The Phantom Empire (1935)

19353h 59mdir. Otto Brower, B. Reeves EasonUnited Statesfantasy filmscience fiction film

With Gene Autry, Frankie Darro, Betsy King Ross, Dorothy Christy, Wheeler Vivian Oakman

Directed by Otto Brower, B. Reeves Eason

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The Phantom Empire is a 1935 American Western serial film directed by Otto Brower and B. Reeves Eason and starring Gene Autry, Frankie Darro, and Betsy King Ross. This 12-chapter Mascot Pictures serial combined the Western, musical and science-fiction genres. The duration of the first episode is 30 minutes, while that of the rest is about 20 minutes. The serial film is about a singing cowboy who stumbles upon an ancient subterranean civilization living beneath his own ranch that becomes corrupted by unscrupulous greedy speculators from the surface. In 1940, a 70-minute feature film edited from the serial was released under the titles Radio Ranch or Men with Steel Faces. This was Gene Autry's

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