Brick Bradford (1947) was the 35th serial released by Columbia Pictures. It was based on the comic strip Brick Bradford, which was created by Clarence Gray and William Ritt.

Plot
Brick Bradford is assigned by the government to aid Doctor Gregor Tymak, scientist and inventor who is working on an “Interceptor Ray” that can destroy incoming rockets. Unfortunately, it can also be used as a death ray, bringing it to the attention of foreign spy agent Laydron. Tymak uses his door into the fifth dimension to escape criminals and it takes him to the far side of the Moon (which luckily has air and is a rocky terrain without craters). There he is captured and sentenced to die by freezing to absolute zero by the Queen Khana, despot of the Moon, because they do not believe he has come from the Earth.

The action moves to the Moon as the ray requires a special element called Lunarium (with an atomic mass of 200) previously only found in a meteorite. Working with exiles in the lunar wasteland, the heroes overthrow Queen Khana and return with the Lunarium.

However, the device still requires a formula hidden on an uncharted island 200 years in the past, so Brick and sidekick Sandy Sanderson travel in Tymak’s time machine, the Time Top, to retrieve it. The final third of the serial is spent on modern day Earth with more trouble from the spy Laydron.

Cast
Kane Richmond as Brick Bradford
Rick Vallin as Sandy Sanderson
Linda Leighton as June Salisbury
Pierre Watkin as Professor Salisbury
Charles Quigley as Laydron, villainous spy
Jack Ingram as Albers, henchmen
Fred Graham as Black, henchmen
John Merton as Dr. Tymak
Leonard Penn as Eric Byrus, Tymak’s assistant
Wheeler Oakman as Louis Walthar, Tymak’s assistant
Carol Forman as Queen Khana
Charles King as Creed
John Hart as Dent
Helene Stanley as Carol Preston, daughter of the leader of the lunar Exiles