Lost City:Serial Chapters 1 12
by Harry Revier
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Actor: Claudia Dell, George 'Gabby' Hayes, Josef Swickard, Kane Richmond, William 'Stage' BoydDirector: Harry Revier
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Black & White, Closed-captioned, Dolby, DVD-Video, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 90 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2005-04-26
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Alpha Video
Movie Reviews of Lost City:Serial Chapters 1 12
Movie Review: Grand-daddy of 'em all - a MUST SEE for any serial fan!
Summary: 5 Stars
First, take a look at the technical crew on this baby: cinematography by Edward Linden, who was the cinematographer on 1933's "King Kong", art direction by Ralph Berger, who went on to do "Flash Gordon" a couple of years later, and special electrical effects by Ken Strickfaden, who did both the original "Frankenstein" AND "Bride of Frankenstein". This is GREAT stuff! Good-guy lead Kane Richmond went on to become 1942's "Spy Smasher", and played Lamont Cranston ("The Shadow") in THREE flicks. But the guy who really sets the tone of this frantic actioner is William "Stage" Boyd. (He started using "Stage" as a differentiator from the "other" William Boyd, better known to all as "Hopalong Cassidy".) Boyd is obviously intoxicated through most of this, but was rip-roaring drunk during the filming of the final episode, establishing himself as perhaps the maddest scientist of all time. He can hurl thunderbolts across the planet, sink ships, cause earthquakes, turn normal men into giants and black men into white. His strong-man assistant Appollyn (Jerry Frank) struts around in an outfit that looks like Aquaman's scaled undershorts with suspenders. He never "made it" - a look at the Internet Movie Database shows him playing assorted thugs and "sharkmen" in everything from "Flash Gordon" to 1957's "Bop Girl Goes Calypso" (remind me to check THAT out sometime!) The acting is more over-the-top than an Italian opera - it approaches the stratospheric heights of "Fiend of Dope Island", and that's the, ummmm, highest (sorry) accolade I can possibly give. Never a dull moment, endlessly entertaining, and sets the standard for serials for at least the next decade. The VCI print is well cleaned-up, but the sound does get a bit murky in spots (unfortunately, one being the very first run of the opening credits - DON'T let that put you off!) My absolute top recommendation! "Put him in the Brain Destroyer!!"
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