The Tailspin Tommy movies in order
There are 6 Tailspin Tommy films, about 12.2 hours in total. The first was released in 1934, the latest in 1939. Watching in release order is the safest way to meet the story as audiences did.
Movie series featuring pilot Tailspin Tommy
- 1
Tailspin Tommy (1934)
29 Oct 1934 · 248 min
A young mechanic gets a job with a small airline, which he helps win a mail contract. A rival airline plots to destroy it in order to get the contracts for itself.
- 2
Tailspin Tommy in The Great Air Mystery (1935)
20 Oct 1935 · 236 min
A 12-episode serial in which Tailspin Tommy evades volcanoes, anti-aircraft shells, and time bombs as he foils a plan by corrupt profiteers to steal an island's oil reserves.
- 3
Mystery Plane (1939)
8 Mar 1939 · 60 min
An American pilot with a top-secret invention is kidnapped by foreign agents.
- 4
Stunt Pilot (1939)
30 Jun 1939 · 61 min
The second of a series of four features Monogram made based on the comic strip by Hal Forrest (Universal also used the strip characters in two serials), finds a movie company shooting a war picture at Three Points airport, with Tailspin Tommy Tompkins as a stunt pilot in the film. Tommy is incensed by the complete disregard for human life shown by the film's director, Sheehan, and quits. Sheehan g
- 5
Sky Patrol (1939)
11 Sep 1939 · 61 min
"Tailspin Tommy" Tompkins and "Skeeter" Milligan are training young U. S. Army fliers for the newly-formed 'Sky Patrol,'a branch of the Army Reserves which operates along the borders and coast-lines, on the lookout for smugglers. Carter Meade, whose father is the Colonel in charge of the patrol, has a terror of firing guns and his father insists he conquer this fear. Tommy sends him out on patrol,
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Order and dates from TMDB collection data. Unreleased entries are added once they get a release date.