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Yep. SPY SMASHER RETURNS is the around 4hr and 30min serial SPYSMASHER cut down to a feature length of around 1hr and 15min. Both are fun watches with lots of action. It's based on the comic book character of the same name.
Yep. SPY SMASHER RETURNS is the around 4hr and 30min serial SPYSMASHER cut down to a feature length of around 1hr and 15min. Both are fun watches with lots of action. It's based on the comic book character of the same name.
I saw that.Not without my daughter
Nah, they only made one feature by editing episodes together. A bunch of serials were edited into feature length, but most only had one feature made.They actually did a pretty good job cutting it together, but there were some parts that had a big jump. I enjoyed it, the stunt men did some tremendous work. I didn't realise it had been a comic book as well, were any of the other episodes made into a movie?
Nah, they only made one feature by editing episodes together. A bunch of serials were edited into feature length, but most only had one feature made.
Off the top of my head, the only serial I can think of that had two features edited from it was TARZAN'S NEW ADVENTURES (starring Bruce Bennett). The shorter versions were named TARZAN AND THE GREEN GODDESS and if I remember right TARZAN AND THE LOST GODDESS. This was an interesting serial and movies. It was filmed on location in the jungles of Guatemala, and this led to them having serious sound recording problems. Of importance to note is, it was co-produced by Edgar Rice Burroughs and was the first film to showcase the Tarzan from the books where he is intelligent, articulate, and speaks perfect English and French. He spends a lot of his time at the beginning in a suit.
And speaking of serials, I am currently working my way through the ROCKET MAN serials - KING OF THE ROCKET MEN, RADAR MEN FROM THE MOON, ZOMBIES OF THE STRATOSPHERE, and COMMANDO CODY: SKY MARSHAL OF THE UNIVERSE. A couple of those were cut into feature length, but I haven't watched them yet.
Hey Hunter....from what I remember, the SPYSMASHER serial was a hit, but I don't remember why a sequel wasn't made.![]()
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That's a shame, I was up for more Spy Smasher, was the original serial a hit back in the day?
That Tarzan serial sounds interesting, given we don't see that version of Tarzan portrayed all that often, and is that the only time Edgar Rice Burroughs has been involved with a live action adaption of Tarzan?
I looked up those ROCKET MAN serials on Prime, they're all selling as full price DVD's! But I did find a Green Hornet movie that is an edited together collection of the original serial.![]()
Hey Hunter....from what I remember, the SPYSMASHER serial was a hit, but I don't remember why a sequel wasn't made.
I don't remember ERB being involved with producing any other movies. The filming of this serial was hard on everyone involved.
I pulled out my Green Hornet DVDs to look things over. There were two original serials, filmed in '41 and '42. Sometime in the late 50's or early 60's they cut a feature version that was 1hr24min. In 2010, to bank on the then upcoming Seth Rogan theatrical GH movie, they released the original 2 serials on DVD in one box. They also released the feature cut on DVD separately. This DVD is pretty cool. Who ever worked on it did a great job. The picture quality is clearer and sharper than the picture on the full serial DVDs (I checked my discs to see the quality. I hadn't watched them since 2010). They also edited green tint periodically into it and would do scene shifts by making the picture turn to frames in a coming book and the scene it jumps to be a frame on the next page. Then it continues on as the movie. As a bonus, for those who don't like the green tint or the comic pages they have a copy of the feature cut as it originally looked on the DVD too. I'm about to watch that now because I had forgot how cool it looked.