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	Lost City:Serial Chapters 1 12 William "Stage" Boyd Alpha Video, 2005 average customer review:based on 9 reviews view larger image
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"The Lost City (1935) ... 12 Chapters Vintage Serial ... VCI Home Video"

VCI Entertainment, Super Serial Productions Inc, Sherman S. Krellberg present..."The Lost City" (1935) (Dolby digitally remastered), with 12 Chapters of vintage serial episodes loaded with jungle action sequences...story line takes us to Central Africa where there are disturbances threatening civilization ...could it be Magnetic Mountain is behind all of this and Bruce Gordon (Richmond) has invented a machine to locate and eliminate the problem...who is this scientific wizard Zolok (Boyd) and the inventor Dr.Manyus (Swickard) who does his evil bidding....will Zolok succeed in conquering the world with his giant African army of slaves...what strange power keeps Gorza (Bletcher) the dwarf in check, and will Appolyn (Frank) the strongman woo Natcha (Dell) daughter of Dr. Manyus into marriage...what can our hero Gordon do to stop the "Destroying Rays" and Zolok's evil intentions...has everyone gone bananas Prof. Reynolds (Lewis), Dr.Colton (Millman), Andrews (Moranti) and Butterfield (Hayes) all want to have Manyus the giant maker under their thumb...now enters more problems with Ben Ali (Corrado) and Queen Rama (D'Use) both up to no good slave traders, who want a piece of the action...now the big question is can Bruce Gordon and Jerry Delaney (Fetherston) save the good Dr. Manyus and thwart all who stand in their way, plus save the world within those exciting 12 Chapters......don't leave the theater until the final chapter is over and done with "The Mad Scientist"....just remember double thrills, chills, mystery and suspense...hitting the bull's eye with excitement...don't miss a single spine thrilling episode..return next week to this local theater for another episode of action and adventure that will keep you thrilled until the next chapter.

Under director Harry Revier, producer Sherman S. Krellberg, Original story by Dialogue director Zelma Carroll, Geo. M. Merrick and Robert Dillon, continuity by Perley Poore Sheehan, Eddy Graneman, Leon D'Usseau, dialogue director Zelma Carroll, musical score by Lee Zahler, special effects by Ken Strickfaden....the cast includes William Stage Boyd (Zolok), Kane Richmond (Bruce Gordon), Claudia Dell (Natcha Manyus), Josef Swickard (Dr. Manyus), George "Gabby" Hayes (Butterfield), Billy Bletcher (Gorzo), Eddie Fetherston (Jerry Delaney), Milburn Morante (Chet Andrews), Margot D'Use (Rama, Queen of the Wangas), Jerry Frank (Appollon), Ralph Lewis (Prof. Reynolds), William Millman (Dr. Colton), Gino Corrado (Sheikh Ben Ali), Sam Baker (Hugo, lead giant), Everett Brown (Boyo, a Giant)....special note that actor George Francis Hayes gained fame as Hopalong Cassidy's sidekick "Windy Halliday" between 1936-39 in the Cassidy B-Western series...after leaving the Hoppy films in 1940 he took the nickname of "Gabby" through some legal requests not to use "Windy", from then on he worked with Roy Rogers, John Wayne and Randolph Scott under the name of Gabby Hayes, became a favorite character in B-Westerns, was always in the Top Ten Western Box Office stars, inducted into the Hall of Great Western Performers of the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum in 2000, and he deserved it you're durn tootin'....meanwhile back to our Super Serial which is always good till the last drop and this serial is no exception...there is a great deal of entertainment here for the cliffhanger fans out there...all courtesy of VCI Entertainment, who in my humble opinion is the best there is in restoring early serials and features.

CHAPTER TITLES:
1. Living Dead men
2. Tuinnel of Death
3. Dagger Rock
4. Doomed
5. Tiger Prey
6. Human Beasts
7. Spider Men
8. Human Targets
9. Jungle Vengeance
10.The Lion Pit
11.Death Ray
12.The Mad Scientist

BIOS:
1. William Stage Boyd (not to be confused with Hopalong Cassidy's William Boyd)
Birth Date:12/18/1889 - New York, New York
Died: 3/20/1935 - Los Angeles, CA (
2. Kane Richmond
Birth Date: 12/23/1906 - Minneapolis, Minnesota
Died: 3/22/1973 - Corona Del Mar, CA
3. Claudia Dell
Birth Date:1/10/1909 - San Antonio, TX
Died: 9/05/1977 - Hollywood, CA
4. George "Gabby" Hayes (aka George Francis Hayes)
Birth Date: 5/07/1885 - Wellsville, New York
Died: 2/09/1969 - Burbank, CA
5. Josef Swickard
Birth Date: 6/26/1866 - Coblenz, Germany
Died: 2/29/1940 - Hollywood, CA
6. Harry J. Revier (Director)
Birth Date: 3/16/1889 - Philadelphia, PA
Died: 8/13/1957 - Winter Park, Florida

If you're into vintage serials as I am, why not pick up a copy of the following titles from VCI Home Video:
VCI CLIFFHANGER TRAILERS:
1. Adventures of Red Ryder (Don "Red" Barry)
2. Adventures of the Flying Cadets (Bobby Jordan)
3. Buck Rogers (Buster Crabbe)
4. Captain Midnight (Dave O'Brien)
5. Captain Video: Master of the Stratosphere (Judd Holdren & I. Stanford Jolley)
6. Dick Tracy's G-Men (Ralph Byrd)
7. Don Winslow of the Navy (Don Terry)
8. Don Winslow of the Coast Guard (Don Terry)
9. Drums of Fu Manchu (Henry Brandon)
10.Fighting Kit Carson (Johnny Mack Brown)
11.Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe (Buster Crabbe)
12.The Green Archer (Victory Jory)
13.Jungle Girl (Frances Gifford)
14.Jungle Jim (Grant Withers & Raymond Hatton)
15.Lost City of the Jungle (Russell Hayden & Keye Luke)
16.Mandrake the Magician (Warren Hull & Dick Curtis)
17.Miracle Rider (Tom Mix & Tony Jr)
18.The Painted Stallion (Ray "Crash" Corrigan)
19.The Phantom (Tom Tyler)
20.The Return of Chandu (Bela Lugosi)
21.Riders of Death Valley (Dick Foran, Leo Carrillo & Buck Jones)
22.Secret Agent X-9 (1937) (Scott Kolk & Henry Brandon)
23.Secret Agent X-9 (1945) (Lloyd Bridges & Keye Luke)
24.Sky Raiders (Donald Woods & Billy Halop)
25.Undersea Kingdom (Ray "Crash" Corrigan)
26.Winners of the West (Dick Foran, Harry Woods, Roy Barcroft & Charles Stevens)
27.Zane Greys "King of the Royal Mounted" (Allan "Rocky" Lane)
28.Zorro's Cliffhanger Collection (Reed Hadley, John Carroll & Linda Stirling)

Hats off and thanks to Les Adams (collector/guideslines for character identification), Chuck Anderson (Webmaster: The Old Corral/B-Westerns.Com), Boyd Magers (Western Clippings), Bobby J. Copeland (author of "Trail Talk"), Rhonda Lemons (Empire Publishing Inc) and Bob Nareau (author of "The Real Bob Steele") as they have rekindled my interest once again for B-Westerns and Serials --- looking forward to more high quality releases from the vintage serial era of the '20s, '30s & '40s and B-Westerns ... order your copy now from Amazon where there are plenty of copies available on VHS, stay tuned once again for top notch action mixed with deadly adventure --- if you enjoyed this title, why not check out VCI Entertainment where they are experts in releasing B-Westerns and Serials --- all my heroes have been cowboys!

Total Time: 265 mins on DVD ~ VCI Home Video ~ (12/19/2006)

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Grand-daddy of 'em all - a MUST SEE for any serial fan!

First, take a look at the technical crew on this baby: cinematography by Edward Linden, who was the cinematographer on 1933's "King Kong", art direction by Ralph Berger, who went on to do "Flash Gordon" a couple of years later, and special electrical effects by Ken Strickfaden, who did both the original "Frankenstein" AND "Bride of Frankenstein". This is GREAT stuff! Good-guy lead Kane Richmond went on to become 1942's "Spy Smasher", and played Lamont Cranston ("The Shadow") in THREE flicks. But the guy who really sets the tone of this frantic actioner is William "Stage" Boyd. (He started using "Stage" as a differentiator from the "other" William Boyd, better known to all as "Hopalong Cassidy".) Boyd is obviously intoxicated through most of this, but was rip-roaring drunk during the filming of the final episode, establishing himself as perhaps the maddest scientist of all time. He can hurl thunderbolts across the planet, sink ships, cause earthquakes, turn normal men into giants and black men into white. His strong-man assistant Appollyn (Jerry Frank) struts around in an outfit that looks like Aquaman's scaled undershorts with suspenders. He never "made it" - a look at the Internet Movie Database shows him playing assorted thugs and "sharkmen" in everything from "Flash Gordon" to 1957's "Bop Girl Goes Calypso" (remind me to check THAT out sometime!) The acting is more over-the-top than an Italian opera - it approaches the stratospheric heights of "Fiend of Dope Island", and that's the, ummmm, highest (sorry) accolade I can possibly give. Never a dull moment, endlessly entertaining, and sets the standard for serials for at least the next decade. The VCI print is well cleaned-up, but the sound does get a bit murky in spots (unfortunately, one being the very first run of the opening credits - DON'T let that put you off!) My absolute top recommendation! "Put him in the Brain Destroyer!!"

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what forsight

i love old "b" movies and serials. this serial seems like it looks into the future with all the gadgets the villians possess. the acting is bad but lots of the effects are great. television, wireless walkie talkies, and a stun gun. thats pretty impressive for a 1935 picture.

Jungle Madness...

This wacky, seemingly endless movie (the entire original is 3+ hours long) is a series of chases through tunnels and jungles, w/ dozens of fights tossed in! We've got the sinister Zolok, who is creating an army of giant zombies in his mountain lair! How? By using his brain-destroying machine and his enlarger of course! There's Bruce Gordon, electrical engineer and adventurer, out to stop Zolok's evil plot! We also get Queen Rhama (who is actually pretty hot), seductress and slave-trader, who wants an army of giants of her own! Then there's Butterfield, who is seeking his own fortune, at everyone elses expense! There's even an arabian sultan and his army! Not to mention the tribe of white african natives, turned white by Dr. Manuse, a scientist w/ a freeze-gun and a beautiful daughter! Whew! I didn't even mention the muscle-man or the hunchback! LC is a lot of fun in places, but tends to drag on... and on! Queen Rhama really is a hottie though!...

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