USA, 1940
70m
35mm film, black and white
mono, English
An American science fiction film directed by Otto Brower and B. Reeves Eason using the pseudonym Breezy Eason. It is a feature length cut of the serial The Phantom Empire (1935).
Plot Summary
Singing cowboy Gene Autry discovers a race of advanced humans living in a city beneath the surface of the Earth.
Credits
Crew
Directed by: Otto Brower, Breezy Eason [real name: B. Reeves Eason]
Copyright MCMXL [1940] by Mascot Pictures
Supervised by Armand Schaefer
Story by: Wallace McDonald, Gerald Geraghty, H. Freedman
Photographed by: Ernest Miller, William Nobles
Edited by: Earl Turner
Sound Engineer: Terry Kellum
Cast
Gene Autry (Gene Autry)
Frankie Darro (Frankie Baxter)
Lester (Smiley) Burnette (Oscar)
Betsy King Ross (Betsy Baxter)
Dorothy Christie (Queen Tika)
Wheeler Oakman (Argo)
Charles K. French (Mal)
Warner Richmond (Rab)
Frank Glendon (Professor Beetson)
William Moore (Pete)
Edward Piel Sr (Dr Cooper)
Jack Carlyle (Saunders)
Alternative Titles
Blixtmännens undergång – Sweden
Couldn’t Possibly Happen – UK
Radio Ranch – alternative title
Links
Includes extracts from
The Phantom Empire (1935)
References
Periodicals
- Motion Picture Herald vol.139 no.5 (4 May 1940)
- Today’s Cinema vol.58 no.4689 (24 February 1942)
- Monthly Film Bulletin vol.9 no.101 (May 1942)
Books
- Feature Films, 1940-1949: A United States Filmography by Alan G. Fetrow p.306
