Hop Harrigan: America's Ace of the Airways

RELEASED 27 Mar 19464h 30m★ 4.7 TMDB

Hop Harrigan, a top Air Corps pilot, leaves the military and he and his mechanic, Tank Tinker, open up a small charter air service. They are hired to fly an inventor, Dr. Tabor, to his secret laboratory, where he is working on a new and powerful energy machine. However, a mysterious villain named The Chief Pilot is determined to have the new energy machine for his own purposes and kidnaps Dr. Tabor.

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Columbia Pictures' 1946 live-action theatrical serial, adapting Jon L. Blummer's Hop Harrigan from All-American Comics. Also known as Hop Harrigan: America's Ace of the Airways. This entry covers all 15 chapters; watch them in numbered order. A separate adaptation with no other DC film or series required. Exact total runtime and release day remain under review.

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Hop Harrigan: America's Ace of the Airways is title 29 of 67 in our Live-action Elseworlds viewing sequence. Hop Harrigan brings the All-American Comics aviator to a fifteen-chapter Columbia serial. Begin with the first chapter and follow the numbered adventure through its conclusion. Its aviation story stands apart from the Batman, Superman and Captain Marvel serials, with no earlier DC film required.

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