce Hoyt
Grant Withers ... Milt Howe
Charles A. Browne ... Paul Smith
Bryant Washburn ... Mr. Grant - Film Director of 'Midnight Patrol'
Belle Daube ... Mrs. Martha Tompkins, Tommy's Mother
John Davidson ... Wade 'Tiger' Taggart
Harrison Greene ... Air Circus Announcer
William Desmond ... Sloane - Taggart's Office Henchman
Lew Kelly ... Victor Martin - Three Point Airport Dispatcher
John Ince ... Eric Peabody
Lee Beggs ... Deacon Grimes
Ethan Laidlaw ... Bart Dirk, Henchman
Dennis Moore ... Pilot Herb Slack
Edmund Cobb ... Pilot 'Speed' Walton
Jack Leonard ... Al, Skinny Mechanic
Monte Montague ... Cliff, Hefty Mechanic
Rita Rozelle ... Mary Dale - Actress in 'Midnight Patrol'
Beulah Hutton ... Sloane's Ambassador Club Date
Gertrude Astor ... Fake Office Nurse
CHAPTERS:
1. Death Flies the Mail
2. The Mail Goes Through
3. Sky bandits
4. The Copper Room
5. Night Flight
6. The Baited Trap
7. Tommy to the Rescue
8. The Thrill of Death
9. The Earth God's Roar
10. Death at the Controls
11. Rushing Waters
12. Littleville's Big Day
RUNNING TIME: 248 MIN