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The Fighting Devil Dogs
Directed by	William Witney John English
Produced by	Robert M Beche
Written by	Franklin Adreon Ronald Davidson Barry Shipman Sol Shor
Starring	Lee Powell Herman Brix Eleanor Stewart Montagu Love Hugh Sothern Sam Flint Perry Ivins Forrest Taylor John Picorri
Cinematography	William Nobles
Distributed by	Republic Pictures
Release date(s)	1938
Running time	12 chapters (204 min)
Budget	$94,656 (negative cost: $92,569)
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The Fighting Devil Dogs (1938) is a 12-Chapter Republic Movie Serial starring Lee Powell and Herman Brix. It was directed by William Witney and John English. While not often considered one of the best serials ever made, it contains a lot of stock footage and two recap chapters, it is famous for its main villain, The Lightning. A feature version of the serial was made in 1943, also known as The Fighting Devil Dogs: The Feature Version.

Contents 1 Plot 2 Cast 3 Chapter titles 4 Cliffhangers 5 Trivia 6 References 7 External links

The Masked Mystery Villain, The Lightning, seeks to conquer the world with his arsenal of advanced electrical weaponry. Opposing him are two Marines, Lt Tom Grayson and Lt Frank Corby. Lt Grayson has a special reason to defeat The Lightning as he killed his father, but first they must disover The Lightning's true identity.

• Lee Powell as Lt Tom Grayson
• Herman Brix as Lt Frank Corby
• Eleanor Stewart as Janet Warfield
• Montagu Love as General White
• Hugh Sothern as Ben Warfield
• Sam Flint as Col Grayson
• Perry Ivins as Crenshaw
• Forrest Taylor as Benson
• John Picorri as Prof Gould

1. The Lightning Strikes (29 min 28s)
2. The Mill of Disaster (15 min 56s)
3. The Silenced Witness (15 min 50s)
4. Cargo of Mystery (15 min 47s)
5. Undersea Bandits (16 min 17s)
6. The Torpedo of Doom (16 min 24s)
7. The Phantom Killer (14 min 47s) -- Re-Cap Chapter
8. Tides of Trickery (14 min 34s)
9. Attack from the Skies (15 min 07s)
10. In the Camp of the Enemy (14 min 29s)
11. The Baited Trap (17 min 24s) -- Re-Cap Chapter
12. Killer at Bay (17 min 39s)

1. The Lightning Strikes:
2. The Mill of Disaster:
3. The Silenced Witness:
4. Cargo of Mystery:
5. Undersea Bandits:
6. The Torpedo of Doom:
7. The Phantom Killer:
8. Tides of Trickery:
9. Attack from the Skies:
10. In the Camp of the Enemy:
11. The Baited Trap:

• The Lightning is visually similar to Darth Vader from the Star Wars movies and may have been a direct inspiration.
• The Lighting's Flying Wing is stock footage taken from the earlier Dick Tracy serial. In Dick Tracy it was used by another Masked Mystery Villain, The Spider.
• The Fighting Devil Dogs was the second cheapest serial of the sixty-six produced by Republic. It was originally budgetted for only $94,656 but actually came in under budget at $92,569 (although this was not one of the most under budget serials the studio produced). It has two Re-cap chapters rather than the usual one (or sometimes none), in which the entire plot of the serial so far is repeated, and makes extensive use of stock footage. The cheapest Republic serial was The Vigilantes Are Coming (1936) at $87,655, while the next cheapest after The Fighting Devil Dogs is Undersea Kingdom (also 1936) at $99,222.
• Director William Witney believed this to be one of the worst of the serials he ever made.^[1]

• Valley of the Cliffhangers Supplement; Mathis, Jack, 1995, ISBN 0-9632878-1-8
• The Fighting Devil Dogs at the Internet Movie Database

• The Fighting Devil Dogs at the Internet Movie Database
• The Fighting Devil Dogs at the Internet Movie Database (1943 feature version)
• The Fighting Devil Dogs at Images: A Journal of Film And Popular Culture
• Dr Hermes Review of The Fighting Devil Dogs
• The Serial Squadron

Preceded by The Lone Ranger (1938)	Republic Serial The Fighting Devil Dogs (1938)	Succeeded by Dick Tracy Returns (1938)
Preceded by The Lone Ranger (1938)	Witney-English Serial The Fighting Devil Dogs (1938)	Succeeded by Dick Tracy Returns (1938)