Mandrake the Magician (serial)


Mandrake the Magician is the seventh serial released by Columbia Pictures. It was based upon the King Features comic strip of the same name.

Plot

Mandrake and his assistant Lothar are working the cruise lines and make the acquaintance of Professor Houston who has developed a radium energy machine, which is much coveted by a masked crime lord known as "The Wasp". The Wasp unleashes his army of accomplices in waves to steal the invention by any means necessary. Mandrake and his allies finally catch up to "The Wasp" and discover the crime lord is actually a scientist who posed as a close friend of Houston's.

Cast

  1. Shadow on the Wall
  2. Trap of the Wasp
  3. City of Terror
  4. The Secret Passage
  5. The Devil's Playmate
  6. The Fatal Crash
  7. Gamble for Life
  8. Across the Deadline
  9. Terror Rides the Rails
  10. The Unseen Monster
  11. At the Stroke of Eight
  12. The Reward of Treachery
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