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CONAN

A Republic Serial in 12 Chapters

Producer: Robert Beche

Director: William Witney & John English

Writers: Barry Shipman, Franklin Adreon, Ronald Davidson & Sol Shor

Music: William Lava

Special Effects: Howard Lydecker & Theodore Lydecker

Based on the character created by Robert E. Howard

Cast:

Conan–Ray “Crash” Corrigan

Princess Valeria–Julie Thayer

Thulsa Doom–Charles Middleton

Zula–Guinn “Big Boy” Williams

Borak–Raymond Hatton

king Kull–William Gould

Queen Zenobia–Evelyn Brent

Thoth Amon–C. Montague Shaw

Red Sonya–Lynn Roberts

Yora–John Merton

Balthus–Jack Ingram

Salazar–Edmond Cobb

Amulric–George Chesebro

Kathulos–Al Taylor

RECAP:

Thulsa Doom–Plans to attack Kull’s castle that night with a secret weapon.

Conon–Rescues Princess Valeria from Doom’s Dungeon.

Yora and Balthus–Have Conan and Valeria trapped in a high tower room.

CHAPTER THREE:THE WAR WAGON

Locking the door to the room, Conan then has Valeria climb onto his back while he tight rope walks toward the other side.  Yora and Balthus break through the door. Seeing that Conan and Valeria are getting away, Yora takes out his sword and slices through the rope.  Conan and Valeria  fall toward the ravine below.

Conan manages to grab on to the rope and swing them safely to a ledge in the rock wall. Climbing the rope, hand over hand, he gets to the top where his horse is waiting.  Riding double, Conan and Valeria race back to her father’s castle.

Thoth Amon keeps his word and frees Zula and Borack.  Conan is presented to Kull and Zenobia to be rewarded for his bravery.  When Conan tells the king of Doom’s proposed attack, Kull immediately makes Conan the captain of his Army and they prepare for the attack.

Doom takes his men to his work shop where he reveals his War Wagon, a horseless mechanical armored vehicle that will smash through the gates of the palace.  Doom chuckles ominously as he contemplates the reign  of destruction he is about to bring down on Kull’s kingdom.

The attack takes place at night.  While the war wagon is bashing at the front gate, Yora leads his men to put ladders against the castle walls to scale the walls and engage Kulls soldiers along the battlements.  At the gate, Kull’s soldiers are shooting fire out through openings at the War Wagon.

Conan, Zula and Borack are on the battlements, fighting Doom’s soldiers.  Conan leaps to attack Yora as he attempts to come over the wall.  Conan pushes the ladder Yora is on away from the wall, but Yora grabs onto Conan and both men fall to the ground outside of the castle.  Conan, stunned, is laying right in the path of a squad of Doom’s men on horseback.   Seeing him, they spur their horses forward to trample him to death……

NEXT WEEK

CHAPTER FOUR

THE PIT OF DEATH