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FNF Serials
Topic Started: Sep 13 2009, 10:03 PM (3,666 Views)
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Dick Tracy Returns
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X-9 II. I thought Jungle Jim was a little lame. The Phantom was better. Nyoka is always fun, too.
Edited by panzer the great & terrible, Mar 20 2015, 02:34 PM.
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If your crowd has never seen a Dick Tracy serial, why not show them DT VS. CRIME INC.? It's got a bunch of highlights from the earlier Tracy serials and a colorful mystery villain in The Ghost. I actually saw this for the first time in a quasi-theatrical setting (New York's Town Hall), one chapter per week, as part of a Winter-long Saturday Matinee film series. The audience was largely comprised of "civilians" who really seemed to enjoy it. And it doesn't have the imbecilic comedy relief found in the first two Tracys.
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CRIME, INC. is easily my favorite of the Tracys.
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I'll more likely show the Tracys in order, the way I do with other serial sequels.

We had a discussion about this thread last night; Peter the Volvo Repair Guy opined that, as I do, the Republic, Universal, and Columbia serials are each unique and enjoyable in a different way, and he likes that I mix 'em all up. He likes the superior sets and atmosphere of the Universals, the action and polish of Republics, and the daffiness of the Columbias, but then, I think most of us do.

When we watch a Republic, somebody'll always blurt out "Fight's comin'!" when the hero walks into a giant room full of lots of space and crates and barrels. Always gets a laugh.

In any case, he agreed with my plan to show a Universal serial as our third and final one of this year.
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Now I'm leaning toward a 1930s Universal. Maybe The Vanishing Shadow or Buck Rogers.
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You couldn't go right. Both are OK, but a kid today wouldn't go for them.
Edited by panzer the great & terrible, Apr 4 2015, 07:41 PM.
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We don't have any kids for FNF at this time. I've seen both, don't remember Vanishing Shadow at all and thought Buck was inferior to the first two Flashes. But we've had two mid-40s serials this year so far and I'm thinkin' a 30s serial with a sci-fi theme would be a nice change of pace, plus I want to do a Universal that's 12 chapters. So there you are.
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Vanishing Shadow has one good chapter (11), when the robot finally gets out of the professor's apartment. And Laurel and Hardy's old nemesis, Dick Cramer, appears as a singularly dense chief henchman. Otherwise, it's rather stiff and talky. There is some amusingly nutsy dialog, such as the hero explaining how his father died of "business worries." But the leading man (played by Onslow Stevens) comes off as a decidedly sleazy customer, with an odd fetish for leather gloves. I kept expecting him to bitch-slap the heroine across the room. And be prepared for lots of talk about proxies--I mean LOTS of talk about proxies.
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One good chapter, right. I much prefer the robot serial with Bela Lugosi, laughable though it is.
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One good chapter, right. I much prefer the robot serial with Bela Lugosi, laughable though it is.

The Phantom Creeps. A fun serial. Lugosi is his usual great self.


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Gotta admit, I enjoyed THE VANISHING SHADOW.... probably as much for its goofiness as anything else. And.... Ada Ince was a toothsome little devil.
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Same here, I found the cast, storyline, etc very enjoyable.


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