Films Directed by Lewis D. Collins (Study Guide) - The Adventures of Smilin' Jack, the Royal Mounted Rides Again, the Great Alaskan Mystery (Paperback)

This is nonfiction commentary. Chapters: The Adventures of Smilin' Jack, the Royal Mounted Rides Again, the Great Alaskan Mystery, Lost City of the Jungle, Secret Agent X-9, Junior G-Men of the Air, the Master Key, Mystery of the River Boat, the Scarlet Horseman, Raiders of Ghost City, Jungle Queen, the Mysterious Mr. M, Adventures of the Flying Cadets, the Desert Trail. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 63. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: The Adventures of Smilin' Jack (1943) is a Universal movie serial based on the comic strip The Adventures of Smilin' Jack. The serial was based on the comic strip by Zack Moseley but it was not in the spirit of the strip as would normally be expected from a Universal production. Very little of the original comic strip was used and a new character, Tommy Thompson, was created by Universal. The similarity to Tommy Tomkins, of the Tailspin Tommy stories, may imply a crossover of sorts. Cline suggests that it was "a quick attempt to get a story on screen about a topical subject, and could have had almost any flyer with any name as a hero. Source: ...http: //booksllc.net/?id=10166709