Holt of the Secret Service

Starring:Jack Holt, Evelyn Brent
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Holt of the Secret Service
Starring: Ted Adams , Evelyn Brent , Jack Cheatham , Tristram Coffin , and Edward Hearn
Director: James W. Horne
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ASIN: B0006IUDZ8
Release Date: 2004-12-21

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" the King of Serials on DVD...VCI Entertainment ~ Holt of the Secret Service (1941)"
Jack Holt -- Toughest "Tough Guy" in the Serials!

Holt of the Secret Service
Starring: Ted Adams , Evelyn Brent , Jack Cheatham , Tristram Coffin , and Edward Hearn
Director: James W. Horne
Manufacturer: Vci Video
ProductGroup: DVD
Binding: DVD

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ASIN: B0006N2ES2
Release Date: 2004-12-28

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Square-jawed Jack Holt plays himself - or at least the screen version of "himself"- in this exciting Columbia cliffhanger in 15 chapters. Holt, playing a U.S. Secret Service agent, is assigned to track down a ring of counterfeiters flooding the country with bogus money. With help from voluptuous Kay Drew (Evelyn Brent), he plans to join the gang by posing as desperate criminal Nick Farrel, and thereby get the goods on the bad guys. Holt endures numerous brushes with death over the course of the serial but manages to avoid even a scratch, or a crease in his well-tailored business suit. James W. Horne tightly directs and even manages to inject some humorous moments into the proceedings. Bonus Features: Digitally Remastered| Chapter Selection Menu| Bios & Filmographies| Bonus Cliffhanger Trailers. Specs: 1-DVD5 + 1-DVD9; Dolby Digital Mono; 280 minutes; B&W; 1.33:1 Aspect Ratio; MPAA - NR; Year - 1941; SRP - $19.99.

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" the King of Serials on DVD...VCI Entertainment ~ Holt of the Secret Service (1941)".......2005-10-04

VCI Entertainment and Columbia Pictures present "Holt of the Secret Service" (1941) (Dolby digitally remastered), 15 Chapters of vintage serial loaded with action sequences...story line involves counterfeiters and a gang of thugs that will stop at nothing with the government's best engraver who is being held against his will...can our hero Secret Agent Jack Holt who is the toughest guy on the Columbia lot keep the counterfeit plates out of circulation...will Holt and his partner agent Kay Drew infiltrate the gangs hideout foil the henchman...does Valden the gang's top dog believe Holt's story or will he learn the true identity of the boss and leader of the gang...what has a gambling ship got to do with Arnold who runs the show and Quist now impersonating the leader of the gang...Arnold and Garrity are at odds, which villain will wind up running the show and taking control over the always missing plates...never fear Granite-Jawed Jack Holt is here, watch Chapter 15 and see what we mean....keep that thought as each chapter is more exciting than the previous one...return next week to this local theater for another episode of action and adventure that will keep you thrilled until the next chapter.

Under director James W.; Horne with original screenplay by Basil Dickey, George Plympton and Wyndham Gittens, music score by Lee Zahler...the cast include Jack Holt (Agent Jack Holt, alias Nick Farrel), Evelyn Brent (Agent Kay Drew), C. Montague Shaw (Chief John W. Malloy), Tristram Coffin (Ed Valdin), John Ward ('Lucky' Arnold), Ted Adams (Quist), Joe McGuinn ('Crimp' Evans), Jack Cheatham (Agent Frank), George Chesebro (Rankin, Garrity - Henchman), Dale Van Sickel (Slugger - Henchman)...Columbia Pictures stuntwork is always good till the last drop and this serial is no exception...there is a great deal of entertainment here for the cliffhanger fans out there...all courtesy of VCI Entertainment, who in my humble opinion is the best there is in restoring early serials and features.

CHAPTER TITLES: (Disc One)
1. Chaotic Creek
2. Ramparts of Revenge
3. Illicit Wealth
4. Menaced by Fate
5. Exits to Terror
6. Deadly Doom
7. Out of the Past
8. Escape to Peril
9. Sealed in Silence
10.Named To Die

SPECIAL FEATURES: (Disc One)
VCI CLIFFHANGER TRAILERS:
1. Buck Rogers (Buster Crabbe)
2. Adventures of the Flying Cadets (Bobby Jordan)
3. Drums of Fu Manchu (Henry Brandon)
4. Jungle Girl (Frances Gifford)
5. The Phantom (Tom Tyler)
6. Zane Greys "King of the Royal Mounted" (Allan "Rocky" Lane)
7. Secret Agent X-9 (1945) (Lloyd Bridges & Keye Luke)
8. Adventures of Red Ryder (Don "Red" Barry)
9. Secret Agent X-9 (1937) (Scott Kolk & Henry Brandon)
10.Zorro's Cliffhanger Collection (Reed Hadley, John Carroll & Linda Stirling)
11.Dick Tracy's G-Men (Ralph Byrd)
12.Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe (Buster Crabbe)
13.Jungle Jim (Grant Withers & Raymond Hatton)
14.Miracle Rider (Tom Mix & Tony Jr)

BIOS: (Disc One)
1. Jack Holt (aka Charles John Holt)
Birth Date: 5/31/1888 - Winchester, VA
Died: 1/18/1951 - Los Angeles, CA
2. Evelyn Brent (aka Mary Elizabeth Riggs)
Birth Date: 10/20/1899 - Tampa, FL
Died: 7/04/1975 - Los Angeles, CA
3. Tristram Coffin
Birth Date: 1910
Died: 3/26/1990
4. James W. Horne (Director)
Birth Date: 12/14/1880 - San Francisco, CA
Died: 6/29/1942 - Los Angeles, CA

CHAPTER TITLES: (Disc Two)
11.Ominous Warnings
12.The Stolen Signal
13.Prison of Jeopardy
14.Afair Afloat
15.Yielded Hostage

TRAILERS: (Disc Two)
1. The Secret Code (Paul Kelly as the Black Commando)
2. Superman (Kirk Alyn, Noel Neill and Tommy Bond)
3. The Great Adventures of Captain Kidd--King of Pirates" (John Crawford, Richard Crane and Marshall Reed)
4. The Vigilante (Ralph Byrd, Lyle Talbot, George Chesebro and Jack Ingram)

If you crave action, drama and plenty of adventure then this is the place for all of the above...if you enjoyed this serial check out another release from VCI Entertainment and Columbia Pictures present "Captain Video: Master of the Stratosphere" (1951) (digitally remastered), 15 Chapters.finally for the first time on video the really great Columbia Serial that broke the mold...we have everything a serial fan would want...the tinted sequences by Cinecolor and unique inventions that were unlike any other serial out there in the '50s...get out there as they're going fast, this is the one you've been waiting for.

Great job by VCI Entertainment for releasing "Holt of the Secret Service" (1941), the digital transfere with a clean, clear and crisp print...looking forward to more high quality releases from the vintage serial era of the '30s, '40s & '50s...order your copy now from Amazon or VCI Entertainment, stay tuned once again for top notch action mixed with deadly adventure from the "King of Serials" VCI...just the way we like 'em!

Total Time: 280 mins on 2 DVD's ~ VCI Entertainment 8411 ~ (12/28/2004)

Jack Holt -- Toughest "Tough Guy" in the Serials!.......2005-02-11

VCI continues to release top-notch serial fun and entertainment with HOLT OF THE SECRET SERVICE, a 15-episode Columbia chapterplay from 1941.

Jack Holt and Evelyn Brent comprise one of the most unusual tandems of heroes in serial history, long in the tooth but also plenty long on toughness. Masquerading as "Nick Farrel", escaped tough guy, and his wife, Holt and Brent infiltrate a gang of counterfeiters. The setting is surprisingly widespread for a chapterplay, as the action moves from the gang's hideout in a lost canyon to a gambling ship on the high seas to a small island country where the gang hopes to escape U.S. extradition. The main villain is a fellow named Arnold, but he hides behind the facade of one of his men, Quist, to shield himself from the Secret Service, and lets another one of his men, Valden (frequent serial henchman Tris Coffin), do most of his dirty work. The island nation has its own pocket dictator, who is also trying to rub out our boy Jack.

Jack Holt is, simply put, the toughest leading man in serial history, the type of guy who could swallow nails and crap thumbtacks. When he gets in a fistfight with four of Arnold's boys and beats the hell out of the entire quartet, you can believe it.

As this is a James Horne serial, some of you might wonder about the "comedy" content. There is little of the funny stuff that you'll find in such Horne classics as TERRY AND THE PIRATES or THE SPIDER RETURNS, unless you count the occasional "undercranking" that makes everybody look like they are rushing out of a burning house, or the fact that, unlike the Republic serials in which bands were used to keep the Fedoras on during fights, Columbia apparently just instructed their actors and stuntmen to crush their hats down tightly on their heads, making everybody resemble two-fisted Buster Keatons.

I give HOLT OF THE SECRET SERVICE a solid *** and recommend it highly. It's available on DVD from a cheap company, and you get what you pay for -- the VCI release is the one to get.

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