520 - RADAR SECRET SERVICE (1950; NR; 59m)

Shown with Short: 520S-Last Clear Chance

Plot: The government uses radar to catch some bad guys who've stolen atomic material.

Exec Prod: Robert L. Lippert
(201-Rocketship X-M; 203-Jungle Goddess; 208-Lost Continent;
210-King Dinosaur; 611-Last of the Wild Horses)
Prod: Barney A. Sarecky
(assoc/105-The Corpse Vanishes; psup/406S-Undersea Kingdom)
Dir: Sam Newfield (208; *103-The Mad Monster;
507-I Accuse My Parents; Terror of Tiny Town)
Scr: Beryl Sachs (Mr. Muggs Steps Out; Follow the Leader)
Cin: Ernest Miller (Prison Nurse; Oscar nom/Army Girl)
Ed: Carl Pierson (Mr. Muggs Steps Out; Follow the Leader)
SFX: Ray Mercer
(208/507/611; 613-The Sinister Urge; 621-The Beast of Yucca Flats)
Cos: Stanley Kuffel(Buckaroo from Powder River)
M/U: George Lane (Exodus; Pressure Point)
ADir: Fred Preble (103; Federal Man)
Set: Harry Reif (507; 104-Women of the Prehistoric Planet;
808-The She-Creature; H01-Day the World Ended;
asst dir/511-Gunslinger)
Score: Russell Garcia (Time Machine; Atlantis the Lost Continent)
Score: Richard Hazard (Bela Lugosi Meets a Brooklyn Gorilla)

Bill Travis / John Howard (Bulldog Drummond film series)
Lila / Adele Jergens*
Mickey Moran / Tom Neal*
Marge / Myrna Dell (Ma Barker's Killer Brood)
Pill Box / Sid Melton (*208; The Lemon Drop Kid)
Static / Ralph Byrd (203; Dick Tracy film series)
Benson / Robert Kent (203S-The Phantom Creeps; The Gladiator)
Hamilton / Pierre Watkin (*517-Beginning of the End)
Michael / Tristram Coffin
(105; 106-The Crawling Hand; 702-The Brute Man; Blackmail)
Blackie / Riley Hill (Short Grass)
Tom / Robert Carson (For Men Only)
Michael's henchman / Kenne Duncan (*613; Crossroad Avenger)
Michael's 2nd henchman / Bill Hammond (Northwest Trail)
maid Myrtle / Jan Kayne (I Can Get It For You Wholesale)
helicopter operator / Bill Crespinel
lst bruiser / Marshall Reed (Angel and the Badman; Oh Suzanna)
2nd bruider / John McKee (The Pride of St. Louis)
1st henchman / Bob Woodward (Cattle Queen of Montana)
2nd henchman / Boyd Stockman (Stage to Tucson)
truck operator / Holly Bane (Montana Belle; The Ghost of Zorro)

Trivia: Born in 1922, blonde and brassy character actress ADELE JERGENS usually was in B-pictures and frequently played a gangter's moll. Her movies include: 1944-A Thousand and One Nights; 1947-The Corpse Came C.O.D.; 1948-Ladies of the Chorus; The Fuller Brush Man; 1950-Blonde Dynamite; The Traveling Saleswoman; 1951-Abbott and Costello Meet the Invisible Man; 1956-THE DAY THE WORLD ENDED (as shown on MST3K The Home Game); Girls In Prison; and 1958-The Lonesome Trail. Adele Jergens was married to GLENN LANGAN, who played the title role in 309-THE AMAZING COLOSSAL MAN.

In 1951, actor TOM NEAL beat up actress Barbara Payton's then-boyfriend, actor Franchot Tone, whom she married soon after. Payton quickly abandoned the marriage for Neal anyway. Neal's last film was 1953's The Great Jesse James Raid. In 1965, he was sentenced for manslaughter after killing his third wife. Neal's films include: 702-THE BRUTE MAN; Bowery at Midnight; and Another Thin Man.

Last Updated: 6/25/1999

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