What year was this supposed to take place?! The vehicles used span a long period of time and the newspaper has no date. Since it's not Commissioner Weston but Barth we can place it between September 1934 and June 1936, by way of the pulps publication dates. Of course, the stories were written in a different order from the way they hit the newsstands but since the movie mashed up the radio program with the pulps I'll give them some leeway here. So his capture with the Tulku had to have been 1927 to 1929. Obviously our hero had been operating long enough to have had the police department concerned enough to consider a forming a task force to bring him to heel.
This is a 1936 Buick according to IMCDB. Since this is at the start of the film we would have to believe that the earliest the bridge scene takes place would be 1943, probably 1947 if a good amount of training were involved.
This has been something that has vexed me for some time now. Not sure if it has bothered any other agents but I'm just putting it out there.
Good post - never thought of the dates not matching up. That made me think of another issue - Lamont Cranston was a veteran of WW1, the US entered the war in April 1917 and the war ended in November 1918. Cranston had gone missing for 7 years after the war - so that would be 1925 at the latest! I guess the writers blew it on the timeline!!
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