The Adventures of Superman: The Whistling Bird (1954)
Sterling Holloway returns as eccentric scientist Uncle Oscar, who while trying to cook up a formula for flavored stamp glue ends up with a powerful explosive. Rather than write down the entire formula, Uncle Oscar teaches vital segments of the formula to his talking parakeet Schuyler. A pair of foreign spies steal Schuyler and substitute a lookalike, then kidnap Oscar and his niece Nancy (Allene Roberts) in order to steal the explosive. This looks like a job for Superman (George Reeves)--but it may also prove to be his undoing, inasmuch as the loquacious Schuyler is savvy to Superman's "Clark Kent" guise. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
- Director(s):
- Thomas Carr
Synopsis of The Adventures of Superman: The Whistling Bird
Sterling Holloway returns as eccentric scientist Uncle Oscar, who while trying to cook up a formula for flavored stamp glue ends up with a powerful explosive. Rather than write down the entire formula, Uncle Oscar teaches vital segments of the formula to his talking parakeet Schuyler. A pair of foreign spies steal Schuyler and substitute a lookalike, then kidnap Oscar and his niece Nancy (Allene Roberts) in order to steal the explosive. This looks like a job for Superman (George Reeves)--but it may also prove to be his undoing, inasmuch as the loquacious Schuyler is savvy to Superman's "Clark Kent" guise. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
Complete Cast of The Adventures of Superman: The Whistling Bird
- Sterling Holloway - Uncle Oscar Quinn
- Allene Roberts - Nancy
- Otto Waldis - Foreign Agent
- Marshall Reed - Security Agent
- Joseph Vitale - Chief Foreign Agent
- Toni Carroll - Dorothy Manners
- Director(s):
- Thomas Carr
- Writer(s):
- David T. Chantler
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