Billion Dollar Limited (1942)

Directed by

Dave Fleischer

Genre

animation, action, adventure, family, fantasy, science fiction

Country

United States

Runtime

9 min

Rating

7.0 of 10 from 56 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A train loaded with a billion dollars in gold heads to the US Mint. Robbers sabotage the train, and Superman steps in to stop them.

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What happens

Billion Dollar Limited (1942) is the third of seventeen animated Technicolor short films based upon the DC Comics character Superman. Produced by Fleischer Studios, Billion Dollar Limited centers on a train carrying one billion dollars in gold to the US Mint, which is sabotaged by robbers before Superman intervenes. The short was released by Paramount Pictures on January 9, 1942. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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