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Watching Any Good Serials?
Topic Started: Apr 12 2006, 09:28 AM (88,363 Views)
Black Tiger
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Just finished Jungle Queen. Nazi agents scheme to control the tribes of central Africa before plunging into WWII. US and British secret agents are aided by the mysterious Jungle Queen, Lothel. A bit slow-moving at times, it still held my interest throughout. A jungle serial with jungle animals is always a plus. Ruth Roman looks great. Eddie Norris and Eddie Quillen are okay as the heroes. Douglas Dumbrille makes a fine Nazi agent.
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From Chapter 9 of The Mysterious Pilot...

Fritz: "Have you seen the girl lately?"

One Mountie to another: "Is he referring to the girl?!?"
"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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Jul 10 2008, 05:11 AM
Just finished Jungle Queen. Nazi agents scheme to control the tribes of central Africa before plunging into WWII. US and British secret agents are aided by the mysterious Jungle Queen, Lothel. A bit slow-moving at times, it still held my interest throughout. A jungle serial with jungle animals is always a plus. Ruth Roman looks great. Eddie Norris and Eddie Quillen are okay as the heroes. Douglas Dumbrille makes a fine Nazi agent.

A cute little bit of trivia about this title: I managed to meet three of its stars -- Norris, Collier, and Quillan -- over a period of maybe 20 years. In our conversations, each one referred to this serial by its working title, MYSTERY QUEEN OF THE JUNGLE. Not one of them seemed aware that it had gone into release as JUNGLE QUEEN.

I like this serial and think it's gotten a bad rap over the years.

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Last night was chapter 13 of The Spider's Web. It cracks me up everytime The Spider shows up, one of the baddies yells, "It's The Spider!" The cliffhanger from chapter 12 and carrying over to this chapter, you'll see the worst marksmanship with a handgun EVER.....hands down! That cracks me up too.
It's like Rodney King used to say, "Can't we all get a bong."
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Last night was the final chapter of King Of The Rocketmen. I enjoyed the whole ordeal including the way the rocket pack would blow out smoke before Jeff took to the air. I especially enjoyed the New York City scenes in the final chapter, pretty good for a serial, sez me of course!
It's like Rodney King used to say, "Can't we all get a bong."
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They're from a 1933 film called Deluge.

What I remember from KotRM's final chapter was how quickly everybody "got over" NYC being destroyed at the end.
"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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Jul 16 2008, 07:35 AM


What I remember from KotRM's final chapter was how quickly everybody "got over" NYC being destroyed at the end.


They were all from Ohio, weren't they????? What do you expect!!!
It's like Rodney King used to say, "Can't we all get a bong."
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Sunday was the grand finale to Flash Gordon's Trip To Mars. That whacky Ming is gone....again. I sure am glad we won't see him anymore :rolleyes:
It's like Rodney King used to say, "Can't we all get a bong."
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Leonard Maltin introduces skeptical college kids to Zorro's Fighting Legion, as reported in his online journal last May:

Leonard's Journal
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Six chapters into Dangers of the Canadian Mounted. Average late Republic serial - no more, no less. Always enjoy a good mountie flick and Jim Bannon makes a good hero.
Anthony Warde provides his usual top grade henchman villainy. The fights are a little too short to be good. The whole gimmick of searching for Genghis Khan's tresure ship is different, anyway.

Warde, as Mort had a good line of dialogue when his middle management boss Dale asked where the books he was sent to steal were:

Warde (embarrassed at failing to steal them): "I opened a lending library."


The character of Dan Page is played by Bill Van Sickle, Dale Van Sickle's real life son.

Only Canadian Mounties vs The Atomic Invaders keeps this serial from being Republic's worst mountie serial.
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Yesterday I watched the final chapter of Spy Smasher. What a great cliffhanger from chapter 11 and to begin chapter 12. I think kids would've been disappointed though.

Tonight I saw chapter 15 of The Mysterious Dr Satan. I enjoyed this serial very much although I found myself thinking this is for kids as the robot attacks, ahem, The Copperhead one last time. I think the henchmen would've taken his mask off.
It's like Rodney King used to say, "Can't we all get a bong."
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About the Spy Smasher chapter 11 cliffhanger - one old timer I spoke with who saw the serial in the theater as a kid said he and his buddies went wild over that cliffhanger and were not disappointed the next week. That cliffhanger stuck in his memory for years until the serial was finally released on vhs many many moons later.
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That cliffhanger is a whatcha see is whatcha get.
It's like Rodney King used to say, "Can't we all get a bong."
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Last night I finished DICK TRACY RETURNS and, to be honest, I was sorry to see it end. It still holds up, and there's less of Junior and Mike McGurk than I remembered. Republic was really starting to cook by this time. Sure, the fights are a little crude and some of the miniatures aren't convincing (especially the plane crash at the end of Chapter One), but this serial has such verve that you can't help but like it. And what a cast! It's always fun to see silent-era people like J. P. McGowan and Larry Steers pop up in unbilled bit roles.

I'm baffled by earlier posts dissing the quality of the transfer. There are timing errors throughout and a few dupey chapters, but those are flaws built into the pre-print material. Parts of RETURNS -- much of it, in fact -- looked better than we have any right to expect, given the substandard quality of surviving film elements.

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RR, I agree with you completely about Returns. I had a VHS copy from VCI that I got in 1982 (forked out $135 for that one!), bought another one from them in 1990 when Disney did the feature film and now the current one. This is the best version I have seen and we are lucky that the comic syndicate that owned the rights didn't pull a "Lone Ranger or King of the Mounties" on us.
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