Practical Effects
The Black Beauty car with actual functioning gas gun exhaust.
Stunts
Weekly fistfights that invented 'I'll finish you later' cliffhanger logic.
Costume
That mask somehow counts as a secret identity. Respect.
Director
John Rawlins
Warren Hull
Britt Reid / Green Hornet
Anne Nagel
Lenore Case
Keye Luke
Kato
Pierre Watkin
Boss Crogan
Wade Boteler
Michael Axford
Eddie Acuff
Lowery - a Reporter
Arthur Loft
Tauer - Chief Gangster
James Seay
Bordine - a Gangster
Joe Devlin
Joe Dolan - Henchman
William Hall
Don DeLuca - Henchman
Dorothy Lovett
Frances Grayson / Stella Merja
Jean Brooks
Gloria Manning
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Keye Luke as Kato was one of few positive Asian representations in 1940s Hollywood, though still secondary. The character's competence arguably outshines the Hornet himself.
The 1940 serial reused massive amounts of footage from the 1939 original, making it possibly cinema's first stealth remake disguised as sequel. Audiences noticed.
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