SECRET AGENT X-9 (1937) Scott Kolk, Jan Wiley & David Oliver | Adventure, Serial | B&W

Secret Agent X-9 (1937) is a Universal film serial based on the comic strip Secret Agent X-9 by Dashiell Hammett and Alex Raymond. Secret Agent X-9 was based on the comic strip by Dashiell Hammett (writer) and Alex Raymond (artist).

SYNOPSIS
A secret agent goes after the gang that stole the crown jewels of a European monarchy.

G-Men learn that "Victor Brenda", a notorious jewel thief, is heading for the US, to steal the Belgravian crown jewels currently on exhibit. The jewels are placed on a ship bound for Belgravia. However, the guard is murdered and the treasures are stolen. Agent Dexter, alias Agent X-9, trails Blackstone, one of the gang members, who hides the jewels in a safe deposit vault of a bank. He takes the bank receipt to an art shop, where Marker, a paid accomplice, conceals it between an oil painting and its frame.

CAST & CREW
Scott Kolk as Agent Dexter (X-9)
Jan Wiley as Shara Graustark
Henry Brandon as Blackstone/Victor T. Brenda
David Oliver as Pidge
Monte Blue as Baron Michael Karsten
Lon Chaney Jr. as Maroni, primary henchman
Ben Hewlett as Scarlett, primary henchman
Larry J. Blake as Chief FBI Agent Wheeler
Henry Hunter as FBI Agent Tommy Dawson (C-5)
George Shelley as Packard, a henchman
Lynn Gilbert as Rose, gun moll
Robert Dalton as Thurston
Leonard Lord as Ransom, dissident henchman
Bob Kortman as "Trader" Delaney
Eddy Waller as Lawyer Carp
Si Jenks as "Jolly Roger", ticket barker

Directed by Ford Beebe, Clifford Smith
Written by Charles Flanders, Wyndham Gittens, Norman S. Hall, Leslie Swabacker, Ray Trampe, Dashiell Hammett (comic strip)
Produced by Ben Koenig, Barney A. Sarecky, Henry MacRae
Cinematography Richard Fryer, Jerome Ash
Edited by Saul A. Goodkind, Leete Renick Brown, Joseph Gluck, Louis Sackin, Alvin Todd
Music by Clifford Vaughan
Distributed by Universal Pictures
Release date April 12, 1937
Running time 12 chapters (232 minutes)
Country United States
Language English

NOTES
Chapter titles
Modern Pirates
The Ray That Blinds
The Man of Many Faces
The Listening Shadow
False Fires
The Dragnet
Sealed Lips
Exhibit A
The Masquerader
The Forced Lie
The Enemy Camp
Crime Does Not Pay