Secret Agent X-9 (1937 serial)

Secret Agent X-9 (1937) is a Universal film serial based on the comic strip Secret Agent X-9 by Dashiell Hammett and Alex Raymond.

Secret Agent X-9
Directed byFord Beebe
Clifford Smith
Written byCharles Flanders
Wyndham Gittens
Norman S. Hall
Leslie Swabacker
Ray Trampe
Dashiell Hammett (comic strip)
Produced byBen Koenig
Barney A. Sarecky
Henry MacRae
StarringScott Kolk
Jean Rogers
David Oliver
Monte Blue
Henry Brandon
CinematographyRichard Fryer
Jerome Ash
Edited bySaul A. Goodkind
Leete Renick Brown
Joseph Gluck
Louis Sackin
Alvin Todd
Music byClifford Vaughan
Distributed byUniversal Pictures
Release date
  • April 12, 1937 (1937-04-12)
Running time
12 chapters (232 minutes)
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Plot

G-Men learn that "Victor Brenda", a notorious jewel thief, is heading for the US, to steal the Belgravian crown jewels currently on exhibit. The jewels are placed on a ship bound for Belgravia. However, the guard is murdered and the treasures are stolen. Agent Dexter, alias Agent X-9, trails Blackstone, one of the gang members, who hides the jewels in a safe deposit vault of a bank. He takes the bank receipt to an art shop, where Marker, a paid accomplice, conceals it between an oil painting and its frame. Dexter arrests Blackstone and pursues Marker with the full intention of unmasking Brenda.

Cast
  • Scott Kolk as Agent Dexter (X-9)
  • Jean Rogers as Shara Graustark
  • Henry Brandon as Blackstone/Victor T. Brenda
  • David Oliver as Pidge
  • Monte Blue as Baron Michael Karsten
  • Lon Chaney Jr. as Maroni, primary henchman
  • Ben Hewlett as Scarlett, primary henchman
  • Larry J. Blake as Chief FBI Agent Wheeler
  • Henry Hunter as FBI Agent Tommy Dawson (C-5)
  • George Shelley as Packard, a henchman
  • Lynn Gilbert as Rose, gun moll
  • Robert Dalton as Thurston
  • Leonard Lord as Ransom, dissident henchman
  • Bob Kortman as "Trader" Delaney
  • Eddy Waller as Lawyer Carp
  • Si Jenks as "Jolly Roger", ticket barker

Production

Secret Agent X-9 was based on the comic strip by Dashiell Hammett (writer) and Alex Raymond (artist).

Stunts

Chapter titles
  1. Modern Pirates
  2. The Ray That Blinds
  3. The Man of Many Faces
  4. The Listening Shadow
  5. False Fires
  6. The Dragnet
  7. Sealed Lips
  8. Exhibit A
  9. The Masquerader
  10. The Forced Lie
  11. The Enemy Camp
  12. Crime Does Not Pay

Source:[1]

References
  1. Cline, William C. (1984). "Filmography". In the Nick of Time. McFarland & Company, Inc. pp. 217–218. ISBN 0-7864-0471-X.


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