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DOC SAVAGE: A COLUMBIA SERIAL IN 15 CHAPTERS

Producer: Larry Darmour
Director: James W. Horne
Photography: James S. Brown, Jr.
Script: Basil Dickey
George H. Plympton
Wyndham Gittens
Music: Lee Zahler

Cast:

Doc Savage: Larry “Buster” Crabbe
Pat Savage: Iris Meredith
Tarnack: James Craven
Natalia: Veda Ann Borg
Renny: Roy Barcroft
Ham: Tristram Coffin
Monk: Charles King
Long Tom: Guy Wilkerson
Johnny: William Bakewell
Brown: Ray Teal
Taylor: Al Ferguson
Butch: Jack Ingram
Karl: George Magrill
Wheeler: Dick Botiller
Meeks: Kit Guard
Lyle: Lester Dorr
DA Warwick: Forbes Murray
Inspector Nolan: Robert Fiske
Judge Watkins: Selmer Jackson
Tuka: Al Kikume
Narrator: Knox Manning

Recap: “Doc Savage, Defender of Justice, is racing against time to prevent criminal mastermind Tarnack from destroying the Fortress of Solitude, unaware of the danger that awaits him!”

CHAPTER 15: JUSTICE TRIUMPHANT

Tarnack comes to a narrow pass that can only be crossed one at a time. Knowing Doc is behind him and will probably be at the head of his party, he has his men set up a spiked bear trap to drop on the first person to go through the pass.

Doc and his party come to the narrow pass. Doc stops and looks about him, sensing something is wrong, but can see nothing out of the ordinary. Telling everyone to stay back, Doc proceeds through the pass. He trips a cord strung low across the pass, triggering the trap, which drops down toward him.

Natalia, seeing the danger, rushes selflessly forward and pushes Doc out of the way. The trap lands on top of her. Doc’s party gather around the deadly trap and bow their heads. Doc declares that Natalia’s sacrifice will not have been in vain.

Tarnack reaches the Fortress first and uses explosives to blow open the secret entrance. Once inside, he has his men start to take any inventions they can find while he rigs a bomb to destroy what they can’t take with them. Doc and his men arrive. A fight breaks out.

Seething with rage, Tarnack pulls out a sword and screams that it is time to take care of Doc Savage once and for all. Ham sees this and tosses Doc his sword cane. Doc and Tarnack have a furious, slashing sword battle all around the front area of the Fortress. Doc eventually disarms Tarnack and demands his surrender.

Just then the bomb Tarnack planted explodes, causing a chain reaction within the Fortress and it starts to collapse in on itself. Doc yells for everyone to get out, then tries to pull Tarnack with him. Tarnack fights him off and runs deeper into the Fortress, determined to get one more invention. The roof collapses on top of him, burying him under tons of rock and ice.

Doc, the Fab Five, Pat and Tarnack’s men all make it out, then watch as the Fortress sinks out of sight. Doc declares that with his friend’s help he will rebuild the Fortress. Brown asks what’s going to happen to them. Doc blithely replies that they will all be sent to his center to be rehabilitated into law abiding and productive citizens. The leaderless henchman all blanche and look at each other with apprehension at the prospect.

THE END

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