The Green Hornet 1940 Full Movie
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- Опубліковано 10 вер 2024
- This is the original 1940 movie serial of the Green Hornet. Britt Reid is a wealthy young publisher of the Daily Sentinel newspaper by day, but at night he becomes the crime fighting hero Green Hornet, assited by his trusty driver Kato
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I'm 81 and I still get a kick out of this no matter how many times I have seen it. This was released the same month and year I was born. Amazing.
I'm so happy to see this and many other serials from my youth. Brings back many, many memories.
Just thanks are all I can offer.
You are welcome Ben!
@@TheFederalFile hey, it's you.
@@kennarajora6532 hey it's me
@@danielthames1426 marvelous
Ben, I too enjoy the old TV shows I watched as a young child during the 50's, 60's as well. Not to mention the wonderful movies as well. Enjoy the nostalgia. It sure brings back fond memories we will never get back.
I’m a bit older than the movie. These things bring back memories. A serial was part of the Saturday morning movies, you might even our culture. We would never miss an episode and Monday morning at school that’s all we would talk about; how did whoever escaped and predicted what would happen. Keep them coming.
Thank you for Making this Classic available for all of us!
aNYONE CAN FIND THESE OLD MOTH-EATEN FILMS ,FELLOWS!!!! HE'S NOT doing you a big favor!!they are free on the net if yoou gota a good search engine!!or a big library!!!
The Green Hornet Was a Modern Version of the "Lone Ranger" Britt Reid is a Decedent of John Reid Who Was the "Lone Ranger" Who Was Britt's Great Uncle, The Green Hornet is Older Than "Batman" Appearing on the Radio in 1936 Created by Fran Striker and George W Trendle Who Also Created the "Lone Ranger" and Sargent Preston of the Yukon for WKYTZ Radio in Detroit. A Young "Dan Rather" was One of the Announcers.
I was born in 1972 so I never got to see these in a cinema but when I was seven or eight years old the local cable station started running serial chapters on Saturday mornings as part of their programming. I remember thinking this was so different from the cartoon fare - this was grownup tv for kids. The Crimson Ghost was my absolute favourite.
I'm 66 and when I was a young kid in the 50s I used to watch reruns of many of these serials and Sci-fi shows on TV on Saturday mornings, a great treat.
sometimes TCM still runs them in the morning. Forget which morning.
I'm 66 and i still enjoy this movie 😊
Not having access to a thing 24/7 is a good thing, because it brings people together at the same time and forms communities. I still remember the time when "TV took a break midday" ... and when they introduced private TV channels here in Germany they filled it with talk-shows which had nonsensical guests and stupid stories ... which slowly turns the brains of the viewers into mushy and dead matter.
I had been looking around for a long time, but I couldn't find it, so I gave up. I never dreamed that it had been uploaded to UA-cam. Since it was made more than 30 years before I was born, I cannot now know the detailed social conditions and the realistic atmosphere of the world at that time, but I could still feel the high perfection of the video and the wonderful music that never fades away. Thank you very much.
I was born in 1960. And I love all these old superhero movies. Thanks for the uploads
Likewise.
Same here
Yes old years long gone, 2050 strange this old video still lives. I am now well older than you would think.
I was born in 2960,too. But I saw Green hornet on TV ,I remember only Bruce Lee
@@-oiiio-3993 OK B00MER.
Great to watch good movies again not like the junk on TV now spend my time watching movies on UA-cam thanks for bringing back good memories
Not everything from that era is good though ...
Awe, What a Fantastic Treat! I am at just over 50 and how I wish special serials like this could make their way back onto theater screens and tv screens. I am grateful for this though!! Thanks for this.
Gordon = just patch your computer thru to your Big Screen TV with a VGA / HDMI cable, and Voila = These Ancient Prizes are Big-n-Crisp!!
Gordon - I'm 64 ., I never saw anything like this in a theater., ( maybe on "oldies" TV though, but I don't recall it)., I hope the teens out there like this far more than anything more recent., I LOVED old stuff when I was younger.
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I am slightly older than you but I seem to remember that as a kid the movie theatres had Superman as a serial before movies on saturday afternoons.
When one of the retro tv networks started running the 60s version of The Green Hornet a few years ago I dragged myself out of bed at 6 am (coincidentally, still on a saturday morning) to watch it. A lot of interesting differences between this version and the 60s version. For instance, Mike Axford was a reporter and Kato didn't invent anything.
Did get a laugh out of the claim that the car used by The Green Hornet was capable of 200 mph.
@@howardkerr8174 I am like you. (mid--cough-60's plus-cough) AND I too remember the movie shorts, before the previews & film started. I would save up my allowance for 2 weeks and go to the theater. So for 50¢, my friends and I could watch two mini-series, previews and the film (Saturday Matinees only)...Plus get a large popcorn and large drink. 3+hrs away from our parents...Or was it our parents wanted us out of the house for 3hrs?...LOL (Mom would sometimes give me the money, when I was short....Smart mom)
As I became a mother myself...I understood why she did what she did...hehe
Gordon Welke a few years ago Turner classic was showing them on Saturday morning.To bad they stopped.
I am a brazilian retired English teacher....and I love the English spoken in these wonderful movies...so clear to understand e the best of it is that I dont lose my skill...is one of the best ways to practice my English and at the same time have fun!!!
Fantastic!!! I remember my Dad telling me..how they use to sit around the radio..and listen to this..and the shadow...i remember watching the newer version years ago Thanks!!
Mine too, along with the Lone Ranger.
Gordon Jones: from the Green Hornet to mike the cop,
you still can! I love old time radio still today! Listen to it everyday. Better than anything on TV!
@@shanghaibennyii6565 Mike Axford is a reporter.
@@williebowen1043 In the GH radio show of the 40s, Mike Axford is a former cop who works for the Sentinel as an investigative reporter, and considers himself as Britt Reid's bodyguard.
Green hornet is exciting and fabulous keye. Luke was great as Kato. Such wonderful actor!
He's dressed like one of the SS's Schutzstaffel soldiers!
That's ridiculous! The green hornet was written long before wwll
@@deborahlangnese7645 he still looks like a Korean about to invade Czechoslovakia!
Funny!
Kato hardly even said or did anything. The camera and mic were practically glued to only one person.
I’ve seen a number of the old serials on youtube over the years. Green hornet has always been one of my favourites. Up there with the Batman, Superman, Captain Marvel serials. This copy is rather good quality. Thanks.
Don't forget Buck Rogers &The Shadow.
I think GH is actually better than Batman and especially Superman. GH doesn't seem to bring in the absurdities that the others depend on.
@@freedapeeple4049 The absurdities are only there because the writers are lazy/stupid ... and are only capable of making an episode more thrilling by increasing the special effects budget and the threat level, which quickly puts them into RIDICULOUS territory. This resulted in the "bloodiest movie ever" scene from Hot Shots ... a criticism of action movie sequels of the 80s.
@@Muck006 No, they are there because these things were written for kids who either wouldn't notice them, or wouldn't care. I find it sadly laughable that grown adults are going crazy over children's entertainment.
"Well, it's never afternoon until you've had lunch!" love this lingo
Made my day. It's 1:35pm - at this moment - but it won't be "afternoon" for another half hour or so. Yay!
@@wilhelmglick8458 Enjoy ypur lunch
I love the way they reuse certain scenes over and over across the episodes to save cost with no impact to the story. Great editing.
But as the married widow drowned, the propane tank sang to the porpoise. When the helicopter proposed lunch, the propeller saw the midnight daylight yesterday at you. Laughingly, the robin gasped, while moonbeams ate marshmallows inside the deer. Aware of pencils, aroma heard floor tiles selling whales. Branded as lost is the umbrella, as it elopes at tires.
Over 80 years ago. Shortly before America lost her innocence. My father rest his soul, would tell me about how as kids, he and his two sisters my aunts, would listen to the Green Hornet and The Shadow radio shows at night in the dark with the only light coming from the dial on an old cathedral style radio! 😲👍
My dad did too. I also watched this television series. Kato,(Bruce Lee), made me get involved in Martial Arts. Bruce Lee came too Norfolk Virginia to help Chuck Norris with his first Karate Studio. I was Chuck Norris' first student. Bruce Lee taught me how to use my skills in fighting along with Chuck Norris. I was 8 years old.
WWII was something else for America. These young people today would not know how to handle that war. My dad was in the Coast Guard and he seen action on the Atlantic Coast. German Uboats.
Lost Innocence? Whose?
@@DGP653 Yeah, I know exactly what you mean.
Innocence? after killing all the native Indians do you mean?
I read about the Green Hornet when I was a young boy and I loved it !! I wish he and all of the others would come back !! Mike Thompson age 75 !!!
Great Serial....Great Acting For a Low Budgeted 1940 Serial!! I enjoyed the serial ,more than the 1960's TV series!!! Thanks for posting!!! June 30,2020.
Great Saturday morning fun! Green Hornet, Batman, Phantom, Commando Cody... thanks for posting these serials of a long lost era.
Great series. I'm glad I didn't have to walk to the theater 12 times to see it over 3 months.
Right?!😂
The next generation will ask: "What is a theatre?"
In the snow uphill both ways
Great serial from when my dad was a kid. Had to watch for Keye Luke. Always liked him as he was a local LA guy who got into movies and had a long career. I believe lots of his relatives live in the San Fernando Valley area.
Keye Luke #1 son Charlie Chan
The actors must have had the time of their lives. What fun. Too much humor. I cry every time I dial up the Green Hornet. The "Buzz Mobile"/"Hornet Mobile" brings paroxysms of laughter. Thanks again. Good on ya mate.
Actors like serials because it meant longer employment than on regular (usually b-movies) movies. After they finished one serial or movie, they went looking for their next job.
@@kennethquesenberry2610, Logical.
Great stuff. These movies are in Black and white. Real classics. Thanks
Much enjoyed this serial, thanks for the HD upload! Especially liked the 1937 Lincoln-Zephyr in her role as the "Black Beauty", and a beauty she was! Loved the way she leaned hard out of (not into) turns at "200 miles an hour" and Kato never once turning the steering wheel even though the car would make the wildest S-turns ever! I also remember the 1966 Chrysler Imperial used in the 1960's GH series. It too, was a beauty, but not quite in the same league as the 'Zephyr, IMHO. Maybe I'm just old fashioned.
Thanks for identifying the car!
Was wondering what yr and model that was, Thanks!
I had just looked it up based on the hood ornament and the grille. Twelve-cylinder beauty - and very rare.
I THOUGHT THE 60s BLACK BEAUTY WAS A LINCOLN
@Sincerely Yours And the Zephyr makes a great buzzing sound!
There's an amazing connection between Keye Luke who played "Kato" and Bruce Lee who later played "Kato" in the 60's. Luke played "Master Poe" In the "Kung Fu series which was a show designed for Bruce Lee, but was rejected. Later Luke would be used in the movie "Enter the Dragon" as a voice over for the evil "Han".
Hector Rivas......Very interesting, except that the Kung Fu TV series was NOT 'designed for' Bruce Lee - Lee actually created the concept himself [but named it 'The Warrier']. He pitched the idea to both Warner Bros and Paramount, but neither seemed interested. However, Lee's widow - Linda Lee Cadwell - strongly asserts that Warner Bros later stole the idea when they launched their TV series in 1972 with David Carradine made-up as a ShaoLin monk .
Lee-Cadwell's assertion is almost certainly true. [Lee was interviewed on the Pierre Berton show in 1971 and spoke of his concept TV series - about a Chinese martial artist travelling across America - and that he would play the main part himself]. It seems highly unlikely therefore that Warner Bros would have come up with virtually the exact same idea - and especially casting a relatively unknown Chinese as the leading actor.
@@thesoultwins72 David Carradine was not Chinese... per ethnicelebs: Ethnicity: English, along with German, Scottish, Irish, Welsh, and Dutch
@@seattleemeraldcity9306 ....??? Can you READ???? I didn't say that David Carradine was Chinese - I said that he was 'made-up' to look like a Shaolin Monk! Please complete your primary level English classes ok!!
@@thesoultwins72 🤣🤣 you're so easily triggered
@@seattleemeraldcity9306 ....cretin
The multiple real chases with old cars (and trucks) that are not sped up are truly first class for the time. And there are multipole real good ones. Theres even a Rockford in it. The S turn at 228 05 is a beautiful example of pushing a 1938 Coupe to its limit without flipping it. Sliding threw turns, real tire squealing and so many real car / truck sequences , this must be one of the first films to realize that the public loves car chases so lets make them as realistic as possible!
Thanks for posting a real treasure trove.!!
amazing that gordon jones played a hero. he played mike the cop on a lot of abbott and costello tv shows, and a goofy cop in 'arsenic and old lace', and a comedy guy on a lot of variety shows in the early fifties. good old gordon jones!
Gordon Jones was NOT in ARSENIC AND OLD LACE. That was Jack Carson.
"Media should reflect public opinion, not mold it". Wish it was so.
Nobody quite had the class of the Universal serials, except maybe a close match over at Republic Pictures. This one is certainly up there with 'Radar Men from the Moon'. Thanks for the posting - great fun.
I love this movie
..gives you a dose of reality how life was portrayed back then
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The kiddies got a taste of classical music with the theme like they did with the Lone Ranger.
Good catch. The music is very good.
Dec. 9, 2018----Thanks for the movie. I still remember seeing the serials being shown at the various base theaters back then.
Yes, the good old U.S. Air Force can be very boring!
I totally agree was a dependent in Bad Kreuznach 58-60 Saturdays they would show cartoons and only one episode of a seral Rocket man .... Buck Rodgers , GH etc then a movie Roy Rodgers, Abbott and Castello.
tere was no AFN TV Just raideo where we would listen to Ligts out ... the Shadow .... You were there, It was differant growing up as an Army dependent
@@thomas5130 You COULD HAVE been "in" an episode of the Green Hornet ... the missing "election episode" ... because something like that actually happened around WWII. Look up "the Battle of Athens" ... which is an important historic lesson to remember.
Thank you for keeping it in the original aspect ratio.It looks great ! Plus I enjoyed the film.
KEYE LUKE (Kato) went on to become Number One Son to the last TWO Charlie Chans of that series' classic era; indeed, Chan himself in a 1972 animated series(Charlie Chan and The Chan Clan); a prodigiously talented visual artist, his portraits had gotten him his first ins in Hollywood and the chance to act came later. He was to become THE most prestigious and honored Asian- American actors of the middle third of the 20th Century, and was beloved among practitioners of a number of the creative and performing arts.
He was in the "Kung Fu" TV series, playing one of Caine's teachers when Caine was a young boy.😁
Episode Timestamps
1 - 0:00:00 - The Tunnel of Terror
2 - 0:21:12 - Thundering Terror
3 - 0:40:20 - Flying Coffins
4 - 1:00:26 - Pillar of Flame
5 - 1:19:37 - The Time Bomb
6 - 1:38:44 - Highways of Peril
7 - 1:59:11 - Bridge of Disaster
8 - 2:19:17 - Dead or Alive
9 - 2:36:19 - The Hornet Trapped
10 - missing - Bullets and Ballots
11 - 2:55:04 - Disaster Rides the Rails
12 - 3:12:55 - Panic in the Zoo
13 - 3:32:39 - Doom of the Underworld
There also complete playlist with separated series but a little worse quality
ua-cam.com/play/PLZSq428SGymQshZZ_P5QaNfEV1pF83dRl.html
Mahalo nui loa 🌺
The missing episode is about a topic which happened IRL in the USA ... look up "The Battle of Athens" for more details.
@@Muck006 The Battle of Athens, Missouri took place in 1861. The Battle of Athens, Tennessee took place in 1946.
The episode "Bullets and Ballots" was released in 1940. [Available on other UA-cam channels.]
> Our hero, Britt Reid, battling the crime ring in a mayoralty election, secures evidence that ballot boxes have been "stuffed." The ring candidate is elected and The Sentinel demands a court order for a recount. Monroe hurries his henchmen to seize and destroy the ballots, but The Green Hornet gets possession of the ballots and starts with them in an armored car to a safe hiding place, pending the courts' order. Monroe learns of the route taken by the armored car, and sets a trap for our hero on a dangerous mountain curve. Will the Green Hornet be able to survive the deadly trap? Will he get the ballots to the courts in time?
this video is better,
Nice memory. I used to watch Green Hornet/ ⌚ w/Van Johnson in 1966 was 10. Never knew there was this serial. Fun to be back then.
Packed into the cast are Al Hodge, the Green Hornet’s voice on Radio and in this movie, and later known in the role of Captain Video, Alan Ladd (Gilpin - Student Pilot [Ch. 3 and Ch. 4], and Ann Doran, who early on under various names and later under her own, appeared in over 500 motion pictures and 1000 television shows, often in small and uncredited roles, and Anne Gwynne.
This is much better than the other serials I've seen.
This was a Universal studios serial; I guess they had more $$$ to toss around than Republic, the studio that made almost all of the other serials I've ever seen on TV, and was known as a 'poverty row' studio compared to the biggies.
Wow. This is good. I can see why the movie house serials were so popular. I wonder if the Green Hornet's flash light and headlights have green lenses. That would be too cool.
It would also make them less effective AND instantly announce them to anyone.
Like other heroes of the time, the Hornet didn't actually kill people; he merely knocked them out with his gas gun.
I always had to laugh when Roy Rodgers would only shoot the the gun out of the bad guys hand lol
@@thegreenbird795 Well, consider the young audiences for these films. Heroes didn't actually kill people, even the worst bad guys. They merely incapacitated them for awhile. Of course, some of the radio serials could get pretty grim. The Shadow, for example, went up against his share of deranged, murdering lunatics. But the good guys didn't kill.
Captain Marvel proved fatal to some.
I think he had terrible wind , that’s why kato needed goggles but strangely no peg on the nose..😃
Speaking of gas gun, if you look closely, the design of the weapon is a Mauser C96
One of the great things about movie serials are the outrageous cheats they use to save the hero from his apparent doom in the previous episode: The Hornet falls out a window but he's okay when Kato finds him because the pavement broke his fall(!); the trains are about to collide - until one of them switches tracks at the last second!; The Hornet and a baddie are fighting in a train caboose when the train derails (I mean, we SAW them spinning around in the caboose as it fell)...oh but wait, they actually fell off the train BEFORE it derailed; funny I don't remember seeing that at the end of the previous episode... :-))
Yeah a daring escape from doom at the end of every episode ...yet they still make more sense than some of the overblown CGI fests we get today..
That's part of the charm of these things.
Right. You can see the end and then the start of the next one, when the recap there is a slight difference. Now I see it. Great stuff.
*Joe* you *strike* me as a guy with a sense of humour . . .
@@TAROTAI That's the first I've heard that pun on my name...this week :-P
Thank you 👍First time I watched this was a long time ago on BBC2 📺 This was Great and thanks too someone on the comments i got too see chapter 10 Yay! 👍😎
There was a tv series in the sixties called the Green Hornet which starred Bruce Lee as Kato. Kids would yell hhoooiii like he did on the show when he fought someone.
Yes, yes I did....lol
I remember the Black Beauty deployed an aerial drone with a tv camera that GH could monitor from the back seat. Very advanced tech for the 1960s.
@@donaldpetkus1637 They got rid of the "making a distinctive sound with your car" garbage which doesnt really make any sense, too.
You bet! I was 6-7 years old when The GH was on TV and I wanted to learn karate, to be invincible like Kato.
(And this reminds me of the commercials for "Hai Karate" cologne for men.)
Mark, you weren't they only one that wanted to be like Kato. 50 years later, I still want to be Kato.
Uhhhh, this old serial is far better than the latest feature film adaptation.
I'd have to be paid good money to watch the latest movie trailer, more the movie.
That buzz gets me. Those guys would've been deaf within three episodes
Love that it starts with 'Flight of the Bumble Bee" !!
I like how the G H always gets attacked when his back is turned. I've never seen a superhero get beat up so much. Still, I love it!
The James Bond of super heroes?
watch the dick tracy serials
He still never gets hit by a bullet, no matter how close the shooters are.
@@APRAPR-nq2wn Yes, Dick Tracy, and Captain Midnight gets beaten up by the bad guys almost every time he fights. he needed lessons from Joe Palooka.
Yes and how did his body guard make it outta the police academy being such a lousy shot? Even a blind squirrel finds a nut now and then, but Mike Oxford couldn't hit water if he fell outta a boat! Give the man a sawed off double barreled 12 gauge.
For another great film serial, check out the original 1940 version of Captain Marvel linked here:
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The Green Hornet's car does 300 miles on a full tank of fuel, but has to stop every 5 minutes for the trumpet player in the trunk to get his breath back...
I want a humming car like The Green Hornet.
The Green Hornet was put out of business during WW2. Due to gas rationing, he couldn't speed his car around so much.
That is just too hilarious!!! LMAO!!!
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Ha ha good one,,your name should be Joker not Penguin lol
Charlie Chang number two son done well as Kato,and love these old classics especially Buck Rogers and Captain Marvel.
Old serials were delightfully flaky, but had a pure class, all their own. Kato was originally Japanese, but became Korean with the approach of WW2.
Seth Tyrssen It made no sense that a native in Singapore would attack him because he was Korean. Japanese, though, most definitely. Thanks for the information on Kato's rewriting.
On the radio show, he became Filipino.
He certainly doesn't look Korean...
Being an old car buff, I love seeing all these old cars. I would cherish having the Hornet's car today.
You could just "have it" though ... because using these cars in todays traffic is going to be horrible.
This is very interesting. I've had no idea Keye Luke preceded Bruce Lee a good 25 years before the TV Green Hornet series of the 60's. This was indeed the real Green Hornet pilot as well as the theme song. I've had no idea the Al Hirt's trumpet theme song was written long before without the trumpet. I've seen Keye Luke in the Kung Fu series of 70's as master Po, but haven't seen his acting in his younger days. This is absolutely very interesting stuff.
The Flight of the Bumble Bee, from Rimsky-Korsakof's opera The T ale of Tsar Saltan. Written in 1900.
Keye Luke did a lot stuff in the thirties and forties. He was Charlie Chans number 1 son, he played James Lee Wong in the last of the mystery series etc.
@@charliehorse43 Pioneering Asian actors like Keye Luke paved the way for all the other Asian actors including Bruce Lee. Bruce Lee would've had very little chance of breaking into television had it not been for the work of actors like Keye Luke.
You can see him in several of the 42 Charlie Chan movie collection. I not only have them in my movie collection but I have many movie serials in my collection as well.
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Wow, the tension! Hold my breath every time G.H. in a fight, waiting for his Mask to get Get Torn Off!! 😰
Oh my, the "smoker gun" is delightful. All wars will only be allowed where the "smoker gun" is used.
Darkwing Duck adopted the gas gun as his own weapon. Whenever he shouted "suck gas, evildoer," certain people would mishear him and think he said - I better leave it at that, Disney might sue me!
Great! Enjoyed all 12 shows. Great to step back in Hollywood lore of old movie making.
" The Green Hornet " car in this movie actually looks better than the one from tv series that followed years later
Lincoln Zephyr, 1937.
Fixing bullet holes in straight sheets of metal is easier than in this "curvaceous monster" though, so the later one is easier on the maintenance.
I watch this repeatedly and the "hornet" noise and the "Hornet Mobile" just plain crack me up. Thanks again for posting. Good on ya mate.
@Leonardo's Truth, Yeah, Key Luke was no Bruce Lee. One thing I like about the older movies is that they were not so perfect, they were more honest, they didn't have to be afraid of political correctness. I like cigars and boy howdy did those old timers puff up a storm. Ah, the good ol' days.
@Leonardo's Truth, l don't see how you came to that erroneous conclusion. This movie was from 1940.
I didn't realise this existed from 1939! I am so used to the 60s version. That Lincoln Zephyr (Green Hornet's Black Beauty car) is old school cool. Plus, I've always thought the actor Keye Luke (Kato) was such a dude so seeing him in this was a pleasant surprise. Thanks for posting this serial.
Look up the "Rumpler Tropfenwagen", which was produced 1921-24 ... and held the record for best air-drag coefficient for a production car until the 1970s or so. Sadly only two of them are left AND sadly it was a bit impractical due to not having a boot for luggage. Those problems could be improved upon nowadays though.
@@Muck006 Checked it out. Yes, awesome design for that era.
I remember when Batman and the Green hornet teamed up. I love Batman even today 😍
My hubby just mentioned that to me. I didn't remember.
The "Whippet Bus Lines" might be a substitute for Greyhound Bus Line that began in Hibbing, Minn. in 1914 and its name formalized in 1929. Whippets are diminutive versions of the Greyhound. Whippet was or is the name of bus line started in England in 1919.
Eye us Yorkshire folk like our whippets and flat caps lol 😃
@@Roscoe.P.Coldchain Us southern folk like our nitrous oxide, allegedly
Like old cars? You'll love this movie.
This is a good introduction to the Green Hornet character. As a young girl, I only knew of the 1966/67 series with Van Williams and Bruce Lee, but this film gives more of the background of Britt Reid, Kato, and the Black Beauty. I love that buzzing sound the car makes as it speeds along the road to the theme music. 29:00 - It's interesting how back in 1940 nobody locked their front doors. 30:54 - The closed captioning misspells "Green Hornet" as "green wallet". 😆 45:49 - I love this woman's dress. 52:49 - The closed captioning says "Green Harlem" instead of "Green Hornet (really, something must be done about these glitches). And Keye Luke had more dialogue in this serial than Bruce Lee had in the entire 1966/67 series (such unfairness). 🙁 I'm enjoying this film, though, as I've never seen it before. 😀
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A great treat indeed..I used to go every Saturday matinee(Manhattan..Eagle theater to watch every other cliffhanger..This was one of my favorites(Gordon Jones was an inferior choice for the role..He was a so-so Actor...I'd wish you come up with other cliffs(Tiger Woman, Brenda Starr, Reporter..Captain Marvel, etc, etc..They were all thrilling, escapist entertainment..I love them all..Any possibly "Cobra Woman"(A Maria Monte's cult movie ever be showing( not in bits/pieces)but the full movie!..Most gracefully, GeorgeC
Wow, Keye Luke as Kato! So before my time, but Keye Luke's connection to Bruce Lee (TV's Kato) continued indirectly to "Enter The Dragon". Shih Kien's (Han) English was so bad, Keye Luke "substituted" and dubbed his voice for Han in the movie.
Wow, you learn something new each day. Just gotta watch quality programming!
Also was in Charlie Chan movies.
Great fun and really appreciate the quality! Thank you!
I just wanted to straighten out the info on this full length serial movie as it was actually released in 1939 according to the original copyright at the beginning of the movie serial which was originally divided into chapters.I’m sure my father probably went to see it in the movie theater when he was a kid and I just love watching the original chapters in full length movies.Just like the original chapters of Flash Gordon,Buck Rogers and also Batman with second Lois Lane acting in it from the original Superman TV show.Noel Neil played Lois Lane from the second season on who also played Lois Lane in the original Superman serials.
My eldest son Brian Smith of Marion,Iowa loved his Comic book Marvel characters and The Green Hornet. He collected new comic books a d had each graded and never touched again.
Thank you for the upload.
Watching from Australia.
THANK YOU! I've owned and loved "Strikes Again," the sequel, on VHS (so you know how far I go back :)), and I'm glad to watch the original!
Loved it .. Thank you ... That knowing look in the last shot from Casey Brilliant.
its after my bedtime... sure hope ma dont catch me watchin this, its darn good!
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Sept. 21, 2018---Thanks for the serials. Though 65, never saw any of these at the base theaters way back when. I do remember seeing some serials, though with time, don't remember them. But it was a lot fun back then....ten cents each for the movie, then Mom would give us 3 boys thirty cents which was enough to buy a bag of popcorn and some soda pop for the 3 of us to munch on and slurp up. All of this was before there was an enforced movie standard I believe. The ONE movie I REALLY wanted to see was where some Army guys are shooting bazooka's at some mummy with flames from the bazooka rounds shooting from the bazooka tube and thru the mummy. Mom said no...it would give me nightmares.
I watched some Mum told me not to. I had nightmares. It's a great memory now.
Michael Axford reminds me of Elmer Fudd trying to catch Bugs Bunny😂😂 great serial👍👍 thanks for the upload🎥📽
Having watched "Svengoolie", he always does a great job telling us about the main (and some of the bit) actors in the films he shows. Whenever I see these old serials, I wonder if there is a site which attempts to do the same. Such as: one of the ladies stepping off the bus which skidded into the warehouse looked a lot like Phyllis Coates (Lois Lane, TV Superman) probably not her, but who knows? One of the fellows in Ried's office sounded, to myself, anyway, like Lloyd Bridges. Not Lloyd, of course, but maybe a relative? Given his age, a Grandfather could be about right. Anybody notice lots in the "Estates" selling for $750? Look at the real estate sign on the hillside, as the bus passes in front of it. If these were near L.A., in 1940 that would have been a fortune!
Lloyd Bridges actually *starred* in one of those serials as "Secret Agent X9"
ahh so you watch the details like I do I love spotting famous actors in minor roles before they were famous!!Also thinks like how much things costs and other news items are interesting
When I lived in Salem, OR in the early 70s the local TV station played afternoon movies that featured famous stars in early roles. At the end you could call in with the star's name and role and win a prize.
Kato's "bee eyes" goggles are simply hilarious.
Hey, they were necessary for a car that could reach 200 mph.
@@howardkerr8174 Not really ... because the Black Beauty has an enclosed cabin. With an open top you MIGHT have been correct, but that also depends upon the design of the car.
Don't get much more hokey than this. I love it. Probably because of all the pot we're required to smoke here in Oregon.
Required?! That's it, I'm moving to Oregon!
@@joestrike8537 Yep killer buds for as little as 3 bucks a gram. We've got a huge surplus
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I smoke two joints than i smoke two joints and then i smoke two more.
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The buzzin' hornet sound cracks me up. It would be fun to mount a really loud speaker on my truck and then drive down the road with the hornet sound blaring. Thanks again for posting
That would be cool 😎
@@icuryy5826, Glad you like it. There are lots of very smart and creative people and it would not surprise me if someone has done the "Buzzin' Hornetmobile" or soon will.
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No doubt....
@@icuryy5826, Heh, heh, heh...keep your eyes peeled or pealed whatever and if you see one then post it. What a hoot or toot that would be.
Ironically, this movie came out the year Bruce Lee was born.
44excalibur Why is that ironic?
@@653j521 because Bruce Lee played Kato in the green hornet 1967 TV version. Finally, real karate on tv.
@@davidgreen5099 No, real Kung Fu.
Gordon Jones Gave A great performance as the Green Hornet. For a 1940 Serial its Actors were really Outstanding!!!Thanks for sharing....It was very enjoyable to watch(Again and Again)!!!! April 1 , 2020.
Used to wear green coveralls and skull cap riding my motorcycle in cold weather. The kids around town used to swarm around checking my bike out. They called me "the green hornet."
I must have started this movie 6 times. I start watching it after midnight and I haven’t made it through just yet, but I will eventually.
The commissioner is the Old Ranger on “Death Valley Days”.
Yes Stanley Andrews ("The Old Ranger"), then Ronald Reagan, Rosemary DeCamp, Robert Taylor and Dale Robertson. Ronald Reagan resigned in 1966 to run for Governor of California.
37 years before Star wars, and there we see the script rising to the top of the screen, to be read in a brilliant way, 1:19:36, and also the music is very similar.
That began at Chapter Two - 21:19. ‘What goes around, comes around’. 🐨🇦🇺
That music reminded me of the Old Flash Gordon theme from either the 40's or 50's, but I can't believe they used Flight Of The Bumble Bee for the main theme, I remember my Father talking about watching this series at the Movies when he was a kid..
The text wasnt the big innovation of Star Wars ... NOT HAVING THE TITLE CARDS with the actors and so on was the real fight with the Actor's Guild!
@@Muck006 I know that pal! Others do not, they thought it was a new concept
The same company that makes the hat bands on these guys brims must do Mr.Moto's glasses too.
the actor playing the green hornet also played mike "the cop" on the abbott & costello TV show.
I agree, that's a good catch!
Kato " Tokyo drifts " that Green Hornet car in 1940, way before it becomes a fad, love it.
The cop looks 10 foot tall on Abbott and Costello show,he throws Lou around like a rag doll. Oh wait, im thinking of Gordon Jones, He was Mike the cop
That's correct. Also appeared on Green Acres
quality upload!! many thanks--love the immersion in the era. (i was born in 1940)
Wow! I never saw this before and I like it. BTW, that's a very young Master Po from Kung-Fu playing Kato.
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0:05 isn't this 1939 MCMXXXIX ? Just saying.
I could be mistaken but I believe they had this asca radio program. I love their special effects or lack there of, acting was good because of lack of special effects.
Cool old shows like this are priceless.
I always loved Green Hornet as a child. I see it now and realize that Bruce Lee was underutilized by production RIP Bruce Lee always great to see him on old footage as well as all the Kool antique cars. I also realized that Green Hornet 1940 was very much like Batman who came to film in the 60's. Neither had super powers but similar real identities.
I think the actor playing the Green Hornet was the cop on The Abbott and Costello Show
Mike the Cop
And you're right!
in this movie britt reid is played by gordon jones
He also appeared on Green Acres.
I like how they kept it clean. No kissing, even. Nice enough for kids to watch it in a movie theater. And after all, there will be further episodes, surely, with all the usual characters gathering around to rid the city of crime. If only they could!
That's too bad, the women of that era were so frickin hot! It was before Marilyn Monroe and Torpedo boobs and women were a healthy weight
, guess
You are a PURITAN then ... and part of the problem. Here is a list what your kind of attitude is doing as damage:
- in Britain puritans caused a lot of MALNUTRITION among the poor, when they convinced the people who only ate bread (with only occasionally something extra) and drank beer ... to stop drinking beer and drink tea instead. They NEEDED the nutrients in the beer!
- in the USA there is the obvious PROHIBITION ... which a) grew the Mafia and b) introduced the RIDICULOUS drinking age of 21 ... which makes people OVERINDULGE when they FINALLY are allowed to buy beer. People can join the army and die fighting years before that.
- CENSORSHIP ... which is implemented with the BLEEPED OUT WORDS on TV ... which then causes the attitude of "censoring people/words is acceptable" to be part of the mindset of people ... to make the jump to cancel culture far easier.
Since The Green Hornet Arrived In The Movies And Television. A Cast That Deserves A Special Recognition For All Icons Of This Feature Events !
Robert’s is running the ACME Transportation Co., poor Wiley Coyote won’t get his rocket shoes this week.!
3:03:00 - just showing watchers to the door lol
Thank you! What an excellent print!
A fantastic film even with the missing chapter 10.