Red Barry

Name: Red Barry
Genre: Drama
Released: 1938-10-18
Rating: 0.7
Cast: Buster Crabbe, Frank Lackteen, Edna Sedgewick

0.7 IMDb 6.6 (124) Oct 1938

Ended

Drama

Overview

Based on the Will Gould comic strip distributed to newspapers by King Features Syndicated, Inc. the plot only revolves around two million dollars in bonds and soon evolves into a game of "Bonds, Bonds, Who Has the Bonds?", it has many groups, and their armies of henchmen, acquiring and re-acquiring the bonds that, in a chapter or two, the people who have the bonds don't appear to know they are the current holders.

English

Cast

Buster Crabbe

Red Barry

Frank Lackteen

Quong Lee

Edna Sedgewick

Natacha

Millions for Defense

Wing Fu, brings the bonds to the USA to buy war planes for an unnamed country, and quickly loses them to Quong Lee, a Eurasian underworld chief.

Oct 18, 1938 20m

The Curtain Falls

The Bonds are re-taken by Red Barry.

Oct 25, 1938 20m

The Decoy

Ballet dancer Natasha, representing a ruthless group of Russians, acquires the bonds.

Nov 1, 1938 20m

High Stakes

Barry gets the bonds back.

Nov 8, 1938 20m

Desperate Chances

Hong Kong Charlie, an agent for Wing Fu, goes after Barry to get the bonds, but isn't successful, and is killed.

Nov 15, 1938 20m

The Human Target

Valentine Vane, aka Harry Dicer, a criminal investigator, takes the bonds from Barry.

Nov 22, 1938 20m

Midnight Tragedy

Quong Lee re-acquires the bonds again.

Nov 29, 1938 20m

The Devil's Disguise

Lyceum Theatre (where Natasha dances) manager C. E. Mannix pops up with them in chapter eight, and the question of the day is how did he get them from Quong Lee? The answer is , though portrayed by two different people, William Ruhl and Frank Lackteen, Mannix and Quong Lee, for the "storyline" are one and the same as the Oriental makeup is only a disguise.

Dec 6, 1938 20m