Chick Carter, Detective

...how I ever got through this serial. It's a mystery why the main character is in it less less than half the time. There are worse serials but this one's really long and boring. I love the genre but even the cliffhangers aren't that exciting (maybe one good one in the whole lot) there's just not a lot of motivation to keep watching. There's too much repetition even for a Katzman flick. The cast isn't terrible but they do very little to even justify their being a part of the story. Stretching out a 55 minute movie to 15 Chapters without some good fight scenes or suspenseful moments is like having a root canal that lasts 3 hours too long. I'm not one of those who dislikes Columbia's serials but it's ones like this that gets most of them stamped as garbage. It would have been more fun to watch Talbot, King, Fowley, and Acuff pass around a whiskey bottle and tell anecdotes about the crap films they had been in. At least there would have been laughs.