Showing posts with label 1930s. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 1930s. Show all posts
Tuesday, March 8, 2016

Kato, Kato, and, oh yes, Kato!

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 While Bruce Lee's TV Kato is the best-known version to today's audience... ...he wasn't the first. When the radio sho...
Saturday, April 26, 2014

From Savior to Slaughterer...the Saga of MING!

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After dominating three movie serials, Ming did not appear in the 1950s Flash Gordon tv series. But when a big-budget feature film came a...
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Tuesday, April 22, 2014

The Spaceman Always Mings Thrice in FLASH GORDON CONQUERS THE UNIVERSE*!

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Space hero Flash Gordon returned to the silver screen for the third time in 1940's Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe , along with... ...
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Monday, April 21, 2014

"Ming is Dead! Long Live Ming! Oh, Wait...He's Back!"

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Due to the incredible box-office generated by the Flash Gordon movie serial , a sequel was planned, again using a plotline taken from the ...
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Sunday, April 20, 2014

And Men Shall Call Him "Merciless"! For He is...

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...for decades, the single greatest menace in movies. There have been cinema villians who threatened cites, threatened countries, even th...
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Sunday, October 14, 2012

Captain's Library: SON OF FRANKENSTEIN!

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Most aficionados are familiar with the 1960s Dell comics that adapted the Universal Monsters ... ...but many don't know that only...
Tuesday, July 31, 2012

Captain's Library & Theatre: STAGECOACH

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Nobody personified Western movies like John Wayne . Stagecoach (1939) was his breakout film, after a series of roles in b-movies and seria...
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Tuesday, August 2, 2011

50's Monster Mash Blogathon: PHANTOM CREEPS

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Graphic by Rachel Hood. Adapted from ROBOT MONSTER. In the 1950s, Universal Pictures took a number of its movie serials and re-edited the...
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