Category: Serial

709. THE THREE MUSKETEERS (1933-USA). 12 Episode Mascot Serial. With JOHN WAYNE, JACK MULHALL, FRANCIS X. BUSHMAN JR., NOAH BEERY JR., CREIGHTON CHANEY. These Musketeers are not the swordsmen of old France, but the 3 Foreign Legionaires of “modern” times (from Brooklyn!) who are saved from a desert ambush by a different kind of “D’Artagnan” […]

712. THE RETURN OF CHANDU (THE MAGICIAN) (1934-USA). 12 Episode Principal Serial with BELA LUGOSI, MARIA ALBA, CLARA KIMBALL YOUNG, (see cat #599 for a featurized version of this serial). Followers of the Black Magic Cult of Ubasti plan to sacrifice the beautiful Princess Nadji, so that they may conquer the world! She is kidnapped […]

Sir James Blake, former Scotland Yard inspector, has financed and perfected a death ray. The Scorpian, with a hand that resembles a lobster’s claw, embarks upon a campaign of terror that includes kidnapping, dynamiting, and attempts at murder in order to gain the secret of this incredible weapon.

669. THE MIRACLE RIDER (1935-USA). 15 Episode Mascot Serial. With TOM MIX, JEAN GALE, CHARLES MIDDLETON, JASON ROBARDS, BLACK HAWK, CHIEF STANDING BEAR, TONY JR. (the horse!). Tom Mix’s last film, Mascot’s last I5 episode serial (and the most profitable serial the company ever made!). An effective mixture of traditional Cowboys and Indians and science […]

699. RADIO RANCH (1935-usA). WITH Gene Autry, Frankie Darro, Betsy King Ross, SMILEY BURNETTE and CHAMPION. Featurized version of “Phantom Empire”, a Mascot serial (see cat. #631). A condensed version of Gene AutryÕs monumental battle against the “Thunder Riders” from the subterranean city of Murania. “Television”, robots, ray guns, guided missiles and other scientific inventions […]

663. THE PHANTOM OF THE WEST (1931-USA). 10 Episode Mascot Serial. With TOM TYLER. An escaped convict tells rancher Jim Lester (Tom Tyler) that the real murderer of his father is hiding in a nearby town. A mysterious Phantom starts terrorizing the town, asking “Will you talk or must seven men pay for one man’s […]

550. FLASH GORDON (ROCKET SHIP) (1935-usa). WITH Larry ÒBusterÓ Crabbe, Jean Rogers, CHARLES MIDDLETON, PRISCILLA LAWSON, FRANK SULLIVAN. A feature made from the 13 episode 1936 serial (the first “Flash Gordon”serial). The complete story abridged to eliminate individual episode titles, cliff-hangers and plot recapitulations. Flash, Zarkov and Dale travel through space to the planet Mongo […]

560. BUCK ROGERS (PLANET OUTLAWS) (1939-usa). With Buster Crabbe, Constance Moore, JACKIE MORAN. The famous serial made into a feature, (c. 1948) by deleting cliffhangers, plot recapitulations, etc. and adding narration. In suspended animation for 500 years after their dirigible crashes, Buck and Buddy awake to find the world ruled by Killer Kane. Dr. Huer. […]

406. THE NEW ADVENTURES OF TARZAN (1935-USA). 12 episodes. With HERMAN BRIX, ULA HOLT, and “JIGGS” as N’kima the monkey. Tarzan travels to the jungles of Guatemala in search of the “Green Goddess” – a native idol which also contains the formula for a-powerful explosive. A “swinging” story that’s just “vine”. Good of this kind. […]

3081. GANG BUSTERS (1942-USA). 13 Episode Universal Serial with Kent Taylor, Irene Hervey, Ralph Morgan, Robert Armstrong. (Sirens, machine guns) “Universal presents…Gangbusters. Calling the police, calling the G-Men, calling all Americans to war on the Underworld. Gangbusters, with the co-operation of law enforcement officers of the United States presents a picture of the endless war […]