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CHICK CARTER DETECTIVE MASTER MYSTERY SMASHER (1946)

39 O 13 and I started this serial tonight in our quest to finish all of the existing sound serials. We are six chapters in and well...umm... While I appreciate what Columbia was trying to do with...

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I screened this one right after it surfaced, and needless to say, it is about 220th on my list of serials to sit through again.  Todd, in one of the later cliffhangers, it isn't one of the heroes that...

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Re: CHICK CARTER DETECTIVE MASTER MYSTERY SMASHER (1946)

Sorry, but right now I am preferring this to YOUNG EAGLES. Come to it, I will take any serial over YE. If nothing else, Jack Ingram and Leonard Penn are amusing and there is at least some form of eye...

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Re: CHICK CARTER DETECTIVE MASTER MYSTERY SMASHER (1946)

Chick Carter could have been a pretty good serial. It has Lyle Talbot as the lead. Talbot has more presence than the rest of the cast combined. Unfortunately he is pushed to the background for much of...

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Re: CHICK CARTER DETECTIVE MASTER MYSTERY SMASHER (1946)

I remember reading in Harmon and Glut's serial book that this serial gave Talbot the most screen time of any of his serials, most of it saving the other characters from the cliffhangers they blundered...

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Re: CHICK CARTER DETECTIVE MASTER MYSTERY SMASHER (1946)

I think CHICK CARTER represents the absolute nadir of Columbia chapter plays -- although the studio's other two 1946 serials, HOP HARRIGAN and SON OF THE GUARDSMAN, are equally bad -- but I wouldn't...

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Re: CHICK CARTER DETECTIVE MASTER MYSTERY SMASHER (1946)

The question is, why were so many of the Columbia serials from 1945-48 so bad?  From SECRET OF TREASURE ISLAND to about DESERT HAWK, almost all of the studio's serials were lively, entertaining and...

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Re: CHICK CARTER DETECTIVE MASTER MYSTERY SMASHER (1946)

Well, while I won't champion HOP HARRIGAN (though the final chapter is pretty unintentionally hilarious), I will champion SON OF THE GUARDSMAN and TEX GRANGER. I liked both of them just fine. CHICK...

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Pa, you're right about Derwin Abrahams deserving a huge share of the blame for those mid-'40s Columbia stinkers. He was first, last, and always an assistant director, lacking the inventiveness and...

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I would love to see what the budgets were for all the sound serials, but so far there is little information except for what Jack Mathis published for Republic.  Years ago in Those Matinee Idols, a...

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Re: CHICK CARTER DETECTIVE MASTER MYSTERY SMASHER (1946)

Riddle Rider wrote:The ultimate example of corner-cutting occurs in the late '40s Columbia -- I forget which one -- where the heavies' multiple hideouts have supposedly been constructed to resemble...

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Re: CHICK CARTER DETECTIVE MASTER MYSTERY SMASHER (1946)

Pa Stark wrote:Years ago in Those Matinee Idols, a figure for THE MIRACLE RIDER was $85,000, and half of that was Tom Mix's salary.  Jon Tuska wrote that the budgets for early sound Mascot's were...

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Re: CHICK CARTER DETECTIVE MASTER MYSTERY SMASHER (1946)

But weren't the Universal serials still being shown in theaters at that time?  My understanding was Universal leased all their horror films and serials to Realart for rerelease in theaters for ten...

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Re: CHICK CARTER DETECTIVE MASTER MYSTERY SMASHER (1946)

Todd, some -- not all -- Universal serials were available from Realart, although they didn't get the wide distribution or advertising support granted first-run serials. Yes, I suppose you could say...

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Re: CHICK CARTER DETECTIVE MASTER MYSTERY SMASHER (1946)

Todd, what were the costs of KING OF THE PARK RANGERS and DANGERS OF DEBORAH?

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Re: CHICK CARTER DETECTIVE MASTER MYSTERY SMASHER (1946)

Pa, both of mine cost in the range of $6,500. Both have lost money. At any rate, we finished CHICK CARTER tonight. The biggest knock against it is that the cliffhangers are kinda weak. The plot is...

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