Captain America (1944)
February 5, 1944Release Date
Captain America (1944)
February 5, 1944Release Date
Plot.
Where to Watch.
This Movie Is About.
Cast & Crew.
Dick Purcell
Captain America / Grant Gardner
Lorna Gray
Gail Richards
Lionel Atwill
Cyrus Maldor
Charles Trowbridge
Dryden
Russell Hicks
Mayor Randolph
Elmer Clifton
Director
George J. Lewis
Bart Matson
John English
Director
John Davidson
Gruber
Frank Reicher
Lyman
Royal K. Cole
Writer
Ronald Davidson
Writer
Al Ferguson
Detective
Basil Dickey
Writer
Howard Hickman
Lyman’s Attorney
Jesse Duffy
Writer
Tom London
Mack
Edward Van Sloan
Gregory
Helen Thurston
Stunt Double
Jack Kirby
Characters
Joe Simon
Characters
Bob Mark
Makeup Supervisor
Joseph F. Poland
Screenplay
Grant Nelson
Screenplay
Mort Glickman
Music
Wallace Grissell
Editor
Earl Turner
Editor
Eddie Parker
Stunts
John Daheim
Stunts
Harry L. Fraser
Screenplay
Dale Van Sickel
Stunt Double
Fred Graham
Stunts
Media.
Details.
Wiki.
Captain America is a 1944 Republic black-and-white 15-chapter serial film loosely based on the Timely Comics (now Marvel Comics) character Captain America. It was the last Republic serial made about a superhero. It also has the distinction of being the most expensive serial that Republic ever made. It stands as the first theatrical release connected to a Marvel character; the next theatrical release featuring a Marvel hero would not occur for more than 40 years. It was the last live-action rendition of a Marvel character in any medium until Spider-Man appeared in the Spidey Super Stories segment of the children's television series The Electric Company in 1974.
The serial sees Captain America, really District Attorney Grant Gardner, trying to thwart the plans of the Scarab, really museum curator Dr. Cyrus Maldor—especially regarding his attempts to acquire the "Dynamic Vibrator" and "Electronic Firebolt", devices that could be used as super-weapons.In a rare plot element for Republic, the secret identity of the villain is known to the audience from the beginning, if not to the characters in the serial. The studio's usual approach was the use of a mystery villain who was unmasked as one of the other supporting characters only in the final chapter.