Captain Midnight

Major Steel (Joe Girard) is one of few aware of the fact that Captain Albright (Dave O'Brien), also is Captain Midnight, daring masked aviator and nemesis of the underworld. When terror results from bombing attacks on west coast munitions plants, Steel sends for Albright and asks him to assist the government track down a mysterious Ivan Shark (James Craven), mastermind behind the insidious bombings. Albright agrees. In the meantime, Shark has learned about an ingenious range finder, invented by John Edwards (Bryant Washburn), and tries to obtain a model of the invention. Fearing such a move, Edwards instructs his daughter, Joyce (Dorothy Short), to bring the model to Albright for safekeeping in his mountain laboratory. Shark attacks the Edwards home and succeeds in capturing the inventor, but Joyce makes good her escape. Dressing as Captain Midnight, Albright enlists the aid of his two buddies, Chuck (Sam Edwards) and Mudd (Guy Wilkerson), and sets out to find Shark's hideout. From that moment on, the lives of Midnight and all his friends are fraught with danger as Shark resorts to fiendish schemes to throw his pursuers off the trail. Planes collide in mid-air, automobiles crash on the highways, pursuit ships burst into flames, men are tossed into circular saws, victims are hurled into whirling propellers and other similar events occur. Finally, as a result of one of Midnight's cleverly laid traps, the villain is snared by government men as he tries to escape with the invention. Brushing against a screen of high voltage electricity, which he himself had erected, the saboteur meets his death and the fifth column plot is smashed.