The Phantom Creeps

From The Grindhouse Cinema Database

The Phantom Creeps (1939, USA) is an Action-Family-Horror-Science Fiction serial directed by Ford Beebe and Saul A. Goodkind

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Main Details

  • Released on January 7, 1939
  • B&W
  • Running time: 265 minutes (12 episodes) | 78 minutes (edited feature film)
  • Production and Distribution Co.: Universal Pictures
  • Directed by Ford Beebe and Saul A. Goodkind
  • Written by George H. Plympton, Basil Dickey and Mildred Barish (screenplay) from a story by Wyllis Cooper
  • Starring: Bela Lugosi, Robert Kent, Dorothy Arnold

Plot Summary

  • A military intelligence officer and a pretty reporter try to find a scientist whose inventions can destroy the world.

Taglines

  • CRASHING...SMASHING...DASHING DYNAMITE! 12 spine-shivering chapters of thunderbolt action and amazing adventure!
  • A BLAZE OF DYNAMITE ACTION! Crashing...smashing...dashing through 12 spine-shivering chapters!
  • 12 SPINE-SHIVERING ACTION THUNDERBOLTS! Sinister scientists...foreign spies...federal agents...and a pretty girl...crashing through amazing adventures!
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