The second of Columbia's serials (between "Jungle Menace" and "The Secret of
Treasure Island"), and all of the first three were outside productions from
Louis Weiss, with the remaining 54 serials being in-house assigned to various
Columbia contractee producers.
While this one is basically filled with canoes chasing canoes down the river,
and air-plane crashes galore (at least 10 times in 15 chapters), it is heads
and shoulders above the three serials Weiss produced for Stage and Screen
Distribution in 1935-36.
All three of the Weiss-produced serials for Columbia, while padded beyond the
needs of the story line, make more sense logically than the majority of the
Larry Darmour serials directed by James W. Horne.
Nowhere near as much fun to watch, though.
While it had been over two years since the Weiss-Merrick crew had made a serial,
they still managed to populate this cast with nearly every player that had
appeared in their "Stage and Screen" serials...




Original filenames unknown




No subtitles included




Screenshots five episodes only

Episode 01 , Episode 02 , Episode 03 ,
Episode 04 , Episode 05 .




The Mysterious Pilot 1937



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