Scouts to the Rescue

Scouts to the Rescue is a 1939 Universal film serial directed by Alan James and Ray Taylor. It starred Jackie Cooper and Bill Cody Jr.

Scouts to the Rescue
Directed by	Alan James Ray Taylor
Written by	Irving Crump Wyndham Gittens George H. Plympton Basil Dickey Joseph F. Poland
Produced by	Henry MacRae
Starring	Jackie Cooper David Durand Bill Cody, Jr. Vondell Darr William Ruhl
Cinematography	William A. Sickner
Edited by	Saul A. Goodkind Irving Birnbaum Joseph Gluck Louis Sackin Alvin Todd
Music by	Charles Previn
Distributed by	Universal Pictures
Release date	January 17, 1939 (1939-01-17)
Running time	12 chapters (231 minutes)
Country	United States
Language	English

Premise

A troop of Boy Scouts use a treasure map to find a stash of counterfeit notes and a lost tribe with a secret Radium deposit.

Cast

• Jackie Cooper as Bruce Scott, leader of the Scout Troop
• David Durand as Rip Rawson
• Bill Cody, Jr. as Skeets Scanlon
• Vondell Darr as Mary Scanlon
• William Ruhl as Hal Marvin, a G-Man on the trail of the counterfeiters
• Sidney Miller as Hermie, a Boy Scout
• Ivan Miller as Turk Mortensen
• Edwin Stanley as Pat Scanlon
• Ralph Dunn as Pug O'Toole, a gangster
• George Regas as Lukolu, high priest of the lost tribe
• Jack Mulhall as Scoutmaster Hale
• Jason Robards, Sr. as Doc, a gangster
• Dick Botiller as Leeka, Leader of Warriors
• Victor Adams as Hurst, a heavy
• Max Wagner as Joe, a henchman

Chapter titles

1. Death Rides the Air
2. Avalanche of Doom
3. Trapped by the Indians
4. River of Doom
5. Descending Doom
6. Ghost Town Menace
7. Destroyed by Dynamite
8. Thundering Hoofs [sic]
9. The Fire God Strikes
10. The Battle at Ghost Town
11. Hurtling Through Space
12. The Boy Scouts' Triumph

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See also

• List of film serials
• List of film serials by studio