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Federal Operator 99 is a 1945 American movie serial from Republic Pictures.It was later edited down into a feature version titled F.B.I. 99 for television. The serial is about an FBI agent named Jerry Blake who battles gentleman thief Jim Belmont, who escapes custody with help of his gang and begins a wave of crimes, beginning with plotting to steal the crown jewels of the Princess Cornelia.
She appeared as Lorna Gray in Republic's Federal Operator 99, but subsequently adopted the name Adrian Booth. [5] At Republic, she often received co-star billing in Westerns, the only woman other than Dale Evans to be billed so highly at that studio. [2] She also starred in Republic's serial about the comic book superhero Captain America.
Pages in category "Republic Pictures film serials" The following 68 pages are in this category, out of 68 total. ... Federal Operator 99; The Fighting Devil Dogs;
This is a list of film serials by studio, separated into those released by each of the five major studios, and the remaining minor studios. The five major studios produced the greater number of serials. Of these the main studios are considered to be Columbia Pictures, Universal Pictures, and Republic Pictures. All three were active during the ...
The next new serial, Adventures of Frank and Jesse James, followed in the autumn. [1] The serial was re-released on 31 December 1956 between the similar re-releases of Federal Operator 99 and The Purple Monster Strikes. The last original Republic serial release was King of the Carnival in 1955. [1]
The Star Trek: Voyager holodeck story The Adventures of Captain Proton features numerous references to Commando Cody and other Republic serials, including the costume worn by the Captain, which was created from replica components of Cody's costume such as his jacket, rocket pack, and chest control panel, and a killer robot that was an almost ...
The year 1945, the end of the Golden Age of Serials, [3] was the last in which Republic released any 15-chapter serials, the remainder being either 12 or 13 chapters in length. In 1966 footage from the serial was edited together into the 100-minute film Captain Mephisto and the Transformation Machine .
Federal Agents vs. Underworld, Inc. (1949) is a 12-episode black-and-white film serial produced by Republic Pictures during July 1948 and released in January 1949, an original screenplay written collaboratively by Royal K. Cole, Basil Dickey, William Lively and Sol Shor as a crime story with elements of "the mysterious Orient" incorporated in the plot.