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Tim Tyler's Luck (1937)
About this film
Frankie Thomas (of Tom Corbett, Space Cadet) plays a boy who goes to Africa in search of his scientist father, and joins forces with a woman who is on the trail of the ivory smuggler who framed her brother for a diamond theft. They end up having to fight both wild animals and hard-core criminals. Based on the adventure comic strip by Lyman Young. 12-chapter cliffhanger serial, colorized Frankie Thomas as Tim Tyler Frances Robinson as Lora Lacey Jack Mulhall as Sgt. Gates Al Shean as Professor Tyler Norman Willis as Spider Webb Anthony Warde as Garry Drake Earl Douglas as Jules Lazarre William 'Billy' Benedict as Spud Frank Mayo as Jim Conway Alan Gregg as Brent Pat J. O'Brien as Patrolman Berry Stanley Blystone as Capt. Clark
Directors & creators
Universal Pictures
Subjects
cliffhanger serial, colorized, adventure