
Secret Agent X-9 1937
Secret Agent X-9: In Chapter One (Modern Pirates), the G-Men learn that Brenda, notorious jewel thief, is heading for the United States, to steal the Belgravian crown jewels currently on exhibit. The gems are placed on a ship bound for Belgravia, the guard is murdered and the jewels stolen. Secret Agent X-9 trails Blackstone, one of the gang, who hides the gems in a safe deposit vault of a bank. He takes the bank receipt to an art shop, where Marker, an accomplice, conceals it between an oil painting and its frame. X-9 arrests Blackstone and pursues Marker, and leaps into the speedboat Marker is getting away in. The speedboat crashes in to a buoy...see Chapter Two at this theatre next week. Shara Graustark) and Baron Michael Karsten, embassy attaché responsible for the jewels, show up next week and the remaining chapters deal with the recovery of the jewels and the unmasking of the mysterious Brenda. Charters 9 through 12 find Brenda masquerading as the Baron and this complicates things for X-9 and, of course, the Baron.
- Release Date:
- April 12, 1937
- Director:
- Ford Beebe
- Cast:
- Al Ferguson Ben Hewlett Bob Kortman Charles Murphy Charles Sullivan David Oliver Eddie Parker Eddy Waller Edward Peil Sr George Magrill George Shelley Henry Brandon Henry Hunter Jack Cheatham Jean Rogers Larry J Blake Lon Chaney Jr Max Hoffman Jr Monte Blue Robert Dalton Scott Kolk Si Jenks Thomas Carr Tom Steele William Royle
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