The Green Hornet (1940) DVD9 - Disk 1 of 2 - Chapters 01 to 07 of 13 [DDR]

The Green Hornet (1940) is a Universal movie serial based on The Green Hornet radio series by George W. Trendle and Fran Striker.

    CAST:-
    Gordon Jones as Britt Reid otherwise known as The Green Hornet
    Al Hodge as the (uncredited) voice of the Green Hornet. Hodge played the Hornet on the original radio series.
    Wade Boteler as Michael Axford, Reid's bodyguard
    Anne Nagel as Lenore "Casey" Case, Reid's secretary
    Keye Luke as Kato, who is Korean in this serial rather than the original Japanese nationality of the character due to anti-Japanese sentiment rising at the time. This was two years 

prior to the December 7, 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor and the USA's entry into the war (all thirteen episodes are copyrighted 1939). The radio version dropped the nationality from the 

introductory sequence, included passing references to him being Filipino in dialogue, and only years later added that to the standard intro.
    Phillip Trent as Jasper Jenks, a reporter
    Cy Kendall as Curtis Monroe, The Leader's chief henchman
    Stanley Andrews as Police Commissioner
    Selmer Jackson as District Attorney
    Joseph Crehan as Judge Stanton

    Directed by Ford Beebe, Ray Taylor
    Produced by Henry MacRae
    Written by George H. Plympton, Basil Dickey, Morrison Wood, Lyonel Margolies, Fran Striker 

    CHAPTERS:-
    01. The Tunnel of Terror
    02. The Thundering Terror
    03. Flying Coffins
    04. Pillar of Flame
    05. The Time Bomb
    06. Highways of Peril
    07. Bridge of Disaster
    08. Dead or alive
    09. The Hornet Trapped
    10. Bullets and Ballots
    11. Disaster Rides the Rails
    12. Panic in the Zoo
    13. Doom of the Underworld

Was Green Hornet's 'Beauty' the First of All Supercars?

THE Jan. 14 release of “The Green Hornet” gives occasion to recall that the first roadgoing 200-mile-per-hour car was a 1937 Lincoln-Zephyr. Black Beauty, the automotive star of the 

cliff-hanging “Green Hornet” movie serial of the 1940s, scorched Mulholland Drive in Los Angeles as the car of the series' masked hero.

 The Black Beauty conceptualized it all. Presenting the car to Britt Reid, the series crime-fighting hero, in the opening episode, his valet and chauffeur, Kato, explains the modifications 

made to the 267-cubic-inch V-12 engine. In stock form, it produced 110 horsepower, but Kato's 'chemical energizer' transformed the Zephyr’s powerplant into "the strongest motor 

ever built — and the fastest." The energizer delivers on-demand urge.
“What'll she do?” Reid asks.
“Better than 200,” Kato says. 

SYNOPSIS:- The Green Hornet (1940) 
Newspaper publisher Britt Reid, secretly The Green Hornet, and his Korean valet Kato investigate and expose several seemingly separate rackets. This leads them into continued 

conflict with the Leader, the criminal mastermind behind the Syndicate and the individual crimes.

TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS:-
Video Codec: MPEG-2
Video Bitrate: 4999 kbps
Video Resolution: 720x480
Video Aspect Ratio: 1.333:1
Frames Per Second: 29.970
Audio Codec:  AC3
Audio Bitrate: 192kb/s CBR 48000 Hz
Audio Streams:  2
Audio Languages:English
RunTime 258 mins
Subtitles: None
Ripped by: Trinidad [DDR]
Duration: 258 mins