Todd’s Serial Blog

Carmen Morales had a short career during the forties as an exoctic supporting player in mostly B Films.  Her screen debut was in The Voyage Home (1940).  Other films she appeared in were The Primrose Path (1940), Affectionately Yours (1941), Two Latins From Manhatton (1941), Ladies Day (1943) and They Live By Night (1949).

Her only serial was Columbia’s Valley of Vanishing Men (1942), playing a Mexican Government agent helping “‘Wild Bill” Elliott to free his prospector father from a ruthless outlaw  who has kidnapped people on both sides of the border to use as slave labor in a gold mine that is being used to finance a border war between Mexico and the US so that a foreign power can establish a foothold to take over the territory.

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Ward Wood had a long and prolific career as a supporting player over thirty plus years.  He first came to people’s notice as one of four cadets framed for the crimes of the mysterious Black Hangman in the Universal war time serial Adventures of the Flying Cadets (1943).  That same year he also had a bit part as a radio operator in the film Air Force (1943).

Other films on his resume include Ramrod (1947), Shotgun (1955), Money Trap (1966) and Pose From Heaven (1975).  The post war years also saw Wood popping up on various TV shows; including Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Have Gun Will Travel, The Twilight Zone, Charlie’s Angels, Kojack and The Streets of San Francisco.

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