Saturday morning serials from the 60's
There was one that had a final battle between Zorro and a metal-clad bad guy called "Dondallora".Another serial running was Flash Gordon so us kids in the UK thought this metal geezer in Zorro was a...
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romaurie, I believe you are thinking of the serial "Zorro's Fighting Legion" made in 1939. It starred Reed Hadley as Zorro. The metal man you remember was called Don-del-oro. He was a "baddie"...
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Many thanks for that! Whenever I see a more modern film of Zorro I am reminded of that old one shown in the early 60's in cinemas open for children on Saturday mornings. Romaurie
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Probably never catch any of the multiplexes giving us those children's matinees these days (not even with a couple of color features, let alone a B&W serial). Even the kiddie Christmas matinees...
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Do those feature length edited Republic serials that were frequently shown on television in the 1970s still exist? I used to watch that version of The Masked Marvel whenever it came on. When I saw the...
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If you are interested in acquiring the feature version of The Masked Marvel it is marketed as Sakima and The Masked Marvel. I don't know how readily available it is but you might try Amazon.
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We had discussions going on somewhere around here about the feature films cut from the serials. (Both the theatrical features, and the features made for TV.) I've often thought it would be nice to...
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KanSmiley--nice to see you around these parts again!
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blackbiped wrote: KanSmiley--nice to see you around these parts again!I was just poking around and I'll be darned if I didn't see a familiar name...same ugly face LOL but same name. At a 109 it's...
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I've never really watched any feature-serials, but I agree I wish they were more readily available. It'd be nice to see them included with whatever serial they were taken from: Brix's TARZAN serial...
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Back in the days of VHS, Republic occasionally released the feature film versions of some of their serials to tape. (I think I still have GHOST OF ZORRO, and maybe ZORRO RIDES AGAIN.)
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the warren magazine that got me started collecting back in 1962,too bad flash never fought this alien in the serials ! enjoy forum-count wimpula
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The alien was painted over the original human actor's head by none other than publisher James Warren! He thot the original version, a copy of a scene/still from the serial, was too tame so he added...
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Ok How about Danger Island?I was too young to see this in the 60's but did manage to catch it during reruns of The Banana Splits in the 70s.This "serial" was My favorite part of the show.My brother...
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I never saw any serials in the cinema in the '60s, but did see some on tv in the '60s and '70s. In addition to those wonderful Republic Century 66 feature versions, complete serials were shown on...
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