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The Phantom Creeps

RELEASE TYPE..> XviD               SUPPLiER.......> FiCO CREW
RELEASE DATE..> yyyy.mm.dd         CRACKER/RiPPER.> FiCO CREW
STREET DATE...> yyyy.mm.dd         ENCODER........> FiCO CREW
THEATRE DATE..> yyyy.mm.dd         RATiNG [iMDb]..> 4.6 (386)
ViDEO CODEC...> XviD Koepi         AUDiO CODEC....> LAME 3.9
ViDEO BiTRATE.> Avg 1167 kbit/s    AUDiO BiTRATE..> 74 kbit/s
ViDEO FORMAT..> NTSC               AUDiO FORMAT...> MPEG1-Layer3
RiP METHOD....> 2-pass ABR         MOViE SiZE.....> 701mb
ASPECT RATiO..> 1.37 : 1           DiSKS..........> 50x15mb
RESOLUTiON....> 544x400            RUNTiME........> 78 min
GENRE.........> Sci-Fi
LANGUAGES.....> English
SUBTITLES.....> None

Notes:

Directed by Ford Beebe

Bela Lugosi    .... Dr. Alex Zorka / Dr. Zane
Robert Kent    .... Capt. Bob West
Dorothy Arnold .... Jean Drew
Edwin Stanley  .... Dr. Fred Mallory
Regis Toomey   .... Lt. Jim Daly
Jack C. Smith  .... Monk

"The Phantom Creeps" was Universal's 44th sound-era serial (between
"The Oregon Trail" and "The Green Hornet") and was re-issued to
theaters in 1949 by Commonwealth Pictures Corporation, a distribution
set-up handling primarily Universal re-issues. Commonwealth had no
hand at all in the production of this serial (as incorrectly shown on
site) as they were a distribution company only. Some sources
mistakenly identify them as the serial producer because all of the
1949 re-issue prints (and the 16mm prints sold to television circa
1952) show "Commonwealth Pictures Corp. Presents" above the
title.There is a whole lot of difference between "presenting" and
"producing", a fact that some sources appear to not know or don't
care. The serial is of interest to some collectors as it re-unites
Bela Lugosi and Edwin Stanley from 1931's "Dracula", and the
crater-discovery of the meteorite fragment by Zorka in the serial is
stock footage from Universal's 1936 "The Invisible Ray." The stock
footage of an explosion and avalanche used in Chapter 11 comes from
Universal's 1934 serial, "The Vanishing Shadow." Plot finds eccentric
scientist Dr. Alex Zorka carrying on various experiments in his
secret laboratory with the aid of his assistant Monk. Zorka has
invented many strange weapons of warfare, including a devisualizer
belt which renders him invisible; a terrifying, eight-foot tall robot
(played by stuntman Edwin "Bud" Wolfe and not circus giant Bud
Wolff), and he also has a deadly meteorite fragment (which he found
in a 1936 movie with Boris Karloff) from which he extracts an element
which can induce suspended animation in an entire army. Foreign
spies, operating under the guise of a foreign language school (great
cover), are trying to buy or (mostly) steal the meteorite element,
while his former partner, Dr. Fred Mallory, miffed that Zorka will
not turn his inventions over to the U.S. Government, blows the
whistle on him to Captain Bob West of the Military Intelligence
Department. Tired of answering the door and saying no to the spies
and the government, Zorka moves his lab and when his beloved wife is
killed, Zorka, puttering around for his own amusement up to this
point, gets hacked off as only Lugosi can, swears eternal vengeance
against society, and decides to use his inventions to make himself
world dictator. And would have if not for his assistant Monk, an
escaped convict virtually enslaved by Zorka, who is cowardly,
treacherous and totally incompetent, and whose accidental or
deliberate interference with Zorka's efforts repeatedly frustrates
his master's grand schemes.

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