Oldies but Goodies, These were great movies, I watch them with my grandma and I absolutely got stuck on movies with a great story line, never boring, kept me wondering, fight scenes that were entertaining . I’m 58 now still watching the great movies of all times.
I wonder if "modern audiences" have an appreciation of these wonderful older films. I'm 61 and only recently got tired of there being "nothing on" when I started watching old (REALLY old) movies on UA-cam. Lots of choices, excellent prints, ability to pause, and all free! What a treasure!
This was an enjoyable serial, I liked it very much. The henchman was relentless to no end. That sport coat didn't receive one tear after all those knock down, drag out fights, amazing. This heroine in this one was a little bit harder. She got in there and got her hands dirty and was willing to blaze the villains if she got the chance. Good stuff.
I just discovered these old movies I use watch them at my grandmas whenever I was spending the night with her.. (yes dear readers I’m that old) Only these weren’t considered old.. Whenever I stayed with her I would walk down to the theater and watch these serial movies so I could keep up with them. And of course back then you could walk the city blocks without any worry. And yes you could by Coke for a dime and cigarettes were only 45 cent’s and no I didn’t smoke back then but I would go down to the local store and pick some up for my Grandma. My mom would have flipped out if she knew..I don’t think she ever found out about that.
I hope Claire married Lance so he could finally learn how to dress with some semblance of style. Also, sure wish I had a magic hat like Lance had, stayed on through the thick of things, even several near drownings! Fun flick!
Maybe not the best Republic serial, but definitely not the worst and actually pretty decent. I hope somebody will upload a decent version of 1946's The Crimson Ghost (probably the last really good serial) to YT someday.
Its nice to see the islands throughout the years,become modernized and up to date bu in a not too fast pace it gives islanders chances to accept andget used to changes,bless them!!!!!
Yes, just get right in there and reduce the tropical paradise to a nightmare of asphalt, concrete, and glass-and-steel monstrosities. Right. Keep it up until the whole world looks like that and a tree is something found only in the dictionary. Don't mind the foul air and contaminated water or the shortage of food coming from one acre left of arable soil. 💣💣💣💣💣💣💣💣💣💣💣💣💣💣💣💣💣💣💣💣💣💣💣
Captain Mephisto created a machine which can change a person's face, heal all wounds, and make them younger, stronger, and taller. Why does he need to turn to crime? He could legitimately make billions off of that machine alone.
Perhaps it only works on him? Pathological narcissists NOT rational, perhaps the machine is damaging him, also, he's a pirate, criminal behavior is his baseline default. My brother is violent & has tantrums, I've threatened him with arrest & it doesn't slow him down for a moment, sociopaths gonna sociopath. & as mentioned, no villain? No movie.
Captain Mephisto and his able bodied assistant is as determined as it gets. However the criminologist is more determined to rescue the heroine's father. Man can these dudes fight, knock out blow after blow a chin of freaking iron. The amazing thing about them is their stamina and no worst for wear after each knock down drag out fight. Love these serial, its like watching a cartoon series like GI Joe.
Cool Channel. Last I watched Spy Smasher series. Before Jackie Chan's awesome antics were these stunt actors from this era . Thank you so very much for uploading these treasures !
I love these old serials, so much imagination 💭 and ingenuity that went into the making of them, fantastic. Thanks for posting this awesome video. 😎👍👍👍🇬🇧
Years ago, the late Dick Clark featured scenes from this serial as an example of “ a hero 🦸♂️ who couldn’t do anything without his girlfriend.” They showed every scene where Linda Stirling saved Richard Bailey’s bacon 🥓 and he said, “Thanks, Claire.” They also noted that she, not the hero, killed the main villain. Clark and his cohost thought it was funny and kept repeating “Thanks, Claire” for the rest of the special. I was thinking “What a great role model for young women today.” She wasn’t a superhero 🦸♀️, but she sure acted like one 👍!
Have never seen this 1 before, but I recognize scenes that shows I grew up on would recycle, climactic boat chase in From Russia With Love (they also turned North By Northwest biplane pursuit into helicopter chase), or dunking Mrs. Peel in The Avengers in Murdersville, torturing female lead to get her to talk, how long has waterboarding existed?
@@Outlier999 Just watched Buster Crabbe as Red Barry, female lead intrepid girl reporter of course called Mississippi. When Red is kidnapped, she steals a police car (of course again), pursues the villains in a high speed chase, exchanges gunfire with them while still driving, eventually only way to stop her is they toss hero's body in her way, she avoids him & then (of course again) faints & things return to "normal" & hero rescues her carrying her off in his large strong manly arms (of course).
@@unowen-nh9ov Today she’d probably carry him. They have gone too far in the opposite direction, like when Scarlett Johansson takes out 20 guys in 15 seconds. No one is that good, man or woman. Stirring’s bravery and feats were realistic and believable.
@@Outlier999 You conviently overlook the fact that he saved her hide 4 times. Sure Linda Stirling did more work in Serials than most Women in the 1930s and 1940s Serials, However she still got knocked out a number of times too !!
I saw this serial when Republic Picture decided to make a condensed version of some the studios less known serials. This one entitled Captain Mephisto and the Transformation. machine.They sold these to TV stations there were called “century 66”
I think 1 of Kane Richmond's later serials, someone commented fight scenes weren't done until EVERY piece of furniture on set was destroyed, here they even go for spears & art work, believe 1 of the directors was famous stunt guy.
Agree! Astonishing choreography, foley sound, and acrobatic athleticism. My initial reaction - the best or at least most entertaining I've ever seen! Normally, I just fast forward through them as they are so predictable, like WWF wrestling. I am only starting the movie and am refering so far to the fight from about 7:00. For the first time, I am hoping the whole movie is full of them! God's Love, Cinematic!
@@AtomicAgePictures Red Barry series, they run Red off the road, his car is a rollover in multiple car collision, all the other drivers rally to rescue the hero, EVERY 1 of them wearing a hat. Or, as Myrna Loy put it in her memoirs, "Grab your hat & RUN!"
Linda Boyd: It's amazing too that cgi planes crashed into the World Trade Centre in 2001 yet no debris fell on the outside. Of course 9/11 and the Fall of the Towers Was an Inside Job, as INDEPENDENT EXPERTS HAVE CONFIRMED. See David Icke's BOOK Alice in Wonderland and the World Trade Centre Disaster, Why the official is a Monumental lie, free on the internet archive.
The stunt work was done by Yakima Canutt(he also directed it) probably the greatest stuntman of all time...he`s also the only person in this with an Oscar..
Linda Stirling was decades ahead of her time. She was no helpless damsel in distress. She was a real toughie. Lynda Carter and Scarlett Johansson had nothing on her.
1 of the few times you see both leads carrying pistols while exploring abandoned warehouse, instead of "Stay here!", he tells her, "Stand guard!", & she does just that. She just pulled him off the side of a building with a fire hose!
Fred mcmurry the American actor who stared in the film Double Indemnity is this Forbes Murray related in anyway resemblance in the faces I noticed anyone know if they are related. Great film All hell breaks loose fisticuffs very good fight sequence our hero must use up alot of energy in these films . What we have here is The hooded claw up to his bad tricks two no good mad scientist call in the lone ranger to the rescue.
News Notes: 1, At 27:47 Linda Stirling Shoots at Keene Duncan misses, but scares him off and saves Richard Bailey. Richard 0 -1 Linda. 2, At 41:41 Richard Bailey saves Linda Stirling by winding up the pulley switch and pulling up the rope. Richard 1 - 1 Linda . 3, At 1:05:36 Linda Stirling Shoots Henchman and saves Richard Bailey. Richard 1 - 2 Linda. 4, At 1:05:55 Richard Bailey rescues Linda Stirling and unties her from her bondage. Richard 2 - 2 Linda. 5, At 1:26:03 Linda Stirling rescues Richard Bailey from been squashed in a small room by opening the door in the nick of time. Richard 2 - 3 Linda. 6, At 1:40:50 Richard Bailey rescues Linda Stirling from the raging turbulent Sea Richard 3 - 3 Linda. 7, At 1:55:50 Linda Stirling rescues Richard Bailey by pulling up the rope where he was holding onto dangling from a high rise building. Richard 3 - 4 Linda. 8, At 3:11:18 Richard Bailey rescues Linda Stirling from a burning shack, unties her and Both run out. Richard 4 - 4 Linda. In conclusion Linda Stirling Shoots and kills Roy Barcroft, while Richard Bailey arrives seconds later escorting Keene Duncan into the room having captured him.
Yes, the only times I'm aware in any serial that the obligatory female companion didn't shrink into a corner or fall down and get knocked out when the going got rough.
@@danwesley5826 Yes. Even Chris-Craft quit making them like that. Now, they actually resemble Winnebagos. (I don't know exactly when Chris-Craft turned to fiberglass, but Winnebago Industries bought Chris-Craft in 2018.)
The famous stuntman Tom Steele started the practice of putting rubber tubing inside the hat band to keep it on the head. *The main reason for that was to keep the audience from seeing that it wasn't the actual actor doing the fighting.
@@leelarson107 thanks Mr. Larson for your info. I've thought something like this... maybe putting some kind of glue. But anyway, I enjoy these "oldies" very much!
WARNING! SPOILERS! Lance Reardon, the private detective "hero," was an idiot. He fingers the wrong guy and gets him killed, fumbles around and lets all the other innocent men get killed, and gets himself in at least a half dozen messes Claire has to bail him out of. He doesn't even kill the main bad guy - she does. She should have saved her money and done it all herself. She practically did anyway. Besides, it was only 1945. Why wasn't he in the service, battling Axis enemies? No wonder Claire didn't even kiss him once. What a jerk! Patrick Miano is right. Linda Stirling was a real woman hero way before her time who has never gotten the recognition she deserves for being the pioneer she was. She did it all without superpowers or a black belt in karate.
@@TheUglyVector That was common. Even then, they wouldn't allow most women heroes to get punched out or clubbed with a gun butt. A lot of mail heroes were knocked out in those serials too.
@@perniciouspete4986 Nick Charles solved murders with his wife Nora for over a decade starting in 1934, The Thin Man was such a success many other films followed their examples, some starring William Powell aka Nick. Nora made Myrna Loy Queen of Hollywood.
it was a long while back so i might be wrong - but i remember the villain being changed halfway through this. (in the early episodes that electric chair thing would make the pirate mephisto revert to one character but in the last episode he reverted to somebody else?) and that is why some sources say the pirate mephisto was higgins but others sources say it was braley? or were higgins and braley secretly the same person who both could transform into mephisto? or there was some other explanation given?
153,951 View's So Far: Movie Serial: Manhunt of Mystery Island. (1945). (49th Available Film Serial of the 1940s). 15 Chapters. Stars 🌟 Linda Stirling. Saturday, April 8 - 2023. Chapters 1 to 4. End: 1:08:07. Sunday, April 9 - 2023. Chapters 5 to 8. End: 2:06:07. Monday, April 10 - 2023. Chapters 9 to 12. End: 2:59:37. Tuesday, April 11 - 2023. Chapters 13 to 15. End: 3:39:43.
The ending is a little anticlimactic. But can we be sure….that, that was the REAL Lance Reardon, and not really Mephisto tranceformd and had switched places with Reardon ????
@@Outlier999 Linda Stirling's character shot Barcroft so she knew who the Bad Guy was !! Keene Duncan the secondary bad guy got arrested by Roy Bailey's Character. So it was always easy to tell who the bad Fellas were . Thumbs Up Richard Bailey and Linda Stirling 👍👍 v 👍
@@AtomicAgePictures I appreciate your problem, but the issue is likely costing you viewers and both you and YT lose potential revenew. Perhaps there's someone in the sales department who can help or at least direct you to someone who can. I love these old serials enough to put up with ads (to a point), and enough to want to see this channel flourish as much as possible.
@@unowen-nh9ovTo Quote Aristotle Onassis: "If Women did not exist all the money in the world would have no meaning" . In other words Aristotle Onassis HAD NO TIME FOR Homosexual men or Hetrosexual men !! Aristotle Onassis was interested ONLY in WOMEN !!😊
Video and audio quality is great for this vintage movie serial! Thanks for posting. I’m sick of watching the news and the shows on TV.
Glad you're enjoying it!
That fighting was worse than the UFC and not one black eye,bruise,cut or fat lip on any of them 😂😂😂 Was an enjoyable romp tho 👍
Those were the days!!!
Featuring Republic's great fights scenes and Lovely Linda Stirling Queen of the Serials
Oldies but Goodies, These were great movies, I watch them with my grandma and I absolutely got stuck on movies with a great story line, never boring, kept me wondering, fight scenes that were entertaining . I’m 58 now still watching the great movies of all times.
I wonder if "modern audiences" have an appreciation of these wonderful older films. I'm 61 and only recently got tired of there being "nothing on" when I started watching old (REALLY old) movies on UA-cam. Lots of choices, excellent prints, ability to pause, and all free! What a treasure!
I'm 65,
Mee too
Please keep these old serials coming I remember them from childhood.
🥰Thank you 👍Good old serial 🍿🥤🍫Nice to see Roy Barcroft , Forrest Taylor and other cast members not in a western movie 🤠🐴🐄🎥😃 Oct . 20 , 2023
This was an enjoyable serial, I liked it very much. The henchman was relentless to no end. That sport coat didn't receive one tear after all those knock down, drag out fights, amazing. This heroine in this one was a little bit harder. She got in there and got her hands dirty and was willing to blaze the villains if she got the chance. Good stuff.
Not 100% sure but I believe she played Zorro in her own serial.
Only 3 chapters in, hope Lance brought enough Brylcreem to cover his stay on the island!
I just discovered these old movies I use watch them at my grandmas whenever I was spending the night with her.. (yes dear readers I’m that old)
Only these weren’t considered old..
Whenever I stayed with her I would walk down to the theater and watch these serial movies so I could keep up with them.
And of course back then you could walk the city blocks without any worry.
And yes you could by Coke for a dime and cigarettes were only 45
cent’s and no I didn’t smoke back then but I would go down to the local store and pick some up for my Grandma. My mom would have flipped out if she knew..I don’t think she ever found out about that.
Having to go back to the movies every week to see the next series great memories 😊
I hope Claire married Lance so he could finally learn how to dress with some semblance of style.
Also, sure wish I had a magic hat like Lance had, stayed on through the thick of things, even several near drownings!
Fun flick!
Manhunt of Mystery Island is my all time fav movie serial- Mysterious Doctor Satan is a close second!
This are definitely good, but Spy Smasher is my favorite.
Maybe not the best Republic serial, but definitely not the worst and actually pretty decent. I hope somebody will upload a decent version of 1946's The Crimson Ghost (probably the last really good serial) to YT someday.
Mr Baily's Sports Coat deserves an Oscar!!
ikr?
This movie was so exciting, thanks so much for the download 🤗
Its nice to see the islands throughout the years,become modernized and up to date bu in a not too fast pace it gives islanders chances to accept andget used to changes,bless them!!!!!
Yes, just get right in there and reduce the tropical paradise to a nightmare of asphalt, concrete, and glass-and-steel monstrosities. Right. Keep it up until the whole world looks like that and a tree is something found only in the dictionary. Don't mind the foul air and contaminated water or the shortage of food coming from one acre left of arable soil. 💣💣💣💣💣💣💣💣💣💣💣💣💣💣💣💣💣💣💣💣💣💣💣
Captain Mephisto created a machine which can change a person's face, heal all wounds, and make them younger, stronger, and taller. Why does he need to turn to crime? He could legitimately make billions off of that machine alone.
... along with the super-device the Professor invented, hell,he'd be a god:
god of all villains.
Whatta concept.
Because there would be no story. These films were made to the individual who had fantasy
Perhaps it only works on him? Pathological narcissists NOT rational, perhaps the machine is damaging him, also, he's a pirate, criminal behavior is his baseline default. My brother is violent & has tantrums, I've threatened him with arrest & it doesn't slow him down for a moment, sociopaths gonna sociopath. & as mentioned, no villain? No movie.
@@Military-Museum-LP That's gotta be it...but man, if it were me, Hello Easy street! LOL!!!
Why did Capt M turn to crime? Because it was in the script, lol!
Captain Mephisto and his able bodied assistant is as determined as it gets. However the criminologist is more determined to rescue the heroine's father. Man can these dudes fight, knock out blow after blow a chin of freaking iron. The amazing thing about them is their stamina and no worst for wear after each knock down drag out fight. Love these serial, its like watching a cartoon series like GI Joe.
These people fight like drunken sailors coming into port
Cool Channel. Last I watched Spy Smasher series. Before Jackie Chan's awesome antics were these stunt actors from this era . Thank you so very much for uploading these treasures !
I love the collapsible furniture
Free Energy sent via air waves,,, sounds familiar.
I love these old serials, so much imagination 💭 and ingenuity that went into the making of them, fantastic.
Thanks for posting this awesome video. 😎👍👍👍🇬🇧
Years ago, the late Dick Clark featured scenes from this serial as an example of “ a hero 🦸♂️ who couldn’t do anything without his girlfriend.” They showed every scene where Linda Stirling saved Richard Bailey’s bacon 🥓 and he said, “Thanks, Claire.” They also noted that she, not the hero, killed the main villain. Clark and his cohost thought it was funny and kept repeating “Thanks, Claire” for the rest of the special. I was thinking “What a great role model for young women today.” She wasn’t a superhero 🦸♀️, but she sure acted like one 👍!
Have never seen this 1 before, but I recognize scenes that shows I grew up on would recycle, climactic boat chase in From Russia With Love (they also turned North By Northwest biplane pursuit into helicopter chase), or dunking Mrs. Peel in The Avengers in Murdersville, torturing female lead to get her to talk, how long has waterboarding existed?
@@Outlier999 Just watched Buster Crabbe as Red Barry, female lead intrepid girl reporter of course called Mississippi. When Red is kidnapped, she steals a police car (of course again), pursues the villains in a high speed chase, exchanges gunfire with them while still driving, eventually only way to stop her is they toss hero's body in her way, she avoids him & then (of course again) faints & things return to "normal" & hero rescues her carrying her off in his large strong manly arms (of course).
@@unowen-nh9ov Today she’d probably carry him. They have gone too far in the opposite direction, like when Scarlett Johansson takes out 20 guys in 15 seconds. No one is that good, man or woman. Stirring’s bravery and feats were realistic and believable.
@@Outlier999
You conviently overlook the fact that he saved her hide 4 times.
Sure Linda Stirling did more work in Serials than most Women in the 1930s and 1940s Serials, However she still got knocked out a number of times too !!
Thank you for posting these!
My goodness these two are with all ways getting into something, him. Always fighting and her getting kidnapped but they are cute.
Thanks!
James, thank you so much!!!
That is one big frickin' island !
Coastlines fading into the distant horizon in both directions. No one else knows of this place?
Thus Mystery Island & not Catalina & why there is no Kraft Mystery Island Salad Dressing.
I saw this serial when Republic Picture decided to make a condensed version of some the studios less known serials. This one entitled Captain Mephisto and the Transformation. machine.They sold these to TV stations there were called “century 66”
I really enjoyed Captains Memphis to! Dr. Tim Rasico M.D.
The Fistfights are so cool.
That’s due to Yakima Canutt who not coincidentally was a stuntman.
Best fight scene ever. Love the old fight choreography. Could watch it over and over.
They must have spent ages working on the fight scenes. Every move, angle carefully set-up.
I think 1 of Kane Richmond's later serials, someone commented fight scenes weren't done until EVERY piece of furniture on set was destroyed, here they even go for spears & art work, believe 1 of the directors was famous stunt guy.
Agree! Astonishing choreography, foley sound, and acrobatic athleticism. My initial reaction - the best or at least most entertaining I've ever seen! Normally, I just fast forward through them as they are so predictable, like WWF wrestling. I am only starting the movie and am refering so far to the fight from about 7:00. For the first time, I am hoping the whole movie is full of them! God's Love, Cinematic!
@@raphaelandrews3617 Two words... Worth it! :)
A long fall from the suspension bridge into the water..... He comes to the surface with his hat on. Amazing!
They just don't make hats like they used to!
@@AtomicAgePictures Red Barry series, they run Red off the road, his car is a rollover in multiple car collision, all the other drivers rally to rescue the hero, EVERY 1 of them wearing a hat. Or, as Myrna Loy put it in her memoirs, "Grab your hat & RUN!"
Linda Boyd:
It's amazing too that cgi planes crashed into the World Trade Centre in 2001 yet no debris fell on the outside.
Of course 9/11 and the Fall of the Towers Was an Inside Job, as INDEPENDENT EXPERTS HAVE CONFIRMED.
See David Icke's BOOK Alice in Wonderland and the World Trade Centre Disaster, Why the official is a Monumental lie, free on the internet archive.
"we may have a dr. jekyll/mr hyde scenario."
"do you really think so?"
"stranger things have happened."
i want to see the series about that
I could not stop watching this till the end!
Loved it! Thank you so much for
uploading 👍💖👏
Put it on to have a classic movie in the background, but I couldn't look away!
Republic was known for thier wild fight scenes...wreck the joint
The stunt work was done by Yakima Canutt(he also directed it) probably the greatest stuntman of all time...he`s also the only person in this with an Oscar..
He made quite a few westerns with John Wayne
Linda Stirling was decades ahead of her time. She was no helpless damsel in distress. She was a real toughie. Lynda Carter and Scarlett Johansson had nothing on her.
She also plays 3 dimensional chess.
@@brandex2011 How can she do that? She’s dead.
In this movie, she is very much alive and using chess pieces as clues.
@@brandex2011 Got it. Thanks.
1 of the few times you see both leads carrying pistols while exploring abandoned warehouse, instead of "Stay here!", he tells her, "Stand guard!", & she does just that. She just pulled him off the side of a building with a fire hose!
If one person could shoot straight , this would have been over after the first chapter.😅
Roy Barcroft playing another Leading Bad Guy in a 1940s Movie Serial.
Hollywood at its finest!
Thank you.
HIT COUNT....400.6 TRILLION FACE SHOTS..NOT ONE BRUSE...GREATEST MOVIE EVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Some serious fight scenes. I get winded just watching them fight. Good looking woman too, that helps. Fun stuff.
Super awesome thanks I love it.
Keith Kuhn
KK Motion Pictures
also on UA-cam
Good to see Retic Ruler of the Moon in another role.
Hectic...want one of those hats and suits, never comes off or gets damaged, even the woman's blouse....and that scream🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️
That outfit that Captain Mephisto wore was so cheesy looking , it looked like a very cheap Halloween party costume.
Linda Stirling is fantastic
Thanks, Claire.
Thanks Lance !!!!!
The Reardon character can't, apparently, hit the broad side of a barn with that .38.
Allen Watkins:
Roy Barcroft can't hit Bailey from point blank range when trying to hit him with a chair !!
Fred mcmurry the American actor who stared in the film Double Indemnity is this Forbes Murray related in anyway resemblance in the faces I noticed anyone know if they are related. Great film All hell breaks loose fisticuffs very good fight sequence our hero must use up alot of energy in these
films . What we have here is The hooded claw up to his bad tricks two no good mad scientist call in the lone ranger to the rescue.
237="is he badly hurt , no the spear just missed him.!"
News Notes:
1, At 27:47 Linda Stirling Shoots at Keene Duncan misses, but scares him off and saves Richard Bailey. Richard 0 -1 Linda.
2, At 41:41 Richard Bailey saves Linda Stirling by winding up the pulley switch and pulling up the rope. Richard 1 - 1 Linda .
3, At 1:05:36 Linda Stirling Shoots Henchman and saves Richard Bailey.
Richard 1 - 2 Linda.
4, At 1:05:55 Richard Bailey rescues Linda Stirling and unties her from her bondage.
Richard 2 - 2 Linda.
5, At 1:26:03 Linda Stirling rescues Richard Bailey from been squashed in a small room
by opening the door in the nick of time.
Richard 2 - 3 Linda.
6, At 1:40:50 Richard Bailey rescues Linda Stirling from the raging turbulent Sea
Richard 3 - 3 Linda.
7, At 1:55:50 Linda Stirling rescues Richard Bailey by pulling up the rope where he was
holding onto dangling from a high rise building.
Richard 3 - 4 Linda.
8, At 3:11:18 Richard Bailey rescues Linda Stirling from a burning shack, unties her and
Both run out. Richard 4 - 4 Linda.
In conclusion Linda Stirling Shoots and kills Roy Barcroft, while Richard Bailey arrives seconds later escorting Keene Duncan into the room having captured him.
Yes, the only times I'm aware in any serial that the obligatory female companion didn't shrink into a corner or fall down and get knocked out when the going got rough.
It's quite apparent to me the movie was sponsored by Rooms to Go. The first fight destroyed a lot of furniture.
Gold Movie Serial Number 05.
Linda Stirling.
Great job you guys gorgeous host she is so cute !!!!
0:51:24 Those “speedboats” were some real beauties. Don’t make them like that anymore.
wow...so true...the first true speed...JFK loved them...and other things.....
@@danwesley5826 Yes. Even Chris-Craft quit making them like that. Now, they actually resemble Winnebagos.
(I don't know exactly when Chris-Craft turned to fiberglass, but Winnebago Industries bought Chris-Craft in 2018.)
They don't make quality anymore because people will rather settle for cheaper goods from 'overseas' and not bother to maintain anything.
They do if you have the money to afford them. Most people don't, so they buy "Tupperware" boats.
Amazing how the hats remain in their heads...
The famous stuntman Tom Steele started the practice of putting rubber tubing inside the hat band to keep it on the head. *The main reason for that was to keep the audience from seeing that it wasn't the actual actor doing the fighting.
@@leelarson107 thanks Mr. Larson for your info. I've thought something like this... maybe putting some kind of glue. But anyway, I enjoy these "oldies" very much!
Un régal.
WARNING! SPOILERS! Lance Reardon, the private detective "hero," was an idiot. He fingers the wrong guy and gets him killed, fumbles around and lets all the other innocent men get killed, and gets himself in at least a half dozen messes Claire has to bail him out of. He doesn't even kill the main bad guy - she does. She should have saved her money and done it all herself. She practically did anyway. Besides, it was only 1945. Why wasn't he in the service, battling Axis enemies? No wonder Claire didn't even kiss him once. What a jerk! Patrick Miano is right. Linda Stirling was a real woman hero way before her time who has never gotten the recognition she deserves for being the pioneer she was. She did it all without superpowers or a black belt in karate.
She did get knocked out a bunch of times from being pushed. Lol
@@TheUglyVector That was common. Even then, they wouldn't allow most women heroes to get punched out or clubbed with a gun butt. A lot of mail heroes were knocked out in those serials too.
@@TheUglyVector So did a lot of male heroes in the serials.
Claire had greater motivation, it was her Dad who was missing, after all. Good thing Lance wasn't on the Front Lines, we woulda lost!
@@unowen-nh9ov Good point.
Punch ups galore and yet not so much as a bruise between them.
thanks Atomic I love the channel :D
AAP FTW!!!
The movie with the most fist fights ever.
They don't make dames like that any more.
What if the bad guy’s machine malfunctioned? And instead of turning into Mephisto, he turned into someone else? Or totally malformed?
There was one thing about the old fight scenes 🎬 that I could never understand. How come the hero’s hat 🎩 never 👎 fell off?
The cabin is on fire why would he go for the gag first. Just untie her and you both can run get the gag outside.
Still waitin for d end bar-line at end but No end in sight😎
Claire bumped off more people than anybody, including killing Mesphisto.
Yeah, she's quite a woman. Wouldn't want to date her, though: she'd beat my ass--and not in the good way.
You noticed that too? What did she need that dumb PI 🕵️♂️ for?
Yeah, so much for the feminist myth (lie) of no strong female roles in the movies, and this was 77 years ago.
@@perniciouspete4986 Nick Charles solved murders with his wife Nora for over a decade starting in 1934, The Thin Man was such a success many other films followed their examples, some starring William Powell aka Nick. Nora made Myrna Loy Queen of Hollywood.
@@Outlier999
Dumb PI ???
By my calculations he saved her hide 4 times, That's why she needed him !!
it was a long while back so i might be wrong - but i remember the villain being changed halfway through this.
(in the early episodes that electric chair thing would make the pirate mephisto revert to one character but in the last episode he reverted to somebody else?)
and that is why some sources say the pirate mephisto was higgins but others sources say it was braley?
or were higgins and braley secretly the same person who both could transform into mephisto? or there was some other explanation given?
I'll never tell!
@@AtomicAgePictures I'll tell, but I won't tell him.
WTJ("Wreck the joint") pro wrestling: we don't have to foot the bill just to kick @$$!!!
Thank you and God bless 🙏💓!!!
Thanks
Everybody's a pilot!
Claire kills captain mephiso
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Movie Serial: Manhunt of Mystery Island. (1945). (49th Available Film Serial of the 1940s).
15 Chapters.
Stars 🌟 Linda Stirling.
Saturday, April 8 - 2023. Chapters 1 to 4. End: 1:08:07.
Sunday, April 9 - 2023. Chapters 5 to 8. End: 2:06:07.
Monday, April 10 - 2023. Chapters 9 to 12. End: 2:59:37.
Tuesday, April 11 - 2023. Chapters 13 to 15. End: 3:39:43.
The ending is a little anticlimactic. But can we be sure….that, that was the REAL Lance Reardon, and not really Mephisto tranceformd and had switched places with Reardon ????
Bullets managemant is key
Richard Bailey sounds like he is addressing a townhall meeting.So monotone,he was no actor.
Bailey triumphed in the end and that's all that mattered .
Lance is alive
So he invented a giant steam gun that melts thru walls. 20:05 Where are they? Japan?
Mystery Island, NOT Japan in 1945, there'd be mushroom clouds!
Cliff hanger city lol
So many fist fights! Why can't we all just get along?
These guys all had more stamina than George Foreman in Zaire.
Philip, aren't you just the little SNOWFLAKE! Conflict is one of the first orders of Nature.
200 year old evil shape shifting pirate.
1:03:52
1:56:37
2:55:14
3:09:02
12:07 Looks like a tv camera.
Why did these people even bother owning guns?🤪
😘😘😘😘😘😘😘😘
hero bears resemblance to Dan Ackroyd!
I have trouble taking him seriously because he reminds me of Arthur Lake (Dagwood Bumstead).
Greek subtitles why not?😢
Sorry the original source did not come with subtitles, and I don't speak Greek.
Poor ending
The movie has a good plot, but the fists fights is boring after a while.
Hard to tell who the bad guy is.
That’s the point.
@@Outlier999 hehe
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Leaving the Comic Cracks aside, it was Roy Barcroft and Keene Duncan .
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Linda Stirling's character shot Barcroft so she knew who the Bad Guy was !!
Keene Duncan the secondary bad guy got arrested by Roy Bailey's Character.
So it was always easy to tell who the bad Fellas were .
Thumbs Up Richard Bailey and Linda Stirling 👍👍 v 👍
Why is it not losding
Might be a problem with one of the UA-cam servers. Please try again later.
I came to watch more garbage ads and a movie came on,......get rid of the effing ads every 3 minutes.....
Way to many adds...😣
Bitch to UA-cam, then.
3:10:02.
It says 335 iam out
Commercisl after commercial after commercial after...NOT WORTH IT.
I apologize but I don't have control over where UA-cam puts the commercials.
@@AtomicAgePictures I appreciate your problem, but the issue is likely costing you viewers and both you and YT lose potential revenew. Perhaps there's someone in the sales department who can help or at least direct you to someone who can. I love these old serials enough to put up with ads (to a point), and enough to want to see this channel flourish as much as possible.
@@glendrine You're the consumer, Chet. You're the one who should get off your butt and complain to UA-cam.
That 'Gay Pride' commercial is repulsive. Is this what you present as part of the 'Golden Oldies' movie world?
I have no control over what adds UA-cam places on my videos, or where or how many.
@@AtomicAgePictures UA-cam should be taken to Germany and tried for crimes against humanity.
As Dame Elizabeth Taylor put it, "Without gay men there would be no Hollywood!" 2 of her greatest co-stars & best friends were Monty & Rock.
@@unowen-nh9ovTo Quote Aristotle Onassis: "If Women did not exist all the money in the world would have no meaning" .
In other words Aristotle Onassis HAD NO TIME FOR Homosexual men or Hetrosexual men !!
Aristotle Onassis was interested ONLY in WOMEN !!😊
@@josephfinnegan151 Onassis was known to be bisexual.
4 hr of flit.ehhh