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Watching Any Good Serials?
Topic Started: Apr 12 2006, 09:28 AM (88,375 Views)
Mantan
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Mar 31 2008, 02:28 AM
Hey Mantan -- one of the coolest and funniest icon photos of all time.  Just great!!

Muchas Gracias!
We've been into Carmen Miranda films lately.
It was in the middle of WEEK-END IN HAVANA that I realized it takes real talent to balance a pineapple on top of your head while cutting a mean rhumba in high-heel pumps.
Also works as a kinda "Gunga-Mantan" image.

Finished THE SPIDER RETURNS again recently and I've been at a total loss as to what to watch next. Just ordered JUNIOR G-MEN OF THE AIR (an upgrade for an inferior eBay purchase). It'll be a week at least before it arrives from VCI.
In the meantime I started THE INVISIBLE MONSTER but in mid-1st chapter recalled I just watched it back in November.

I think I'm gonna start watching Crash Corrigan in UNDERSEA KINGDOM tomorrow a.m.
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Stony Brooke da Mesquiteer
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Suday was chapter 12 of Flash Gordon. Zarkov has made contact with Earth and it looks as if the gang could possibly return ;) . Of course Ming needs to try to squash the earthlings one more time. Princess Aura tells the Earth gang she'll help them out..........AGAIN. Will she keep her word???? Next Sunday, the big finale.

Also Sunday was chapter 10 of Undersea Kingdom. Crash, Billy and Prof. Norton escape Unga Khan's lair via the air thingy and are shot down. The trio are going to head to Atlantis but the Prof. insists on returning to "His Master, Unga Khan" to finish the rocket motors. Crash and Billy keep trying to talk him into remembering who he actually is. Well it ain't workin'. I don't know why the guys just don't tell him they're going to go get some ice cream and just take him to Atlqantis anyway. Khan's men are sent out to fetch at least Prof. Norton from the trio and they're all riding horse and chariots. None of them are in the nice car. I guess they won't drive it unless they have that flashy Crash Corrigan hood ornament :P

I'll be hard pressed to replace these 2 serials on Sundays!!!!! :(
It's like Rodney King used to say, "Can't we all get a bong."
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The Lost Special is coming along quite nicely. It still reminds me a lot of a hardy Boys adventure with two young lads trying to find a missing trainload of gold for good old dad. Frank Albertson is pretty good as the main hero, Tom Hood-although I keep waiting for him to break into a "Hee haw, Georgie boy!" The fights are decent with Hood and pal regularly taking on 2-3 baddies each. And it follows logically that the 2 college athletes would be able to handle the middle aged thugs in fisticuffs. An especially good fight in the baddies' nightclub hangout where, expecting to easily take the 2 heroes, the henchies find that they've got the college football team as backup mingling about. Decent cliffhangers-since it's a train based serial, I'll forgive having 2 car vs. train endings.
All in all a nice surprise from the early Universal talkies.
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MaskedMala
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Grampy, how's the recording quality of The Lost Special?
Thanks
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I just finished "White Eagle", which I thought was one of the better Universals I've seen, even with Raymond Hatton doing his usual grizzled scout (or whatever it is he is supposed to be). Lots of action and good stunt work though some of the cliffhangers were a bit lame.

Trying to figure out what to watch next. Any suggestions of something really good to see?
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Grampy
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The copy I have has occasional lines through the picture (like a VCR was trying to adjust tracking at some points), but no problem with darkness,blurriness or anything. There was minor sound fade in Chapter 1 I believe, but a volume adjustment fixed it until the normal sound level came back. The entire serial so far has been watchable without any major problems. This dvd came from Rodney.
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MaskedMala
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Thank you Grampy
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I watched the first chapter of The Drums of Fu Manchu last night and thought it lived up to all of it's hype as one of the best serials. Of course I find most first chapters intriguing, as they're "the hook" chapters, but this one shows a lot of promise for the rest of the serial. :P

I waited a long time to see this serial as I'd hoped the Serial Squadron copy would finally appear, but due to technical difficulties it doesn't look like that'll be happening anytime soon. :(
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Hey JazzGuy, I'm sure you mean White Eagle serial from Columbia (1941).

As a curiosity, you may want to track down the feature film White Eagle also starring Buck Jones also from Columbia that was released in 1932.

That's the whole White Eagle canon far as I know.
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I meant Columbia. Had a "senior moment" there. So there was an earlier White Eagle film. Is it the same character? Any idea where this film could be found? Rodney, is this something you might have?
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panzer the great & terrible
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There was a silent WHITE EAGLE too.
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panzer the great & terrible
Apr 1 2008, 03:19 PM
There was a silent WHITE EAGLE too.

1922 I beleive, but I think it's "lost".
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I'm liking the 1937 Secret Agent X-9 at least as much as the 1945 version, though there's no question that Lloyd Bridges could act circles around Scott Kolk. Kolk is the weakest link in the 12-chapter chain, and he's X-9, for crying out loud. Next to Jean Rogers and Monte Blue, who appear to take their roles SOMEWHAT seriously, Kolk is an embarrassment. He's tentative in his every move, as if he had merely glanced at the script and decided he was good enough to wing it. He isn't.

The cliffhangers are mostly uninspiring (one or more are cheats, if memory serves), and the bad guys elude the G-men again and again with amazing ease. (It's typical for X-9 and his partner to run into the street, guns drawn, just as the villains' car is pulling away from the curb; watching it drive off, Kolk says, "We'll never catch them now!")

Lame as much of it is, it's entertaining nonetheless. Some good sets (including those dockside warehouses, right out of Frontierland, that turn up now and again), a few decent actors among the henchmen (Lon Chaney, Jr. turns up often enough to remind us that we saw his name in the credits, but he's just another mug), and a pretty lively pace. No recap chapters so far, and I have two chapters left.
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The '32 Buck Jones WHite Eagle is around. Orsak had it listed, but am not sure if he's still around.

Buck is allegedly wearing the same outfit as in the serial and is the same character. I've heard the story is a little different though. I've also seen copies of this at tables at film conventions. It's out there. Just be sure you're clear you want the '32 feature version, not the serial.
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I *think* we've got it, but I'm not 100% sure.
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