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I think I read that they think it was just a generic script made for another serial (maybe Captain Marvel?) and they just plugged Captain America in there.
The lead, Dick Purcell, died shortly after this was made because of the strain it put on his heart.
The female lead, Lorna Gray, was born Virginia Pound. She used the name Lorna Gray when she starred with the Three Stooges in some of their film shorts. Shortly after the Cap serial, she changed her name to Adrian Booth and is still living at the age of 92.
Lionel Atwill, the villain, didn't live much longer after this as well, passing away in 1946. He is remembered today for playing Moriarity in the Basil Rathbone Sherlock Holmes movies of the 1940s and the Inspector from Son of Frankenstein, which was parodied in Young Frankenstein. One of his sons died in action in 1941 and his third wife had been previously married to Douglas MacArthur.
In Joe Simon's biography, he talks about serving during the war out on Long Island a couple years after he and Kirby left Timely and that, on leave, he went into town and saw the name on the theater marquee. That is how he first found out about the serial. And there was no point in going after Timely for money made since Timely let Republic have the movie rights for FREE thinking it would be great publicity for the comic. Oh, how times have changed!
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. You cannot watch all 15 chapeters at once. I usually watch two -three and then take a break. The bad part is that Cap boots and gloves are different, no wings and worst of all no Shield
