The Serial Squadron Cinema Cliffhanger Archive
The home on the web of the original cinema superhero, Western and sci-fi cliffhangers
that inspired STAR WARS and the Hollywood comic book hero blockbusters of today.
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Now Playing: PERILS OF NYOKA Chapter 1: Desert Intrigue
Restored by the Serial Squadron, with original opening titles
Featuring Kay Aldridge as Nyoka the Jungle Girl, Clayton Moore as Larry Grayson,
Lorna Gray aka Adrian Booth as Vultura and Charles (Ming the Merciless) Middleton as Cassib.
Stunts by David Sharpe. Directed by William Witney
NEW ARCHIVE ADDITIONS / COMING SOON
Next Archive Addition
THE IRON CLAW
DEADWOOD DICK
Featuring Don Douglas
and Lorna Gray
Available Now
View Chapter 1
THE SQUADRON
GUIDE TO
THE MOVIE SERIALS
Now being proofed and
prepared for publication
UPCOMING RELEASES IN PRODUCTION
SERIALFEST DVD MAGAZINE #5
Featuring chapters from THE EXPLOITS OF ELAINE
BEST OF SERIALFEST DVD MAGAZINE
Featuring Nick Carter Detective, The Liberty Boys, Mr. Foo,
the Leather Pushers & More (not a subscription title)
CLIFFHANGER TREASURY #3 featuring the new serials
SILVER BULLET and THE BLACK CIRCLE
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RARE RESTORED MOVIE SERIALS ON DVD
And Available On Demand on your computer, tablet, phone, XBox, Blu-Ray player or smart TV
Most of the DVDs listed below are new digital transfers from rare existing original film prints with restored picture and sound, some with extras and viewing options and sometimes even special color tone effects, commentary and new musical scores. The silent titles in particular have been painstakingly restored shot-for-shot in most cases and include restored sections or summaries of action for content that survives only in incomplete form. In almost all cases picture and audio quality are excellent and superior to that of any alternate versions.
Jungle & Exotic Adventure Cliffhangers
JUNGLE ADVENTURES
Cliffhanger Serial Edition
TARZAN THE FEARLESS
Featuring
BUSTER CRABBE
and JACQUELINE WELLS
ADVENTURES OF TARZAN
The Original Restored!
Also, in the Archive:
THE CALL OF THE SAVAGE
THE MYSTERY OF
THE RIVER BOAT
Action in Louisiana!
S O S COAST GUARD
Ralph Byrd vs. Bela Lugosi!
Also, in the Archive:
THE SECRET OF
TREASURE ISLAND
SEA & ISLAND ADVENTURES
ISLE OF SUNKEN GOLD
Chapters from Lost Serial
MALA, SECRET AGENT OF THE SOUTH SEAS
The Native American Hero!
THE JUNGLE PRINCESS
AKA The Lost City of the Jungle
Crime, Mystery & Horror Cliffhangers
THE TRAIL OF
THE OCTOPUS
Restored from 35mm
View On Demand
THE HOUSE
OF HATE
Amazing full-length
long-lost serial starring
Pearl White vs.
The Hooded Terror!
DRUMS OF
FU MANCHU
The Must-See Serial Transferred from an Original Print
Best Quality Available!
THE MYSTERIES
OF MYRA
DVD / Book
Psychic Heroine & Supernatural Detective vs. the Black Order!
View Episode 12
BEATRICE FAIRFAX
The Great 1916
Girl Reporter Series!
BLAKE OF
SCOTLAND YARD
The Scorpion Strikes!
THE HOPE
DIAMOND MYSTERY
Boris Karloff's first
major film role!
Now Available On Demand
ZUDORA
The original girl detective!
Also, in the Archive:
THE LOST SPECIAL
RADIO PATROL
THE SPIDER'S WEB
THE VANISHING SHADOW
SEVEN FOOTPRINTS TO SATAN
GANG BUSTERS
Vs. Dr. Mortis and The
League of Murdered Men!
HOLT OF THE
SECRET SERVICE
Tough-guy Pulp Cliffhanger!
THE WOLF DOG
Good Story & New Transfer!
THE GREEN ARCHER
Featuring Victory Jory
and Iris Meredith--the prototype of The Green Arrow!
Western Cliffhangers
THE MASKED RIDER
Restored from the only known 35mm nitrate print
View Action Scenes from
"The Fight on the Dam"
THE LONE RANGER
In English, no subtitles, and THE LONE RANGER RIDES AGAIN
Complete on DVD
View On Demand
DAREDEVILS
OF THE WEST
The Long-Lost Republic Serial featuring Allan Lane and Kay Aldridge Complete on DVD
View On Demand
THE PHANTOM EMPIRE
Restored & Scored:
The Fun Version!
THE PAINTED STALLION
The Mystery Rider
with the Golden Arrow!
THE BLACK WHIP
Linda Stirling, the Avenger!
MYSTERY MOUNTAIN
Who is "The Rattler?"
View Chapter 1
THE VANISHING LEGION
Early Serial, Excellent Quality
Also, in the Archive:
HEROES OF THE WEST
THE RED RIDER
THE GREAT ADVENTURES
OF WILD BILL HICKOK
New Digital Transfer
THE DEVIL HORSE
Featuring Harry Carey,
Frankie Darro and
Apache, the Devil Horse
The First Sound Serial to receive national distribution
THE LONE DEFENDER
Featuring Walter Miller and
the original Rin Tin Tin
THE EAGLE in THE VIGILANTES ARE COMING
The Vigilante of California!
THE SIGN
OF THE WOLF
Restored and High Quality
ZORRO RIDES AGAIN
And Sings Too!
ZORRO'S
FIGHTING LEGION
Vs. Don Del Oro,
Golden God of the Yaquis!
Aviation, War & Spy Cliffhangers
WAR, SPIES & MOUNTIES
THE FIGHTING MARINES
Vs. the Tiger Shark!
PATRIA
vs. Warner Oland
& the Japanese Invasion
of New York!
THE MASTER KEY
Featuring Dennis Moore and Milburn Stone
AVIATION ADVENTURES
THE MYSTERY SQUADRON
Who is the Black Ace?
STEVE CANYON
TV Series
Complete & Restored
(External Link)
Also, in the Archive:
CLANCY OF
THE MOUNTED
Tailspin Tommy in
THE GREAT AIR MYSTERY
KING OF THE MOUNTIES
With Restored Audio & Subtitled Missing Dialogue
THE LOST SERIAL COLLECTION
Anthology of Rare Footage from Silent Serials
Audio Cliffhangers
SQUADRON AUDIO DVD COLLECTIONS
Many now available as 2-DVD sets with "flip-over" cover inserts
Masters of Horror/Monsters | Pirates/Adventures at Sea | Sherlock Holmes/Fu Manchu
Exotic Adventure/WWII | All-Star Western/Roy Rogers | Tarzan Audio Collection
The Blue Beetle | Swords of Adventure
Upcoming Release: The Mystery Mind featuring Adrian Booth
is the Squadron's Non-Profit Wing: Our library of 35mm, 16mm, 8mm, digital transfers, laserdisc & videotape. Copies of some restored/preserved titles which are at least 75 years old and never received commercial release (listed below) may be legally requested by researchers, writers or film historians for purposes of research or study. Most of these titles have been painstakingly restored and the highest quality and most complete existing editions of these serials in existence and include stabilized picture and noise-reduced, enhanced audio and are not available for commercial distribution or dealer orders.
The Call of the Savage
(Restored from 16mm)
Starring Noah Beery Jr.
as Jan of the Jungle
Clancy of the Mounted
Chapters 1-6
(Restored from 16mm)
Featuring Tom Tyler
The Desert Song
(Restored, with 2-tone color)
Long-lost musical story of the "Red Shadow"
Graft (feature)
(From 16mm, unrestored
but sharp & clear)
Rare Boris Karloff film
Heroes of the West
(Restored from 16mm)
Early cowboys & Indians cliffhanger
The Lost Special
(Restored from video transfer)
Who stole that train?
Radio Patrol
(Restored from 16mm)
Police cars equipped with radios!
The Rustlers of Red Dog
(Restored from 16mm)
John Mack Brown vs. outlaws
The Secret of Treasure Island
(Restored from 16mm)
Well-scripted pulp-style thriller
Seven Footprints to Satan (Restored from video transfer)
New English translation, toned, & scored, with sound effects
The Red Rider
(Restored from 16mm)
Buck Jones tracks down the killer who smokes marijuana cigarettes
The Spider's Web
(Restored from 16mm)
The first pulp action hero film
Tailspin Tommy in
The Great Air Mystery
(Restored from 16mm)
The Vanishing Shadow
(Restored from 16mm)
1934 sci-fi serial featuring invisibility device and murderous robot; highest quality existing transfer
Deadwood Dick
Featuring Don Douglas
and Lorna Gray
Pirate Treasure
Featuring Richard Talmadge
Adventures of
Frank Merriwell
Featuring Don Briggs and Jean Rogers
Jungle Menace
Featuring Frank Buck
Squadron LOST SERIAL PHOTONOVELS
Ever wish you could see a lost serial that doesn't exist any more? Check out the Squadron Lost Serial Photonovels of The Black Box, Hidden Dangers, The Mysteries of Myra, The Strange Case of Mary Page, The Trey O'Hearts and Under the Crescent for a rare reading experience!
The first two issues of Cliffhanger Treasury, both full of classic cliffhanger comics, are also still available.
Upcoming releases: The Masked Rider Book, The Squadron Guide to Movie Serials
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REPLACEMENT DISKS
If you need a replacement disk for any title, please keep your case, do not send it back to us --
use the Disk Replacement Form or Mail Order Form and the replacement disk will be mailed to you.
SQUADRON RESTORATIONS ARE NOT PUBLIC DOMAIN
BUY FROM LICENSED VENDORS ONLY
We have regrettably recently received reports of unlicensed vendors selling copies of Squadron DVDs at conventions, in email lists, and on websites, including THE HOPE DIAMOND MYSTERY and even advertising illegal copies for sale in periodicals. Movies Unlimited, Peter C. Walther of Rome NY, the Lone Ranger Fan Club and Norman Kietzer are licensed as a secondary distributors of Squadron DVDs so please do not order or purchase copies of Squadron publications from ANY other vendors; if you do you will be purchasing stolen property. Squadron restorations of public domain works are actively and legitimately copyrighted as "new versions" or derivative works, they are not public domain, even if their source material may be. Read about copyrights on derivative works at the Library of Congress. We reserve the right to register a copyright infringement complaint with the FBI, take legal action for damages, or file a charge of theft against any vendor selling copyrighted Squadron works without permission.
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"I AM THE SERIAL. I am the black sheep of the picture family and the reviled of critics. I am the soulless one with no moral, no character, no uplift. All I do is try to amuse. I am ashamed. Because I have so many friends I wonder if there is not some good in me. I have ambitions. I will get better. Until then, I suppose it is my fate to flaunt myself along, to put forth what petty virtues I have as best I can -- and pay for the birth of my high-brow brothers. Ah, me, if only I could be respectable!" -- George B. Seitz
