The Phantom Creeps

Infobox Film
name = The Phantom Creeps


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director = Ford Beebe
Saul A. Goodkind
producer = Henry MacRae "(associate producer)"
writer = Willis Cooper "(original story)"
George Plympton
Basil Dickey
Mildred Barish "(screenplay)"
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starring = Béla Lugosi
Dorothy Arnold
Robert Kent
music = Charles Previn
cinematography = Jerry Ash
William Sickner
editing = Irving Birnbaum
Joseph Gluck
Alvin Todd
distributor = Universal Pictures
released = Flagicon|USA 7 January 1939
runtime = 12 chapters (265 min)
country = USA
language = English
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amg_id = 1:37919
imdb_id = 0031796

"The Phantom Creeps" is a 1939 serial about a mad scientist who attempts to rule the world by creating various elaborate inventions. In a dramatic-type fashion, foreign agents and G-Men try to seize the inventions for themselves.

It was the 112th serial released by Universal Pictures and the 44th to have sound. The serial stars Béla Lugosi as the villainous Doctor Zorka with Dorothy Arnold and Robert Kent.

It was adapted in "DC's Movie Comics #6", cover date September-October 1939, the final issue of that title. [cite news
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first =Leonard J
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title =The Sinister Serials of Bela Lugosi
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The first three episodes of "The Phantom Creeps" were lampooned during the second season of the TV show Mystery Science Theater 3000.

Plot

Cast

*Béla Lugosi as Doctor Alex Zorka
*Robert Kent as Captain Bob West, G-Man
*Dorothy Arnold as Jean Drew, reporter
*Edwin Stanley as Doctor Fred Mallory, Doctor Zorka's former partner
*Regis Toomey as Lieutenant Jim Daley, G-Man
*Jack C. Smith as Monk, Doctor Zorka's assistant
*Edward Van Sloan as Jarvis, foreign spy chief
*Dora Clement as Ann Zorka
*Anthony Averill as Rankin, a foreign spy
*Hugh Huntley as Perkins, Doctor Mallory's lab assistant
*Ed Wolff as The Robot

Chapter titles

#The Menacing Power
#Death Stalks the Highways
#Crashing Towers
#Invisible Terror
#Thundering Rails
#The Iron Monster
#The Menacing Mist
#Trapped in the Flames
#Speeding Doom
#Phantom Footprints
#The Blast
#To Destroy the World

ee also

* List of film serials by year
* List of film serials by studio

References

External links

*imdb title|id=0031796|title=The Phantom Creeps
* [http://www.dcindexes.com/database/story-details.php?storyid=3868 Profile in Mike's Amazing World of DC Comics]

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title=Universal Serial
before=The Oregon Trail (1939)
years=The Phantom Creeps (1939)
after=The Green Hornet (1940)