Green Hornet (serial)
| The Green Hornet | |
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| Directed by |
Ford Beebe Ray Taylor |
| Produced by | Henry MacRae |
| Written by |
George H. Plympton Basil Dickey Morrison Wood Lyonel Margolies Fran Striker (characters) |
| Starring |
Gordon Jones Wade Boteler Anne Nagel Keye Luke Phillip Trent Cy Kendall |
| Cinematography |
Jerome Ash William A. Sickner |
| Edited by |
Irving Birnbaum Joseph Gluck Alvin Todd |
| Distributed by | Universal Pictures |
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Running time
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258 min |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
The Green Hornet (1940) is a Universal movie serial based on The Green Hornet radio series by George W. Trendle and Fran Striker.
Newspaper publisher Britt Reid, secretly The Green Hornet, and his Korean valet Kato investigate and expose several seemingly separate rackets. This leads them into continued conflict with the Chief, the criminal mastermind behind the Syndicate and the individual crimes.
In 1990, GoodTimes Home Video released a feature-length movie version, re-edited from the last six chapters, under the same title.
In 2011, VCI Entertainment released its own version, The Green Hornet: Movie Edition. It includes the beginning, end, and selected other chapters of the serial. The DVD was released on January 11, 2011.
The 1960s Batman television series was created based on the popularity of a re-release of Columbia's Batman serial. The success of both led to the production of a Green Hornet series, which was played as a straight action mystery series, "in the tradition of its former presentations", rather than the camp Batman series. It lasted one season.
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