I saw this at the neighborhood movie house, as one continuous movie, but since I was probably about 10 years old, 1960 or so?, they must have edited it down from the 260 minutes listed here. Couldn't have sat for 4+ hours.
Typical of these serials, each chapter ended with the one or more of the heroes being "killed" in some clearly inescapable crash, explosion , cave-in, etc. But in the next chapter, the sequence of events was altered just enough to let them escape from the danger.
They probably counted on folks seeing these chapters a week apart, so they wouldn't notice the switcheroo.
"Batman" had some reasonably clever gadgets, for a 1949 movie.
Check out William Fawcett actor on Wikipedia, the actor who played Professor Hammil, if you're my age you will recognize him as a character actor who appeared in many movies and TV shows
Typical of these serials, each chapter ended with the one or more of the heroes being "killed" in some clearly inescapable crash, explosion , cave-in, etc. But in the next chapter, the sequence of events was altered just enough to let them escape from the danger.
They probably counted on folks seeing these chapters a week apart, so they wouldn't notice the switcheroo.
"Batman" had some reasonably clever gadgets, for a 1949 movie.
Check out William Fawcett actor on Wikipedia, the actor who played Professor Hammil, if you're my age you will recognize him as a character actor who appeared in many movies and TV shows