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The Phantom Creeps - Crashing Towers (1939)

1939 · Short film · 21 min

  • Sci-Fi
  • Action
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Synopsis

Dr. Zorka, a mad scientist with an invisibility belt, a giant robot and a devisualiser ray, is hunted by foreign agents and G-Men who want his inventions; Bela Lugosi in the chapter Crashing Towers of the 1939 Universal serial The Phantom Creeps.

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21 minutes

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★★★★★ · Very good episode · Shadows_Girl · 2010-04-17

The threat from Dr. Zorka (Bela Lugosi) continues to grow as Zorka reveals the secret of his power to his assistant, Monk (Jack C. Smith). For film fans there is a fun moment during this exposition as we see scenes of the discovery of this "mystery element". It is all reused footage from THE INVISIBLE RAY (1936) and when we get a glimpse of Zorka through his facemask as he is being lowered into the crater we are actually looking at the eyes of Boris Karloff).

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