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Customer Review: Best of the serals
Honorable men vs. pure evil. Plenty of action, motorcycles, airplanes, fighting the bad guys, etc, but over and above that you come to care what happens to the characters. The last chapter will not disappoint. I discovered this serial in 1949, and never forgot it. Showed it to my kids (in 16mm) in the 70's and last year to my grandkids. Nobody was disappointed. Buy it and enjoy.
Customer Review: Ahead of its time
From his Stealth aircraft, the Lightning, in his Darth Vader garb, declares in Chapter Two that he will dictate his "will to the fools down below with their armies, their battleships and their guns." Sound familiar? I saw this film when we were two weeks into the Gulf War, and the parallel to George Bush Senior is irresistable. And the Marines in this serial are opposed to the Lightning. The movie is a protest against American foreign policy. Chapter One begins with the words "Armaments", "Munitions" "War" flashing as a building is demolished. I could not help but think of the Persian Gulf as I saw the film during that military campaign. Remember too that the Marines are portrayed and comport themselves as gentlemen. The civility in the film stands in contrast to the way we abuse each other in present everyday life. It's fun, campy, and relevant.


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