Sky Bandits (1940)

Horror Movies & Sci-Fi Movies Database	10.10.09

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Lifting the plot straight from Tim McCoy's 1936 "Ghost Patrol" this Renfrew version finds the planes carrying gold from the yukon mine mysteriously disappear, and when Sergeant Renfrew and Constable Kelly find the wreckage there is no clue as to what happened. They follow the next plane shipment in another plane but when radio announcer Dinwiddie learns of the flight, he broadcasts the plans by means of a coded bedtime story to a gang headed by Morgan, who prepare to bring down the plane with a mystery ray that wrecks the plane's magneto. Speavy, who invented the ray, is jealous when Professor Lewis, a scientist innocently working for the gang, is hired to increase the ray's range. The two Mounties, trailing the gold plane, see it crash, but are unable to locate the wreckage of the gold. Madeleine Lewis joins her father and Renfrew sees her enter the gang's hideout. He enters and Speavy tries to kill him with the ray, but he escapes. The gang moves their headquarters but Renfrew plans to fly a gold shipment himself to force their hand. Morgan, in another plane, tries to force Renfrew into the deadly beam but Professor Lewis, having learned the truth about the gang, turns the ray on Morgan's plane. Movie Tagline: Renfrew Of The Royal Mounted Hunts The Mad Inventor Of A Mystery-Murder Machine! Title: Sky Bandits Release Date: July 03, 1940 Runtime: 62 mins Genre: Action All Genres: Action, Sci-Fi Languages: English Country: USA Colors: Black and White Sound: Mono IMDB Rating: 6.2 Brimstone Pit Rating: 7.2 - (Rate This Horror Movie) Category: Horror Movies Starting With S MPAA Rating: Approved Director(s): Ralph Staub Cast: James Newill ...Sergeant Renfrew Louise Stanley ...Madeleine Lewis Dewey Robinson ...Uncle Dinwiddie William Pawley ...Morgan (as Bill Pawley) Joe De Stefani ...Professor Burton Lewis (as Joseph Stefani) Jim Farley ...Inspector Warner, RCMP Dave O'Brien ...Constable Kelly Karl Hackett ...Henchman Hawthorne Ted Adams ...Henchman Gary Dwight Frye ...Speavy Jack Clifford ...Whispering Smith Bob Terry ...Henchman Hutchins Kenne Duncan ...Henchman Brownie (as Ken Duncan) Eddie Fetherston ...Buzz Murphy (as Eddie Featherston) Don Brodie ...Radio Operator Earl Douglas ...Henchman Butch Harry Harvey ...Mechanic Greaseball 'Snub' Pollard ...Pa, Man in Nightshirt Marin Sais ...Ma Remaining Cast: Producer(s): Phil Goldstone Writer(s): Edward Halperin Laurie york Erskine Movie Soundtrack(s): "Mounted Men" "Lady in the Clouds" "Alley-Oop" More Movie Taglines: Renfrew Of The Royal Mounted Hunts The Mad Inventor Of A Mystery-Murder Machine! An eerie killer rules the air...till Renfrew of the Mounted tracks down the mad inventor of a murder machine! MEET THE RED-COATED FLYING FOOLS OF THE WILDERNESS POLICE! A PHANTOM KILLER STRIKES WITH HIS DEATH MACHINE...AND RENFREW OF THE MOUNTIES IS CALLED TO PROTECT THE AIR-WAY! IMDB Links: » User Comments at imdb.com » More information at imdb.com Keywords: Renfrew Of The Mounties, Remake, Sequel, Based On Novel  ...[more] Keywords All: Seen it? Rate it Currently 7.20/10 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Rating: 7.2 out of 10.0 - 71 votes cast total buy movie on dvd del.icio.us  |  digg  |  reddit Enter your zipcode for movie listings: » BACK TO HORROR MOVIES LIST