The Phantom Empire - Classic Cliffhanger Serial Movie DVD Gene Autry

Description: Classic Cliffhanger Movie Serials The Phantom Empire Serial Contains All 12 Chapters - 1935 Please Read the Complete Description Below Before Making a Purchase. The Image above is of the Actual Serial in its Protective Paper Envelope that You Will Receive (IT IS NOT IN A CASE), the Other One is a Copy of the Actual Movie Poster for Reference Purposes Only. Your Serial Comes on a DVD-R With Color Artwork on the DVD. All of OUR Serials are Complete and Contain all the Chapters. All Serials have Menus. Keep Reading Below for More Details This Classic Movie Serial is in the Public Domain The Phantom Empire 1935 - 12 Chapters The Phantom Empire is a 1935 American Western serial film directed by Otto Brower and B. Reeves Eason and starring Gene Autry, Frankie Darro, and Betsy King Ross. This 12-chapter Mascot Pictures serial combined the western, musical, and science fiction genres. The first episode is 30 minutes, the rest about 20 minutes. The serial film is about a singing cowboy who stumbles upon an ancient subterranean civilization living beneath his own ranch that becomes corrupted by unscrupulous greedy speculators from the surface. This was Gene Autry's first starring role, playing himself as a singing cowboy. Plot Gene Autry (Gene Autry) is a singing cowboy who runs Radio Ranch, a dude ranch from which he makes a daily live radio broadcast at 2:00 pm. Gene has two kid sidekicks, Frankie Baxter (Frankie Darro) and Betsy Baxter (Betsy King Ross), who lead a club, the Junior Thunder Riders, in which the kids play at being armored knights of an unknown civilization, the mysterious Thunder Riders who make a sound like thunder when they ride. The kids, dressing up in capes and water-bucket helmets, play at riding "To the rescue!" (their motto). A chance to become real heroes occurs when Betsy, Frankie, and Gene are kidnapped by the real Thunder Riders from the super- scientific underground empire of Murania, complete with towering buildings, robots, ray-guns, elevator tubes that extend miles from the surface, and the icy, blonde, evil Queen Tika. On the surface, criminals led by Professor Beetson plan to invade Murania and seize its radium wealth, while in Murania, a group of revolutionaries plots to overthrow Queen Tika. The inhabitants of Murania are the lost tribe of Mu, who went underground in the last glacial period 100,000 years ago, and now live in a fantastically advanced city 25,000 feet below the surface. They cannot now breathe the air at ground level and must wear oxygen masks. (Surface dwellers have no trouble breathing Muranian air.) The Thunder Guard emerges to the surface world from a cave with a huge rock door that swings up like a garage door. Both Muranians and Professor Beetson want to get rid of Autry, so he loses his radio contract and Radio Ranch is vacated. Cast Gene Autry as Gene Autry, singing cowboy at the Radio Ranch Frankie Darro as Frankie Baxter, one of Gene's sidekicks Betsy King Ross as Betsy Baxter, one of Gene's sidekicks Dorothy Christy as Queen Tika, the evil queen of Murania Wheeler Oakman as Lord Argo, the Muranian High Chancellor Charles K. French as Mal Warner Richmond as Rab J. Frank Glendon as Professor Beetson Smiley Burnette as Oscar, comic relief Peter Potter as Pete, comic relief Edward Peil Sr. as Cooper Jack Carlyle as Saunders Soundtrack "Uncle Noah's Ark" (Gene Autry, Smiley Burnette, Nick Manoloff) by Gene Autry "That Silver-Haired Daddy of Mine" (Gene Autry, Jimmy Long) by Gene Autry "I'm Oscar, I'm Pete" (Gene Autry, Smiley Burnette) by Gene Autry, Smiley Burnette, "No Need to Worry" (Gene Autry, Smiley Burnette) by the Radio Rangers "Uncle Henry" (Gene Autry, Smiley Burnette) by Gene Autry "I'm Getting a Moon's Eye View of the World" (Gene Autry, Smiley Burnette) "My Cross Eyed Gal" (Gene Autry, Jimmy Long) by the Radio Rangers "Just Come On Back" (Gene Autry, Smiley Burnette) by the Radio Rangers Chapter titles The Singing Cowboy The Thunder Riders The Lighting Chamber Phantom Broadcast Beneath the Earth Disaster from the Skies From Death to Life Jaws of Jeopardy Prisoner of the Ray The Rebellion A Queen in Chains The End of Murania From: Wikipedia the Free Encyclopedia Your Serial comes on a DVD-R in a Paper Protective Sleeve (NOT in a CASE) with Color Artwork on the DVD. All of our Serials Have Menus. Please keep in mind that this movie is of very good quality for its age, but is over 75 years old. This is Not HD quality and may not look that great on your large flat screen TV. This Classic Serial is in the Public Domain. As per eBay policy, we have added the following information : Thousands of motion pictures are in the Public Domain because they were 1: Released without Copyright Notices; 2: Were never registered with the Library of Congress, had improper or late registrations; or 3: Were not properly renewed under the old requirements for films made before 1964. Date of release: Feb 23, 1935 Date entered public domain: January 1, 1970

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