THE GREAT ALASKAN MYSTERY 

(1944)

Adventure / Serial / War

223 minutes in 13 chapters.

Directed by Lewis D. Collins and Ray Taylor

A Universal serial in 13 chapters.  An adventurer goes after Nazi spies who have a new death ray called the Paratron. During a perilous voyage to Alaska, a renegade ship captain and a Nazi agent stop at nothing to steal the Peritron, a powerful ray gun developed by an American scientist for the U.S. war effort. Marine commando Jim Hudson (Milburn Stone), the scientist's beautiful daughter Ruth (Marjorie Weaver) and their pal Grit (Fuzzy Knight) come face-to-face with an avalanche of natural disasters and man-made horrors - poison gas, polar bears, ship wrecks, plane crashes and of course, murder - in one cliffhanging episode after another!  
 
Cast:

Milburn Stone as Jim Hudson
Marjorie Weaver as Ruth Miller
Edgar Kennedy as Bosun Higgins
Samuel S. Hinds as Herman Brock
Martin Kosleck as Dr Hauss
Ralph Morgan as Dr Miller
Joseph Crehan as Bill Hudson
John Forest 'Fuzzy' Knight as 'Grit' Hartman
Harry Cording as Captain Greeder
Anthony Warde as Brandon

Chapter titles

1.Shipwrecked Among Icebergs

2.Thundering Doom

3.Battle in the Clouds

4.Masked Murder

5.The Bridge of Disaster

6.Shattering Doom

7.Crashing Timbers

8.In a Flaming Plane

9.Hurtling Through Space

10.Tricked by a Booby Trap

11.The tunnel of Terror

12.Electrocuted

13.The Boomerang