Which serials?
Well I was thinking any of them. Favorites that I remember were: Zoro's Fighting Legion, Flash Gordon, King Of The Rocket Men & Phantom Empire, but I'd buy a good looking Blu-ray of any decent serial. I remember when I was around 9 years old looking at them in wide-eyed wonder, but a 9 year old today would just be amused at the campness of them. I used to think all week about how they'd get out of the latest cliffhanger ending, but seeing them at home, one episode after another, I can see that the makers cheated like hell on the endings. It's a scandal!
VCI trying to get legit Flash Gordons from best material talking with Lionsgate! VCI's Gang Buster blu ray is great
I emailed Bob Blair - hope u reaches out to ya
Appreciate you interceding, but Mr. Blair and I have known one another for decades. Putting these serials out would not be an inexpensive project.
Hey it might work -----Bob Blair is expanding and releasing great product just wish he would get Scrooge 1951 back but its with Disney now so guess it stays locked up. Yes I know you and he are friends for years thoise serials woud do great! Just got to make it happen! The one with Karloff is given a nice review by Jerry Blake in fact all three look good would be nice to make a set of MaScot Serials
U right!! Amazing ommisions from any of the cilffhangers...they assumed a week had gone by and the kids could be fooled, and were many times!! Before tape and disc it was almost fool proof!!!
Problem is only one company really released great product on serials and that was when republic was releasing them on VHS sadly Paramount will not lease them out it seems Olive tried but gave up after what two or three releases --- wish KINO would release some!
Kino released ADVENTURES OF CAPTAIN MARVEL and DAREDEVILS OF THE RED CIRCLE on Blu-ray and DVD. They look fantastic but did not sell well according to the Insider.
Ooooops I got them I thought Olive released them --- sad they should have tried more though to build interest try to create a line of serials at great prices -- VCI does well with them
What KINO should do is put a list of potential titles they would try and make us vote to see which would be worthwhile I would buy Spy Smasher -- and others
Kino has grown into other areas...newer films, international fair and not as focused on the lower priority genres like the serials. We moght talk with BB @VCI? They have done many serials with success. Maybe be an area of seconardy interest, like thier Mexican film series. They have the experience with these genres and it might be a nice fit?!!
- thankfully TCM has been showing the serials - looks like they stopped!
Well, these are a niche genres, the ones that love them can be pretty hard core, but again it is a smaller populus, like the Kung Fu, 50s-60s Golden Era Sci-Fi, Mexican Horror & Sci-Fi. Fun fair but far from main stream.
Kino is past these and the KI had mentioned that the return was less than expected. So, chances are they won't do it again, but VCI or Flicker Alley would be great!!
