Burn 'Em Up Barnes

1934 American film

June 16, 1934 (1934-06-16)

Running time

12 chapters (210 minutes)CountryUnited StatesLanguageEnglish

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]

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

Burn 'Em Up Barnes at IMDb
Burn 'Em Up Barnes at AllMovie

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Preceded by

The Lost Jungle (1934)

Mascot Serial
Burn 'Em Up Barnes (1934)

Succeeded by

The Law of the Wild (1934)

Mascot serials

Silent serials
(1926-1929)

Sound serials
(1929-1935)

v t e Films directed by Armand Schaefer
The Hurricane Horseman (1931) The Cheyenne Cyclone (1931) The Lightning Warrior (1931) Law and Lawless (1932) The Hurricane Express (1932) Outlaw Justice (1932) Sinister Hands (1932) The Reckless Rider (1932) Battling Buckaroo (1932) The Wyoming Whirlwind (1932) Terror Trail (1933) The Three Musketeers (1933) Fighting Texans (1933) Sagebrush Trail (1933) Fighting with Kit Carson (1933) Burn 'Em Up Barnes (1934) The Law of the Wild (1934) The Lost Jungle (1934) Sixteen Fathoms Deep (1934) The Miracle Rider (1935) Exiled to Shanghai (1937)

Films directed by Armand Schaefer