Radar Men from the Moon Ch 8 'The Enemy Planet'
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- Опубликовано: 28 авг 2024
- Radar Men from the Moon is a 1952 Republic Pictures' 12-chapter movie serial, the first Commando Cody serial starring newcomer George Wallace as Cody, Aline Towne as his sidekick Joan Gilbert, and serial veteran Roy Barcroft as the evil Retik, the Ruler of the Moon.[2] The director was Fred C. Brannon, with a screenplay by Ronald Davidson, and special effects by the Lydecker brothers. This serial recycles the flying sequences from Republic's earlier 1949 serial King of the Rocket Men. It was later released by Republic in 1966 as the 100-minute television film Retik the Moon Menace.
The odd naming choice of the serial's main hero, "Commando Cody," was possibly an attempt by Republic to make young audiences think they were seeing another adventure of Commander Corry, the hero of the popular ABC TV and radio series Space Patrol (1950-1955). However, there is no surviving evidence that this was a consideration by anyone at Republic.[3]
Plot
Commando Cody with lunar tank
Commando Cody (George Wallace) is a civilian researcher and inventor with a number of employees. He uses a streamlined helmet and an atomic-powered rocket backpack attached to a leather flying jacket. Cody also uses a rocket ship capable of reaching the Moon. When the U.S. finds itself under attack from a mysterious force that can wipe out entire military bases and industrial complexes, Cody surmises (correctly) that the Earth is coming under attack from our own Moon. He then flies his rocket ship there and confronts the Moon's "ruler", Retik (Roy Barcroft), who boldly announces his plans to both conquer Earth and then move the Moon's entire population here using spaceships and atomic weapons. Their weapons use a power superior to uranium which they call lunarium.[4]
During the next 11 serial chapters, Cody, now back on Earth, and his associates Joan (Aline Towne), Ted (William Bakewell) and Dick (Gayle Kellogg) battle an elusive lunar agent named Krog (Peter Brocco) and his gang of human henchmen led by Graber (Clayton Moore) and Daly (Bob Stevenson), who use lunarium-powered ray cannons to disrupt defense forces and weaken public morale. After a second trip to the Moon, in which he captures a sample ray cannon for duplication in his lab, Cody tracks Retik's minions to their hideout where Krog is killed by one of his own devices, and Graber and Daly subsequently die in an over-the-cliff car chase. Retik flies to Earth to take personal charge of his collapsing operations but is blasted out of the sky by one of his own ray weapons.
Chapter titles
"Moon Rocket" (20 min)
"Molten Terror" (13min 20s)
"Bridge of Death" (13min 20s)
"Flight to Destruction" (13min 20s)
"Murder Car" (13min 20s)
"Hills of Death" (13min 20s)
"Camouflaged Destruction" (13min 20s)
"The Enemy Planet" (13min 20s)
"Battle in the Stratosphere" (13min 20s)
"Mass Execution" (13min 20s) - a re-cap chapter
"Planned Pursuit" (13min 20s)
"Death of the Moon Man" (13min 20s)
Because of a failure to renew copyright, Radar Men lapsed into the public domain in 1979.
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Car chase on the moon for the win ! ! ! 🍿🍿
@@upnorth6722 they came up with some interesting stuff back in the day. Thanks again for tuning in!
Excellent
@@lajjr7115 we're planning to upload chapter nine tomorrow.
This serial is the 'inspiration' for Star Trek: Voyager's Tom Paris' "Captain Proton" holonovel.
(Although, "the shrieking blonde damsel-in-constant-distress", was a direct homage to Flash Gordon's Dale Arden!)
Interesting. Thanks for posting!
6:32 "how d'you expect to do this?" the woman's only phrase🙈😄
and: you also like the strange door noise?👍😊
The sound effects are interesting and there are so many other odd quirks in the series. Thanks for watching!
Full speed; Lydecker Drive! Earthmen were so advanced in 1952. Six or eight hours to the Moon.
To the moon and back in a day!
@@RRickenbacker Howard and Ted Lydecker were the FX guys at Republic. Their style didn't really change much from the Thirties to the Fifties. If you have a sense of humor, their gags are high camp comedy.
Like a twin to Starliner
I'm not familiar with that one but I'll look for it. Thanks!