Tag: Ford Beebe

The Green Hornet – 1940 serial Blu-ray review

The Green Hornet is a 1940 thirteen-chapter serial from Universal Pictures that was based on a radio series from the 1930’s by George W. Trendle and Fran Striker. Gordon Jones (The Wistful Widow of Wagon Gap, The Big Shot) stars as both Britt Reid, publisher of The Sentinel newspaper, and the masked hero known as…


Wild West Days Blu-ray review

Based on the novel by W.R. Burnett, Wild West Days is a 13-chapter serial from Universal Studios. This 1937 serial was directed by Ford Beebe (The Phantom Creeps) and Clifford Smith (Secret Agent X-9). In this serial, Kentucky Wade (screen legend Johnny Mack Brown, The Oregon Trail, Female, A Woman of Affairs), Dude Hanford, Mike…