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Pirate Treasure

USA 1934
produced by
Universal
directed by Ray Taylor
starring Richard Talmadge, Lucille Lund, Walter Miller, Pat O'Malley, Ethan Laidlaw, William Desmond, Del Laurence, Edmund Cobb, George DeNormand, Al Ferguson

serial

review by
Mike Haberfelner

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To finance a hunt for a pirate treasure he has a chart to, Dick Moreland (Richard Talmadge) flies around the world in an aeroplane (then a big thing) as a promotional stunt for airline-boss John Craig (Pat O'Malley). When he, at the club, tells about his treasure hunt, though, Staley Brassett (Walter Miller) is one of the listeners, & he is desperate to lay hands on the pirate's gold himself. So he has his goons break into Dick's house & steal the chart. The robbers actually manage to get the chart, but do not manage to shake off Dick, who is in hot pursuit together with Dorothy (Lucille Lund), airline boss John Craig's daughter. This soon leads to an impressive fight on the roof of a five storey building plus Dick jumping off the same breaking through a series of sunblinds - but with the chart. Further chases ensue by car, motorbike, train & boat, with the chart changing owners on a regular level, until Brassett, whose involvement with the crooks is still not found out, changes tactics & manages to have Dick persuade him to join them (this being, besides Dick of course Dorothy & her father) on the treasure hunt. On the ship that is to take them to the island the treasure is hidden, Brassett has his men travelling as stowaways though, & soon they organize a mutiny, but are overthrown by good captain Carson (William Desmond), Dick & company, & incarcerated. & while our gang, having arrived on the treasure island, goes treasurehunting, Brassett finds an excuse to steal away from the others & free his men, who, as soon as the treasurechest is found, attack Dick & the gang, who are saved by the natives (who for some reason speak easy to identify Spanish), though. But upon opening the treasurechest, our heroes only find another chart, having the search begin anew - & giving the crooks another chance to get to the gold first. When good & evil engage in yet another fight, Dick & Dorothy get caught up in a cave by an  explosion while the others are captured by the gangsters, who then manage to find the gold, too. But it wouldn't be Dick wouldn't he find a way out of the cave & manage to free his friends as well as at lastfigure out Brassett's one of them, while the crooks get caught by the natives again. But to spare them a fate as the natives' sacrifices, Dick now tries to save them, but it seems that he is more likely to share their fate - until captain Carson - the only one of the good guys who speaks Spanish - can in an underwhelming finalestrike a deal with the natives to set Dick free & transfer the crooks into his custody.

 

Very enjoyable & fast-moving serial, profiting greatly from a very linear storyline, a series of very different settings (the city, the docks, the ship, the jungle), & its male lead, Richard Talmadge, who might not have made the luckiest transition from silent to sound & might not look like your average action star, but ... he is the real deal, doing - clearly visible on film -most of his rather breathtaking stunts himself and showing great talent in choreographing rather unusual, even novel action (some of his fighting on rooftops & jumpiong down a building through a series of sunblinds found its way largely unchanged into Jackie Chan action-movies some 50+ years later).

 

review © by Mike Haberfelner

 

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