Ev, along with her husband, Harold, and their lawyer friend Martin, are scuba diving while on vacation in Puerto Rico. When they resurface, they gradually conclude that an unexplained, temporary interruption of oxygen has killed everyone on the island... maybe even the world! Starring Betsy Jones-Moreland, Antony Carbone, and Robert Towne. There’s gonna be some drinkin, and then there’s gonna be some fighting… over the last woman on Earth!
In the year 2020, after the colonization of the moon, the spaceships Vega, Sirius and Capella are launched from Lunar Station 7. They are to explore Venus under the command of Professor Hartman, but an asteroid collides and explodes Capella. The leader ship Vega stays orbiting and sends the astronauts Kern and Sherman with the robot John to the surface of Venus, but they have problems with communication with Dr. Marsha Evans in Vega. The Sirius lands in Venus and Commander Brendan Lockhart, Andre Ferneau and Hans Walter explore the planet and are attacked by prehistoric animals. They use a vehicle to seek Kern and Sherman while collecting samples from the planet. Meanwhile John helps the two cosmonauts to survive in the hostile land. Staring Basil Rathbone, Faith Domergue, and Marc Shannon. Sherlock Holmes goes to outer space!
Set in Earth's distant future, this serial tracks the adventures of a group of fighters for truth and justice, known as The Video Rangers. They are led by Captain Video (no first name ever was mentioned). The Video Rangers operated from a secret base on a mountaintop whose location was unspecified. The Captain received his orders from “The Commissioner of Public Safety” (surname Carey), whose responsibilities took in the entire solar system as well as human colonies on planets around other stars. A great early 50s serial with a cool secret base for the Video Rangers, this was tremendously popular in the early 50s, the start of a new future and the race into space!
On a neutral island in the Pacific called Shadow Island run by American gangster Lucky Kamber, both sides in World War II attempt to control the secret of Element 722, which can be used to create synthetic aviation fuel. The U.S. sends in Secret Agent X-9 to foil the plot. Chinese agent Ah Fong becomes X-9's partner. A Japanese submarine is standing by to take a surgically altered spy to America. A French couple, Hotel owners Papa and Mama Pierre also figure in the plot. A mysterious figure known only as Solo spends most of the picture playing tiddley winks on Kamber's bar. Double crosses and triple crosses abound as X-9 tries to gain the secret of “Element 722". Staring Lloyd Bridges as Phil Corrigan aka Secret Agent X-9; Keye Luke as Ah Fong, Chinese agent; Jan Wiley as Lynn Moore, Australian agent; Victoria Horne as Nabura, villainous Japanese agent; and Samuel S. Hinds as Solo. Before there was James Bond there was Secret Agent X-9. Before Element 115, there was Element 722! An action-packed movie!
Starring Vincent Price and Lynn Bari. This is the first movie to show the effects of the powerful mind-control drug scopolamine. Scopolamine was used in Nazi Germany as an interrogation tool and is widely used by intelligence agencies around the world. Lynn Bari is an anxious housewife who witnesses a murder and turns to a psychiatrist to help her mental anxiety. Unfortunately the psychiatrist is also the murderer and begins to drive the unfortunate woman insane with scopolamine. A great film noir on the dangers of mind-control drugs.
John Hart stars as Jack Armstrong, the All-American Boy, who battles the evil Dr. Grood, who has placed a death ray aboard his spaceship orbiting Earth. In this exciting serial, Jack Armstrong and his friends attempt to rescue a renowned scientist, the inventor of a revolutionary atomic engine, from the clutches an arch-villain bent on world-dominion by means of a death ray place on board a aircraft capable of flying into the ionosphere. Their quest takes the adventurers to a remote island where they must not only contend with the criminal mastermind's henchmen, but a fierce tribe who have their own reasons for thwarting our heroes. One of the great radio shows and exciting serials of the 1940s.
Starring Buster Crabbe, as a famous detective who sets out to discover who stole $2 million in bonds. The plot soon evolves into a game of “Bonds, Bonds, Who Has the Bonds?,” it has so many groups, and their armies of henchmen, acquiring and re-acquiring the bonds that, in a chapter or two, the people who have the bonds don't appear to know they are the current holders. Wing Fu, brings the bonds to the USA to buy war planes for an unnamed county, and quickly loses them to Quong Lee, a Eurasian underworld chief, but they are re-taken in chapter two by Red Barry. Ballet dancer Natacha, representing a ruthless group of Russians, acquires them in chapter three, but Barry gets them back in chapter four. In action-packed scene after scene the race to control the valuable War Bonds continues over 13 chapters of cliff-hanging adventure of conspiracy and murder!
Atomic scientist/pilot Doug Martin is missing after his plane crashes on an reconnaissance mission after a nuclear test. Miraculously appearing unhurt at the base later, he is given a truth serum, but authorities are skeptical of his story that he was captured by aliens determined to conquer the Earth with giant monsters and insects. Martin vows to use existing technology to destroy them. Starring Peter Graves, James Seay, and Steve Pendleton. The classic flying saucer movie of the 50s with the star of Mission Impossible!
An alien being with the power of invisibility lands in Santa Monica. Killing two people who attacked him due to the menacing appearance of his spacesuit, the creature takes it off while being pursued by government authorities. Starring Ted Cooper, Tom Daly, and Steve Acton. Looks like trouble!
Ro-Man, an alien that looks remarkably like a bigfoot in a diving helmet, has destroyed all but six people on the planet Earth. He spends the entire film trying to finish off these survivors, but complications arise when he falls for the young woman in the group. Love that bubble machine! Starring George Nader, Gregory Moffett, and Claudia Barretta. The ultimate in the Bigfoot is a Space Alien theory. Get out your ray-guns—here comes bigfoot in a space helmet!
The mad scientist Dr. Cameron has succeeded in his experiments with a serum that will turn a man into a wolf-like monster, and is ready to avenge himself on the men who caused his professional failure. He uses it on his gardener Petro and one after the other is killed by his creation. His daughter, Lenora, grows suspicious and confides with newspaper reporter Tom Gregory. Starring Johnny Downs, George Zucco, and Anne Nagel. Is it a man-made bigfoot? A great retro-horror movie from the 40s!
A military intelligence officer and a pretty reporter try to find a mad scientist (Bela Lugosi) whose inventions can destroy the world. First use of a crazed robot used in the movies. Yow!
Britt Reid, publisher of The Sentinel newspaper, is secretly the vigilante crime fighter The Green Hornet. He and his Korean valet Kato investigate and expose several seemingly separate criminal rackets. This leads them into continued conflict with “the Chief,” the mastermind behind the criminal syndicate controlling those rackets. With Gordon Jones, Wade Boteler and Keye Luke. Look out Bruce Lee, here comes Keye Luke as Kato. This is a full length movie edited from the original serial.
Flash Gordon battles the Purple Death in this exciting movie edited from the serial. A mysterious plague, the Purple Death, ravages the earth. Dr. Zarkov, investigating in his spaceship, finds a ship from planet Mongo seeding the atmosphere with dust. Sure enough, Ming the Merciless is up to his old tricks. So it's back to Mongo for Flash, Dale, and Zarkov, this time with ready-made allies waiting: Prince Barin of Arboria and Queen Fria of the frozen northern land of Frigia; where, it so happens, is found polarite, antidote to the plague. But Ming will use all his forces to keep our heroes from thwarting his plans of conquest! One of the best Tesla Technology serials with electric spaceships buzzing through the Universe instead of rockets!
At the dawn of the Tesla age was this incredible serial from 1935 which featured Tesla’s wireless transmission of power and other inventions. Scientist Bruce Gordon comes to a secluded area in Africa after realizing that a series of electrically induced natural disasters had been detected in the area. There he finds Zolock, last of the Lemurians, in a secret complex under a mountain. Zolock had created the natural disasters as a prelude to his attempt to take over the world, holding a brilliant scientist their hostage with his daughter. He had also forced the scientist to create mindless “giant” slaves out of the natives as a private army. As the serial progresses we learn that the scientist had also turned another tribe, the Wangas, into white burley haired midgets. Lots of Tesla technology and futuristic hallways and rooms with numerous gadgets on the walls. plus a remote viewing television screen, a death ray that eats through metal and threatens the strapped-down Gordon in a scene identical to Goldfinger’s laser burning toward James Bond’s crotch, plus tons more 1930s superscience. This is the world of Tesla Technology that we were supposed to have, shown to us from 1936. This may be partly the source of the “myth” of Marconi’s secret city in the jungles of South America.
THE UNDERSEA KINGDOM: THE MOVIE. This great 1936 serial, now an edited and digitally enhanced movie, is the story of Ray “Crash” Corrigan, Athlete and Navy Lieutenant, who joins Professor Norton in a Rocket Submarine to inspect an enigmatic location beneath the Atlantic Ocean. Following a suspicious earthquake, and detecting a series of signals, Professor Norton leads an expedition, including Crash and reporter Diana Compton, three sailors (Briny Deep, Salty, Joe) and their pet parrot Sinbad. Unknown to the expedition until it is underway and in trouble, Billy has stowed away on the Rocket Sub as well. Finding a lost kingdom they become embroiled in an Atlantean civil war between Sharad (with his White Robes) and the usurper Unga Khan (with his Black Robes) who wishes to conquer Atlantis and then destroy the upper world with earthquakes generated by his Disintegrator. Thus he will rule the world—unless he can be stopped in time! Great 30s Tesla death rays and other weird Atlantean technology. The original movie about Atlantis! Plus period trailers.
This great 1952 serial, now an edited and digitally enhanced movie, is the story of George Wallace as Commando Cody, ‘Sky Marshal of the Universe,’ a civilian researcher and the owner of Cody Laboratories which has a sizable staff of employees. He works with American scientists Joan Gilbert and Ted Richards in the development of a rocket-powered flying suit and a rocket to the Moon. When the US finds itself under attack by a mysterious power that wipes out military bases and industrial complexes, government security chief Henderson suspects it’s an “atomic ray” originating from the Moon! He assigns Commando Cody with his secret flying suit to investigate the source of the atomic ray. Cody, Joan and Ted take off in a rocket to the moon and, upon arrival, Cody is captured by Moon-men. They confront the moon’s dictator Retik, who boldly announces plans to conquer our planet and move his subjects there. Cody escapes from Retik and the Moon and is soon battling a lunar native named Krog and the gang of human crooks he has hired to steal and stockpile supplies for the invasion. Cody continues making trips in his experimental rocket back to the moon, in a perilous and all but single-handed effort to thwart the planned invasion of Earth.
