The restored PHANTOM EMPIRE serial Chapter 1 with Gene Autry

This is it -- the one that Mr. Gravy tried to buy from us "name your price" -- the original, wonderful PHANTOM EMPIRE serial that inspired so many sci-fi extravaganzas afterward. The idea was apparently dreamed up by one of the producers while seated in the dentist's chair under the influence of laughing gas. This is a serial like no other, Star Wars fans, take note -- words from the title were lifted for both THE PHANTOM MENACE and THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK -- and you want to know why Darth Vader really breathes like that? Serial fans know it's because he's wearing a Muranian oxygen helmet! Betsy King Ross was a real-life trick rider, tho she doesn't get to do too many stunts here -- and this was Gene Autry's first appearance onscreen. The original serial was sadly released without a musical score -- this edition -- which we would not sell off at any price -- features restored picture and a full score of period music which helps draw you into the action. Scenes are tinted sepia for the surface world, and silver-blue for underground Murania. Available at www.serialsquadron.com as a 3-disk DVD set.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• fantasy
• sci-fi
• western
• serial
• cliffhanger
• Gene
• Autry
• star
• wars
• inspiration
• hollow
• earth
• chapter
• darro

[UFO000100]

The music is Russian Sailor's Dance.

[PoetryETrain]

Thank you this has been added to our playlists here, and on facebook...

[bruiser]

Murania was an underground city, until Gene and his gang destroyed it.

[leafyutube]

Where exactly is Murania?

[peterpun1]

this is great.