The Great Movie Serials: Their Sound and Fury [Hardcover]

Jim Harmon (Author), Donald F. Glut (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: 1972

Take a nostalgic trip back to Saturday afternoon and your neighborhood movie theater any year from the 1930's to the 1950's. Thrill once again to the spine-tingling adventures of Dick Tracy, Terry and the Pirates, Tarzan, Flash Gordon and more!!

Product Details

• Hardcover: 384 pages
• Publisher: Doubleday; 1ST edition (1972)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 038509079X
• ISBN-13: 978-0385090797
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,650,310 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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3.0 out of 5 stars A Labor of Love, February 8, 2005

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This review is from: Great Movie Serials Cb (Hardcover)

This book is a great source for information on the chapterplays of the silent era onward. There are some interesting factoids, such as how Kirk Alyn(Superman) and Lyle Talbot(Lex Luthor) would trade recipes on the set. Alyn later became a food writer for a local paper. I wanted more of this behind the scenes information and less rehashing of the serial plots. Nevertheless, the author's love of his subject is clear and he pays great respect to the comic books from which many of these serials were born. Batman in particular sounds like a racist travesty, with the actor playing Robin sporting a visible tattoo and Batman's gut hanging over his belt. Captain America also got the sore treatment, Cap was given a gun instead of shield. Interesting book on a long lost subject.