Sky Bandits

Sky Bandits

62 mins | Comedy, Action, Adventure, Western | July 6, 1940

Sgt. Renfrew and Constable Kelly go aloft to search for a plane missing with a shipment of gold from the Yukon Mine Company. Inventor Speavy has devised a power ray which disrupts electrical impulses, and Morgan and his gang of crooks has brought in Prof. Lewis to increase the ray's range, telling him he's helping the government develop this new weapon. Speavy spills the beans to Prof. Lewis and his daughter Madeleine,and Morgan threatens to implicate them in his crimes unless they cooperate. Morgan kills Speavy when he tries to warn Renfrew, but when Madeleine stows away on board the doomed plane Renfrew is piloting, will the crooks be able to make Prof. Lewis use the power ray to bring the plane down?

Sky Bandits

62 mins | Comedy, Action, Adventure, Western | July 6, 1940

Sky Bandits
Sgt. Renfrew and Constable Kelly go aloft to search for a plane missing with a shipment of gold from the Yukon Mine Company. Inventor Speavy has devised a power ray which disrupts electrical impulses, and Morgan and his gang of crooks has brought in Prof. Lewis to increase the ray's range, telling him he's helping the government develop this new weapon. Speavy spills the beans to Prof. Lewis and his daughter Madeleine,and Morgan threatens to implicate them in his crimes unless they cooperate. Morgan kills Speavy when he tries to warn Renfrew, but when Madeleine stows away on board the doomed plane Renfrew is piloting, will the crooks be able to make Prof. Lewis use the power ray to bring the plane down?
Producers
Original title Sky Bandits
Directors Ben Chapman, Ralph Staub
Writers Laurie York Erskine, Edward Halperin

Cast

James Newill

as Sergeant Renfrew

Louise Stanley

as Madeleine Lewis

Dewey Robinson

as Uncle Dinwiddie

William Pawley

as Morgan

Joe De Stefani

as Professor Burton Lewis

Jim Farley

as Inspector Warner

Dave O'Brien

as Constable Kelly

Karl Hackett

as Hawthorne

Ted Adams

as Henchman Gary

Dwight Frye

as Speavy

Jack Rube Clifford

as Whispering Smith

Bob Terry

as Henchman Hutchins

Kenne Duncan

as Henchman Brownie

Eddie Fetherston

as Pilot Buzz Murphy

Don Brodie

as Radio Operator

Earl Douglas

as Henchman Butch

Harry Harvey

as Mechanic Greaseball

Harry 'Snub' Pollard

as Pa, Man in Nightshirt

Marin Sais

as Ma