Buck Rogers (1939)

Directed by

Ford Beebe

Genre

action film, adventure film, science fiction film

Country

United States

Runtime

3h 57m

Rated

NR

Rating

6.1 of 10 from 15 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Buck Rogers, a 20th century pilot, wakes up in a futuristic world where he must fight against a villainous plot. He teams up with a female scientist and other allies to stop the bad guys from taking over.

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What happens

Buck Rogers is a 1939 American science fiction film serial, produced by Universal Pictures. It stars Buster Crabbe (who had previously played the title character in two Flash Gordon serials and would return for a third in 1940) as the eponymous hero, Constance Moore, Jackie Moran and Anthony Warde. Episodes were directed by Ford Beebe and Saul A. Goodkind. The serial was written by Norman S. Hall, Ray Trampe and Dick Calkins based on the Buck Rogers character created by Philip Francis Nowlan, who had appeared in magazines and comic strips since 1928. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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