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Post by Taildragger on Jul 2, 2021 17:13:09 GMT -5
...this one made in 1943, is pretty campy. It stars, among others, Robert Armstrong ("King Kong", "Mighty Joe Young"), Regis Toomey ("The Big Sleep", "Mighty Joe Young", "Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea"), and Eduardo Cianelli ("Untouchables", "Wagon train", "Man From U.N.C.L.E."). The hero, "Danny", is played by Johnny Downs, an old Vaudeville hoofer who hosted an afternoon cartoon show on a San Diego TV station I used to watch when I was a little kid during the lare 1950s/early 1960s. The evil, hooded, Nazi villain is called, "The Black Hangman". No shortage of very cheesy special effects:
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Post by Taildragger on Jul 2, 2021 17:47:01 GMT -5
'Nuther one:
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Post by fkaJimmySee on Jul 3, 2021 5:10:27 GMT -5
I've always been partial to Buster Crabbe as Flash Gordon with Charles Middleton as the evil Ming the Mercilous. The imagining of the future, from a 1930's perspective, is fascinating.
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Post by Taildragger on Jul 3, 2021 10:14:00 GMT -5
I've always been partial to Buster Crabbe as Flash Gordon with Charles Middleton as the evil Ming the Mercilous. The imagining of the future, from a 1930's perspective, is fascinating. Some of my earliest memories of watching TV are of watching "Flash" on our B&W Admiral with the rabbit ears. I think they must've compiled all of the episodes into a feature length movie and sold/rented it to one of the networks back during the early 1950s. "Commando Cody" was another serial that was repackaged that way. My brother and I would fold paper airplanes, draw portholes and raygun cannons on them and then run around the house playing "Flash Gordon" with them.
We were also entranced by the "Black Hawk" serial, which would run for the kiddie matinee along with a cartoon, a double-feature of cowboy pictures and a newsreel at our local theater.
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Post by Taildragger on Jul 3, 2021 13:57:12 GMT -5
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