The Phantom - Serial
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Movie Reviews of The Phantom - Serial
Movie Review: Fun serial. Very good for it's day.
Summary: 4 Stars
I think anyone who does not already have a familiarity with this serial, should go into it with grounded expectations and not consider modern production standards not applicable to that period. Natives are stereotyped and often played by Caucasian actors (consider the era). The dialogue is your standard serial run of the mill - Sometimes stilted, but always fun. The Phantom is played by actor Tom Tyler who was best known for his role in the Captain Marvel serial. Monster fans know him best as "Kharis" in the 1940 classic "The Mummy's Hand". Unlike previous hero serials, Tom Tyler does have a convincing physique for the role and wears a costume that is pretty faithful to the basic look of our hero. The fight scenes are fun to watch and the storyline is far more engaging than most serials because they keep the story within the confines of the jungle which offers a variety of cliffhanger twists. Overall a very satisfying story that tries not to stray far from the source material. As serials go, I consider this one of the better efforts of that period. Ironic since it comes from Republic Pictures, who seldom respected the license they were using. But if your a Phantom fan looking for a good time, this should hit the mark nicely.Movie Review: Fun!
Summary: 4 Stars
The Phantom - Serial Some serials are exciting; others are just plain silly. This one lies in between. It's the best thing I've seen Tom Tyler do. (In Adventures of Captain Marvel he's pretty much limited to saying "Shazam!" so he can revert to Billy Batson...though why he'd want to is beyond me.)
Who knows where this takes place. It could be Africa; it could be India; it could be Central or South America. There's one sequence that could be Mongolia. Does it matter? Of course not! It's silly fun.
Movie Review: Very enteraining superhero cliffhanger
Summary: 4 Stars
I've always been fond of the more out-of-the mainstream costumed heroes--The Shadow, The Green Hornet, and The Phantom among them. This chapterplay is good, clean fun. Tom Tyler is just as convincing and rugged as Lee Falk's jungle hero as he was playing the World's Mightiest Mortal, Captain Marvel. The picture and sound quality on the dvd are better than one might expect, given the age of this relatively forgotten film. Indiana Jones it ain't, but if you approach this serial with the same sense of open-minded excitement that Spielberg & Lucas had when they watched serials as kids, you can easily see why they so influenced these now-great filmmakers.Movie Review: Good Serial
Summary: 4 Stars
-This is one of the better serials I have collected. I really dig the whole Phantom deal and they did it justice with this series. I watched it from begining to end over a period of 2 days.
-It is a two disc collection of all 15 weekly episodes that explore a couple different cross story lines wrapped around one main story. It is in BLACK&WHITE but it is easy to imagine the scenes in color. The only reason I gave it 4 as opposed to 5 stars, and this is being real picky I know, is that I couldn't forward past the opening credits at the begining each episode at the touch of a button. I had to do the fast forward review thing.
Movie Review: An Excellant Movie Serial
Summary: 4 Stars
The Phantom is one of the better movie serials put out by Columbia. It stars frequent movie serial hero, Tom Tyler. It is an excellant serial from beginning to end. It does tend to drag in places because of Columbia's strict fifteen chapter format.
I would highly recommend this serial to anyone who loves the genre. And, also, to those who are just discovering it.