The Return of Captain Marvel, a 1953 re-release of the 1941 Republic Pictures 12-chapter serial Adventures of Captain Marvel.
Chapter Four: Death Take the Wheel
Produced by Hiram S. Brown, Jr.
Directed by John English and William Witney
Starring Tom Tyler as Captain Marvel
Frank Coghlan, Jr. as Billy Batson.
William Benedict as Whitey Murphy
Louise Currie as Betty Wallace
Robert Strange as John Malcolm
John Davidson as Tal Chotali
The serial was adapted from the then-popular comic book character, Captain Marvel, then appeared in the Fawcett Comics publications Whiz Comics and Captain Marvel Adventures. The character is now owned by DC Comics and is known as Shazam.
Adventures of Captain Marvel was the 21st of 66 film serials produced by Republic and their first comic book character adaptation (not counting comic strips).
It is considered the first comic book superhero movie.
Authors Jim Harmon and Donald F. Glut claim that Adventures of Captain Marvel is "unquestionably one of the finest movie serials ever made, possibly the best with the exception of the three Flash Gordon epics"
Quentin Tarantino called Tyler's Marvel "the most homicidal berserker superhero of cinema"
