The Phantom of the Air

May 21, 1933

4h 0m

★ 6.0

Whiriling Propellars ! Screeching Struts! Billowing Parachutes! Roaring Engines! Barking Guns!

Overview

An adventure serial presented in 12 chapters. Inventor Thomas Edmunds uses a super plane, 'The Phantom,' to protect his new anti-gravity invention, the Contragrav, from theft.

Genres

Action

Production Companies

Universal Pictures

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Cast

Bob Raymond

Tom Tyler

Mary Edmonds

Gloria Shea

Mortimer Crome (as Le Roy Mason)

LeRoy Mason

Thomas Edmonds

William Desmond

James Munson

Sidney Bracey

'Skid' (uncredited)

Walter Brennan

Party Guest (uncredited)

Dennis O'Keefe

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