Burn 'Em Up Barnes

Burn 'Em Up Barnes is a 1934 American Pre-Code movie serial produced and distributed by Mascot Pictures, along with a feature version of the serial bearing the same title. It was a loose remake of the 1921 silent film of the same name.

Cast

 * Jack Mulhall as Burn-'em-Up Barnes, racing driver nicknamed the "King of the Dirt Track" and shortly the co-owner of the Temple Barnes Transportation school bus company
 * Frankie Darro as Bobbie Riley, Barnes' kid sidekick and ward following his brother's accidental death
 * Lola Lane as Marjorie Temple, owner of the Temple (later Temple Barnes) Transportation school bus company and land with a hidden wealth of oil
 * Julian Rivero as Tony, Marjorie's bumbling Italian-accented mechanic
 * Edwin Maxwell as Lyman Warren
 * Jason Robards as John Drummond, crooked race promoter who knows that Marjorie's land is really worth millions and will stop at nothing to get it
 * Francis McDonald as Ray Ridpath, villainous driver working for Drummond

Chapter titles
Source:
 * 1) King of the Dirt Tracks
 * 2) The Newsreel Murder
 * 3) The Phantom Witness
 * 4) The Celluloid Clue
 * 5) The Decoy Driver
 * 6) The Crimson Alibi
 * 7) Roaring Rails
 * 8) The Death Crash
 * 9) The Man Higher Up
 * 10) The Missing Link
 * 11) Surrounded
 * 12) The Fatal Whisper

DVD release
Burn 'Em Up Barnes was released on Region 0 DVD by Alpha Video on November 27, 2007. A feature-length version of the serial was released on Region 0 DVD-R by Alpha Video on October 30, 2012, but this is not the same as the feature version originally prepared by Mascot Pictures; its origins are unknown. The 1921 silent version of the serial was released on Region 0 DVD-R by Alpha Video on July 7, 2015.

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