One of his memorable roles was in the 1942 serial gang busters, in which he played a brilliant surgeon turned master criminal. The city is terrorized by a crime wave masterminded by the. Edited by jack schiff, the gang busters comic focused on fbi cases and stand alone crime stories. Gang busters, volume 1 chapters 16 dvdr 1942 alpha. Gangbusters, more space for big plugs 10154 schneider. Gang busters is a 1942 universal serial based loosely on the radio program by phillips lord. Screenplay is by morgan cox, al martin, victor mcleod and. Edgar hoover and the fbi battled with producers of radio shows such as gang busters and the fbi in peace and war. Definition of like gangbusters in the idioms dictionary. Gang busters 1942 a universal serial based on the radio series gang busters. The longrunning, renowned radio series that gave birth to the expression coming on like gangbusters was the brainchild of veteran radio producer, writer and.
Professor mortis and his gang, the league of murdered men, terrorize the city by a crime wave. Gangbusters definition of gangbusters by merriamwebster. Detective bill bannister, his partner tim nolan and police chief martin obrien investigate the activities of this gang. Many oversized or odd shaped power packs or chargers, tend to take up too much room on traditional power points, reducing the amount of space you have for. Gangbuster definition, a lawenforcement officer who specializes in breaking up organized crime, often by forceful or sensational means. Gang busters is a 1942 universal movie serial based on the radio series gang busters. The format of the series were actionpacked stories on the apprehension of major criminals, taken from actual police and fbi files. Ralph morgan on the screen actors guild and the professional etiquette between fellow thespians he later settled into secondary, sometimes uncredited, character parts. Gang busters this best remembered of all the crime stoppers shows was billed as the only national program that brings you authentic police case histories. Gang busters is a 1942 universal movie serial based on the radio series gang busters plot. Old time radio shows download for free at zoot radio. Gangbusters definition is outstandingly excellent or successful. Bill bannister has the assignment to run down an unknown gang of terrorists spreading a net of crime over the city. With kent taylor, irene hervey, ralph morgan, robert armstrong.
Bill finds that the gang s leader is a mysterious professor mortis and. Based on the radio series of the same name, gang busters was an episodic documentarystyle tale of criminals brought to justice. Overview of gang busters, 1942, directed by ray taylor, with kent taylor, irene hervey, ralph morgan, at turner classic movies. The first issue included tales such as murder was my business and the case of the ironclad alibi. Lord created his long running gang busters radio series in january of 1936, crime was rampant and criminals both actual and fictional were being glamorized in movies and newspapers. Veteran screen baddie myron healey plays john omar pinson, a real.