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The Secret Code (1942)

Another film made during WW II in which all the German-born actors, or actors with German-sounding names, changed their names for, to use a WW II expression, "the duration." Here Rudolph Anders chose to be billed as Robert O. Davis and Ludwig Donath opted for Louis Donath, even though they, and most of the other name-change actors of the day, always ended up playing Nazis anyway. This Columbia serial, made after Columbia serial producer Larry Darmour had died, thus making Ralph Cohn the credited producer, finds Police Lieutenant Dan Barton, ordered to contact and smash a mysterious Axis sabotage ring, arranging to have himself thrown off the police force in disgrace. He calls attention to himself by assaulting a high government official, the custodian of a newly-devised formula for the manufacture of synthetic rubber, in a faked "effort" to steal the formula. While under the "protection" of the saboteurs who are still suspicious of him... 

Post info:
Release:   The Secret Code
Release Date: September 4, 1942
Studio:       Columbia Pictures
Standard:   NTSC
Language:   English
Subtitles:  None
Aspect:    4:3
Runtime:   15 Episodes approximately 18 minutes/episode
Original Format: N/A
Posted Format:  MP4
Pars:     10%

Note:  Each chapter ended with a quick lesson in cryptography and a "brief patriotic admonishment" given by Selmer Jackson who played Major Henry Barton.

Plot:  A superhero known as The Black Commando battles Nazi agents who use explosive gases and artificial lightning to sabotage the war effort. 

Chapter  1 - Enemy Passport            
Chapter  2 - The Shadow of the Swastika
Chapter  3 - Nerve Gas                 
Chapter  4 - The Sea Spy Strikes       
Chapter  5 - Wireless Warning          
Chapter  6 - Flaming Oil               
Chapter  7 - Submarine Signal          
Chapter  8 - The Missing Key           
Chapter  9 - The Radio Bomb            
Chapter 10 - Blind Bombardment         
Chapter 11 - Ears of the Enemy         
Chapter 12 - Scourge of the Orient     
Chapter 13 - Pawn of the Spy Ring      
Chapter 14 - Dead Men of the Deep      
Chapter 15 - The Secret Code Smashed

Thanks to Croyd :)