Canadian Mounties VS Atomic Invaders 1953 Written by Ronald Davidson, directed by Franklin Adreon. A serial without the repeated intros, cliffhangers and credits. The original serial ran 167 mins, this colorized version runs 140 mins and there's a heavily edited TV version out there called Missile Base At Taniak that was 100 mins.
It was one of two new Republic serials released in 1953 and it used footage from Call Of The Yukon, King Of The Mounties and King Of The Royal Mounted. Much of the location footage was shot in the San Bernardino National Forest around Big Bear Lake.
Some baddie has a secret plan to build rocket launchers in Taniak, an imaginary remote northern area of Canada. He's going to fire atomic missiles at the larger cities of the US, then his unnamed country will attack and take over the US. He's on a schedule and he's got to have all the rocket launcher's ready in 90 days. By day the baddie mingles with the small community disguised as an old fur trapper.
Sergeant Roberts of the RCMP is called on to help an undercover RCMP officer called Kay Conway, she's on the trail of the baddie. Roberts and Conway pretend to be settlers passing through to the Yukon but the baddie's henchman spots Roberts. The couple still manage to throw a series of monkey wrenches into the baddies plan. Seems like one every ten mins or so. There's plenty of the stuff serials are made of, fist fights, caves, chases, gun battles, secret plans and it's all fairly average. Nothing special stands out, I gave it a 5 at the IMDb. You can check it out on YouTube. Link in the usual place.
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