PIRATES & SEA ADVENTURE SERIALS
PIRATE & SEA ADVENTURE SERIALS
Squadron-exclusive titles in this category include the rare early sound serial
PIRATE TREASURE featuring accomplished stunt man Richard Talmadge.
Shipping Now
BLU-RAY
NEW TRANSFER AND RESTORATION
Quality: HD / NEAR MINT
Plays in all Blu-Ray players
Now reduced in price to $18.95
PIRATES OF THE HIGH SEAS
(1950, 15 Chapters)
Featuring Buster Crabbe
with Tristram Coffin, Tommy Farrell, and Lois Hall
D: Spencer Bennet, Thomas Carr
When South Seas captain Kelly Walsh's vessel is fired upon while in the harbor of Taluha, he seeks help from old shipmate Jeff Drake, skipper of the Ramble, berthed in San Pedro, California. By the time Drake puts out to sea, he has some unexpected passengers: Carol Walsh, Kelly's sister, Frederick Whitlock, owner of Taluha Island, and Castell, who reveals he is a former OSS operative looking for a Nazi war criminal.
DL-DVD
Featuring
JOHN CRAWFORD
and RICHARD CRANE
A 15 chapter cliffhanger actually set in the days of swashbucklers and privateers. Two men are charged with finding out whether the infamous Captain Kidd is a pirate hunter or whether he has turned pirate himself--and if he has, to capture him and bring him back to England for trial. This ambitious low-budget costume epic is unique and one of the most entertaining later American movie serials. It makes good use of existing seaworthy sets, costumes and stock footage. This transfer was donated to the Squadron and resolution is not perfect but the picture is very clean, stable and splice-free.
View Chapter 1: "Pirate vs. Man-of-War"
View Chapter 2: "The Fatal Shot"
15 Episodes / Black and White
Very good quality video & audio
Dual-layer DVD SHIPPING NOW
Treasure Island
✦✦✦+ (Columbia, 15 Chapters)
Don Terry, Gwen Gaze, Walter Miller D: Elmer Clifton
When they reach Treasure Island, Larry Kent, who is searching for a missing newspaperman, and Toni Morell, who has half of a treasure map, fall into the hands of Collins, an anything-but-rational master of a strange chateau haunted by a pirate’s ghost. Collins, aka “The Shark,” has the other half of the map and employs a gang of cowled diggers in his search for the treasure. He also has henchmen dressed as pirates, and several skilled "house guests" he has kidnapped for medical or scientific duties.
Image: Excellent; B/W, from 16mm
Order Dual-Layer DVD
(Entire serial on 1 disk, full quality)
of the South Seas
✦✦✦(Republic, 14 Chapters)
Ray Mala, Mamo Clark D: Ray Taylor, Mack Wright
Mala, a U. S. Intelligence agent, is dispatched to Clipper Island to investigate sabotage that destroyed the airship San Francisco, and must overcome not only a spy ring (guided from a distance by the mysterious H. K.) but also the unscrupulous Komatoan high priest, Porotu, who is scheming to wrest power from the rightful monarch, Princess Melani. Ready to lend Mala a hand are a comic relief duo, MacGlaurie and Tupper (one a beachcomber, the other a novelist). Ray Mala was an Alaska-born Native American, one of the first to ever be featured as a hero in an action film.
View Online Video: Chapter 1 Cliffhanger
DVD Includes content presented in 9 double-length chapters, redundant padding & repeated scenes Republic added in post-production to extend the serial from 12 to 14 chapters removed
Image: Excellent; 3-Color toned throughout
Available Now
the River Boat
✦✦✦ (Universal, 13 Chapters)
Robert Lowery, Mantan Moreland D: Ray Taylor, L. Collins
Something valuable lies within the Louisiana swampland near Duval's Landing and two crooked factions want to take that land from its unknowing owners. Attorney Steve Langtry (son of one of the landowners) sets out to unravel the mystery, with the aid of another owner, riverboat captain Ethan Perrin, and his daughter Jenny.
DVD Contents: Includes all 13 chapters, theatrical trailer
Image: Excellent; B/W, from 16mm
Order DL-DVD
✦✦✦ (Mascot, 10 Chapters)
Anita Stewart, Bruce Gordon, Duke Kahanamoku D:
A ship wrecks on an island where people encounter a fanged ape named Kong who guards a treasure cave.
Influenced: KING KONG
View Online Video:
1-DVD Set Includes existing chapters 4-6 and unrestored reel 1 of Chapter 7
Image: Good; Color Toned
Audio: Silent with new musical score and sound effects
Order DVD