The Adventures of Frank Merriwell (serial)

The Adventures of Frank Merriwell
The Adventures of Frank Merriwell
Directed by	Clifford Smith (as Cliff Smith); Lew Landers (uncredited)
Written by	George H. Plympton; Ella O'Neill
Starring	Donald Briggs
Distributed by	Universal Pictures
Release date	1936;
Running time	12 chapters (219 min)
Country	United States
Language	English

The Adventures of Frank Merriwell (1936) is a Universal movie serial based on the Frank Merriwell books by Gilbert Patten.

Plot[edit]

College sports hero Frank Meriwell leaves school before an impending decisive baseball game to track down his missing father and locate a fabulous lost treasure.^[1]

Cast[edit]

Don Briggs as Frank Merriwell
Jean Rogers as Elsie Belwood
John King as Bruce Browning
Bentley Hewett as Daggett
House Peters Jr. as House Peters
Carla Laemmle as Carla
Sumner Getchell as Harry
Wallace Reid Jr. as Wally
Herschel Mayall Jr. as Herschel
Al Bridge as Henchman Black
Dick Wessell as Henchman Joe
Bud Osborne as Henchman Gorman
Ed Cobb as Henchman Pete
Sam McDaniel as Servant Jeff
Walter Law as Mr. Belwood
Ella Ethridge as Mrs. Merriwell
William P. Carlton as Mr. Merriwell

Production[edit]

The Adventures of Frank Merriwell is set in 1936 instead of the 1890s of the source material.^[2]

Universal combined several stories by Burt Standish to make this film.^[3]

Chapter titles[edit]

College Hero
The Death Plunge
Death at the Crossroads
Wreck of the Viking
Capsized in the Cataract
Descending Doom
Monster of the Deep
The Tragic Victory
Between Savage Foes
Imprisoned in a Dungeon
The Crash in the Chasm
The Winning Play

_Source:^[4]

References[edit]

^ Harmon, Jim; Donald F. Glut (1973). "4. The Boys 'Sir, I'd Advise You To Duck That Spear!'". The Great Movie Serials: Their Sound and Fury. Routledge. p. 81. ISBN 978-0-7130-0097-9.
^ Harmon, Jim; Donald F. Glut (1973). "4. The Boys 'Sir, I'd Advise You To Duck That Spear!'". The Great Movie Serials: Their Sound and Fury. Routledge. p. 81. ISBN 978-0-7130-0097-9.
^ Cline, William C. (1984). "2. In Search of Ammunition". In the Nick of Time. McFarland & Company, Inc. p. 11. ISBN 0-7864-0471-X.
^ Cline, William C. (1984). "Filmography". In the Nick of Time. McFarland & Company, Inc. p. 214. ISBN 0-7864-0471-X.

External links[edit]

The Adventures of Frank Merriwell at IMDb
The Adventures of Frank Merriwell at AllMovie

Preceded by Tailspin Tommy in the Great Air Mystery (1935)	Universal Serial The Adventures of Frank Merriwell (1936)	Succeeded by Flash Gordon (1936)

[1] Harmon, Jim; Donald F. Glut (1973). "4. The Boys 'Sir, I'd Advise You To Duck That Spear!'". The Great Movie Serials: Their Sound and Fury. Routledge. p. 81. ISBN 978-0-7130-0097-9.

[2] Harmon, Jim; Donald F. Glut (1973). "4. The Boys 'Sir, I'd Advise You To Duck That Spear!'". The Great Movie Serials: Their Sound and Fury. Routledge. p. 81. ISBN 978-0-7130-0097-9.

[3] Cline, William C. (1984). "2. In Search of Ammunition". In the Nick of Time. McFarland & Company, Inc. p. 11. ISBN 0-7864-0471-X.

[4] Cline, William C. (1984). "Filmography". In the Nick of Time. McFarland & Company, Inc. p. 214. ISBN 0-7864-0471-X.

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