Tailspin Tommy (serial)

Tailspin Tommy
Directed byLew Landers (as Louis Friedlander)
Written byElla O'Neill (screenplay)
Vin Moore
Basil Dickey
Norman S. Hall
Robert Hershon
George H. Plympton
Based onTailspin Tommy
by Hal Forrest
Produced byMilton Gatzert
Henry MacRae (associate)
StarringMaurice Murphy
Noah Beery, Jr.
Patricia Farr
Walter Miller
Grant Withers
CinematographyRichard Fryer
William A. Sickner
Edited byAlbert Akst
Irving Applebaum
Saul A. Goodkind
Edward Todd
Production
company
Distributed byUniversal Pictures
Release date
  • October 29, 1934 (1934-10-29)
Running time
12 chapters (248 minutes)
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Tailspin Tommy is a 12-episode 1934 Universal film serial based on the Tailspin Tommy comic strip by Hal Forrest.[1] Directed by Lew Landers and produced by Milton Gatzert, the serial was the 97th serial of the 137 released by that studio (and the 24th with sound). The plot of Tailspin Tommy concerns a conflict over a government airmail contract.[N 1]

  1. ^ Weiss and Goodgold 1973, p. 55.
  2. ^ Weiss and Goodgold 1973, p. I.


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