An adventure originally conceived to have featured a masked Lone Ranger-like Western hero and use the "who is the hero" setup first featured in the 1938 Lone Ranger serial. The Masked Marvel, secretly one of four insurance investigators, fights Mura Sakima, an Axis spy who kills Alice Hamilton’s father. Squadron logos are not present on the Blu-ray.įeaturing Tom Steele, Louise Currie, Anthony Warde The transfer and restoration are complete and Blu-Rays are shipping now. It is the first and only release ever to include the original Universal Pictures titles, which apparently exist nowhere else but in the print the Squadron has used for this transfer. This edition is the Best quality ever made available of this serial, and will very likely be the best quality that it is even possible to create. It was fully transferred in HD from an original "pristine" print made from the Universal Pictures negative as it existed in the 1950s/60s before the "Commonwealth" TV/Re-release titles were cut into it and decomposition damage set in to that negative and destroyed some chapters. The result is cliffhanger serial madness designed to thrill 10-year-old moviegoers in 1939, which has never had a decent video release and will be seen in superb original condition in the new Squadron HD Blu-Ray edition. A military intelligence agent supported by a persistent and attractive reporter and his former partner, a benevolent scientist, stand against Zorka and his arsenal of scientific weapons, which include explosive spiders and a "Z-Ray," while at the same time a group of enemy agents led by DRACULA's Edward Van Sloan try to steal the secret of the meteorite for themselves. ![]() He plans to rule the world with an army of invincible robots and his invisibility device which he uses as "the Phantom." He is assisted in his mad schemes by an ex-crook named Monk he has sprung from prison and his "iron man," a ferocious robot. ![]() Alex Zorka, who has discovered a new powerful element that fell to Earth as a meteorite, becomes an insane megalomaniac. Otherwise, you can still now see 14 of 15 chapters in mint condition of this slick and entertaining serial which has never been viewable in anything close to this kind of superb quality before by ordering this Blu-Ray today!įeaturing BELA LUGOSI and ROBERT KENT with DOROTHY ARNOLDĪfter his wife is killed in an accident for which he feels responsible, embittered scientist Dr. It may be possible to offer an upgrade for this title but only if another copy of Chapter 1 on film is loaned to the Squadron. Ĭhapter 1 was discovered to have had some warping which has been corrected for as much as possible but the picture still goes in and out of focus sometimes in the first 2/3 of the episode. Chapters 2 through 15 are studio-quality, mint condition and as excellent in quality as some of the other recent Squadron projects including The Lost Planet and Pirates of the High Seas. Churning the waters is a search for a diamond-filled meteor that fell somewhere on the Baron's land.Ī great deal of time and effort has been put in making this restoration look and sound as great as possible, because it's a good serial, Jock Mahoney's best, and so rarely seen. Jim Grant agrees to help the frontier railroad fight against raids and sabotage, but stumbles into a battle between the riders of the Baron, who owns the nearby ranch land, and agents of a second, unknown, leader behind many of the attacks blamed upon the powerful ranger. ![]() The extremely rare and thrilling Western serial
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