The Midnight Man (1919)
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Director : James W. Horne
Sinopsis
Bob Gilmore, a young clubman, is called by telephone to his home, where his parents are giving him a birthday party. He overhears one of the men guests make a slurring remark about his mother's appearance, and proceeds to punish him then and there, throwing the entire gathering into an uproar. Later in the evening he assumes guilt for a check which had been in reality forged by his foster father, in order to save the mother's feelings, but obtains a written confession from the guilty man for future use if necessary. Learning that he had been adopted from a foundling asylum in infancy, Bob decides to go to New York to see if he cannot learn his real name, which he understands begins with "Mor."
La primera versión cinematográfica del Dr. Mabuse consta de dos partes: “El gran jugador” y “El infierno”. El doctor Mabuse es un villano que no se siente atraído por los bienes materiales, sino por el placer que le proporciona jugar con el destino de los hombres.
Una serie de misteriosos asesinatos llama la atención del Presidente de Estados Unidos, que entrena a Grant Gardner para convertirlo en un superhéroe. El Dr. Clinton Lyman le confía a Cyrus Maldor sus planes y que él es el responsable de los asesinatos. Maldor avisa a la policía pero Lyman activa el Vibrador Dinámico y convierte a Maldor en el malvado Escarabajo. El Escarabajo huye del laboratorio y empieza a hacer el mal. Grant Gardner, ahora convertido en el Capitán América, va a derrotarlo.
Japanese master spy Daka operates a covert espionage-sabotage organization located in Gotham City's now-deserted Little Tokyo, which turns American scientists into pliable zombies. The great crime-fighters Batman and Robin, with the help of their allies, are in pursuit.
Para proteger un talismán mágico, un joven recibe el poder de convertirse en un adulto con superpoderes diciendo una palabra mágica: ¡Shazam!. Serie sobre el Capitán Maravillas, personaje de cómic también conocido como Shazam. Supuso la primera representación cinematográfica de un superhéroe de cómic.
The Wrecker wrecks trains on the L & R Railroad. One of his victims is Larry Baker's father. Baker wants to find the evildoer, among a host of suspects, but it will be difficult since the Wrecker can disguise himself to look like almost anyone
This 15-chapter serial pits Batman and Robin against The Wizard, who uses a device that allows him to control machinery to hold the city hostage.
Commando Cody, 'Sky Marshal of the Universe', works with American scientists Joan Gilbert and Ted Richards in the development of a flying suit and a rocket to the Moon. When the nation's defences are being sabotaged and destroyed, Cody learns that an atomic-gun is being used and that the men on the moon are the culprits.
Serial - sequel to Superman (1948); Superman faces off against Lex Luthor.
El planeta Mongo se acerca peligrosamente a la tierra. El Dr. Zarkov tiene preparada una nave espacial con la que puede resolver el misterio, así que, junto con Flash Gordon y Dale Arden, viajan al cuerpo celeste, que es dominado por el Poderoso Emperador Ming. Primera entrega del serial de la Universal Pictures basado en el inmortal personaje creado por la pluma y el pincel de Alex Raymond.
Miniserie de TV. 12 episodios. En el planeta Mongo, Flash Gordon, Dale Arden y el Dr. Zarkov batallan contra la Plaga de la Muerte Púrpura, intentando reestablecer en el poder al príncipe Barin. Tercero y último serial de la Universal Pictures basado en el inmortal personaje creado por la pluma y el pincel de Alex Raymond. Los dos previos eran "Flash Gordon" (1936) y "Flash Gordon’s Trip to Mars" (1938).
Prof. Millard pretends to be dead and helps Jeff King ferret out Vulcan, the evil traitor at the science academy. Donning his Rocket Man costume King goes from one hair raising rescue to the next in order to keep the newly invented Decimator out of the clutches of Vulcan and his minions.
When an unscrupulous banker ruins his family, a young man swears to bring him to justice, so he adopts a new identity, the mysterious Judex, and ominously disguised and sunk into the muddy path of vengeance, punishes the crooks and protects the innocents. (Originally a twelve-part epic serial.)
Filmed in the Sierra Nevada mountains near Sonora, California, this Universal serial is Universal's 40th sound-era serial. Eagle Scout Bruce Scott, leader of Martinsville Troop Number One, and his pack sets off in search of lost treasure and finds adventure
Prior to the United States' involvement in World War II, the masked vigilante Spy Smasher fights Nazi agents operating within the US, led by the treacherous sabotage leader codenamed The Mask.
A mad scientist attempts to rule the world by creating various elaborate inventions.
A mad scientist named Dr. Satan plots to steal key pieces of technology to enable him to build an army of robots based on his prototype to conquer America. The only one standing in his way is Bob Wayne, who fights Satan as the enigmatic Copperhead. Mysterious Doctor Satan is a 1940 film serial named after its chief villain. Doctor Satan's main opponent is the masked mystery man, "The Copperhead", whose secret identity is Bob Wayne, a man searching for justice and revenge on Satan for the death of his step-father. The serial charts the conflict between the two as Bob Wayne pursues Doctor Satan, while the latter completes his plans for world domination.
The Daily Clarion hires detective story writer Steve Colt to investigate the deaths of a group of scientists working on an atomic rocket development project. Behind the killings is fortune teller Sombra, a spy from an Asian country intent on world domination, who is determined to pilfer the atomic rocket by luring workers from the project to her parlor and killing them with black widow spider venom when they refuse to cooperate.
Omar, se opone al tirano príncipe Murad. Para evitar que Murad se case con Schaharazade, Omar se casa con ella engañándola. Cuando el truco es descubierto, tanto el príncipe y la princesa quiere la cabeza de Omar.
A criminal mastermind known as The Crimson Ghost is out to steal a device called the Cyclotrode, which can short-circuit all electrical current on the planet.
Columbia's 12th serial of 57 total (following 1940's "Deadwood Dick" and ahead of 1941's "White Eagle") is another of director's James Horne's "classics" where he evidently figured that the same reactions that served him well in Laurel and Hardy films would work well in action serials where he has all hands, heroes and villains alike, doing some kind of over-the top "take", no matter the situation. This loose adaptation of an Edgar Wallace story finds Michael Bellamy (Kenne Duncan in his Kenneth Duncan period) inheriting Garr Castle, but his brother, Abel Bellamy (James Craven, as usual making Oil-Can Harry look smooth), has him imprisoned unjustly and moves into the castle himself. When Michael's wife, Elaine Bellamy (Dorothy Fay), fails to return after visiting Abel, her sister Valerie Howett (Iris Meredith), accompanied by their father,
