Burn 'Em Up Barnes (1934 Pre-Code movie Serial)

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Burn 'Em Up Barnes is a 1934 American Pre-Code movie serial produced and distributed by Mascot Pictures, along with a feature version of the serial bearing the same title. It was a loose remake of the 1921 silent film of the same name.

Cast
Jack Mulhall as Burn-'em-Up Barnes, racing driver nicknamed the "King of the Dirt Track" and shortly the co-owner of the Temple Barnes Transportation school bus company
Frankie Darro as Bobbie Riley, Barnes' kid sidekick and ward following his brother's accidental death
Lola Lane as Marjorie Temple, owner of the Temple (later Temple Barnes) Transportation school bus company and land with a hidden wealth of oil
Julian Rivero as Tony, Marjorie's bumbling Italian-accented mechanic
Edwin Maxwell as Lyman Warren
Jason Robards as John Drummond, crooked race promoter who knows that Marjorie's land is really worth millions and will stop at nothing to get it
Francis McDonald as Ray Ridpath, villainous driver working for Drummond

Chapter titles
King of the Dirt Tracks
The Newsreel Murder
The Phantom Witness
The Celluloid Clue
The Decoy Driver
The Crimson Alibi
Roaring Rails
The Death Crash
The Man Higher Up
The Missing Link
Surrounded
The Fatal Whisper

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