eMoviePoster.comAuction History Result #2637 PHANTOM EMPIRE Belgian R40s serial Date Sold 4/1/2003Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. R40s Vintage Theatrical Folded Belgian Movie Poster (measures approximately 16" x 23") (Learn More) The Phantom Empire, the 1935 Otto Brower & B. Reeves Eason science fiction (sci-fi) singing cowboy western musical (!) serial ("A Mascot Master Serial") starring Gene Autry ("The world famed star of radio and screen"), Frankie Darro, Betsy King Ross, Smiley Burnette, Dorothy Christy (as Queen Tika), Richard Talmadge, and Wheeler Oakman. Note that this is one of the wackiest serials ever! Gene Autry owned the "Radio Ranch" where he broadcast he weekly radio show from. In this movie, he discovers that the "ancient continent of Murania" (a lot like Atlantis) had sunk beneath the ocean, but that the inhabitants, called "Muranians", had survived in underground caverns, and some of them lived in a cavern directly below his Radio Ranch! They were very peaceful, and very scientifically advanced, having invented television, ray guns, and really funky robot outfits, but they felt threatened by the Earth people from the surface who discovered them, and in this movie, Autry alternately tries to stop the Muranians from attacking the Earth people, while taking frequent breaks to perform songs on his radio show! This was one of the very few science fiction movies of the 1930s, and also one of the very few to show robots (actually men in robot suits)! Also Note that Richard Talmadge was born "Sylvester Alphonse Metz", and he was an acrobat with the Barnum and Bailey Circus. He got a job in Hollywood as a stuntman for Douglas Fairbanks Sr., and then graduated to starring in movies, always performing lots of stunts. He had two acrobat brothers, Otto Metzetti and Victor Metz, who appeared with him in some of his movies. NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. If you know who did the art (if any), please let us know. Important Added Info: Note that this Belgian poster measures exactly 16 1/4" x 23 1/2" and is folded. Note that we don't know if this movie played in Belgium in 1935. This poster is clearly from the early 1940s (as it is printed on the back of a map, which was done during WWII, because of paper shortages). It may be the first Belgian release or it may be a re-release. Condition: good to very good. There was a 1 1/2" x 1" circular piece missing out of the upper center of the image (it is below the word "serial" and is in the background and partially in the floating "bottle"). Someone taped a new piece on from the back and re-drew in the missing art, and did a nice job! There are many light creases throughout the poster (not very distracting). There are creases and smudges around the edges of the poster and remnants of a paper snipe in the top blank area. Learn More about condition grades
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