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Two Lost Worlds

1951

Two Lost Worlds

1951
4
Shipwreck survivors land on an uncharted island inhabited by prehistoric beasts.
The Flying Saucer

1950

The Flying Saucer

1950
3.6
The CIA sends playboy Mike Trent to Alaska with agent Vee Langley, posing as his "nurse," to investigate flying saucer sightings. At first, installed in a hunting lodge, the two play in the wilderness. But then they sight a saucer. Investigating, our heroes clash with an inept gang of Soviet spies, also after the saucer secret.
Behind the Mask

1946

Behind the Mask

1946
5
Falsely accused of murdering a crooked newspaper reporter, suave detective Lamont Cranston -- aka the Shadow -- vows to track down the real killer.
The Shadow Returns

1946

The Shadow Returns

1946
5.3
The Shadow (Kane Richmond) cracks a case of missing jewels, murder and plastics.
The Monster Maker

1944

The Monster Maker

1944
5.1
Mad scientist injects his enemies with acromegaly virus, causing them to become hideously deformed.
The Ape Man

1943

The Ape Man

1943
4.3
A scientist is turned into an ape man.
The Corpse Vanishes

1942

The Corpse Vanishes

1942
4.2
A scientist keeps his wife young by killing, stealing the bodies of, and taking the gland fluid from virgin brides.
Adventures of Captain Marvel

1941

Adventures of Captain Marvel

1941
6.3
On a scientific expedition to Siam young Billy Batson is given the ability to change himself into the super-powered Captain Marvel by the wizard Shazam, who tells him his powers will last only as long as the Golden Scorpion idol is threatened. Finding the idol, the scientists realize it could be the most powerful weapon in the world and remove the lenses that energize it, distributing them among themselves so that no one would be able to use the idol by himself. Back in the US, Billy Batson, as Captain Marvel, wages a battle against an evil, hooded figure, the Scorpion, who hopes to accumulate all five lenses, thereby gaining control of the super-powerful weapon
The Devil Bat

1940

The Devil Bat

1940
5.3
Dr. Paul Carruthers is frustrated because he thinks his employers, Mary Heath and Henry Morton, have cheated him out of the company's profits. He decides to get revenge by altering bats to grow twice their normal size and training them to attack when they smell a perfume of his own making. He mixes the perfume into a lotion, which he offers as a gift to Mary and Henry. When they turn up dead, a newspaper reporter decides to investigate.
The Ape

1940

The Ape

1940
4.8
Dr. Bernard Adrian is a kindly scientist who seeks to cure a young woman's polio. He needs human spinal fluid to complete the formula for his experimental serum. Meanwhile, a vicious circus ape has broken out of its cage, and is terrorizing the townspeople. Can there be a connection?
The Green Hornet

1940

The Green Hornet

1940
5.7
A newspaper publisher and his Korean servant fight crime as vigilantes who pose as a notorious masked gangster and his aide.
The Phantom Creeps

1939

The Phantom Creeps

1939
4.2
A mad scientist attempts to rule the world by creating various elaborate inventions.
SOS Coast Guard

1937

SOS Coast Guard

1937
4.7
An internationally-notorious criminal scientist returns to the US to sell his latest invention, a disintegrating gas, to a foreign power. When he arrives, however, he is spotted by a young Coast Guard man, whom he kills - and thus earns the enmity of the entire US Coast Guard, but especially the murdered Guardsman's older brother who, together with his reporter-girlfriend and her comical photographer, vigorously sets to tracking him down and interfering with his plans to develop the city-melting gas in quantity. A Republic Serial in 12 Chapters.
Sharad of Atlantis

1936

Sharad of Atlantis

1936
4.2
Crash Corrigan, a recent graduate of Annapolis, and Diana, a go-getting reporter, join Professor Norton for a search for the source of a string of earthquakes, Atlantis. They ride Prof. Norton's rocket submarine searching the sea and little Billy Norton, the professor's son stows away, of course. When they find Atlantis they are caught in a war between peaceful Atlanteans, note their white capes, and war-monging Atlanteans, note their black capes. After many harrowing moments for Crash, Diana, Prof. Norton and Billy, they barely get away with their lives when they escape a tower of Atlantis raised to the surface for the sole purpose of dominating or destroying the Earth (Which one depends on the compliance of the upper world dwellers.)
Flash Gordon

1936

Flash Gordon

1936
6.4
Disaster seems imminent when scientists discover that the planet Mongo is about to crash into Earth. Luckily, heroic young Flash Gordon is on hand to lead an investigative mission into outer space and onto the speedily approaching planet. There, he and his best girl, Dale, who is along for the ride, learn that Ming, the devious ruler of Mongo, has purposely put the planet on a collision course with Earth, and only Flash can stop him.
Things to Come

1936

Things to Come

1936
6.5
The story of a century: a decades-long second World War leaves plague and anarchy, then a rational state rebuilds civilization and attempts space travel.
The Lost City

1935

The Lost City

1935
5.1
An evil scientist invents a earthquake machine and plots to take over the world from his base in Africa.
The Phantom Empire

1935

The Phantom Empire

1935
5.5
When the ancient continent of Mu sank beneath the ocean, some of its inhabitant survived in caverns beneath the sea. Cowboy singer Gene Autry stumbles upon the civilization, now buried beneath his own Radio Ranch. The Muranians have developed technology and weaponry such as television and ray guns. Their rich supply of radium draws unscrupulous speculators from the surface. The peaceful civilization of the Muranians is corrupted by the greed from above, and it becomes Autry's task to prevent all-out war, ideally without disrupting his regular radio show.
Doctor X

1932

Doctor X

1932
6
A wisecracking New York reporter intrudes on a research scientist's quest to unmask The Moon Killer.
The End of the World

1931

The End of the World

1931
4.9
The plot concerns a comet hurling toward Earth on a collision course and the different reactions to people on the impending disaster.