#Republic Pictures

[driveintheaterofthemind]

Vintage Poster - Son Of Zorro

Republic (1947)

#Posters #Film #Son Of Zorro #Zorro #Pulp #Vintage #Art #Republic Pictures #Republic #Pulp Art #Pulp Illustration #Pulp Heroes #Cliffhangers #Serials #Westerns #1947 #1940s #40s

[thepopculturearchivist]

LIBERTY, March 20, 1943

#movie ad #vintage advertising #vintage advertisement #1940s #roy rogers #republic pictures #singing cowboy #1943

[chernobog13]

Ray "Crash" Corrigan (the name of both the actor and the character he played) in The Undersea Kingdom (1936), a twelve episode movie serial from Republic Pictures set in the underworld Kingdom of Atlantis.

He's about to be smashed into a wall or something while strapped to the Dreadnaught, Atlantis' lone tank. The tank is driven by the villainous Captain Haduk (who you can see peeking out the window), played by a pre-The Wolfman Lon Chaney Jr.

The Undersea Kingdom was Republic's response to the tremendous success that Universal had with its first Flash Gordon serial, released the same year. However, The Undersea Kingdom had the lowest budget of any Republic serial, just shy of $82,000 (although it ran over budget and eventually cost $99,000), whereas the budget for Flash Gordon was $350,000. And boy, you can definitely notice the difference between the two!

Ironically, Corrigan appeared in Flash Gordon in an ape costume as a creature known as an orangopoid. Much of his early and late acting career was spent playing gorillas (or similar creatures) in his own suits.

I imagine Corrigan had to remove his helmet a lot while filming The Undersea Kingdom when going in and out of buildings/rooms. He was 6'2" tall, and that fin on the helmet added close to 2 feet to his height. It probably made stuntwork especially challenging, too.

#The Undersea Kingdom #Ray “Crash” Corrigan #Captain Haduk #Lon Chaney Jr. #Dreadnaught #Atlantis #Republic Pictures #movie serial

[oldshowbiz]

Republic Pictures presents Marie Windsor in No Man's Woman (1955)

#b movie #second feature #marie windsor #republic pictures #Youtube

[brokehorrorfan]

Republic Pictures Horror Collection will be released on May 21 via Kino Lorber. The two-disc set features four horror films produced by Republic Pictures: The Lady and the Monster, The Phantom Speaks, The Catman of Paris, and Valley of the Zombies.

1944's The Lady and the Monster is directed by George Sherman and written by Dane Lussier and Frederick Kohner, based on Curt Siodmak's 1942 novel Donovan's Brain. Vera Ralston, Richard Arlen, and Erich von Stroheim star.

1945's The Phantom Speaks is directed by John English and written by John K. Butler. Richard Arlen, Stanley Ridges, Lynne Roberts, Tom Powers, Charlotte Wynters, and Jonathan Hale star.

1946's The Catman of Paris is directed by Lesley Selander and written by Sherman L. Lowe. Carl Esmond, Lenore Aubert, Adele Mara, Douglass Dumbrille, Gerald Mohr, and Fritz Feld star.

1946's Valley of the Zombies is directed by Philip Ford and written by Dorrell McGowan and Stuart E. McGowan. Robert Livingston, Adrian Booth, Ian Keith, Thomas E. Jackson, Charles Trowbridge, and Earle Hodgins star.

All four films have been have been scanned in 4K by Paramount Pictures. Special features are listed below.

Special features:

The Lady and the Monster audio commentary by film historian Stephen Bissette (new)

The Phantom Speaks audio commentary by film historian Tim Lucas

The Catman of Paris audio commentary by film historians David Del Valle and Miles Hunter (new)

Valley of the Zombies audio commentary by film historians David Del Valle and Miles Hunter (new)

Valley of the Zombies audio commentary by film historian Tim Lucas

The Lady and the Monster interview with film historians Tim Lucas and Steven Bissette

In The Lady and the Monster, a scientist (Erich von Stroheim) and his two assistants (Vera Hruba Ralston, Richard Arlen) keep a dead criminal's brain alive. In The Phantom Speaks, the vengeful spirit of an executed killer takes possession of a scientist to take revenge on those who wronged him, and a newspaper reporter becomes suspicious. In The Catman of Paris, an amnesiac Frenchman (Carl Esmond) blames himself for deeds done with the mark of a beast. In Valley of the Zombies, a woman falls under the hypnotic spell of a resurrected madman.

Pre-order Republic Pictures Horror Collection.

#republic pictures #the lady and the monster #the phantom speaks #the catman of paris #valley of the zombies #kino lorber #dvd #gift #horror #40s horror #1940s horror #erich von stroheim #curt siodmak #richard arlen #robert livingston

[vintagegeekculture]

Hi, I need information about a movie I couldnt find anything on the internet 1967 the purple monster Strike I watched the series there are some pictures form series like you published but l can't see it in the series?

There's a reason those images are not in the serial itself: the Purple Monster Strikes was chopped up and stock footage from it was used in the 1949 serial Radar Men from the Moon. The images from it come from that serial.

Republic Pictures were almost like predecessors to the great Roger Corman, Haim Saban, and the Shaw Brothers in their skinflint tactics straddled the borderline between asshole and creative (though I certainly wouldn't want to work for any of them). For example, Republic Pictures had Roy Barcroft wear the exact same outfit in Radar Men from the Moon, playing a similar villain character in a completely different movie, in the exact same weird space outfit, so that they could cut in footage of him from Purple Monster Strikes to save money and pad out the length of a 12-episode serial. The trouble is that Roy Barcroft gained a bit of weight between 1945 and 1949, so you can always tell which was Purple Monster footage and which wasn't. I think that might have been why they had him sit down behind a desk an awful lot in Radar Men (shades of late period, physically inactive Steven Seagal!)

In the days before repeated viewing on home video, nobody noticed, and the serial creators were counting on the fact the kid audience weren't paying attention too closely, so they could "cheat" quite a bit (as Annie Wilkes screeched out in Misery).

The reason you say it's a 1966 serial is that, for 60s television syndication (which is almost assuredly where the baby boom generation, notably Spielberg and George Lucas, discovered the serials), they were chopped up into movie length in order to cheaply show new material on television. It is stunningly easy to cut a serial like Undersea Kingdom to movie length, since most of their episodes tend to just go back and forth in repetition.

It's actually kind of stunning how much the urge to re-air cheap old material from the 30s and 40s defined the earliest generations of television watchers a decade later in the 60s. For example, most fans of the Three Stooges who discovered them in the 50s-60s fell in love with them because their 30s shorts, designed to be a shown before a feature before television existed, were the perfect length to be packaged as a cheap TV series. Same thing with the Johnny Weismuller Tarzan movies. Notably, "Saturday Morning Cartoons" started off as just a time to cheaply re-air old Warner Brothers shorts (Bugs Bunny, etc).

We like to think that we are the first generation that is "held hostage" to the cultural totems of a past generation, but the first generation of TV viewers were essentially just watching the same thing that their parents were in the 30s and 40s.

The world of 60s television syndication deals is fascinating. It's amazing how NBC once built their entire programming schedule around the fact they got the rights to broadcast James Bond movies.

#serials #30s #cliffhangers #television history #republic pictures

[leviathan138]

#misfits #the Crimson Ghost #republic pictures #cyclotrode x #film serial #the scarlet shadow

[fitsofgloom]

Serial Thriller

#the masked marvel #tom steele #republic pictures #vintage serial #vintage pulp #1943

[rickchung]

Snack Shack (dir. Adam Rehmeier).

Conor Sherry and Gabriel LaBelle star as slightly douchey best friends in early-'90s Nebraska City coming up with petty schemes to make money, drink beer, avoid trouble, and impress girls. On the surface, the typical teen summer movie shenanigans seem lightweight but reveal more emotional complexities to the immature characters slyly through adolescent adventures hanging out at the public pool. It's a good time to side-steps the usual perils of the less evolved era its set in.

#snack shack #mika abdalla #conor sherry #gabriel labelle #t-steet #mrc #mrc film #nick robinson #reviews #features #movie #movies #movie review #film #film review #teen movie #adam rehmeier #adam carter rehmeier #republic pictures #paramount #paramount pictures #t-street productions #gillian vigman #david costabile

[kekwcomics]

THE FIGHTING MARINES (Mascot Pictures, 1935)

The last serial produced by Mascot before it was bought out and merged with other studios to become Republic Pictures. It features the masked villain, The Tiger Shark.

#republic #republic pictures #republic serials #1930s pulp #30s pulp #pulp #action #action adventure #serials #movie serials #1930s movies #30s movies #1930s film #30s film

[driveintheaterofthemind]

Vintage Poster - Undersea Kingdom

Republic (1950)

#Posters #Film #Undersea Kingdom #Cliffhangers #Crash Corrigan #Science Fiction #Vintage #Art #Serials #Republic Pictures #Republic #1950 #1950s #50s

[thepopculturearchivist]

LIBERTY, February 12, 1944

#movie ad #vintage advertising #vintage advertisement #1940s #roy rogers #republic pictures #Ruth Terry #singing cowboy #1944

[chernobog13]

SPOILER ALERT: No one wearing anything even close to this costume appears in this serial.

#Commando Cody: Sky Marshal of the Universe #Commando Cody #movie serials #Republic Pictures

[oldshowbiz]

The map of the Republic Studios lot.

Originally built by Mack Sennett, it was later used for Gilligan’s Island in the 1960s, The Mary Tyler Moore Show in the 1970s, Seinfeld in the 1990s, and it remains active today.

#studio city #san fernando valley #republic pictures #backlot #hollywood studios

[imkeepinit]

Movie poster by an unknown artist for the 1953 12-part serial Canadian Mounties vs. Atomic Invaders from Republic Pictures. 

#movie poster #Canadian Mounties vs Atomic Invaders #Republic Pictures #Cold War #1953 movies #serial movies #Bill Henry #Susan Morrow

[movie--posters]

#the quiet man #1950s #50's #tv #movies #movie poster #maureen o'hara #john wayne #barry fitzgerald #film #poster #movie #picture #john ford #movies and films #ireland #usa #republic pictures