Adventures of The Flying Cadets

Starring:Johnny Downs, Bobby Jordan, Ward Wood, William 'Billy' Benedict, Eduardo Ciannelli, Regis Toomey, Robert Armstrong, Charles Trowbridge, Joseph Crehan, Addison Richards, Leyland Hodgson, Ian Keith, Philip Van Zandt, Joan Blair, Selmer Jackson, Jennifer Holt, Pat Flaherty, William Forrest, Louis V. Arco, Louis Adlon
Director: Lewis D. Collins, Ray Taylor
Studio: Vci Video
Product Type: DVD

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"filmed in 1943 during World War 2 ~ The Flying Cadets"
Beware Der Schvartz Hanker!!!

Adventures of The Flying Cadets
Starring: Johnny Downs , Bobby Jordan , Ward Wood , William 'Billy' Benedict , and Eduardo Ciannelli
Director: Lewis D. Collins , and Ray Taylor
Manufacturer: Vci Video
ProductGroup: DVD
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ASIN: B0001EQIHO
Release Date: 2004-02-24

Description

A group of young flying students are suspected of a series of murders perpetrated by the mysterious Black Hangman. The Hangman, pretending to be a Nazi agent, is actually an engineer who has located lost helium deposits in Africa and is planning to sell the helium to Germany through a Gestapo ring. Eventually, however, the lads learn the Hangman's true identity and wipe out the Gestapo ring. Vindicated, the American lads, now heroes, receive their Air Corps wings. Bonus Features: Serial Trailers| Chapter Menu Specs: 2-DVD9s + 1-DVD5; Dolby Digital Mono; 265 minutes; B&W; 1.33:1 Aspect Ratio; MPAA - NR; Year - 1943; SRP - $19.99.

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"filmed in 1943 during World War 2 ~ The Flying Cadets".......2005-09-07

VCI Entertainment and Universal Pictures present "Adventures of the Flying Cadets" (1943), filmed during the War Years when the world was battling Germany and the Nazi's...each chapter captures the spirit of what America and their allies were trying to achieve...Freedom!.

Under director's Lewis D. Collins and Ray Taylor, featuring the writing skills with story and screenplay by Morgan Fox...with a fine cast which include Johnny Downs as Cadet Danny Collins, Bobby Jordan as Cadet Jinx Roberts, Robert Wood as Cadet Scrapper McKay, William "Billy" Benedict as Cadet Zombie Parker, Robert Armstrong (of the "King Kong" fame) as Arthur Galt (alias The Black Hangman), Jennifer Holt as Andre Mason, Eduardo Ciannelli as Kurt von Heiger, alias Corby, Regis Toomey as Capt. Ralph Carson...our story enters as such, we have flying students Collins, Roberts, MacKay and Zombie Parker who are suspects in a series of murders...but the plot thickens as a Nazi agent Arthur Galt also known as The Black Hangman is really the perpetrator...an expedition trying to locate lost helium deposits in Africa to sell to Germany through a Gestapo ring...Karl Von Heiger is the leader of the Gestapo, can he and The Black Hangman suceed in taking the helium back to Germany...will the Cadets unit and save the day hoping to clear their names and receive Air Corps wings...the U.S. Army Intelligence is hot on the trail of The Black Hangman and Flying Cadets...who will get there first!

Chapter Titles
1. The Black Hangman Strikes
2. Menaced by Murderers
3. Into the Flames
4. Doorway of Death
5. Crashed in a Crater
6. Rendezvous with Doom
7. Gestapo Execution
8. Masters of Treachery
9. Wings of Destruction
10.Caught in the Caves of An-Kar-Ban
11.Hostages for Treason
12.The Black Hangman Strikes Again
13.The Toll of Treason

Universal Serials - Coming Soon:
JUNIOR G-MEN OF THE AIR
PHANTOM CREEPS
TIM TYLER'S LUCK
TAILSPIN TOMMY

Bonus Serial Trailers:
KING OF THE ROCKET MEN (Republic Serial)
UNDERSEA KINGDOM (Republic Serial)
TJE GREEN ARCJER (Columbia Serial)
SUPERMAN (Columbia Serial)
CONGO BILL (Columbia Serial)

Take a bow VCI Entertainment on this remastered Dolby Digital Mono release with a clean, clear and crisp print...looking forward to more of the same from the '40s vintage...order your copy now from Amazon or VCI Entertainment...another top notch serial from VCI...just the way we like 'em!

Total Time: 239 mins on 2 DVD's ~ VCI Entertainment 8325 ~ (2/24/2004)

Beware Der Schvartz Hanker!!!.......2005-01-01

VCI continues its impressive lineup of DVD serial releases with THE ADVENTURES OF THE FLYING CADETS (1943), a 13-episode Universal chapterplay.

Four young flying students are accused of the murder of a commanding officer; he was actually done in by a mysterious Nazi saboteur known as the Black Hangman. To clear their good names (and they're called Danny, Jinx, Scrapper, and Zombie, four good names if I've ever heard them), the four Air Cadets track the Nazis across land, sea, and air, eventually unmasking the Hangman and forcing a showdown at a secret African helium mine.

Universal released a new serial starring the Dead End Kids/Little Tough Guys once a year from 1940 through 1942. I suspect FLYING CADETS was written for the DEK/LTGs, but it ended up utilizing the services of only Bobby Jordan, who hadn't appeared with his Dead End Kids mates in any of the earlier serials. The other three cadets are the familiar Johnny Downs and Billy Benedict and the unfamiliar Ward Wood; the supporting cast includes Eduardo Ciannelli, Robert Armstrong, the lovely Jennifer Holt, and the ever-popular Regis Toomey.

Like most of the later Universal serials, you'll find plenty of stock footage; a Greek chorus of minor characters who begin each chapter by talking about what's going on (was this cheaper than the beloved "scrawl" that began BUCK ROGERS and earlier Universal chapterplays?); and a little too much plot to be healthy in a serial. It's also surprising that we, the audience out there in movieland, are let in on the identity of the Black Hangman very early in the game, although that may have been because there's no mistaking who it is under that mask. It's fun to watch the scheming Axis Huns double-cross themselves on an ongoing basis; there's no honor amongst Nazis, it seems. I also liked the way Ciannelli blusters about the Cadets: "Those idiots! Those dummkopffs! They've outsmarted us again!" The biggest laugh, however, is reserved for those times in which the Nazis refer to the Black Hangman as "Der Shvartz Hanker", which, gosh darn it, is just hilarious, you'll have to trust me. Oh, and there's also a peppy "Air Cadets" theme song that plays over the opening Cadet credits, so be forewarned. It'll stick to your brain the way peanut butter sticks to the roof of your mouth.

THE ADVENTURES OF THE FLYING CADETS is officially a rather pedestrian serial (the participation of the other Dead End Kids/Little Tough Guys would've helped immeasurably), but the DVD is very good and contains a slew o' really fun serial trailers. Recommended.

Adventures of the Flying Cadets [13 Chapters]

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Adventures of the Flying Cadets [13 Chapters]
Starring: Robert Armstrong , William Benedict , Eduardo Ciannelli , Johnny Downs , and Jennifer Holt
Director: Lewis D. Collins , and Ray Taylor
Manufacturer: Alpha Video
ProductGroup: DVD
Binding: DVD

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