"The King of Serials...VCI Entertainment ~ Raiders of Ghost City (1944) ~ Now on DVD"
Added 12/1/2005
VCI Entertainment and Universal Pictures present..."Raiders of Ghost City" (1944) (Dolby digitally remastered), a 13 Chapter cliffhanger from an action packed Universal serial era featuring an outstanding cast with Lewis D. Collins and Ray Taylor at the helm....our story begins in early spring 1865 the war between the states is drawing towards it weary close...what plans are in place for shipping gold for the union during the Civil War...is there corruption afoot and will some secret Prussian organization led by Alex Morel (Lionel Atwill) take the gold and blame it on the Confederates...will our hero Capt. Steve Clark (Dennis Moore) and Idaho Jones (Joe Sawyer) be in harems way when their rail car is suddenly uncoupled and crashes down a mountainside...who is this mysterious wells fargo agent Cathy Haines (Wanda McKay) why has she been assigned to such a dangerous case, doesn't she know the dangers that lie ahead...never fear the writers from Universal Pictures have everything under control...watch out for the heavies Jack Ingram, Edmund Cobb and Jack Rockwell do their level best to bring havoc playing spies, smugglers, high-jackers and just all around nasty people...hopefully they will never see the light of day in another Universal serial...don't leave the theater until the final chapter is over and done with "Golden Vengeance"....just remember double thrills, chills, mystery and suspense...hitting the bull's eye with excitement...don't miss a single spine thrilling episode..return next week to this local theater for another episode of action and adventure that will keep you thrilled until the next chapter.
Under director's Lewis D. Collins and Ray Taylor, associate producers Morgan B. Cox and Ray Taylor, original screenplay by Luci Ward and Morgan B. Cox, dialogue director Willard Holland, supervising editor Norman A. Cerf, musical score by Milton Rosen, Sam Perry, Charles Maxwell, Hans J. Salter, Frank Skinner, stuntmen Frank McCarroll, Ken Terrell, Dale Van Sickel (stunt double for Dennis Moore), Henry Wills ...the cast includes. Dennis Moore (Capt. Steve Clark), Wanda McKay (Cathy Haines), Lionel Atwill (Erich von Rugen), Joe Sawyer (Idaho Jones), Regis Toomey (Capt.Clay Randolph), Virginia Christine (Countess Elsa von Merck), Eddy C. Waller (Doc Blair), Emmett Vogan (Count Manfried von Rinkton), Addison Richards (Colonel Sewell), Charles Wagenheim (Hugo Metzger, alias Abel Rackerby), Jack Ingram (Braddock/Confederate outlaw), Edmund Cobb (Rawhide/raider), Jack Rockwell (Bart/raider), Ernie Adams (Hans Plattner), George Eldrige (Hank/gang saloon manager , Gene Garrick (Lieutenant Jim Clark, alias Jeff Logan ), Rex Lease (Army Major), George J. Lewis (Fred/code expert), Monte Montague (Stage driver #3), Ray Teal (Joe Burke/Indian agent), Chief Thundercloud (Chief Tahona)............special footnote on veteran actor Joe Sawyer who made his film debut in 1931 with various roles including policemen, gangsters, coaches and B-Westerns, sometimes dramas and once in a while comedies, Sawyer appeared in a wide range of films, literally hundreds, over a period of four decades, including The Westerner (1934), The Informer (1935), Pride of the Marines (1936), Black Legion (1936), "The Petrified Forest" (1936), Dark Command (1940), Melody Ranch (1940), The Grapes of Wrath (1940), They Died with Their Boots On (1941), Sergeant York (1941), Belle Starr (1941), Down Mexico Way (1941), Tarzan's Desert Mystery (1943), The Outlaw (1943), Gilda (1946), It Came From Outer Space (1953), North to Alaska(1960) and How the West Was Won (1962), appeared in various TV series Racket Squad (1952), Stories of the Century (1954), Frontier Doctor (1958), Maverick (1959), Sugarfoot (1959), Peter Gunn (1959), Lock Up (1961), Surfside 6 (1961), Sawyer was also a TV guest performer and regular on "The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin" (1954-59) as Sergeant Aloysius 'Biff' O'Hara..........meanwhile back to our Universal Serial which is always good till the last drop and this serial is no exception...there is a great deal of entertainment here for the cliffhanger fans out there...all courtesy of VCI Entertainment, who in my humble opinion is the best there is in restoring early serials and features.
BIOS:
1. Joe Sawyer (aka Joseph Sauers)
Birth Date: 8/29/1906 - Guelph, Canada
Died: 4/21/1982 - Ashland, Oregon (liver cancer)
CHAPTER TITLES:
1. Raiders of Ghost City
2. Flaming Treachery
3. Death Rides Double
4. Ghost City Terror
5. The Fatal Lariat
6. Water Rising
7. Bullet Avalanche
8. Death Laughs Last
9. Cold Steel
10.Showdown
11.The Trail To Torture
12.Calling All Buckboards
13.Golden Vengeance
If you're into vintage serials as I am, why not pick up a copy of the following titles from VCI Home Video:
VCI CLIFFHANGER TRAILERS:
1. Adventures of Red Ryder (Don "Red" Barry)
2. Adventures of the Flying Cadets (Bobby Jordan)
3. Buck Rogers (Buster Crabbe)
4. Captain Midnight (Dave O'Brien)
5. Captain Video: Master of the Stratosphere (Judd Holdren & I. Stanford Jolley)
6. Dick Tracy's G-Men (Ralph Byrd)
7. Don Winslow of the Navy (Don Terry)
8. Don Winslow of the Coast Guard (Don Terry)
9. Drums of Fu Manchu (Henry Brandon)
10.Fighting Kit Carson (Johnny Mack Brown)
11.Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe (Buster Crabbe)
12.The Green Archer (Victory Jory)
13.Jungle Girl (Frances Gifford)
14.Jungle Jim (Grant Withers & Raymond Hatton)
15.Lost City of the Jungle (Russell Hayden & Keye Luke)
16.Mandrake the Magician (Warren Hull & Dick Curtis)
17.Miracle Rider (Tom Mix & Tony Jr)
18.The Painted Stallion (Ray "Crash" Corrigan)
19.The Phantom (Tom Tyler)
20.The Return of Chandu (Bela Lugosi)
21.Riders of Death Valley (Dick Foran, Leo Carrillo & Buck Jones)
22.Secret Agent X-9 (1937) (Scott Kolk & Henry Brandon)
23.Secret Agent X-9 (1945) (Lloyd Bridges & Keye Luke)
24.Sky Raiders (Donald Woods & Billy Halop)
25.Undersea Kingdom (Ray "Crash" Corrigan)
26.Winners of the West (Dick Foran, Harry Woods, Roy Barcroft & Charles Stevens)
27.Zane Greys "King of the Royal Mounted" (Allan "Rocky" Lane)
28.Zorro's Cliffhanger Collection (Reed Hadley, John Carroll & Linda Stirling)
Check this out from VCI Home Video on DVD..."FLAMING FRONTIERS" (1938), Universal Serial with 15 chapters, featuring Johnny Mack Brown, Eleanor Hansen, John Archer, James Blaine and Ralph Bowman..."OREGON TRAIL" (1939), another Universal Serial with 15 exciting chapters featuring Johnny Mack Brown, Fuzzy Knight, Roy Barcoft and Charles King..."THE TALL TEXAN" (1953), full length feature starring Lloyd Bridges, Lee J Cobb, Luther Adler and Marie Windsor...watch for more details on VCI Entertainment and Amazon your two favorite sites for serials and B-Westerns.
Great job by VCI Entertainment for releasing "Raiders of Ghost City" (1944), the digital transfere with a clean, clear and crisp print...looking forward to more high quality releases from the vintage serial era of the '30s, '40s & '50s...order your copy now from Amazon or VCI Entertainment where there are plenty of copies available on VHS, stay tuned once again for top notch action mixed with deadly adventure from the "King of Serials" VCI...just the way we like 'em
Total Time: 240 mins on 2 VHS ~ VCI Entertainment 1742 ~ (6/25/2002)
Total Time: 225 mins on 2 DVD ~ VCI Entertainment 8454 ~ (6/27/2006)
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"The King of Serials...VCI Entertainment ~ Raiders of Ghost City (1944) ~ Now on DVD"
Added 12/1/2005
VCI Entertainment and Universal Pictures present..."Raiders of Ghost City" (1944) (Dolby digitally remastered), a 13 Chapter cliffhanger from an action packed Universal serial era featuring an outstanding cast with Lewis D. Collins and Ray Taylor at the helm....our story begins in early spring 1865 the war between the states is drawing towards it weary close...what plans are in place for shipping gold for the union during the Civil War...is there corruption afoot and will some secret Prussian organization led by Alex Morel (Lionel Atwill) take the gold and blame it on the Confederates...will our hero Capt. Steve Clark (Dennis Moore) and Idaho Jones (Joe Sawyer) be in harems way when their rail car is suddenly uncoupled and crashes down a mountainside...who is this mysterious wells fargo agent Cathy Haines (Wanda McKay) why has she been assigned to such a dangerous case, doesn't she know the dangers that lie ahead...never fear the writers from Universal Pictures have everything under control...watch out for the heavies Jack Ingram, Edmund Cobb and Jack Rockwell do their level best to bring havoc playing spies, smugglers, high-jackers and just all around nasty people...hopefully they will never see the light of day in another Universal serial...don't leave the theater until the final chapter is over and done with "Golden Vengeance"....just remember double thrills, chills, mystery and suspense...hitting the bull's eye with excitement...don't miss a single spine thrilling episode..return next week to this local theater for another episode of action and adventure that will keep you thrilled until the next chapter.
Under director's Lewis D. Collins and Ray Taylor, associate producers Morgan B. Cox and Ray Taylor, original screenplay by Luci Ward and Morgan B. Cox, dialogue director Willard Holland, supervising editor Norman A. Cerf, musical score by Milton Rosen, Sam Perry, Charles Maxwell, Hans J. Salter, Frank Skinner, stuntmen Frank McCarroll, Ken Terrell, Dale Van Sickel (stunt double for Dennis Moore), Henry Wills ...the cast includes. Dennis Moore (Capt. Steve Clark), Wanda McKay (Cathy Haines), Lionel Atwill (Erich von Rugen), Joe Sawyer (Idaho Jones), Regis Toomey (Capt.Clay Randolph), Virginia Christine (Countess Elsa von Merck), Eddy C. Waller (Doc Blair), Emmett Vogan (Count Manfried von Rinkton), Addison Richards (Colonel Sewell), Charles Wagenheim (Hugo Metzger, alias Abel Rackerby), Jack Ingram (Braddock/Confederate outlaw), Edmund Cobb (Rawhide/raider), Jack Rockwell (Bart/raider), Ernie Adams (Hans Plattner), George Eldrige (Hank/gang saloon manager , Gene Garrick (Lieutenant Jim Clark, alias Jeff Logan ), Rex Lease (Army Major), George J. Lewis (Fred/code expert), Monte Montague (Stage driver #3), Ray Teal (Joe Burke/Indian agent), Chief Thundercloud (Chief Tahona)............special footnote on veteran actor Joe Sawyer who made his film debut in 1931 with various roles including policemen, gangsters, coaches and B-Westerns, sometimes dramas and once in a while comedies, Sawyer appeared in a wide range of films, literally hundreds, over a period of four decades, including The Westerner (1934), The Informer (1935), Pride of the Marines (1936), Black Legion (1936), "The Petrified Forest" (1936), Dark Command (1940), Melody Ranch (1940), The Grapes of Wrath (1940), They Died with Their Boots On (1941), Sergeant York (1941), Belle Starr (1941), Down Mexico Way (1941), Tarzan's Desert Mystery (1943), The Outlaw (1943), Gilda (1946), It Came From Outer Space (1953), North to Alaska(1960) and How the West Was Won (1962), appeared in various TV series Racket Squad (1952), Stories of the Century (1954), Frontier Doctor (1958), Maverick (1959), Sugarfoot (1959), Peter Gunn (1959), Lock Up (1961), Surfside 6 (1961), Sawyer was also a TV guest performer and regular on "The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin" (1954-59) as Sergeant Aloysius 'Biff' O'Hara..........meanwhile back to our Universal Serial which is always good till the last drop and this serial is no exception...there is a great deal of entertainment here for the cliffhanger fans out there...all courtesy of VCI Entertainment, who in my humble opinion is the best there is in restoring early serials and features.
BIOS:
1. Joe Sawyer (aka Joseph Sauers)
Birth Date: 8/29/1906 - Guelph, Canada
Died: 4/21/1982 - Ashland, Oregon (liver cancer)
CHAPTER TITLES:
1. Raiders of Ghost City
2. Flaming Treachery
3. Death Rides Double
4. Ghost City Terror
5. The Fatal Lariat
6. Water Rising
7. Bullet Avalanche
8. Death Laughs Last
9. Cold Steel
10.Showdown
11.The Trail To Torture
12.Calling All Buckboards
13.Golden Vengeance
If you're into vintage serials as I am, why not pick up a copy of the following titles from VCI Home Video:
VCI CLIFFHANGER TRAILERS:
1. Adventures of Red Ryder (Don "Red" Barry)
2. Adventures of the Flying Cadets (Bobby Jordan)
3. Buck Rogers (Buster Crabbe)
4. Captain Midnight (Dave O'Brien)
5. Captain Video: Master of the Stratosphere (Judd Holdren & I. Stanford Jolley)
6. Dick Tracy's G-Men (Ralph Byrd)
7. Don Winslow of the Navy (Don Terry)
8. Don Winslow of the Coast Guard (Don Terry)
9. Drums of Fu Manchu (Henry Brandon)
10.Fighting Kit Carson (Johnny Mack Brown)
11.Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe (Buster Crabbe)
12.The Green Archer (Victory Jory)
13.Jungle Girl (Frances Gifford)
14.Jungle Jim (Grant Withers & Raymond Hatton)
15.Lost City of the Jungle (Russell Hayden & Keye Luke)
16.Mandrake the Magician (Warren Hull & Dick Curtis)
17.Miracle Rider (Tom Mix & Tony Jr)
18.The Painted Stallion (Ray "Crash" Corrigan)
19.The Phantom (Tom Tyler)
20.The Return of Chandu (Bela Lugosi)
21.Riders of Death Valley (Dick Foran, Leo Carrillo & Buck Jones)
22.Secret Agent X-9 (1937) (Scott Kolk & Henry Brandon)
23.Secret Agent X-9 (1945) (Lloyd Bridges & Keye Luke)
24.Sky Raiders (Donald Woods & Billy Halop)
25.Undersea Kingdom (Ray "Crash" Corrigan)
26.Winners of the West (Dick Foran, Harry Woods, Roy Barcroft & Charles Stevens)
27.Zane Greys "King of the Royal Mounted" (Allan "Rocky" Lane)
28.Zorro's Cliffhanger Collection (Reed Hadley, John Carroll & Linda Stirling)
Check this out from VCI Home Video on DVD..."FLAMING FRONTIERS" (1938), Universal Serial with 15 chapters, featuring Johnny Mack Brown, Eleanor Hansen, John Archer, James Blaine and Ralph Bowman..."OREGON TRAIL" (1939), another Universal Serial with 15 exciting chapters featuring Johnny Mack Brown, Fuzzy Knight, Roy Barcoft and Charles King..."THE TALL TEXAN" (1953), full length feature starring Lloyd Bridges, Lee J Cobb, Luther Adler and Marie Windsor...watch for more details on VCI Entertainment and Amazon your two favorite sites for serials and B-Westerns.
Great job by VCI Entertainment for releasing "Raiders of Ghost City" (1944), the digital transfere with a clean, clear and crisp print...looking forward to more high quality releases from the vintage serial era of the '30s, '40s & '50s...order your copy now from Amazon or VCI Entertainment where there are plenty of copies available on VHS, stay tuned once again for top notch action mixed with deadly adventure from the "King of Serials" VCI...just the way we like 'em
Total Time: 240 mins on 2 VHS ~ VCI Entertainment 1742 ~ (6/25/2002)
Total Time: 225 mins on 2 DVD ~ VCI Entertainment 8454 ~ (6/27/2006)
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