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THE PHANTOM CREEPS (1939) "A military intelligence officer and a pretty reporter try to find a scientist whose inventions can destroy the world." CRASHING...SMASHING...DASHING DYNAMITE! 🧨💥
“The Phantom Creeps” is not really a movie, it’s one of those Saturday matinee serials that used to run ahead of movies, which, as film scholar and experimental blunt-force podiatrist Annie Wilkes reminds us, remained popular in American cinemas through the 1950s.
The first three chapters of The Phantom Creeps were riffed in season two of Mystery Science Theater 3000, in the episodes Jungle Goddess, Rocket Attack U.S.A., and Ring of Terror. Footage from the serial was used in the 1982 video for Automaton by the Canadian band United State .
Review: Dr Alex Zorka (Bela Lugosi) is a scientist with big ideas and a grand ambition: nothing short of ruling the entire universe! To that end he has invented an array of gadgets that will give him incredible powers so that no one will stand in his way, from his towering "iron man" robot to his exploding mechanical spiders to his invisibility ...
- Ford Beebe, Saul A. Goodkind
- 5 (from 1 vote)
- Action, Science Fiction, Adventure
- 1939
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 ...
Cast. Bela Lugosi Dorothy Arnold Robert Kent Edwin Stanley Regis Toomey Jack C. Smith Edward Van Sloan Dora Clement Anthony Averill Hugh Huntley Monte Vandergrift Frank Mayo Jim Farley Eddie Acuff Ed Wolff Roy Barcroft Lee J. Cobb Charles King. 78 mins More at IMDb TMDb.
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The 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.