Perils of the Royal Mounted (1942)
Gênero : Ação, Faroeste, Crime
Runtime : 4H 35M
Director : James W. Horne
Escritor : Basil Dickey, Scott Littleton, Louis E. Heifetz, Jesse Duffy
Sinopse
Sergeant MacLane of the Mounties investigates the disruptive activities of a bunch of troublemakers.
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.
Líder de uma quadrilha, Dr. Mabuse planeja um grande golpe: o roubo de informações privilegiadas da bolsa de valores. Depois de usar seus poderes psíquicos em um golpe no jogo de cartas, Mabuse começa a ser investigado pelo Comissário Von Wenk. Mas as poucas pistas fazem com que o comissário procure alguém para ajudá-lo no caso.
Em Gotham City, Batman (Lewis Wilson) luta contra Dr. Daka (J. Carrol Naish), um japonês mentor de um grupo de espionagem que sabota instituições. Daka tem um aparelho que pulveriza uma radiação mortal, tendo assim, muita facilidade de destruir seus inimigos, além de poder recrutar homens, fazer uma lavagem cerebral neles e transformá-los em seus servos. Batman precisa usar todo o seu poder de morcego para enfrentar este inimigo.
Uma misteriosa praga, a Morte Púrpura, devasta a Terra. Dr. Zarkov, investigando em sua nave espacial, encontra uma espaçonave do planeta Mongo lançando um pó na atmosfera. Com certeza, Ming, o Impiedoso está de volta com seus velhos estratagemas. Então retornam Mongo, Flash, Dale, e Zarkov, desta vez com aliados esperando: Prince Barin de Arboria e Rainha Fria das terras do norte congeladas de Frigia; onde, é encontrado o Polarite, antídoto para a praga. Mas Ming vai usar todas as suas forças para impedir os nossos heróis de frustrar seus planos de conquista.
Flash Gordon, Dale Arden e Dr. Alexis Zarkov visitam o planeta Mongo para frustrar os planos malignos do Imperador Ming, o Impiedoso, que colocou seu planeta em rota de colisão com a Terra.
Paris é presa de um terror invisível contra o qual a polícia nada pode fazer: uma organização sinistra que semeia o caos e a morte. O intrépido jornalista Philippe Guérande e seu parceiro embarcam numa longa cruzada para pôr fim aos crimes do Grande Vampiro e de Irma Vep, sua perigosa cúmplice.
Superman comes to Earth as a child and grows up to be his home's first superhero with his first major challenge being to oppose The Spider Lady.
Superhero Captain America battles the evil forces of the archvillain called The Scarab, who poisons his enemies and steals a secret device capable of destroying buildings by sound vibrations.
Buck Rogers and Buddy Wade are in the middle of a trans-polar dirigible flight when they are caught in a blizzard and crash. Buddy then releases a special gas to keep them in suspended animation until a rescue party can arrive. However, an avalanche covers the craft and the two are in suspended animation for 500 years. When they are found, they awake to find out that the world has been taken over by the outlaw army of Killer Kane. Along with Lieutenant Wilma Deering, Buck and Buddy join in the fight to overthrow Kane and with the help of Prince Tallen of Saturn and his forces, they eventually do and Earth is free of Kane's grip.
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
O roubo no Hotel de Palácio Real e o sequestro de Lord Beltham, fazem de Fantômas o imperador de Crime. Cabe ao Inspetor Juve, sempre auxiliado pelo jornalista Fandor, prender o criminoso.
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.
Para proteger um talismã mágico de ser usado para o mal, um adolescente chamado Billy Batson é dado o poder de se tornar um super-herói adulto, Capitão Marvel, com uma única palavra mágica: "Shazam!"
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.
Tarzan spurns the love of La, Queen of Opar. When he isn't trying to keep the Bolshevik Rokoff and Clayton (pretender to the Greystoke estate) from reaching Opar, he is attacked simultaneously by two lions, dropped into a pit when a volcano splits the ground, nearly sacrificed by sun worshipers, and so on.
Serial - sequel to Superman (1948); Superman faces off against Lex Luthor.
A Martian invader crashes his spaceship conveniently close to the workshop of a scientist who is developing an interplanetary craft. If the extraterrestrial Purple Monster can complete the rocket ship and return to Mars, he will be able to start a full-scale invasion of Earth. Good thing Craig Foster sets out to thwart the Monster's mission!
An escaped criminal impersonates a Police Commissioner, causing no end of trouble to a determined Federal Agent.
The nefarious Dr. Fu Manchu searches for the keys to the tomb of Genghis Khan, in order to fulfill a prophecy that will enable him to conquer the world. His nemesi, Dr. Nayland Smith and his associates fight to keep the evil doctor from getting his hands on the keys. In 1943 the serial was edited together into a feature movie also called Drums of Fu Manchu.
A desert guerilla, with flashing scimitar, opposes a tyrannical prince and marries the caliph's daughter.