Burn 'Em Up Barnes
| Burn 'Em Up Barnes | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Colbert Clark Armand Schaefer  | 
| Written by | Colbert Clark Sherman L. Lowe Al Martin John Rathmell Barney A. Sarecky Armand Schaefer  | 
| Produced by | Nat Levine Victor Zobel  | 
| Starring | Jack Mulhall Frankie Darro Lola Lane Julian Rivero Edwin Maxwell Jason Robards Francis McDonal  | 
| Cinematography | Ernest Miller William Nobles  | 
| Edited by | Earl Turner | 
| Music by | Lee Zahler | 
| Distributed by | Mascot Pictures | 
Release date  | 
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Running time  | 12 chapters (210 minutes) | 
| Country | United States | 
| Language | English | 
Burn 'Em Up Barnes is a 1934 American Pre-Code movie serial produced and distributed by Mascot Pictures, along with a feature version of the serial bearing the same title. It was a loose remake of the 1921 silent film of the same name.
Plot
Cast
- Jack Mulhall as Burn-'em-Up Barnes, racing driver nicknamed the "King of the Dirt Track" and shortly the co-owner of the Temple Barnes Transportation school bus company
 - Frankie Darro as Bobbie Riley, Barnes' kid sidekick and ward following his brother's accidental death
 - Lola Lane as Marjorie Temple, owner of the Temple (later Temple Barnes) Transportation school bus company and land with a hidden wealth of oil
 - Julian Rivero as Tony, Marjorie's bumbling Italian-accented mechanic
 - Edwin Maxwell as Lyman Warren
 - Jason Robards as John Drummond, crooked race promoter who knows that Marjorie's land is really worth millions and will stop at nothing to get it
 - Francis McDonald as Ray Ridpath, villainous driver working for Drummond
 
Chapter titles
- King of the Dirt Tracks
 - The Newsreel Murder
 - The Phantom Witness
 - The Celluloid Clue
 - The Decoy Driver
 - The Crimson Alibi
 - Roaring Rails
 - The Death Crash
 - The Man Higher Up
 - The Missing Link
 - Surrounded
 - The Fatal Whisper
 
Source:[1]
DVD release
Burn 'Em Up Barnes was released on Region 0 DVD by Alpha Video on November 27, 2007.[2] A feature-length version of the serial was released on Region 0 DVD-R by Alpha Video on October 30, 2012, but this is not the same as the feature version originally prepared by Mascot Pictures; its origins are unknown.[3] The 1921 silent version of the serial was released on Region 0 DVD-R by Alpha Video on July 7, 2015.[3]
See also
- List of film serials by year
 - List of film serials by studio
 - List of films in the public domain in the United States
 
References
- ^ Cline, William C. (1984). "Filmography". In the Nick of Time. McFarland & Company, Inc. ISBN 0-7864-0471-X.
 - ^ "Alpha Video - Burn 'Em Up Barnes". Retrieved June 26, 2015.
 - ^ a b "Alpha Video - Burn 'em Up Barnes". Retrieved June 26, 2015.
 
External links
Download or view online
- All Burn 'Em Up Barnes episodes is available for free viewing and download at the Internet Archive
 - Archive Classic Movies (Flash format)
 - Archive Classic Movies (MPEG4 Download)