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Phantom Empire Ch 3/12 - Lightning Chamber (1935) [Enhanced] - PDU - Otto Brower and Breezy Eason
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Phantom Empire Ch 3/12 - Lightning Chamber (1935) [Enhanced] - PDU - Otto Brower and Breezy Eason
In his first starring role, Gene Autry must perform daily on Radio Ranch or forfeit his contract. Meanwhile, local kids Frankie (Frankie Darro) and Betsy Baxter (Betsy Ross King) establish a group of Junior Thunder Riders to emulate a mysterious band of horsemen that seems to vanish into thin air. In reality, the real Thunder Riders disappear 25,000 ft. below the earth's surface to the "Scientific City of Murania," an underground empire lorded over by Queen Tika (Dorothy Christy), a blonde Amazonian who constantly compares her superior society with that of the pitiful world above. But Gene's broadcasts draw too many curious onlookers, among them Professor Beetson (J. Frank Glendon) and a group of crooked scientists who will stop at nothing, including murder, to get their hands on Murania's wealth of radium. While Queen Tika is busy preventing an insurrection lead by the evil Lord High Chancellor (Wheeler Oakman), the scientists do their level best to keep Gene from performing his daily broadcast, which includes such favorite Autry tunes as "That Silver-Haired Daddy of Mine" and "I'm Getting a Moon's Eye View of the World". Comic sidekicks Smiley Burnette and William Moore add to the overall fun with their rendition of I'm Oscar, I'm Pete" and other comical selections. The Phantom Empire has been credited with inspiring not only Republic Pictures' similar Undersea Kingdom (1936) but also Universal's superior Flash Gordon and Buck Rogers serials and was remade as part of the short-lived 1979 television series Cliffhangers. No less than two reedited feature versions of The Phantom Empire were released in 1940, Men With Steel Faces, distributed by Times Pictures, and Radio Ranch, distributed by Nat Levine and carrying the now defunct Mascot label.
Note some minor enhancement work was done to improve the quality of the very old and damaged source picture and soundtrack. Nothing was added or removed. Enjoy this full free third part (out of twelve) of this serial film!
PUBLIC DOMAIN UNIVERSE (PDU) CHANNEL
www.youtube.com/PDUniverse
Watch this chapter and more in the "Phantom Empire" playlist
www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5BRReEPCAEpL_ahV7dvpGgE1TqbeWURz
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ABOUT THIS MOVIE
Genres Action & Adventure, Science Fiction
Language English
Age rating N/A
Released 1935
Quality 480
License Public domain
* The Work may be freely reproduced, distributed, transmitted, used, modified, built upon, or otherwise exploited by anyone for any purpose, commercial or non-commercial, and in any way, including by methods that have not yet been invented or conceived.
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*CAST & CREW*
CAST
Gene Autry .............................................................. Gene Autry
Frankie Darro ...................................................... Frankie Baxter
Betsy King Ross .................................................... Betsy Baxter
Dorothy Christie (Dorothy Christy) .............................. Queen Tika
Frank Glendon (J. Frank Glendon) ................... Professor Beetson
Wheeler Oakman ............................................................... Argo
Lester (Smiley) Burnett ..................................................... Oscar
William Moore (Peter Potter) ............................................... Pete
DIRECTORS
Otto Brower
Breezy Eason (B. Reeves Eason)
PRODUCER
Nat Levine
WRITERS
Wallace McDonald
Gerald Gerahty
H. Freedman
Maurice Geraghty
John Rathmell
Armand Shaeffer
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Public Domain Universe's (PDU's) goal is to collect free videos (usually movies, but also videos of any kind) and personally enhance them (just minor restoration, which can truly make a difference sometimes, but no addition), if possible and needed, for better audiovisual output for your convenience.
YouTube is our platform of choice; a great platform because it is well-known by the general public, easy to use and open to discussion (at least, PDU videos are open to video responses and comments, always).
Discussion is important because the works in these videos are often not well-known or could have been forgotten by time. Their free status does allow easy distribution though, which they should benefit from.
These videos are free because the work you see in them never were copyrighted or they have lost their copyright status for various reasons (usually because of their age), so you can do what you want with them, even use them commercially (when something truly is in the public domain) without even needing to refer back here (since PDU too doesn't own them). It sure would be nice if you shared our links though!
In his first starring role, Gene Autry must perform daily on Radio Ranch or forfeit his contract. Meanwhile, local kids Frankie (Frankie Darro) and Betsy Baxter (Betsy Ross King) establish a group of Junior Thunder Riders to emulate a mysterious band of horsemen that seems to vanish into thin air. In reality, the real Thunder Riders disappear 25,000 ft. below the earth's surface to the "Scientific City of Murania," an underground empire lorded over by Queen Tika (Dorothy Christy), a blonde Amazonian who constantly compares her superior society with that of the pitiful world above. But Gene's broadcasts draw too many curious onlookers, among them Professor Beetson (J. Frank Glendon) and a group of crooked scientists who will stop at nothing, including murder, to get their hands on Murania's wealth of radium. While Queen Tika is busy preventing an insurrection lead by the evil Lord High Chancellor (Wheeler Oakman), the scientists do their level best to keep Gene from performing his daily broadcast, which includes such favorite Autry tunes as "That Silver-Haired Daddy of Mine" and "I'm Getting a Moon's Eye View of the World". Comic sidekicks Smiley Burnette and William Moore add to the overall fun with their rendition of I'm Oscar, I'm Pete" and other comical selections. The Phantom Empire has been credited with inspiring not only Republic Pictures' similar Undersea Kingdom (1936) but also Universal's superior Flash Gordon and Buck Rogers serials and was remade as part of the short-lived 1979 television series Cliffhangers. No less than two reedited feature versions of The Phantom Empire were released in 1940, Men With Steel Faces, distributed by Times Pictures, and Radio Ranch, distributed by Nat Levine and carrying the now defunct Mascot label.
Note some minor enhancement work was done to improve the quality of the very old and damaged source picture and soundtrack. Nothing was added or removed. Enjoy this full free third part (out of twelve) of this serial film!
PUBLIC DOMAIN UNIVERSE (PDU) CHANNEL
www.youtube.com/PDUniverse
Watch this chapter and more in the "Phantom Empire" playlist
www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5BRReEPCAEpL_ahV7dvpGgE1TqbeWURz
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ABOUT THIS MOVIE
Genres Action & Adventure, Science Fiction
Language English
Age rating N/A
Released 1935
Quality 480
License Public domain
* The Work may be freely reproduced, distributed, transmitted, used, modified, built upon, or otherwise exploited by anyone for any purpose, commercial or non-commercial, and in any way, including by methods that have not yet been invented or conceived.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
*CAST & CREW*
CAST
Gene Autry .............................................................. Gene Autry
Frankie Darro ...................................................... Frankie Baxter
Betsy King Ross .................................................... Betsy Baxter
Dorothy Christie (Dorothy Christy) .............................. Queen Tika
Frank Glendon (J. Frank Glendon) ................... Professor Beetson
Wheeler Oakman ............................................................... Argo
Lester (Smiley) Burnett ..................................................... Oscar
William Moore (Peter Potter) ............................................... Pete
DIRECTORS
Otto Brower
Breezy Eason (B. Reeves Eason)
PRODUCER
Nat Levine
WRITERS
Wallace McDonald
Gerald Gerahty
H. Freedman
Maurice Geraghty
John Rathmell
Armand Shaeffer
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Public Domain Universe's (PDU's) goal is to collect free videos (usually movies, but also videos of any kind) and personally enhance them (just minor restoration, which can truly make a difference sometimes, but no addition), if possible and needed, for better audiovisual output for your convenience.
YouTube is our platform of choice; a great platform because it is well-known by the general public, easy to use and open to discussion (at least, PDU videos are open to video responses and comments, always).
Discussion is important because the works in these videos are often not well-known or could have been forgotten by time. Their free status does allow easy distribution though, which they should benefit from.
These videos are free because the work you see in them never were copyrighted or they have lost their copyright status for various reasons (usually because of their age), so you can do what you want with them, even use them commercially (when something truly is in the public domain) without even needing to refer back here (since PDU too doesn't own them). It sure would be nice if you shared our links though!