Flash Gordon Buster Crabbe serials

[mego73]

They are so awesome!

I ended up watching then second serial first "Flash Gordon goes to Mars" then found the other 2 on netflix streaming "Flash Gordon Space Soldiers" is the first and " Flash Gordon Conquers The World" is the third and final one.

You can really see then roots of Star Wars in these and I love the daffy primitive effects.

[fallensaviour]

I love them I also have Crabbe as billy the kid.
Those old serials are great.

[Surfsup]

I used to love watching those serials as a kid, the cliffhangers were always ace and had me coming back for more. The special effects had a certain charm to them too. I have vague recollections watching a Rocketeer serial too, unless my memory is playing tricks on me.

[thunderbolt]

^^^ That would be Commando Cody, either in Radar Men from the Moon or Zombies of the Stratosphere or King of the Rocketmen (which was the first serial, but did not feature Cody as the flying suit guy.) They all still hold up pretty well. Flash's Trip to Mars is the weakest of the bunch with Ming playing lackey to the Queen of Mars.

[Surfsup]

^^^ That would be Commando Cody, either in Radar Men from the Moon or Zombies of the Stratosphere or King of the Rocketmen (which was the first serial, but did not feature Cody as the flying suit guy.) They all still hold up pretty well. Flash's Trip to Mars is the weakest of the bunch with Ming playing lackey to the Queen of Mars.

Yeah, King of The Rocketmen, that was the one! I just checked it out on youtube, thanks for that.

I just checked me out some Flash Gordon as well, man, that brings back so many cool memories!

[MEMEGO]

great series

[PNGwynne]

Fun stuff--I really like the first one.

[Mikey]

I've been watching Buck Roger's on Saturday morning at 11:00 on TCM lately.

Good stuff but I perfer Flash

Back in the 80's TNT did a colorized edited Zombies.
Basically they were edited into a 2 hour movie.
That was pretty cool.

[Thor]

I bought them several months ago and loved them, especially the first serial. I tend to like the first actress to portray princess Aura than the second.

[mego73]

The blond Dale Arden from the first serial was smoking.

[johnmiic]

^^^ That would be Commando Cody, either in Radar Men from the Moon or Zombies of the Stratosphere or King of the Rocketmen

A very young Leonard Nimoy is in Zombies of the Stratosphere I think.

[thunderbolt]

A very young Leonard Nimoy is in Zombies of the Stratosphere I think.

he sure was, as an alien, and Radar Men had Clayton Moore as one of the Earth bad guys.

[kingdom warrior]

Love the Flash Gordon Serials, grew up watching them on tv. Have them now on Dvd and constantly have them on. Always liked how they used every studio costume they could find and used them for the serial.

I also am a fan of the Filmation animated Flash love that have it on dvs as well

[Gorn Captain]

They're really fun. I love most of the old serials.
My favorite is a Batman serial from the 40s. Everytime Batman enters a scene, he comes jumping in through a plate glass window. In those days, that was real glass.
You can see that the stunt guy is really great on the first and second "entry", but gets progressively more tired as he has to crash through a window on, and on, and on...
At the end, he's staggering into the fistfight...

[kingdom warrior]

They're really fun. I love most of the old serials.
My favorite is a Batman serial from the 40s. Everytime Batman enters a scene, he comes jumping in through a plate glass window. In those days, that was real glass.
You can see that the stunt guy is really great on the first and second "entry", but gets progressively more tired as he has to crash through a window on, and on, and on...
At the end, he's staggering into the fistfight...