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- The Phantom Creeps is a 1939 12-chapter science fiction horror serial starring Bela Lugosi as mad scientist Doctor Zorka, who attempts to rule the world by creating various elaborate inventions. In a dramatic fashion, foreign agents and G-Men try to seize the inventions for themselves.
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The Phantom Creeps is a 1939 12-chapter science fiction horror serial starring Bela Lugosi as mad scientist Doctor Zorka, who attempts to rule the world by creating various elaborate inventions.
May 16, 2014 · The Phantom Creeps begins quite strongly, individualizing its central villain and giving him a memorably dramatic “origin” in the serial’s first two chapters. However, its narrative becomes much more ordinary in Chapter Three, in which the three-way struggle for control of the meteorite fragment begins; this struggle sidetracks Zorka’s ...
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Robert Kent as Captain Bob West, G-ManDorothy Arnoldas Jean Drew, reporterEdwin Stanleyas Doctor Fred Mallory, Doctor Zorka's former partnerThe serial contains some similarities with the earlier serial The Vanishing Shadow, such as an invisibility belt and a remote-control robot. Stock footage was used from The Invisible Ray (look closely and you'll see Boris Karloff), including scenes of Dr Zorka finding the meteorite in Africa. The music came from the Frankenstein films. The Phantom ...
The innovation of the scrolling text version of the synopsis at the beginning of each chapter was used for the Star Warsfilms as the "Star Wars opening crawl".
The Menacing PowerDeath Stalks the HighwaysCrashing TowersInvisible TerrorList of films in the public domainThe Phantom Creeps at the Internet Movie DatabaseThe Phantom Creeps at the Internet Movie Database(1949 TV film edited from serial)The Phantom Creeps available for free download at the Internet Archive [more](1949 TV film edited from serial)The Phantom Creeps at AllRoviThe Phantom Creeps: Directed by Ford Beebe, Saul A. Goodkind. With Bela Lugosi, Robert Kent, Dorothy Arnold, Edwin Stanley. A military intelligence officer and a pretty reporter try to find a scientist whose inventions can destroy the world.
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- Action, Family, Horror
- Ford Beebe, Saul A. Goodkind
- 1939-01-07
The Phantom Creeps is a 1939 12-chapter science fiction horror serial starring Bela Lugosi as mad scientist Doctor Zorka, who attempts to rule the world by creating various elaborate inventions.
An eccentric scientist (Bela Lugosi), inventing weapons that threaten the world, is pursued by foreign spies, a military intelligence officer, and a reporter. The inventions include an eight-foot-tall robot and an invisibility belt. 12-chapter cliffhanger serial. Bela Lugosi as Dr. Alex Zorka.
The Phantom Creeps is everything an old classic B sci-fi serial is supposed to be. It features Bela Lugosi (as Dr. Zorka), a mad megalomaniac genius with a utility belt and a sack of gadgets that would make Batman and James Bond blush, against a team of CIA-types, a reporter, and local law enforcement.
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