The Hurricane Express

The Hurricane Express
Directed byArmand Schaeffer
J.P. McGowan
Written byColbert Clark
Barney Sarecky
Wyndham Gittens
George Morgan
J.P. McGowan
Produced byNat Levine
StarringJohn Wayne
Tully Marshall
Conway Tearle
Distributed byMascot Pictures
Release date
  • August 1, 1932 (1932-08-01)
Running time
12 chapters (227 min)
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
The Hurricane Express, condensed version
The Hurricane Express, Chapter 1: The Wrecker

The Hurricane Express is a 1932 American Pre-Code 12-chapter Mascot Pictures film serial.[1] Written by Colbert Clark, Barney Sarecky, Wyndham Gittens, George Morgan, and J.P. McGowan, the serial was directed by Armand Schaeffer and J.P. McGowan and produced by Nat Levine. The Hurricane Express stars John Wayne as aircraft pilot Larry Baker. Wayne goes after a mystery villain named "The Wrecker", who was responsible for a train crash that killed Baker's father.[2]

  1. ^ Weiss and Goodgold 1973, p. 30.
  2. ^ Rainey 2010, p. 363.