Sky Raiders, 1941, Movie Glass Slide, Donald Woods, Billy Halop, Kathryn Adams

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Sky Raiders, 1941, Movie Glass Slide, Donald Woods, Billy Halop, Kathryn Adams
Sky Raiders, 1941, Movie Glass Slide, Donald Woods, Billy Halop, Kathryn Adams
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You are bidding on an ORIGINAL "coming attraction" Movie Glass/Lantern Slide that was designed to promote the theatrical release of the 1941, Action 12 Chapter Serial, "Sky Raiders".
I am selling off my entire collection of
Movie Glass Slides
this week (over 130). Please check out some of these titles:
1935, R48,
A Night at the Opera
, The Marx Brothers (Groucho, Harpo, Chico), Margaret Dumont
,
SOLD
1939 -
Alleghany Uprising
, John Wayne, Claire Trevor
1939 -
Destry Rides Again
, Marlene Dietrich, James Stewart
1939 -
Gunga Din
, Cary Grant, Victor McLaglen, Joan Fontaine
1939 -
The Roaring Twenties
, James Cagney,
Humphrey Bogart, Priscilla Lane
1940 -
Boom Town
, Clark Gable, Spencer Tracy, Hedy Lamarr
1940 -
Brigham Young
, Tyrone Power, Linda Darnell, Dean Jagger
1940 -
Charlie Chan in Panama
, Sidney Toler, Jean Rogers, Victor Sen Yung
1940 -
Gone With The Wind
, Clark Gable, Vivian Leigh, Olivia de Havilland
1940 -
His Girl Friday
, Cary Grant, Rosalind Russell
1940 -
Knute Rockne, All American
, Pat O'Brien, Ronald Reagan
1940 -
Santa Fe Trail
,
Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Ronald Reagan, Alan Hale
1940 -
Strike Up the Band
, Mickey Rooney, Judy Garland
1940 -
The Great Walt Disney Festival of Hits
, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs,
SOLD
1940 -
The Green Hornet Strikes Again
, Warren Hull, Keye Luke
1940 -
The Mark of Zorro
, Tyrone Power, Linda Darnell
1940 -
Virginia City
, Errol Flynn, Mariam Hopkins,
Humphrey Bogart,
1941 -
High Sierra
, Humphrey Bogart, Ida Lupino
1941 -
Strawberry Blonde
, James Cagney,
Olivia de Havilland, Rita Hayworth
1941 -
Suspicion
- Cary Grant, Joan Fontaine (directed by Alfred Hitchcock)
1941 -
The Little Foxes
, Bette Davis, Herbert Marshall, Teresa Wright
1941 -
The Great Lie
,
Bette Davis, George Brent, Mary Astor
1942, R49 -
The Pride of the Yankees
, Gary Cooper, Babe Ruth
, Teresa Wright
1948 -
Fort Apache
, John Wayne, Henry Fonda, Shirley Temple
1949 -
Little Women
- June Allyson, Janet Leigh, Mary Astor, Margaret O'Brien, Elizabeth Taylor, Peter Lawford
1949 -
The Fighting Kentuckian
,
John Wayne, Oliver Hardy, Vera Ralston
1950 -
The Asphalt Jungle
, Marilyn Monroe, Sterling Hayden, Louis Calhern
1950 -
Sunset Boulevard
, William Holden, Gloria Swanson
And Many, Many More Great Titles...
This hand colored glass slide is an ORIGINAL and it is NOT a reproduction. It was created to be projected onto the movie theatre screen before the film was released to promote the "coming attraction". Some people in the movie collectible world have said, that, glass slides are much rarer than the paper poster memorabilia from the same film and are very rare pieces of film history.
Format:
Glass Slide: 3 1/4" x 4"
Plot Summary:
Former World War One ace Captain Bob Dayton (Donald Woods), with his buddy, Lieutenant Ed Carey (Robert Armstrong), operates Sky Raiders Inc., an airplane manufacturer. Dayton has perfected a fast pursuit plane intended for the U.S. Army. But Felix Lynx (Eduardo Ciannelli), an agent for a foreign government, has a spy in the Sky Raiders office that keeps him informed about the new airplane.
Trivia
:
Stock footage is used from 1931 of the Pitcairn PCA-2 Autogiro that is piloted by Amelia Earhart.
The real planes shown in this movie... Bell YFM-1 Airacuda, Fairchild 24W-9, Fairchild Super 71, Kellett KD-1, Monocoupe 90 (archive image), Pitcairn PCA-2 Autogiro (stock footage), Sikorsky S-45 prototype (but never went into production), and the Spartan Executive 7W. All of the other planes shown are miniature models.
In Chapters 10 and 11 when the airplane hits the telephone pole and crash lands, this whole scene is used again in The Mysterious Mr. M (1946), Chapters 12 and 13.
Many exterior shots for Sky Raiders were made at the Grand Central Air Terminal, Glendale, California. A rare Phillips 1-B Aeroneer appears in the serial. Bob Dayton's personal aircraft is a Fairchild 24W-9 (c/n W-101, NC18688).
Reviewer Hans J. Wollstein, wrote in his review of Sky Raiders for Allmovie, "Universal catered to the young fans of aviation with this airborne serial, which featured a plucky kid –'Bowery Boy' Billy Halop – and plenty of 'sky riders'. Famous aviator Bob Dayton (Donald Woods) hires a bright member of the Air Youth of America, Tim (Halop), to help him finalize a hush-hush project: a new type of fighter plane and bombsight. This being 1941, plenty of enemy agents are after the invention, including the nefarious Felix Lynx (Eduardo Cianelli). It takes Dayton, Tim, and the co-owner of Sky Raiders, Inc., Lieutenant Ed Carey (Robert Armstrong) 12 breathless chapters before they are able to defeat the enemy. The final installment was quite appropriately entitled 'Winning Warriors'."
CHAPTER TITLES:
1. Wings of Disaster;
2. Death Rides the Storm;
3. The Toll of Treachery;
4. Battle in the Clouds;
5. The Fatal Blast;
6. Stark Terror;
7. Flaming Doom;
8. The Plunge of Terror;
9. Torturing Trials;
10. Flash of Fate;
11. Terror of the Storm;
12. Winning Warriors.
Studio:
Universal Pictures
Date:
1941
Genre:
Adventure, Action
, Drama
Director(s):
Ford Beebe, Ray Taylor
Producer(s):
Henry MacRae
Cast
:
Donald Woods as Captain Bob Dayton / John Kane, World War I ace and co-owner of Sky Raiders, Inc.
Billy Halop as Tim Bryant, member of the Air Youth of America
Robert Armstrong as Lieutenant Ed Carey, co-owner of Sky Raiders, Inc.
Eduardo Ciannelli as Felix Lynx, Nazi agent
Kathryn Adams as Mary Blake, Sky Raiders, Inc.'s secretary
Jacqueline Dalya as Innis Clair
Jean Fenwick as The Countess Irene
Reed Hadley as Caddens, one of Lynx's henchmen
Irving Mitchell as R.S. Hinchfield
Edgar Edwards as Teal, one of Lynx's henchmen
John Holland as Hess, one of Lynx's henchmen
Roy Gordon as Major General Fletcher
Alex Callam as Captain Long
Phil Warren as Bakeman, the crackpot with gun
Bill Cody, Jr. as Jack Hurd, a young boy
More Info on Donald Woods
:
Donald Woods was an actor from the 1920s to the 1980s. Some of his movies include: A Tale of Two Cities (as Charles Darnay), True Grit, The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms, 13 Ghosts, and Watch on the Rhine. He passed away in 1998 at the age of 91.
More Info on Billy Halop
:
Billy Halop was born in New York City in 1920, and his family was in show business, and he became a performer on radio as a child. In 1935, he got his big break when he was cast as the lead juvenile, Tommy Gordon, in the play version of Sidney Kingsley's "
Dead End on Broadway
". Both the play and Halop were highly praised, and he stayed with the play for two years, and then went to Hollywood to make the film version with all the other juvenile actors reprising their roles as well. The movie was a huge success (who can forget Halop threatening to give Gorcey the "mark of the squealer"?) and Halop appeared in the early sequels, most notably in "
Crime School
" (with Humphrey Bogart) and "
Angels with Dirty Faces
" (with James Cagney and Ann Sheridan) and "They Made Me a Criminal" (with John Garfield and Ann Sheridan). But the studios stopped casting top stars in the movies, and they became B-movies, and Halop thought he had the looks and talent to have a solo career in A-pictures, which caused him to seek out roles without his juvenile co-stars. But better roles were not forecoming, and he mostly appeared in movies featuring "spin-off" groups of the Dead End Kids (but he never appeared with Leo Gorcey after 1939, indicating there was almost certainly some "bad blood" between them). Halop served in World War II, and after he got out he found there were next to no parts for him (one of his few parts was in "
Gas House Kids
", where he was paired with fellow washed-up former juvenile star Carl 'Alfalfa' Switzer). Halop had had marital and financial problems and was an alcoholic, and he made only scattered TV appearances in the 1950s and 1960s, working at many regular jobs, including as a electric dryer salesman for the Leonard Appliance Company of Los Angeles. In 1960, Halop married for the third time, to Suzanne Roe, who had multiple sclerosis, and he was her caregiver, and doing that encouraged him to go to nursing school and become a registered nurse at St. John's Hospital in Santa Monica, California. He came back in the public eye in the 1970s with his role as Bert Munson on the hit TV show, "All in the Family". He passed away in 1976, just 56 years old, but he will forever be remembered for his memorable early roles.
More Info on Robert Armstrong
:
Robert Armstrong was an actor from the 1920s to the 1960s. He will forever be best remembered as Carl Denham in "
King Kong
" and "
Son of Kong
". Some of his other movies include: The Most Dangerous Game, The Racketeer, Iron Man, and 'G' Men. He passed away in 1973 at the age of 82.
More Info on Kathryn Adams
:
Kathryn Adams was an actress from the 1930s to the 1940s. She was the wife of
Hugh Beaumont
(Leave it to Beaver) and retired from acting soon after their marriage. Some of her movies include:
Saboteur
, The Invisible Woman, and 5th Ave Girl. She passed away in 2016 at the age of 96.
More Info on Eduardo Ciannelli
:
Eduardo Ciannelli (30 August 1888 – 8 October 1969), was an Italian baritone and character actor with a long career in American films, mostly playing gangsters and criminals. He was sometimes credited as Edward Ciannelli.
His Hollywood career consists of close to 150 film and television appearances. Notable among these are
Marked Woman
(1937) with Bette Davis,
Strange Cargo
(1940) with Joan Crawford and Clark Gable, and perhaps his most famous role, as the fanatical Thuggee guru in
Gunga Din
(1939) with Cary Grant. In the 1940 serial Mysterious Doctor Satan, he played the eponymous villain, an evil scientist with an army of robots.
In the 1950s and throughout the 1960s, he divided his time among Italian films such as The City Stands Trial, directed by Luigi Zampa,[2] Attila (1954) with Anthony Quinn and Sophia Loren, Helen of Troy (1956), appearances in American TV shows such as Climax Mystery Theater, The Time Tunnel, Perry Mason,
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
, Johnny Staccato, The Detectives Starring Robert Taylor, Dr. Kildare and a few films including
Houseboat
(1958), The Visit (1964), The Chase (1966) with Marlon Brando, and The Secret of Santa Vittoria (1969), with Anthony Quinn and Anna Magnani.
More Info on Bill Cody Jr.
:
Bill Cody Jr. (April 18, 1925 – August 11, 1989) was an American motion picture child actor. Born William Joseph Cody Jr. in Los Angeles, California, where his father Bill Cody was a cowboy star of B-movie westerns, the youngster was reportedly 7 years old when he accompanied his father on a personal appearance tour throughout the United States. Bill Cody Jr. was nine years old when he began appearing in films, the first four of which were with his father.
In 1937, Bill Jr. was cast in an important featured role in a Monogram Tom Keene western, Romance of the Rockies, followed by a bit in the short subject,
Our Gang Follies of 1938
. A potentially major development was his signing to appear in MGM's Girl of the Golden West, portraying Nelson Eddy's role as a child in the opening sequences. The biographical information sheet filled out for young Cody upon his arrival at MGM in February, 1938, indicated that he was a junior high school student who enjoyed history, was an active
Boy Scout
, lived with his parents and brother in a California bungalow, enjoyed eating filet mignon, liked to swim and play baseball, had been interviewed on NBC, and had "made personal appearances with Daddy since 3 years old."
Bill Cody Jr. joined the United States military in 1942, and served in World War II. He did not return to film work after the war. It is believed his wartime experiences profoundly affected him, and he never returned to acting. He died in 1989.
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Slide Condition:
The Glass Slide is NM, the cardboard holder
VG-EX+ (shows some wear).
Please see the scans for actual condition.
This Movie Glass Slide would make a great addition to your collection or as a Gift (great for Framing in a Shadow Box).
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