Captain Midnight 1942 colorized cliffhanger serial (Dave O'Brien)

About

Captain Midnight (Dave O'Brien), a daring masked aviator who fights gangsters and the enemies of America, is asked for help by Major Steel (Joe Girard) of the Secret Service when aerial bombing attacks are made on West Coast munitions plants. The mastermind behind the attacks, Ivan Shark (James Craven), is after a new range finder and kidnaps its inventor (Bryant Washburn). Midnight promises the man's daughter (Dorothy Short) that he will rescue her father and bring Shark to justice.

Dave O'Brien as Captain Albright / Captain Midnight Dorothy Short as Joyce Edwards James Craven as Ivan Shark Sam Edwards as Chuck Ramsey Guy Wilkerson as Ichabod 'Icky' Mudd Bryant Washburn as John Edwards Luana Walters as Fury Shark Joe Girard as Major Steel Ray Teal as Borgman George Pembroke as Dr. James Jordan

15 chapters

I colorized this using AI software that doesn't always get the colors right, but I think it looks fairly natural. Hopefully a more professional job will be done someday.

Archive

Internet Archive, in Colorized classics

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Credit

Columbia Pictures

Language

English

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