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| KanSmiley | May 8 2008, 06:20 AM Post #826 |
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Stony, you are talking about four of my favorite serials. These four plus THE SEA HOUND make up my Top Five. At least that is the way it is today. I'll change my mind by tomorrow. Kan |
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| Laughing Gravy | May 11 2008, 07:58 AM Post #827 |
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From the penultimate chapter of Blackhawk... Blackhawk to a Mexican patrolman: "Call the commandante of police in Valdez. Ask him to arrest a woman named Laska and a guitar player whose name I don't know." And that, Balconeers, is how that ugly arrest record came to appear on the otherwise spotless career of Eric Clapton. |
| "I'm glad that this question came up, because there are so many ways to answer it that one of them is bound to be right." - Robert Benchley | |
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| riddlerider | May 11 2008, 09:14 AM Post #828 |
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Although I spent yesterday in NYC with friends and didn't get home until nearly midnight, I couldn't wait to pop in LOST CITY OF THE JUNGLE and watch the last two chapters. That alone should tell you how much I have enjoyed revisiting this one. While not a great serial, it's much better than I remembered. Tonight, after the Mother's Day festivities have ended, I'll be starting VCI's PHANTOM EMPIRE. Haven't seen that one since Grood came out with the Squadron's version. |
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| Laughing Gravy | May 11 2008, 10:17 PM Post #829 |
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Incidentally, I love serials not least of all for the loony moments of daffiness, and there's a cherce one in episode 14 of Blackhawk: Michael Fox's corpse has turned up (he jumped out of the airplane with Blackhawk and Chuck, only his chute failed to open) and then, after having been crushed against the ground, his watch starts blinking in morse code: message from his gang of saboteurs. Blackhawk searches the body to see if there's a transmitter by which he could respond to lure the crooks into a trap, and sure enough, he finds the device and removes it from Fox's pocket: and the damn thing is the size of a toaster oven. I mean, it's HUGE. And it was supposedly in Fox's pocket, unknown, the whole time he was a captive of Blackhawk's and... Well, I guess ya had to be there. |
| "I'm glad that this question came up, because there are so many ways to answer it that one of them is bound to be right." - Robert Benchley | |
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| Chandu | May 12 2008, 08:18 AM Post #830 |
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Champeen of Justice and Seeker of Knowledge, but rascal at heart!
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Last week, near the end of chapter three of King of the Royal Mounted, our hero, Mountie King, gets ambushed by a bunch of nazis at an old sawmill. Well, he knocks the gun out of one nazi’s hand and a 1 vs. 4 fistfight ensues. During the fight, one of the nazis gets shoved into a wall where an open industrial double pole switch is located and he knocks it on. Turns out this is the switch that controls the sawmill’s main saw blade and the saw feeder conveyor, which both now spring into action. Next we see one of the nazis land a lucky punch, knocking our hero onto the conveyor and at the same time rendering him unconscious, so at chapters end, we find him helplessly heading for the spinning saw blade on the saw feeder conveyor. This week as chapter four opens, we find Mountie King’s pappy, Inspector King, riding in to the rescue, with reinforcements. After a short gun battle, the nazis flee, but while all of this is going on, Inspector King sees his son heading for certain death on the conveyor and rushes to shut it off. Well, wouldn’t ya know it? Sometime during the week, some DIRTY,…….LOWDOWN,…….SCUM OF THE EARTH, nazi sympathizer has stolen onto the set and installed a metal cover over the saw switch!!! And as if that weren’t bad enough, he’s snapped a padlock onto it as well. Now King’s pappy is completely stymied when he arrives at the switch, finding it impossible to get at and turn off. A younger, quicker thinking, rescuer would’ve prob’ly just shot the padlock off the switchbox, but Inspector King, being a more elderly mountie, probably ready for retirement, didn’t think of that and does the only thing he can think of. In his desperation to save his son, he shorts out the two, evidently bare, wires coming out of the top of the switchbox by laying his gun barrel across them, thus electrocuting himself in the process, but saving his son and our hero, Mountie King the younger from a horrible death. Well that’s it fer me, see? Call it Balcony blasphemy if you like, but I ain’t givin’ these sleazebag nazis a whole week to fix things their way no more! If I have to watch two chapters a night, they ain’t gettin’ the opportunity to skew any more chapter endings! Why there’s no tellin’ what could happen if these dirty tricks were allowed to continue. Our country could be overrun with zombies, robots, death ray machines and even xenomorphs, that’s right I said xenomorphs, all controlled by some evil genius bent on world domination. As a matter of fact, at the end of chapter four, we find our hero, Mountie King, once again facing death, lying unconscious in the bottom of a boat, filled with explosives and heading, uncontrolled, onto a rocky shore, where it will certainly blow up. Now, I’m positive that in the beginning of chapter five, we’ll discover Mountie King waking in time to jump overboard and save himself from the explosion when the boat hits the rocks, but do you think I’m going to give these nazi scumbags a week to set a bear trap in the bottom of the boat for King to step into just before he can jump to safety? No siree! I’m watchin’ another chapter tonight! :angry: |
| Not plane, nor bird, nor even frog. It's just little ol' me... | |
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| Stony Brooke da Mesquiteer | May 15 2008, 03:21 AM Post #831 |
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Was he saved by Mountie King's Pappy's ghost??? :ph43r: |
| It's like Rodney King used to say, "Can't we all get a bong." | |
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| Chandu | May 15 2008, 09:49 AM Post #832 |
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Champeen of Justice and Seeker of Knowledge, but rascal at heart!
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Nope. But by watching another chapter that night, them nazis didn't get a chance to mess around with the story again and Mountie King was able to jump outta the boat and save hisself. I've been watchin' more chapters each night and so far they haven't snuck any more stuff that wasn't in the last chapter, into the following chapter, so I'm considerin' watchin' at least a chapter a night a success!
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| Not plane, nor bird, nor even frog. It's just little ol' me... | |
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| Don Diego | May 15 2008, 01:11 PM Post #833 |
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Not necessarily good but at least OK - Bruce Gentry. This is a Katzman Columbia and shows it. The menace is the flying discs. they are animated and look it (it is better than the hub caps hanging from wire in Plan 9) In chapter one an executive pimps out his secretary in order to get Bruce to work for him and later when Bruce is chasing the villans and they shoot out his tires, he goes into the trunk, not for a spare but a mini mortor cycle. I am convinced that there is some poor circus bear that was ripped off by this would be hero. |
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| Pa Stark | May 16 2008, 03:53 PM Post #834 |
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Watching Todd Moore's new 10 chapter serial, DANGERS OF DEBORAH. It is an improvement over his first serial, KING OF THE PARK RANGERS, and is great fun. There is a mystery villain called "The Terror" trying to obtain a formula for a serum that can make you invisible. Oh, yes, I am also watching DAREDEVILS OF THE WEST. |
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| Stony Brooke da Mesquiteer | May 19 2008, 03:51 AM Post #835 |
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Yesterday was chapter 6 of Flash Gordon's Trip To Mars. If Flash and Dr Zarkov don't make it in time to save Dale and Happy, they'll be turned into clay people. Dale and Happy will be turned that is. That would make Dale putty in Flash's hands. I like this serial, although I miss the eye candy that is Princess Aura. The rocketships are better and I love those flying capes. Also saw chapter 5 of The Phantom Empire. Gene comes face-to-face with Queen Tika. I'm enjoyin' this one too, with the characters and yes, someo' them ol' songs, although I haven't heard one in the last 2 chapters or so. |
| It's like Rodney King used to say, "Can't we all get a bong." | |
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| Laughing Gravy | May 19 2008, 12:39 PM Post #836 |
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Stony, find a copy of Sons of the Desert, with "Queen Tika" as Mrs. Stanley Laurel. You'll love it. |
| "I'm glad that this question came up, because there are so many ways to answer it that one of them is bound to be right." - Robert Benchley | |
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| Stony Brooke da Mesquiteer | May 20 2008, 03:33 AM Post #837 |
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I saw it about 2 months ago......good stuff. I didn't know that was HRH though. |
| It's like Rodney King used to say, "Can't we all get a bong." | |
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| Chandu | May 20 2008, 05:17 PM Post #838 |
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Here at Chandu's abode, Mountie King has successfully vanquished them dirty Nazis in King of the Royal Mounted, but now they're after him again in King of the Mounties. |
| Not plane, nor bird, nor even frog. It's just little ol' me... | |
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| Mantan | May 20 2008, 06:48 PM Post #839 |
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I've almost finished with THE SIGN OF THE WOLF (1931 Metropolitan Pictures Corporation) as released on DVD by Serial Squadron. The main star is Muro the Dog, aka in this serial as "King - Emperor of All Dogs" aka "King The Wonder Dog" on the SS box credits. A young turban-clad Edmund Cobb as "Prince Kuva" from the Mysterious East is a bit more heroic and cuts more dashing a figure than the top billed Rex Lease as "Tom". Cobb's always seemed too weak to me -either as a villain or a member of the posse. Here he's more slender and younger than how I'm accustomed to seeing him. At one point in Chapter 7 from atop his horse, Cobb has to retrieve a gun dropped by a fleeing bad guy. He rears his horse back on its hindquarters and bends over one side of the horse picking up the gun from off of the ground easily, no stuntman required. Hardly Douglas Fairbanks but an Ed Cobb in vastly different shape than what most b-movie fans are used to seeing. What the hell - I was in a lot better physical shape when I was 15 years younger myself. Joe Bonomo is "Bud", Rex Lease's sidekick. Virginia Brown Faire supplies all the screams of distress and Jack Mower is the main instigator of nefarious deeds committed with Al Ferguson and Robert Walker as members of the gang. Josephine Hill as Mower's moll is terrific. She gets to slap Virgina Brown Faire around after Miss Faire's kidnapped by Jack Mower and gang. Josephine Hill is better looking than the female lead and more interesting than any other character in the serial with the exception of Muro the Dog/King the Wonder Dog. Although I've managed to stay awake through it all despite the ineptness of drectors Harry Webb and Forrest Sheldon and the poorly executed fisticuffs, it's not every serial fan's cup of mead. I wanted to watch an action packed serial featuring an animal star, preferably Rin Tin Tin or suitable canine substitute. Muro the Dog/King the Wonder Dog is fun to watch -who doesn't love dogs?- but the serial -with its canine star- lacks a lot. |
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| Laughing Gravy | May 25 2008, 06:32 AM Post #840 |
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Tailspin Tommy, after doing her a favor, to the curvacious Betty Lou Barnes: "Anything for a brother pilot!" |
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