The Hurricane Express - Chapter One: The Wrecker Pt. 1 of 3
Dir. Armand Schaefer & J.P. McGowan
Cast: John Wayne; Tully Marshall; Conway Tearle; Shirley ?; Edmond Breese; Lloyd Whitlock; Al Bridge; Mathew Betz; Joseph Girard; Jamees Burtis; Ernie S. Adams; Charles King; J. Farrell MacDonald.
20:01:59 Title: Chapter One - The Wrecker Introduction titles over pictures.
20:02;20 Montage: CU of car wheel turning fast; race car on banked track; plane propeller turning & amphibious biplane landing; water skiing; wheels of steam train along tracks w/ runby.
20:02:59 POV beside locomotive on turntable in roundhouse. John Wayne driving car w/ engineer father parks across tracks as Hurricane Express comes off turntable. They talk as father gets onto engine & trail pulls out. Dissolve to...
20:04:49 Tri-motor plane landing, pilot Wayne arrives & sees Gloria. Wayne welcomes customers on board small aircraft; laughs w/ Gloria who’s taking flight; interrupted by his boss who wants to talk to Gloria himself. Wayne interrupts by starting motors of tri-motor.
20:06:38 Plane taxiis up to sign blocking take off; takes off.
20:07:01 Train towards water tank, runby. Alongside engine. Plainville station & telegraph operator; throws semaphore signal. CU steam & smoke out of engine stack.
20:08:10 POV from top of coal car, man forward & into engine, train hi-jacked. Freight runs by station w/o stopping. Cu teletype sending message. Runby of passenger train from below embankment. Plane overhead; view into Wayne & co-pilot, Gloria looking out window, horrified & runs to Wayne & says they’re going to crash.
20:09:33 Wayne puts plane into dive.
20:10:00 Passenger train w/ much smoke towards camera & runby. Plane lands plane in cornfield & Wayne switches line in time; but engine hits last car & crashes (models). Wayne finds father dead; people clustered around dead engineer. Wayne hears the other train was hi-jacked, possibly by escaped prisoner; Wayne says he’ll find the person. Angst.
Melodrama; Transportation; Mystery; Business Competition; Saturday Matinee Serial;
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The Hurricane Express - Chapter One: The Wrecker Pt. 1 of 3 Dir. Armand Schaefer & J.P. McGowan Cast: John Wayne; Tully Marshall; Conway Tearle; Shirley ?; Edmond Breese; Lloyd Whitlock; Al Bridge; Mathew Betz; Joseph Girard; Jamees Burtis; Ernie S. Adams; Charles King; J. Farrell MacDonald. 20:01:59 Title: Chapter One - The Wrecker Introduction titles over pictures. 20:02;20 Montage: CU of car wheel turning fast; race car on banked track; plane propeller turning & amphibious biplane landing; water skiing; wheels of steam train along tracks w/ runby. 20:02:59 POV beside locomotive on turntable in roundhouse. John Wayne driving car w/ engineer father parks across tracks as Hurricane Express comes off turntable. They talk as father gets onto engine & trail pulls out. Dissolve to... 20:04:49 Tri-motor plane landing, pilot Wayne arrives & sees Gloria. Wayne welcomes customers on board small aircraft; laughs w/ Gloria who’s taking flight; interrupted by his boss who wants to talk to Gloria himself. Wayne interrupts by starting motors of tri-motor. 20:06:38 Plane taxiis up to sign blocking take off; takes off. 20:07:01 Train towards water tank, runby. Alongside engine. Plainville station & telegraph operator; throws semaphore signal. CU steam & smoke out of engine stack. 20:08:10 POV from top of coal car, man forward & into engine, train hi-jacked. Freight runs by station w/o stopping. Cu teletype sending message. Runby of passenger train from below embankment. Plane overhead; view into Wayne & co-pilot, Gloria looking out window, horrified & runs to Wayne & says they’re going to crash. 20:09:33 Wayne puts plane into dive. 20:10:00 Passenger train w/ much smoke towards camera & runby. Plane lands plane in cornfield & Wayne switches line in time; but engine hits last car & crashes (models). Wayne finds father dead; people clustered around dead engineer. Wayne hears the other train was hi-jacked, possibly by escaped prisoner; Wayne says he’ll find the person. Angst. Melodrama; Transportation; Mystery; Business Competition; Saturday Matinee Serial;