The Adventure of the Torture Cage(1928)
Lieutenant Commander John Byrne of the Naval Secret Service and his partner Pvt. Bill Riggers chase criminal Dr. Sin Fang, who is desperate to find a lost sacred seal. (The fifth and only surviving episode of a six-part serial about an evil mastermind inspired on Sax Rohmer's Dr. Fu Manchu.)
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Lt. Comdr. John Byrne R. N. of the N. S. S.
Private Bill Riggers
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