Happy Talk Like a Pirate Day! And this year, I'll be looking at a 400-year old scourge of piracy...the Ghost Who Walks himself, the Phantom! (It was supposed to be last year, but I didn't have enough time to do this justice.)
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(Originally posted on Channel Awesome on July 21, 2014) The Dark Knight makes his big-screen debut in Columbia Pictures's Batman, the first of two 1940s serials starring the Caped Crusader. In my review of The Adventures of Captain Marvel, I gave a brief overview of the serial genre as a whole, so I'm not going to do that here. Although a number of studios were involved in the production of serials, the three most prominent were Republic, Universal, and Columbia, each with their own claim to fame. Republic's tended to have the best scripts and fight scenes, Universal's were more plot driven and boasted impressive production values, and Columbia's are...infamous for their really low budgets and quality. Columbia's two Batman serials had the misfortune to be made after the studio's corner-cutting policy was instituted, but it didn't stop them from being quite popular.
(Originally posted on Channel Awesome on February 3, 2014)
The live-action comic book adaptation is born in Adventures of Captain Marvel, widely considered to be among the best serials ever made. |
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