Directed by Fred C. BrannonStarring Clayton Moore, Phyllis Coates and Johnny Sands
Run Time: 167 minutes
Back in the early 50‘s, television was just beginning to become a threat to the motion picture business, and one of Hollywood’s responses to the growing popularity of television series’ was the Serial. Which was usually some type of adventure story-line told through several chapters, with each chapter ending in some type of cliff-hanger situation where a main character was placed in a near-hopeless situation, which in theory would keep people, especially kids, coming back to the movie theaters every week to see how their favorite characters escaped certain death. Some serials were great entertainment, with some of my personal favorites being- Flash Gordon (Universal, 1936) and The Masked Marvel (Republic, 1939-43), while others were not so good.