SUPERHEROES LIVES

Genre:
Action

Synopsis:
Best remembered today as the upwardly mobile errand boy in Ernst Lubitsch's The Shop Around the Corner (1940), busy juvenile actor William Tracy starred in the title-role of this popular action serial that very same year. Released in fifteen chapters by Columbia Pictures, Terry of the Pirates told of how young Terry Lee goes in search of his father (J. Paul Jones, who has vanished in the Asian jungles. Dr. Lee, it turns out, was kidnapped by the jungle pirates of Fang (Dick Curtis), a local warlord attempting to solve the secret of the Temple of Mara. Attacked by Fang, his henchman Stanton (Jack Ingram) and an army of Tiger Men, Terry and his friends, Pat Ryan (Granville Owens, Normandie Drake (Joyce Bryant and the beautiful Dragon Lady (Sheila Darcy), manage not only to locate the missing Dr. Lee but also the hidden treasure of Mara.
(from nytimes.com)

Casts:
William Tracy ... Terry Lee
Jeff York ... Pat Ryan
Joyce Bryant ... Normandie Drake
Allen Jung ... Connie
Victor DeCamp ... Big Stoop
Sheila Darcy ... The Dragon Lady
Dick Curtis ... Master Fang
J. Paul Jones ... Dr. Herbert Lee
Forrest Taylor ... Mr. Drake
Jack Ingram ... Stanton, thug leader

Runtime:
270 min (15 chapters)

Superheroes:
Terry Lee

Based on the comic book:
"Terry and the Pirates" created by Milton Caniff

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