Cliff-Hanger Serials
A world unto their own, the great serial chapters of the 1930s, '40s and '50s brought adventure and intrigue to the cinema screens every week as young and old alike would check out the latest instalment to see if our hero would survive (naturally!) and if the bad guys would be stopped in their tracks (of course!). The best part was always the 'cliffhanger' where the filmmakers would come up with an ingenious hook to keep you coming back for more. Films like 'Raiders of the Lost Ark' and 'The Rocketeer' owe a debt to these thrill-a-minute extravaganzas, where saving the Earth from peril was all in a days work.
The Green Archer (1940)
6.6/10
Director: James W Horne
Starring: Victor Jory, Iris Meredith, James Craven
Mystery that baffles! Thrills that chill! Suspense that terrifies! Trap doors, English castles, secret passages and mysterious appearances by protecto... Read more
Flash Gordon: Space Soldiers - Chapters 9-13 (1936)
6.5/10
Director: Ray Taylor, Ford Beebe
Starring: Larry 'Buster' Crabbe, Jean Rogers, Charles Middleton
Chapters 9-13. Buster Crabbe stars as Flash Gordon in this classic 1930s serial. Humanity is doomed to destruction! A distant planet has broken its or... Read more
New Adventures of Tarzan: Volume 2 (1934)
5.4/10
Director: Edward Kull
Starring: Herman Brix, Ula Holt
This oddity was produced by Edgar Rice Burroughs' own company and was the first Tarzan film shot on location (in Guatemala). The adventurers seek the... Read more
The Miracle Rider (1935)
7.2/10
Director: Armand Schaefer, B Reeves Eason
Starring: Charles Middleton, Tom Mix, Joan Gale
In 1930s Texas, Tom Morgan (Tom Mix) joins the Texas Rangers following the murder of his father to avenge his death and follow in his path as an advoc... Read more
Lost City (1935)
5.2/10
Director: Harry Revier
Starring: Willian "Stage" Boyd, Kane Richmond
One of the most thrilling and fondly remembered of movie serials, with William "Stage" Boyd as the tyrannical ruler of a super-advanced city inside a... Read more
The Green Hornet Strikes Again! (1940)
7.2/10
Director: John Rawlins, Ford Beebe
Starring: Keye Luke, Warren Hull, Wade Boteler, Anne Nagel
George W. Trendle's original masked crime fighter returns to the screen in this exciting follow-up to the 1940 serial presentation - gripping from one... Read more
Rocky Jones, Space Ranger: Manhunt in Space (1954)
5.5/10
Director: Hollingsworth Morse
Starring: Richard Crane, Sally Mansfield, Scotty Beckett
Rocky Jones (Richard Crane) zooms into action with a life-and-death mission in a feature-length presentation of the series' early episodes. Pirates fr... Read more
The Phantom Empire (1935)
6.4/10
Starring: Gene Autry, Frankie Darro, Smiley Burnette
Hidden deep beneath the earth is the lost civilization of Murania, ruled by the ruthless Queen Tika. When Gene Autry stumbles across the hidden city,... Read more
Zorro Rides Again: Episodes 7 - 12 (1937)
6.8/10
Director: John English, William Witney
Starring: John Carroll, Helen Christian, Richard Alexander, Noah Beery, Reed Howes, Duncan...
The California-Yucatan Railroad, being built for the good of Mexico, is under siege by a gang of terrorists hoping to force its sale; no one can prove... Read more
Sci-Fi Serial Classics (1935)
Starring: Leslie Nielsen, Paul Newman, Robert Kent, Thomas Mitchell, George Wallace
36 spine chilling chapters of classic Sci-fi Serials! Includes 'Radar Men from the Moon', 'Undersea Kingdom', 'Phantom Creeps' and 'Tales of Tomorrow'... Read more