Junior G-Men
Seen it?1940 | 240 min | Adventure, Crime, Action
Monday Morning Maybeearly ratingWhy it’s a Monday Morning Maybe
With almost no lasting buzz and soft box office, this one could be a tough watch. Keep your phone handy.
Based on critics, audiences, awards, box office and buzz. Details below.Is it for you?
- Who'll love it
- A natural pick for spy-story fans and crime fans. Nobody is quite who they seem. Fans of On Her Majesty's Secret Service or Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse should feel right at home.
- The mood
- Gritty.
- The pace
- Epic and sweeping, at 4 hr.
- What might put you off
- It's long: 4 hr.
- Made in 1940: an older pace and style.
- Skip it if you like your heroes clean-cut.
A gang of urban street kids and a club of suburban would-be federal agents, at first rivals, join forces to rescue the father of one of the kids, the inventor of a super-explosive and its remote detonator, from the clutches of a band of foreign subversives call the "Flaming Torch Gang". A 12-episode movie serial with the chapters: •1. Enemies Within •2. The Blast of Doom •3. Human Dynamite •4. Blazing Danger •5. Trapped By Traitors •6. Traitors' Treachery •7. Flaming Death •8. Hurled Through Space •9. The Plunge of Peril •10.The Toll of Treason •11.Descending Doom •12.The Power of Patriotism
How it earned its rating
- CriticsNot counted
Not enough reviews on record yet
- AudiencesNot counted
Not measured yet: not enough ratings
- AwardsNot counted
No major awards or nominations
- Reach & staying powerBelow par
Streaming release that reached a small audience so far; still draws a steady audience long after release
- Buzz & cultural impactWeak
About 1K people sought it out in the past year
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Cast & crew
Directed by Ford Beebe, John Rawlins
- Billy HalopBilly Barton
- Huntz HallGyp
- Gabriel DellTerry
- Bernard PunslyLug
- Ken LundyBuck
- Kenneth HowellHarry Trent
- Roger DanielMidge
- Phillip TerryJim Bradford
- Russell HicksCol. Barton
- Cy KendallBrand