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| Sgt King | Feb 4 2015, 09:23 PM Post #16 |
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My DVD of KOTTR I made direct from my Republic cassettes and it's near perfect. This is a **** serial with excellent story, actors, stunts, action and those great Republic minatures and special effects! |
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| AndyFish | Feb 17 2018, 07:05 AM Post #17 |
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Started this one as my treadmill time serial; Tom King is a college football player from back in the day when you played with almost no pads and what looked like a leather cup on the top of your head. It was also a period where, apparently, you could be thin as a rail and get out there on the field and not be carried off in pieces. He's an exceptional player, and he should be, seeing how he's been in college for nine years what with him being 27 and all. His dad is also Tom King and he's a Texas Ranger. Texas Rangers in 1941 still look like they did in 1897 only there are cars and planes. This is the kind of western I can get behind. Tom discovers some information about a fifth column spy ring who don't seem to QUITE be Nazi's and he has to rush the list over to Texas Ranger HQ so he borrows the car of the town's newspaper editor named Sally who decides to come along for the ride. Now it's a shame that Tom didn't think to just borrow a phone and call in the list to HQ because as he goes forward with his plan, a group of not quite Nazi spies pull a Lee Harvey Oswald on him and then swing down to the wreckage of the car and retrieve the wax sealed note that lists ALL of the spies by name. Whew! Sally was knocked out in the crash, but she comes to just in time to get the license plate of the dastardly not quite Nazi's who return the note to their boss who will eventually reform and become Police Commissioner of Gotham City in the 60s but for now he's got to get this note to der fuhrer, I mean to the Exalted One or His Excellency or something like that so he does it the only sensible way-- he jumps in a bi plane and flies himself and the note up 15,000 feet to the dirigible that is apparently circling Texas and current home and HQ to the Exalted One. He hooks the plane up to the bottom of the zeppelin and then climbs a rope ladder up into the passenger compartment simply to hand the note to EO. Did they not have stamps in 1941? Then he does the reverse and comes back down. I would have said the note was lost and called it a day. Back to Tom Jr-- he learns of his Dad's death and does the only sensible thing, he takes his place as a Captain in the Texas Rangers-- I guess that's how this works. Law Enforcement is a family business. No academy to go through, no rules to study-- here's the badge little Tom, now make your dad proud. Somehow Sally has managed to find the car with the license plate she remembered in an oil field, an oil field about to be blowed up by these Fifth Columnists. They catch her and tell her they should have shot her when they offed Tom Sr, but they made that mistake once and they won't make it again-- so they tie her up and get back to work just as Tom Jr shows up-- Sally manages to disarm one of the thugs while she's tied up (they should have made her a Ranger too) and Tom gets the upper hand, at least for a minute-- the varmits run off to Mexico with Tom in hot pursuit. They reach the border and luckily they're stopped by a massive wall-- oops, no they just wander across like there's no border at all but that won't stop Tom. He tells Sally to wait for him and hands her his badge and gun-- he's going after these guys who shot pop like a man! Tom arrives at the saloon they're holed up at and shoots 'em dead (I guess he had another gun), and he comes into contact with Mexico's answer to the Texas Rangers in the form of PEED-ROW (that's how Tom pronounces Pedro), who proves he's even less effective in a fight than Sally is when the bad guys get the drop on him later on in the picture when they end up back at the oil field where the plan to blow stuff up is still in full swing. The bad guys capture Sally again, THIS time they won't make the mistake of not shooting her, so they tie her up and lock her in a storage shed while they blow up the oil field. Tom gets to Sally just in time for the whole thing to collapse on them in a fiery apocalypse! To be continued! Overall a good first chapter and a fun serial. Sammy Baugh, who plays Tom Jr is about as good an actor as Crash Corrigan which is to say not very good but he's likeable and he's got a face that looks like Roy Schieder went fifteen rounds with the champ and took every blow in the face, but it's nice to have a lead actor who doesn't look like he's out of central casting. The effects are great- the oil fields on fire look legit and there are a lot of regular serial faces in this one. Good stuff. |
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| Barcroft | Feb 17 2018, 06:20 PM Post #18 |
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AndyFish, Overlooking Sammy's acting, this is another of the Witney/English gems. Just a heads up, Sammy wears a 2 gun rig in chapter 1, but for the rest of the serial it's a single gun rig. The 2 gun rig looked familiar I wonder if it was Roy Rogers? Barcroft |
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| Pa Stark | Feb 17 2018, 08:30 PM Post #19 |
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Actually, it isn't Baugh, but Kermit Maynard who calls Duncan Renaldo, "Peed-row. I wonder where were the directors on this. "CUT! Kermit, it's pronounced "Pedro, not Peed-row!" I like Baugh as the hero, he is very believable as a Texas Ranger. Crash Corrigan not a good actor? Edited by Pa Stark, Feb 17 2018, 08:31 PM.
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| AndyFish | Feb 19 2018, 07:57 AM Post #20 |
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Crash is solid in the Mesquiteer films but in Undersea Kingdom he's pretty wooden. IMO |
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| Sgt Saturn | Feb 20 2018, 11:40 AM Post #21 |
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Wasn't Roy supposed to do this serial at one point? |
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| Sgt Saturn | Feb 20 2018, 11:45 AM Post #22 |
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I think it was a southern California thing. Some of the old Dragnet radio shows talk about SAN PEED-ROW. I think these were some of the same people who pronounced "Los Angeles" with a hard 'G'. |
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| Pa Stark | Feb 20 2018, 02:44 PM Post #23 |
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People in San Francisco pronounce it San Frincisco. Remember the song San Francisco, by Scott McKenzie? He pronounced it San Fran Cisco. No one in the city does that. |
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| Frank Hale | Feb 20 2018, 02:44 PM Post #24 |
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Here is an L.A. Times article on pronouncing the name of that fair city. http://articles.latimes.com/2011/jun/26/local/la-me-0626-then-20110626 I must admit the hard "g" always appealed to me, old movie-wise, and Spanish-wise, but I never heard anyone in real life ever say it. As to San Pedro: Even on the East Coast I think everyone called it San Peedro, which seems to be born out by this article: http://blogs.dailybreeze.com/southbay/2009/05/07/more-on-the-san-paydro-san-pee/ OTOH, this opiner says "Pidro" is locally preferred. https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=San%20Pedro So, Mort, what is the true story on all this? Getting back to the serial (which I haven't seen in a long time), I did find "Peedro" pretty jarring when I first heard it. and wondered if it was meant to be condescending by whoever said it. I finally decided it was just good ol' boy talk. |
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| mort bakaprevski | Feb 20 2018, 04:04 PM Post #25 |
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When I was young, everyone pronounced it San Peedro (or Pidro). In this latter day of enlightenment, more folks are saying San Paydro. My favorite is the street Los Feliz. I would say the majority of folks still say Loss Feeliz with the emphasis on the 1st syllable instead of Lows Fayleez with the accent on the 2nd. Almost everyone (including me) still says Loss Anjuless (or L.A.). |
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| Frank Hale | Feb 20 2018, 04:39 PM Post #26 |
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I think it would have been "Loss Fah-LEEZ" in the tri-state area back then. But I'm beginning to wonder if I can really distinguish, at this point, real life back then from all the movies I've since seen. Ronald Reagan, anyone? |
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| Laughing Gravy | Feb 20 2018, 06:32 PM Post #27 |
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For some reason, denizens of Vacaville, California never pronounce the name of their city properly. And don't get me a-started on Lompoc. |
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| Pa Stark | Feb 20 2018, 09:36 PM Post #28 |
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I always thought Lompoc sounded like something similar to the mumps. "I can't into work this week, I have a case of Lompoc." |
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