15 Chapter Adventure Serial Cliffhanger
Brick Bradford is a serial cliffhanger produced in 1947 by Columbia Pictures. It wa based on the comic strip Brick Bradford, which was created by Clarence Gray and William Ritt. The serial stars Kane Richmond, Rick Vallin, and Linda Leighton. Brick Bradford is assigned by the government to aid Doctor Gregor Tymak, scientist and inventor who is working on an "Interceptor Ray" that can destroy incoming rockets. Unfortunately, it can also be used as a death ray, bringing it to the attention of foreign spy agent Laydron. Tymak uses his door into the fifth dimension to escape criminals and it takes him to the far side of the Moon (which luckily has air and is a rocky terrain without craters). There he is captured and sentenced to die by freezing to absolute zero by the Queen Khana, despot of the Moon, because they do not believe he has come from the Earth.
The action moves to the Moon as the ray requires a special element called Lunarium (with an atomic mass of 200) previously only found in a meteorite. Working with exiles in the lunar wasteland, the heroes overthrow Queen Khana and return with the Lunarium.
However, the device still requires a formula hidden on an uncharted island 200 years in the past, so Brick and sidekick Sandy Sanderson travel in Tymak's time machine, the Time Top, to retrieve it. The final third of the serial is spent on modern day Earth with more trouble from the spy Laydron.
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Believed to have entered the public domain on January 1, 1971
Brick Bradford Chapter 1: Atomic Defense
Brick Bradford Chapter 2: Flight to the Moon
Brick Bradford Chapter 3: Prisoners to the Moon
Brick Bradford Chapter 4: Into the Volcano
Brick Bradford Chapter 5: Bradford at Bay
Brick Bradford Chapter 6: Back to Earth
Brick Bradford Chapter 7: Into Another Century
Brick Bradford Chapter 8: Buried Treasure
Brick Bradford Chapter 9: Trapped in the Time Top
Brick Bradford Chapter 10: The Unseen Hand
Brick Bradford Chapter 11: Poison Gas
Brick Bradford Chapter 12: Door to Disaster
Brick Bradford Chapter 13: Sinister Rendezvous
Brick Bradford Chapter 14: River of Revenge
Brick Bradford Chapter 15: For the Peace of the World