| Burn 'Em Up Barnes | |
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| Directed by | Colbert Clark Armand Schaefer |
| Produced by | Nat Levine Victor Zobel |
| Written by | Colbert Clark Sherman L. Lowe Al Martin John Rathmell Barney A. Sarecky Armand Schaefer |
| Starring | Jack Mulhall Frankie Darro Lola Lane Julian Rivero Edwin Maxwell Jason Robards Francis McDonal |
| Music by | Lee Zahler |
| Cinematography | Ernest Miller William Nobles |
| Edited by | Earl Turner |
| Distributed by | Mascot Pictures |
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Running time | 12 chapters (210 minutes) |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Burn 'Em Up Barnes is a 1934 American Pre-Code movie serial produced and distributed by Mascot Pictures, along with a feature version of the serial bearing the same title. It was a loose remake of the 1921 silent film of the same name.
Cast
- Jack Mulhall as Burn-'em-Up Barnes, racing driver nicknamed the "King of the Dirt Track" and shortly the co-owner of the Temple Barnes Transportation school bus company
- Frankie Darro as Bobbie Riley, Barnes' kid sidekick and ward following his brother's accidental death
- Lola Lane as Marjorie Temple, owner of the Temple (later Temple Barnes) Transportation school bus company and land with a hidden wealth of oil
- Julian Rivero as Tony, Marjorie's bumbling Italian-accented mechanic
- Edwin Maxwell as Lyman Warren
- Jason Robards as John Drummond, crooked race promoter who knows that Marjorie's land is really worth millions and will stop at nothing to get it
- Francis McDonald as Ray Ridpath, villainous driver working for Drummond
Chapter titles
- King of the Dirt Tracks
- The Newsreel Murder
- The Phantom Witness
- The Celluloid Clue
- The Decoy Driver
- The Crimson Alibi
- Roaring Rails
- The Death Crash
- The Man Higher Up
- The Missing Link
- Surrounded
- The Fatal Whisper
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DVD release
Burn 'Em Up Barnes was released on Region 0 DVD by Alpha Video on November 27, 2007.[2] A feature-length version of the serial was released on Region 0 DVD-R by Alpha Video on October 30, 2012, but this is not the same as the feature version originally prepared by Mascot Pictures; its origins are unknown.[3] The 1921 silent version of the serial was released on Region 0 DVD-R by Alpha Video on July 7, 2015.[3]
See also
- List of film serials by year
- List of film serials by studio
- List of films in the public domain in the United States
References
- ^ Cline, William C. (1984). "Filmography". In the Nick of Time. McFarland & Company, Inc. ISBN 0-7864-0471-X.
- ^ "Alpha Video - Burn 'Em Up Barnes". Retrieved June 26, 2015.
- ^ a b "Alpha Video - Burn 'em Up Barnes". Retrieved June 26, 2015.
External links
- Burn 'Em Up Barnes at IMDb
- Burn 'Em Up Barnes at AllMovie
Download or view online
- Burn 'Em Up Barnes is available for free download at the Internet Archive
- Archive Classic Movies (Flash format)
- Archive Classic Movies (MPEG4 Download)
| Preceded by The Lost Jungle (1934) | Mascot Serial Burn 'Em Up Barnes(1934) | Succeeded by The Law of the Wild (1934) |