The Phantom Creeps
1939 film by Ford Beebe / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Phantom Creeps is a 1939 12-chapter science fiction horror serial starring Bela Lugosi as mad scientist Doctor Zorka, who attempts to rule the world by creating various elaborate inventions. In a dramatic fashion, foreign agents and G-Men try to seize the inventions for themselves.[1]
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Directed by | Ford Beebe Saul A. Goodkind |
Screenplay by | George Plympton Basil Dickey |
Story by | Wyllis Cooper |
Produced by | Henry MacRae |
Starring | Béla Lugosi Dorothy Arnold Robert Kent |
Cinematography | Jerry Ash William A. Sickner |
Edited by | Irving Birnbaum Joseph Gluck Alvin Todd |
Production company | Universal Pictures |
Distributed by | Universal Pictures |
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Running time | 265 minutes (12 chapters) |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
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It is the 112th serial released by Universal Pictures and the 44th to have sound. It was adapted in DC's Movie Comics #6, cover date September–October 1939, the final issue of that title.[2]
In 1949, to broadcast on television, the 265-minute serial was edited to a 78-minute feature film.[3]