Sea Raiders is a Universal

Universal Pictures

-1920:* White Youth* The Flaming Disc* Am I Dreaming?* The Dragon's Net* The Adorable Savage* Putting It Over* The Line Runners-1921:* The Fire Eater* A Battle of Wits* Dream Girl* The Millionaire...

 film serial starring the Dead End Kids

Dead End Kids

The Dead End Kids were a group of young actors from New York who appeared in Sidney Kingsley's Broadway play Dead End in 1935. In 1937 producer Samuel Goldwyn brought all of them to Hollywood and turned the play into a film...

 and Little Tough Guys

Little Tough Guys

The Little Tough Guys were a group of actors who made a series of films and serials released by Universal Studios from 1938 through 1943...

. This was the child stars' second of three serials, between Junior G-Men

Junior G-Men (serial)

Junior G-Men is a Universal film serial. It was Universal's 116th serial of their total of output of 137. It is one of the three serials starring "The Dead End Kids and Little Tough Guys" who were under contract to Universal at the time...

(1940) and Junior G-Men of the Air

Junior G-Men of the Air

Junior G-Men of the Air is a Universal film serial starring the Dead End Kids and the Little Tough Guys.-Plot:Japanese sabateurs attack America in preparation for an invasion during World War II. They are discovered by "Ace" Holden and The Dead End Kids, who do not trust the police enough to help...

(1942). Sea Raiders was the 52nd serial to be released by Universal (or the 120th if silent

Silent film

A silent film is a film with no synchronized recorded sound, especially with no spoken dialogue. In silent films for entertainment the dialogue is transmitted through muted gestures, pantomime and title cards...

 serials are counted). The plot concerns the heroes foiling Nazi

Nazism

Nazism, the common short form name of National Socialism was the ideology and practice of the Nazi Party and of Nazi Germany...

 attacks on American shipping.

Cast

• Billy Halop
  Billy Halop
  William "Billy" Halop was an American actor born in New York City.He came from a Jewish theatrical family: his mother was a dancer, and his sister Florence Halop was a child actress, who later worked on radio and in television...
  
   as Billy Adams
• Huntz Hall
  Huntz Hall
  Henry Richard "Huntz" Hall was an American radio, theatrical, and motion picture performer noted primarily for his roles in the "Dead End Kids" movies, such as Angels with Dirty Faces , which gave way to the "The Bowery Boys" movie franchise, a prolific and highly successful series of comedies in...
  
   as Toby Nelson
• Gabriel Dell
  Gabriel Dell
  Gabriel Dell was an American actor and one of the members of what came to be known as the Dead End Kids/East Side Kids/The Bowery Boys.-Early life:...
  
   as Bilge
• Bernard Punsly
  Bernard Punsly
  Bernard Punsly , was a New York City-born American actor who later left show business to become a physician.-Career and personal life:...
  
   as Butch
• Hal E. Chester
  Hal E. Chester
  Hal E. "Hally" Chester is a American film producer and former child actor.He is best known for his appearances in Universal Studios's Little Tough Guys series at the end of the 1930s. His last appearance in this series was in Sea Raiders...
  
   as Swab
• Joe Recht as Lug
• William Hall
  William Hall (actor)
  William Hall is an actor, director, trainer, mask maker in San Francisco, California. He is the editor of The Playbook, Improv Games for Performers....
  
   as Brack Warren
• John McGuire as Tom Adams
• Mary Field
  Mary Field
  Mary Field was an American film actress who primarily appeared in supporting roles.- Early life :She was born in New York City, New York. As a child she never knew her biological parents. During her infancy she was left outside the doors of a church with a note pinned to her saying that her name...
  
   as Aggie Nelson
• Edward Keane as Elliott Carlton
• Marcia Ralston as Leah Carlton
• Reed Hadley
  Reed Hadley
  Reed Hadley was an American movie, television and radio actor.Reed Hadley was born Reed Herring in Petrolia in Clay County near Wichita Falls, Texas, to Bert Herring, an oil well driller, and his wife Minnie. Hadley had one sister, Bess Brenner. He was reared in Buffalo, New York...
  
   as Carl Tonjes
• Stanley Blystone
  Stanley Blystone
  Stanley Blystone was an American film actor who made over 500 films appearances between 1924 and 1956.-Career:Born in Eau Claire, Wisconsin, Blystone's full name was William Stanley Blystone...
  
   as Captain Olaf Nelson
• Richard Alexander
  Richard Alexander (actor)
  Richard Alexander was an American character actor. Born in Dallas, Texas, Alexander appeared in numerous film serials such as Flash Gordon and Zorro Rides Again, as well as a leading role in All Quiet on the Western Front. He is buried in Forest Lawn Memorial Park.-References:...
  
   as Jenkins
• Ernie Adams
  Ernie Adams (actor)
  Ernie Adams was an American film actor. He appeared in over 400 films between 1919 and 1948.He was born in San Francisco, California and died in Hollywood, California.-Selected filmography:...
  
   as Zeke, Skipper of the Mary Lou

Stunts

• Bud Geary
  Bud Geary
  Bud Geary , was an American film actor. He appeared in 258 films between years 1920 and 1946.He was born in Salt Lake City, Utah and died in Hollywood, California, aged 48.-Selected filmography:* Robin Hood...
  
  
• Eddie Parker
  Eddie Parker
  Eddie Parker was a stuntman and actor who appeared in many classic films, mostly westerns and horror films...
  
   doubling Eddie Dunn
• Tom Steele
  Tom Steele (stuntman)
  Tom Steele was a stunt man and actor, best remembered for appearing in serials, especially those produced by Republic Pictures, in both capacities.-Early life:...
  
   doubling Reed Hadley
• Dale Van Sickel
  Dale Van Sickel
  Dale Harris Van Sickel was an American college football, basketball and baseball player during the 1920s, who later became a Hollywood motion picture actor and stunt performer for over forty years...
  
  
• Bud Wolfe
  Bud Wolfe
  Roland 'Bud' Wolfe was an American pilot who parachuted from an RAF Spitfire plane into a peat bog on the Inishowen peninsula in County Donegal, Ireland, on November 30, 1941. The incident initiated a diplomatic row between Britain and Ireland....
  
   doubling Richard Bond, Morgan Wallace & John McGuire
• Duke York
  Duke York
  Duke York was an American film actor. Born in Danby, New York, York was born Charles Everest Sinsabaugh...
  
  doubling Huntz Hall

Chapter titles

1. The Raider Strikes
2. Flaming Torture
3. The Tragic Crash
4. The Raider Strikes Again
5. Flames of Fury
6. Blasted from the Air
7. Victims of the Storm
8. Dragged to Their Doom
9. Battling the Sea Beast
10. Periled by a Panther
11. Entombed in the Tunnel
12. Paying the Penalty

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