Ace Drummond
Amazing exploits in the sky!
1936 · 4h 15m · Approved
Action, Adventure
Directed by
Ford Beebe
,
Clifford Smith
Overview
This 13 chapter serial is based on the comic strip character Ace Drummond created by Eddie Rickenbacker. Ace is a 'G-Man of the sky' working out of Washington D.C. He is sent to Mongolia to find out why a mysterious villain known only as 'The Dragon' is trying to prevent the newly formed International Airways from setting up an airport there. Ace meets Peggy Trainor (Jean Rogers) who is searching for her archaeologist father who has disappeared. Together they search for answers to the puzzles.
Director and cast
- Ford Beebe Director
- Clifford Smith Director
- John 'Dusty' King as Ace Drummond
- Jean Rogers as Peggy Trainor
- Noah Beery Jr. as Jerry
- Jackie Morrow as Billy Meredith
- Chester Gan as Kai-Chek
- Guy Bates Post as The Grand Lama
- Lon Chaney Jr. as Henchman Ivan
- Selmer Jackson as William Meredith, Sr.
- Robert Warwick as Winston
- James B. Leong as Henry Kee
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