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The Green Hornet (1940) DVD9 - Disk 1 of 2 - Chapters 01 to 07 of 13 [DDR]

The Green Hornet (1940) is a Universal movie serial based on The Green Hornet radio series by George W. Trendle and Fran Striker.

CAST:-
Gordon Jones as Britt Reid otherwise known as The Green Hornet
Al Hodge as the (uncredited) voice of the Green Hornet. Hodge played the Hornet on the original radio series.
Wade Boteler as Michael Axford, Reid's bodyguard
Anne Nagel as Lenore "Casey" Case, Reid's secretary
Keye Luke as Kato, who is Korean in this serial rather than the original Japanese nationality of the character due to anti-Japanese sentiment rising at the time. This was two years prior to the December 7, 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor and the USA's entry into the war (all thirteen episodes are copyrighted 1939). The radio version dropped the nationality from the introductory sequence, included passing references to him being Filipino in dialogue, and only years later added that to the standard intro.
Phillip Trent as Jasper Jenks, a reporter
Cy Kendall as Curtis Monroe, The Leader's chief henchman
Stanley Andrews as Police Commissioner
Selmer Jackson as District Attorney
Joseph Crehan as Judge Stanton

Directed by Ford Beebe, Ray Taylor
Produced by Henry MacRae
Written by George H. Plympton, Basil Dickey, Morrison Wood, Lyonel Margolies, Fran Striker

CHAPTERS:-
01. The Tunnel of Terror
02. The Thundering Terror
03. Flying Coffins
04. Pillar of Flame
05. The Time Bomb
06. Highways of Peril
07. Bridge of Disaster
08. Dead or alive
09. The Hornet Trapped
10. Bullets and Ballots
11. Disaster Rides the Rails
12. Panic in the Zoo
13. Doom of the Underworld



Was Green Hornet's 'Beauty' the First of All Supercars?

THE Jan. 14 release of “The Green Hornet” gives occasion to recall that the first roadgoing 200-mile-per-hour car was a 1937 Lincoln-Zephyr. Black Beauty, the automotive star of the cliff-hanging “Green Hornet” movie serial of the 1940s, scorched Mulholland Drive in Los Angeles as the car of the series' masked hero.

The Black Beauty conceptualized it all. Presenting the car to Britt Reid, the series crime-fighting hero, in the opening episode, his valet and chauffeur, Kato, explains the modifications made to the 267-cubic-inch V-12 engine. In stock form, it produced 110 horsepower, but Kato's 'chemical energizer' transformed the Zephyr’s powerplant into "the strongest motor ever built — and the fastest." The energizer delivers on-demand urge.
“What'll she do?” Reid asks.
“Better than 200,” Kato says.

SYNOPSIS:- The Green Hornet (1940)
Newspaper publisher Britt Reid, secretly The Green Hornet, and his Korean valet Kato investigate and expose several seemingly separate rackets. This leads them into continued conflict with the Leader, the criminal mastermind behind the Syndicate and the individual crimes.

TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS:-
Video Codec: MPEG-2
Video Bitrate: 4999 kbps
Video Resolution: 720x480
Video Aspect Ratio: 1.333:1
Frames Per Second: 29.970
Audio Codec: AC3
Audio Bitrate: 192kb/s CBR 48000 Hz
Audio Streams: 2
Audio Languages:English
RunTime 258 mins
Subtitles: None
Ripped by: Trinidad [DDR]
Duration: 258 mins