The Green Archer (1940)

Columbias 12th serial of 57 total following 1940s Deadwood Dick and ahead of 1941s White Eagle is another of directors James Hornes classics where he evidently figured that the same reactions that served him well in Laurel and Hardy films would work well in action serials where he has all hands heroes and villains alike doing some kind of overthe top take no matter the situation This loose adaptation of an Edgar Wallace story finds Michael Bellamy Kenne Duncan in his Kenneth Duncan period inheriting Garr Castle but his brother Abel Bellamy James Craven as usual making OilCan Harry look smooth has him imprisoned unjustly and moves into the castle himself When Michaels wife Elaine Bellamy Dorothy Fay fails to return after visiting Abel her sister Valerie Howett Iris Meredith accompanied by their father