G-Men Never Forget [Serial]

• Directors: Fred C. Brannon; Yakima Canutt
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• Genre: Adventure
• Movie Type: Police Detective Film
• Themes: Kidnapping, Assumed Identities, Escape From Prison
• Release Year: 1948
• Country: US
• Run Time: 12ch minutes

Plot

The popular G-Men of the 1930s made a comeback in this action serial produced by Republic Pictures, starring television's future Lone Ranger, Clayton Moore. The serial, however, was not so much a showcase for the pleasant if lightweight Moore, but rather a welcome opportunity for the studio's most effective villain, the near-legendary Roy Barcroft, to strut his considerable stuff. Barcroft plays a notorious gangster who escapes from prison, and via plastic surgery, assumes the identity of the local police commissioner (also Barcroft), who he has kidnapped. The masquerade is so effective that government agents Moore and Ramsay Ames fail to catch on until the 12th and final chapter, logically entitled "Exposed." The serial was re-edited into a feature version entitled Code 645. ~ Hans J. Wollstein, All Movie Guide

Cast

Eddie Acuff - Fiddler; Drew Allen; Ramsay Ames - Frances Blake; Douglas Aylesworth - Hayden; Roy Barcroft - Vic Murkland/Cameron; Barry Brooks - George; Edmund Cobb - Cook; George Magrill - Staley; Clayton Moore - Ted O'hara; Jack O'Shea - Slater; Tom Steele - Parker; Ken Terrell - Kelsey; Dale Van Sickel - Brent; Frank O'Connor - District Attorney; Stanley Price - Dr. Benson

Credit

Frank Arrigo - Art Director, Fred C. Brannon - Director, Yakima Canutt - Director, Cliff Bell - Editor, Mort Glickman - Musical Direction/Supervision, John MacBurnie - Cinematographer, James S. Redd - Set Designer, John McCarthy - Set Designer, Howard Lydecker - Special Effects, Theodore Lydecker - Special Effects, Franklin Adreon - Screenwriter, Basil Dickey - Screenwriter, Jesse Duffy - Screenwriter, Sol Shore - Screenwriter