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Raiders of Ghost City
Topic Started: Dec 26 2006, 03:12 PM (738 Views)
rodney
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Having finished up Zorro's Fighting Legion, I'll be continuing the western theme and watching this Universal offering next. What should I expect?
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Rodney:
Your going to enjoy this serial. One of Barcroft's favorite Universals. It has a good storyline, great cast loaded with serial favorites.

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I watched the first chapter last night, and really liked it. It seems to have much more plot and dialogue than serials, at least at this point. Looks to be a lot of fun.
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I'll be watching chapter 10 later tonight, and I've got to say that I'm having a LOT of fun with this serial. One of the few "plotty" serials that I've really liked, though I admit that I'm still learning about serials and such.
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Rodney:

Glad to see your enjoying Raiders. After you've finished this one try "The Scarlet Horseman". A lot of people have mixed feelings about it but in it's own way it is a pretty good western Serial and was made in 1946 which was the year the Universal threw in the towel with serials and b-westerns and went upscale.

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I have to give credit where credit is due. I picked this up on Friday and watched the first two chapters last night, and despite the fact that I'm not wild about VCI, I must say that this DVD is a pleasant surprise. The preprint material is very clean -- I can't quite figure out if it's a second-generation 35mm or a 16mm printdown -- and the transfer is excellent. A notice preceding the first chapter indicates that VCI may have done some digital cleanup, and so far the thing looks to be just about spotless.

I only saw this serial once, as a heavily worn 16mm print with choppy beginnings and endings. It didn't particularly impress me, but I'm enjoying it more this time around.
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Is this a common thing for Universal serials not to have Chapter intros? This one and Mr M I've watched lately and each episode has a sort of recap but no number until it tells you to come back next week. Very odd.
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Apr 24 2018, 11:56 AM
Is this a common thing for Universal serials not to have Chapter intros? This one and Mr M I've watched lately and each episode has a sort of recap but no number until it tells you to come back next week. Very odd.
Yes it is, Andy, around 1938 they had the crawl to the sky, ala STAR WARS, with the chapter number, but not the title. Universal quit having chapter titles and a written synopsis at the beginning of episodes around 1942. Instead they inserted footage of someone filling in another character what just happened. THE GREAT ALASKAN MYSTERY did have written synopsis at beginning of chapters.
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One of the things I like about the 1940s Universals is the tendency to have characters get together to tell each other (and us) what's going on at the beginning of chapters.

And I like Columbia, too, and their opening "recap", which often doesn't change from chapter to chapter, we are expected to pick up or remember the story as we get along.
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Serials are funny things. I can see that I watched this, and I apparently enjoyed it. I remember nothing about it. At all.
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rodney
Apr 25 2018, 08:43 AM
Serials are funny things. I can see that I watched this, and I apparently enjoyed it. I remember nothing about it. At all.

Been there. Done that. Have the DVD.

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rodney
Apr 25 2018, 08:43 AM
Serials are funny things. I can see that I watched this, and I apparently enjoyed it. I remember nothing about it. At all.
I saw about a dozen serials on TV as a kid in the 50's, remember more about those serials than I do of the TV shows I followed for years. One of my memories was of the cliffhanger where Dennis Moore is tied up in a cave, and water is flowing towards him, until only his hat is left floating above him.
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