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Tailspin Tommy in The Great Air Mystery is a american film of genre Comedy directed by Ray Taylor released in USA on 20 october 1935 with Jean Rogers
Tailspin Tommy in The Great Air Mystery (1935)
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Add to a movie listTailspin Tommy in the Great Air Mystery is a 15-episode 1935 Universal movie serial based on the Tailspin Tommy comic strip by Hal Forrest and starring Clark Williams, Jean Rogers and Noah Beery, Jr.. The picture was the 96th of the 137 serials released by the studio (the 28th of which to be made with sound).
^ Weiss and Goodgold 1973, p. 74.
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"Tailspin" Tommy (Clark Williams) and his fellow pilots prevent a group of corrupt businessmen, Manuel Casmetto (Herbert Heywood) and Horace Raymore (Matthew Betz ) from stealing Nazil Island's oil reserves. They are aided in their efforts by news reporter Milt Howe (Pat J. O'Brien). When Tommy is triumphant, he also finds he has a movie contract.Actors
Jean Rogers
(Betty Lou Barnes)
Noah Beery, Jr
(Skeeter Milligan)
Pat O'Brien
Bryant Washburn
(Ned Curtis)
Herbert Heywood
(Manuel Casmetto)
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