Buck Rogers

1939
Approved
3h 57m

IMDb RATING

6.8/10

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Buster Crabbe and Constance Moore in Buck Rogers (1939)

A 20th Century pilot named Buck Rogers and his young friend Buddy Wade awake from 500 years in suspended animation to find that the world has been taken over by the outlaw army of Killer Kane.

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A 20th Century pilot named Buck Rogers and his young friend Buddy Wade awake from 500 years in suspended animation to find that the world has been taken over by the outlaw army of Killer Kan... Read allA 20th Century pilot named Buck Rogers and his young friend Buddy Wade awake from 500 years in suspended animation to find that the world has been taken over by the outlaw army of Killer Kane.A 20th Century pilot named Buck Rogers and his young friend Buddy Wade awake from 500 years in suspended animation to find that the world has been taken over by the outlaw army of Killer Kane.

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Trivia
Henry Brandon hoped to play chief villain Killer Kane but was cast as Kane's henchman Captain Laska instead. When Brandon complained to his agent about this, he was told, "The lead heavy works for one day, the henchman works for three weeks. Which part did you say you wanted again?"

Goofs
Chapter One: It was never explained how Buck, just arrived in "The Hidden City", learned to fly a spaceship and the use of "modern" equipment.

Quotes
[last lines]
Buck Rogers: What's this about a Kane squadron?
Wilma Deering: A Kane squadron? Buck, I don't understand.
Buck Rogers: You don't understand? I just got a message from here that you've sighted another Kane squadron.
Wilma Deering: But I didn't...
George 'Buddy' Wade: I did that, Buck. I, uh... I knew Wilma would want to congratulate you, but she couldn't because was on duty. So, I sorta fixed things up.
Buck Rogers: Well, from now on, you can be my official fixer, Buddy.
George 'Buddy' Wade: Well, I guess the first thing an official fixer should know is when he's not wanted.
Buck Rogers: Yeah.

Crazy credits
Opening credits are displayed on a kaleidoscope background.

Connections
Edited from Aventures de Richard le téméraire (1937)

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Featured review

7/10

The adventures of Buck Rogers and his colleague Buddy.

This was the first TV serial I saw in my childhood, and I still remembers it as a jewel. Buck Rogers (Linden or Larry `Buster' Crabbe) and Buddy (Jackie Moran) had an air crash in 1940, hopefully they survived and were discovered under heavy snow and ice layers 80 years later. Both were conducted to a hidden city, a headquarters of revolutionaries fighting against the injustice of Killer Kane (Anthony Wade), who ruled a very modern city. The adventures had plenty of fiction, with a lot of action, air-spaceship fighting, modern parachutes, visits to far Saturn planet and others. The only disappointment of the serial was that there was no a single kiss between Buck and his eternal female colleague Wilma (Constance Moore). The soundtrack (of Hajos &Waxman), although it was used in other serials of Flash Gordon and Tim Tyler's luck, its introductory part is really nice and difficult to find out in any shop at present. It is pity not to see DVD and/or VHS video available with subtitles in Spanish.