Finger Prints (serial)

Infobox Film
name = Finger Prints


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director = Ray Taylor
producer = Henry MacRae
writer = Arthur B. Reeve
Basil Dickey
Ella O'Neill
George Morgan
George H. Plympton
narrator =
starring = Kenneth Harlan
Edna Murphy
Gayne Whitman
Gertrude Astor
music =
cinematography = John Hickson
editing = Alvin Todd
distributor = Universal Pictures
released = Flagicon|USA 3 March 1931
runtime = 10 chapters (210 min)
country = USA
language = English
budget =
preceded_by =
followed_by =
website =
amg_id = 1:244969
imdb_id = 0021866

"Finger Prints" (1931) is a Universal movie serial. It was Universal's first serial with complete sound.

Plot

Secret Service agent Gary Gordon is working on shutting down the River Gang, a smuggling ring that his girlfriend's father is secretly a member. Soon after, events are complicated when Kent Martin blackmails the father unsuccessfully for the hand of his daughter in marriage.

Cast

*Kenneth Harlan as Gary Gordon, Secret Service agent
*Edna Murphy as Lola Mackey, Gordon's girlfriend
*Gayne Whitman as Kent Martin, Blackmailer
*Gertrude Astor as Jane Madden, Martin's girlfriend
*William Worthington as John Mackey, Lola's father and part of the River Gang smuggling ring
*William L. Thorne as Joe Burke, John Mackey's partner in the River Gang
*Monte Montague as Officer Rooney

Chapter titles

# The Dance of Death
# A Fugitive of Fear
# Toll of the Sea
# The Sinister Shadow
# The Plunge of Peril
# The Finger of Fate
# The Depths of Doom
# The Thundering Terror
# Flames of Fury
# The Final Reckoning_Source: [cite book
last = Cline
first = William C.
title = In the Nick of Time
origyear = 1984
publisher = McFarland & Company, Inc.
isbn = 078640471X
pages = pp. 202
chapter = Filmography ]

This was the last Universal serial with ten chapters. [cite book
last = Cline
first = William C.
title = In the Nick of Time
origyear = 1984
publisher = McFarland & Company, Inc.
isbn = 078640471X
pages = pp. 47
chapter = 3. The Six Faces of Adventure ]

ee also

* List of film serials
* List of film serials by studio

References

External links

*imdb title|id=0021866|title=Finger Prints
*imdb title|id=1:244969|title=Finger Prints

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title=Universal Serial
before=The Indians are Coming (1930)
years=Finger Prints (1931)
after=Heroes of the Flames (1931)