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Radar Patrol vs. Spy King is a 1949 12-chapter black-and-white spy film serial produced and distributed by Republic Pictures from an original, commissioned screenplay collaboratively written by Royal K. Cole, William Lively and Sol Shor. Kirk Alyn played the lead.
Feb 12, 2014 · Radar Patrol vs. Spy King, unlike most of Republic’s other non-Western post-war serials, utilizes a familiar real-world technology (radar) as its central gimmick, rather than fantastic science-fictional devices.
May 14, 2021 · Radar Patrol vs Spy King (1949) Film review #454. Director: Fred C. Brannon. SYNOPSIS: A new radar defense system is being constructed that will cover the entire United States, but it’s completion is being interrupted by a series of attacks led by neo-nazi spy John Baroda and his henchman. Chris Calvert, agent for the Radar Defense Bureau, is ...
Radar (apparently still an exciting idea in 1949) is the focus the espionage in this story. Plus the bad-guy, (played quite well by John Merton), has some kind of hokey looking ray gun. Assisting the Radar Patrol is Anthony Warde who also did a good job as Killer Kane in the Buck Rogers serials.
Radar Patrol vs. Spy King: Directed by Fred C. Brannon. With Kirk Alyn, Jean Dean, Anthony Warde, George J. Lewis. Government agent Chris Calvert and lady sidekick Joan battle the evil spy Baroda, despite a regular barrage of shootouts, car crashes, and cliffhangers, in this routine Republic serial.
- (233)
- Action, Adventure, Crime
- Fred C. Brannon
- 1949-11-23
Overview. The war lords of a potential enemy of the US has the spy ring, led by John Baroda, the Spy King and his aide Nitra, sabotaging the plans for a vast defense system of radar stations along the American borders.
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Radar Defense Bureau operative Chris Calvert comes to the rescue of a brilliant radar scientist, Joan Hughes, who has been kidnapped by Baroda henchmen in chapter 1 ("The Fatal Fog"), and the two battle together before putting an end to the Spy King in the aptly-named chapter 12, "Day of Reckoning".
