The Phantom Creeps (1939)

Directed by

Ford Beebe

Genre

science fiction film

Country

United States

Runtime

4h 25m

Rated

16

Rating

4.5 of 10 from 23 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A mad scientist creates powerful gadgets to take over the world. Foreign spies and American agents both try to steal his inventions.

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What happens

The Phantom Creeps is a 1939 12-chapter science fiction horror serial starring Bela Lugosi as mad scientist Doctor Zorka, who attempts to rule the world by creating various elaborate inventions. In dramatic fashion, foreign agents and G-Men try to seize the inventions for themselves. It is the 112th serial released by Universal Pictures and the 44th to have sound. It was adapted in DC's Movie Comics #6 with cover date September–October 1939, the final issue of that title. In 1949, the 265-minute serial was edited for television as a 78-minute feature film: (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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