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Burn'em Up Barnes - Chapters 1 - 12
2 DVD Set

The daring racecar driver, "Burn 'Em Up "Barnes, (Jack Mulhall) meets failing business owner Marjorie Temple (Lola Lane) and becomes her partner. What Marjorie doesn't know is that the land she inherited from her father is worth millions in oil and that the devious racetrack owner, John Drummond (Jason Robards, Sr.), and his cronies are out to steal it. With help from Barnes and his young friend, Bobbie (Frankie Darro), Marjorie faces catastrophe, episode after episode! The racing stunts, crack-ups and fights are top notch in one of Mascot Pictures' most action-filled cliffhangers.

Starring: Frankie Darro, Lola Lane, Jack Mulhall
1934 • BW • 12 Chapters (Packaging may vary)

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Captain America - 15 Chapters
2 DVD Set

Superhero Captain America battles the evil forces of the archvillain called The Scarab, who poisons his enemies and steals a secret device capable of destroying buildings by sound vibrations. In this serial Captain America is also the District Attorney and his assistant is the beautiful Lorna Gray. Together, they are constantly in and out of trouble as they pursue the Scarab in this nail-biter!

Starring: Dick Purcell, Lorna Gray, Lionel Atwill
1944 • BW • 15 Chapters (Packaging may vary)

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Captain Marvel - 12 Chapters
2 DVD Set

On a scientific expedition to Siam young Billy Batson is given the ability to change himself into the super-powered Captain Marvel by the wizard Shazam, who tells him his powers will last only as long as the Golden Scorpion idol is threatened. Finding the idol, the scientists realize it could be the most powerful weapon in the world and remove the lenses that energize it, distributing them among themselves so that no one would be able to use the idol by himself. Back in the US, Billy Batson, as Captain Marvel, wages a battle against an evil, hooded figure, the Scorpion, who hopes to accumulate all five lenses, thereby gaining control of the super-powerful weapon.

Starring: Tom Tyler, Frank Coghlan Jr., William Benedict, Louise Currie
1941 • BW • 12 Chapters

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Commando Cody - Enemies of the Universe
2 DVD Set

Commando Cody: Sky Marshal of the Universe (or Commando Cody) was a science fiction semi-serial consisting of twelve 30-minute episodes, released theatrically by Republic Pictures Corporation in 1953. It originally was filmed as a limited television series, but union contract problems forced Republic to play it in theaters first. The episodes built on each other, and were intended to be shown in chronological order like the episodes of any other serial, but lacked the cliffhanger endings which had characterized serials for several decades.

Starring: Judd Holden, Aline towne, William Shallert
1953 • BW • 12 Chapters

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Dick Tracy - Chapters 1 - 12
2 DVD Set

A master criminal called The Spider puts the famous detective's brother under a hypnotic spell and turns him against Dick.

Starring: Ralph Byrd
1937 • BW • 20 minutes per chapter

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Don Winslow of the Navy
2 DVD Set

US naval officer Don Winslow is given command of the islands near Pearl Harbor. There, naval intelligence has discovered a ring of saboteurs and enemy agents who are trying to destroy ships carrying supplies to the troops stationed in the islands and sabotage the war effort. He sets out with his trusted assistant and two beautiful women to find the mastermind behind these nefarious activities. Filled with incredible suspense and spectacular maritime action sequences, Don Winslow of the Navy is an unbeatable action-adventure!

Starring: Don Terry; Ann Nagel & Claire Dodd
1942 • BW • 12 Chapters

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Fighting Marines
2 DVD Set

U.S. Marines, attempting to build a landing field on Halfway Island in the Pacific, unwittingly endanger the secret hideout of a mysterious figure. Corporal Larry Grant and Sergeant "Mac" McGowan, of the Uniteed States Marine Corps, are rival for the love of Frances Schiller, but team up to hunt down "The Tiger Shark," a mad, scientific wizard who is holding Sergeant William Schiller, Frances' brother, a prisoner on a wild, jungle island in the Pacific.

Starring:Grant Withers; Adrian Morris; Ann Rutherford and Jason Robards
1935 • BW • 12 Chapters

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Flaming Frontiers
2 DVD Set

Tom Grant has found a rich gold vein and Bart Eaton is after it. Tom's sister Mary heads for the gold fields and Eaton and his men follow. Eaton teams up with Ace Daggett who plans to doublecross him and get the gold for himself. They frame Tom for murder and then try to get him to sign over his claim. The famous scout Tex Houston is on hand, escaping the attempts on his life, saving Mary from various perils, and trying to bring in the real killer and clear Tom.Tex must battle the two criminals' murderous schemes through fifteen death-defying chapters.

Starring: Johnny Mack Brown, Eleanor Hansen, John Archer, William Royle
1938 • BW • 15 Chapters

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Flash Gordon Conquerors the Universe - Chapters 1 - 12 - 2 DVD Set

Flash Gordon (forever personified by Buster Crabbe), Dr. Zarkov and Dale Arden return in the third and final adventure of this immortal science fiction series. Flash must voyage to the planet Mongo, to search for the origin of The Purple Death, a fatal disease that has been wreaking havoc on Earth. Emperor Ming the Merciless is the culprit who, with his villainous army, strikes at Flash with death-dealing futuristic weaponry including atomic ray guns, guided missiles and horrifying explosive mechanical men. Flash Gordon's action and special effects were considered quite remarkable for it's time and set the standard for serials to come.

Starring: Buster Crabbe
1940 • BW • 12 Chapters

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G-Men Never Forget - Chapters 1 - 15
2 DVD Set

Shortly before he put on the mask of the Lone Ranger, Clayton Moore strapped on the revolver of ace Federal Agent Ted O'Hara in this rousing serial adventure. Summoned from Washington, O'Hara is asked to stop the crime spree of excaped underworld czar Victor Murkland. He doesn't know it yet, but the man he's after is as close as a handshake. Murkland has undergone plastic surger, kidnapped the police commissioner and taken over the job. Before O'Hara wises to the ruse, he'll contend with raging torrents, runaway vehicles, aerial bombings, posionous gases and more...

1947 • BW • 12 Chapters
Starring: Clayton Moore, Roy Barcroft, Ramsay Ames.

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Government Agents vs. Phantom Legion- Chapters 1 - 12
2 DVD Set

The year was 1951, and America's emotions were on edge. Politicians warned of Communist infiltrators. And the spread of atomic secrets posed an ominous new threat. In so feverish a climate, Saturday matinee fans were more than ready for the excitement and intrigue of Government Agents vs. Phantom Legion. This explosive serial adventure was promoted as "the top-secret story of the boldest robbery in the histroy of the FBI. It's 12 white-knuckle chapters that takes cliffhanger fans to the brink of doom.

Starring: Walter Reed, Mary Ellen Kay, Dick Curtis, John Pickard
1951 • BW • 12 Chapters

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The Great Alaskan Mystery Chapters 1 - 13
2 DVD Set

An inventor creates a secret weapon that Nazis are anxious to steal in this action-packed vintage serial. During a perilous voyage to Alaska, a renegade ship captain and a Nazi agent stop at nothing to steal the Peritron, a powerful ray gun developed by an American scientist for the U.S. war effort. Marine commando Jim Hudson (Milburn Stone), the scientist's beautiful daughter Ruth (Marjorie Weaver) and their pal Grit (Fuzzy Knight) come face-to-face with an avalanche of natural disasters and man-made horrors - poison gas, polar bears, ship wrecks, plane crashes and of course, murder - in one cliffhanging episode after another!!!

Starring: Milburn Stone, Grit 'Fuzzy' Knight, Marjorie Weaver
1941 • BW • 13 Chapters (Packaging may vary)

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The Green Hornet Chapters 1 - 13
2 DVD Set

In 1939, Universal released the first movie serialization of the popular radio series, "The Green Hornet". Starring Gordon Jones as the Hornet and Keye Luke as Kato. Wade Boteler as Mike Axford and Anne Nagle as Lenore Case
Britt Reid (Gordon Jones) has just taken control of his father’s newspaper, “The Daily Sentinel” but is unsure about how he wants to run it until there is a horrific accident with a new underwater tunnel being constructed with what appears to be shoddy material. After he quickly publishes a scathing editorial about obvious corruption involved with the project, The Syndicate, a criminal organization separated into twelve different operations, decides to have Reid removed. .

Starring: Gordon Jones, Keye Luke
1939 • BW • 13 Chapters

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The Green Hornet Strike Again
Chapters 1 - 15 - 2 DVD Set

Newspaper publisher Britt Reid (Warren Hull) has decided to take a vacation in Hawaii to relax after the excitement of his previous adventures as the Green Hornet. Joining him is his faithful valet and friend Kato (Keye Luke). While Reid is having fun in the sun, and enjoying the company of socialite Gloria Manning (Jeanne Kelly), his paper The Daily Sentinel, was being run by his chief editor Gunnigan. Unfortunately soon after Britt left, Gunning was hit by a car and the paper fell into the control of head of advertising Harper (William Forest).But Harper is actually part of the criminal Syndicate. The special effects are well done as cars are rolled down hill sides, buildings are set ablaze, and the climax features a huge safe door blown off it’s hinges. But for all that, the simple, inexpensive, and realistic looking gas gun effect is still the coolest thing about the Green Hornet. Phhtt! Cough cough! Thud!

Starring: Warren Hull, Keye Luke
1939 • BW • 15 Chapters

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Holt of the Secret Service Chapters 1 - 15
2 DVD Set

Tough talking, quick-fisted Secret Service agent Jack Holt infiltrates a gang of counterfeiters who are flooding the market with undetectable phony bills. A shadowy criminal syndicate has kidnapped one of the government's best engravers to print the bogus currency, and Holt has been called up to destroy the operation from the inside. Posing as a dangerous criminal, Jack gains entrance to the gang's remote mountain hideout, bringing fellow agent Kay Drew along. Operating among the enemy, Holt and Drew struggle to keep their true identities from being revealed through fifteen exciting chapters.

Starring: Jack Holt, Tristram Coffin
1941 • BW • 15 Chapters (Packaging may vary)

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Jesse James Rides Again - Chapters 1 - 13
2 DVD Set

This serial focuses on Jesse James as he flees from the law after being wrongfully accused of leading the historic 1876 Northfield, Minnesota bank robbery.

Starring: Clayton Moore
1947 • BW • 13 Chapters

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Jungle Girl - Chapters 1 - 15
2 DVD Set

In 1941 Republic thrilled audiences with perhaps the best jungle serial ever produced. This thrilling adventure was loosely based on the famous novel Jungle Girl by Edgar Rice Burroughs. It starred the very beautiful Frances Gifford as Nyoka, with Tom Neal as the male hero Jack Stanton, and Trevor Bardette and Gerald Mohr as their villainous adversaries. Jungle Girl was packed with thrilling cliffhangers as opposing sides fought from chapter to chapter for a fortune in diamonds hidden in the African jungle. With both Helen Thurston and David Sharpe providing incredible stunt work, Gifford was able to swing through the jungle on vines with the agility of Tarzan, dive from cliffs into alligator-filled lakes, wrestle with man-eating lions, and battle quicksand and poison gas throughout all fifteen exciting episodes!

Starring: Frances Gifford, Tom Neal
1941 • BW • 15 Chapters

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Jungle Jim - Chapters 1 - 12
2 DVD Set

This set contains 12 chapters of the popular 1930's serial that was based on the comic strip created by Alex Raymond (FLASH GORDON). Jungle Jim (Grant Withers) travels to Africa in search of Joan (Betty Jane Rhodes), a rich young lady who was reported missing in the jungle. In his findings, Jim discovers that Joan has since become the leader of a tribe and has been under the evil spell of The Cobra (Henry Brandon). Eventually, Jim helps Joan out of the spell, leaving the two fighting for their lives en route to freedom.

Starring: Grant Withers, Betty Jane Rhodes, Raymond Hatton
1936 • BW • 12 Chapters (Packaging may vary)

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The Law of the Wild - Chapters 1 - 12
2 DVD Set

Rex, a wild stallion, and Rinty, a police dog, are pals. Their master , John Sheldon, is framed for murder, and Alice Ingram plans to race Rex for money to pay for John's legal defense. Meantime, Frank Nolan, who has falsely accused John, sets out to steal Rex for himself.

Starring: Rex, Rin Tin Tin Jr., Ben Turpin, Bob Custer
1934 • BW • 12 Chapters (Packaging may vary)

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The Lightning Warrior - Chapters 1 - 12
2 DVD Set

A Rin-Tin-Tin serial presented in 12 episodes. The mysterious Wolf Man is terrorizing settlers in a western town. With the help of Rinty, young Jimmy Carter unmasks the Wolf Man and foils his evil plot.

Starring: Rin Tin Tin, Frank Darro
1931 • BW • 12 Chapters (Packaging may vary)

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The Lone Defender - Chapters 1 - 12
2 DVD Set

A prospector is murdered by The Cactus Kid and his gang, who hope to find the murdered man's goldmine. The miner's dog, Rin-Tin-Tin, recognizes the killers, who thereafter seek to use the dog to locate the lost mine. With the help of a government agent and a young girl, Rinty saves the mine and brings the bad guys to justice.

Starring: Rin Tin Tin, Walter Miller, June Marlowe
1934 • BW • 12 Chapters (Packaging may vary)

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The Lost City
2 DVD Set

An evil scientist plots to take over the world from his base in Africa, where he has invented a machine that can cause earthquakes.

Starring: William "Stage" Boyde, Kane Richmond, Claudia Bell
1935 • BW • 12 Chapters

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The Phantom Creeps
2 DVD Set

12 SPINE-SHIVERING ACTION THUNDERBOLTS! Sinister scientists...foreign spies...federal agents...and a pretty girl...crashing through amazing adventures! A military intelligence officer and a pretty reporter try to find a scientist whose inventions can destroy the world.

Starring: Bela Lugosi, Robert Kent, Dorothy Arnold
1995 • BW • 12 Chapters

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Radar Men From the Moon - Chapters 1 - 12
2 DVD Set

Strategic targets on Earth are being destroyed by an unknown weapon. Government security head Henderson suspects it's an "atomic ray" originating from the moon! He assigns Commando Cody, scientist and man of action with a secret flying suit, to investigate. Soon, Cody is battling Earth thugs in the pay of Krog the moon man and making trips in his experimental rocket to the moon itself, in a perilous and all but singlehanded effort to thwart the planned invasion of Earth.

Starring: George Wallace, Aline Towne, Roy Barcroft, Clayton Moore
1952 • BW • 12 Chapters

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Radio Patrol - Chapters 1 - 12
2 DVD Set

A young radio cop and a beautiful girl try to stop an international criminal gang from getting their hands on the formula for a new bulletproof steel.

1937 • BW • Approx 20 minutes per chapter.
Starring: Grant Withers, Cathrine Hughes, Mickey Rentschler

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Riders of Death Valley
2 DVD Set

In the mining town of Panamint, Dick Benton and his Riders of Death Valley keep an eye on crooked businessman Joseph Kirby and his gang. Billed by Universal as "The Million Dollar Serial," Riders of Death Valley unfolds over fifteen thrilling chapters.

1941 • BW • 15 Chapters
Starring:Lon Chaney Jr., Leo Carillo, Buck Jones

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Scouts to the Rescue
2 DVD Set

THE BOY SCOUTS TO THE RESCUE! See them turn the side of savage battle between six guns and whistling Indian arrows fired from ambush! Eagle Scout Bruce Scott, leader of Martinsville Troop Number One, and his pack set off in search of lost treasure.

Starring: Jackie Cooper, Vondell Darr, Edwin Stanley
1938 • BW • 12 Chapters

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Sea Raiders
2 DVD Set

The Dead End Kids go after a gang known as the Sea Raiders, which is sinking Allied shipping.

Starring: Billy Halop, Huntz Hall, Gabriel Dell
1941 • BW • 12 Chapters

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Secret Agent X-9
2 DVD Set

American, Chinese and Australian agents join forces to stop the Nazis from obtaining the formula for synthetic fuel

Starring: Lloyd Bridges, Jan Wiley, Keye Luke
1945 • BW • 13 Chapters.

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Shadow of Chinatown
2 DVD Set

One of the longest film serials ever produced, THE SHADOW OF CHINATOWN stars Bela Lugosi as the nefarious Victor Poten, a man who possesses mysterious powers and is hired by a ruthless dragon lady to help her gain wealth and power.

Starring: Bela Lugosi & Joan Barclay
1936 • BW • 15 Chapters.

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SOS Coast Guard - Chapters 1 - 12
2 DVD Set

Dashing Coast Guard Lieutenant Terry Kent (Ralph Byrd) is determined to stop the villainous Boroff (Bela Lugosi), who has invented a disintegrating gas that's capable of world destruction. Follow Kent through 12 exciting chapters of cliffhanging suspense as he pursues Boroff in a desperate race against time. Republic Pictures loaded SOS Coast Guard with action and exceptional special effects to create one of the best serials of all time.

1937 • BW • 12 Chapters
Starring: Bela Lugosi, Ralph Byrd

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Terry and the Pirates - Chapters 1 - 15
2 DVD Set

Of all the early radio shows adopted from the classic newspaper comic pages in the '30s and '40s, none was more intriguing or exciting than the action-packed tales of Terry and the Pirates. Columbia Pictures brought Terry and the Pirates to the screen in fifteen thrill-packed episodes in 1940 featuring an excellent cast of screen favorites.

Starring: William Tracy, Granville Owen, Joyce Bryant
1940 • BW • 15 Chapters

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The Vigilantes Are Coming
2 DVD Set

A masked hero called "The Eagle" leads California ranchers in a struggle against Russian Cossacks who are plotting to take over California and turn it into a Russian colony.

Starring: Robert Livingston, Kay Hughes, Guinn 'Big Boy' Williams
1936 • BW • 12 Chapters

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The Whispering Shadow
2 DVD Set

A mysterious criminal known as The Whispering Shadow commits crimes by means of a gang he controls by television and radio rays...

Starring: Bela Lugosi, Viva Tattersall, Malcolm McGregor
1933 • BW • 12 Chapters

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Zombies of the Stratosphere - Chapters 1 - 12
2 DVD Set

Zack Moseley's famous comic-strip character comes roaring to life in this thrill-packed serial. Daredevil stunt pilot Smilin' Jack Martin takes on the air war in China during the darkest days of WWII.

1943 • BW • 12 Chapters
Starring: Tom Brown, Rose Hobart, Edgar Barrier, Sidney Toler, Keye Luke.

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Zorro's Fighting Legion
2 DVD Set

The legendary masked swordsman Zorro dodges a variety of deathtraps, including exploding barns, runaway elevators and avalanches, in his effort to thwart the insidious plan of armored bad guy Don Del Oro to rule Mexico.

Starring: Reed Hadley, Shelia Darcy, William Corson
1939 • BW • 12 Chapters

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Zorro Rides Again
2 DVD Set

The California-Yucatan Railroad, being built for the good of Mexico, is under siege by a gang of terrorists hoping to force its sale. A modern-day descendant of the famous masked avenger rides into action to prevent a greedy industrialist from sabotaging the California-Yucatan railroad. Can one black-clad man on horseback defeat a gang supplied with airplanes and machine guns?

Starring: John Carroll & Noah Beery
1937 • BW • 12 Chapters

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