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| THE HURRICANE EXPRESS 1932 |
If you had been a Saturday movie-goer during the decades of the 1920s, 1930s, 1940s and 1950s, chances are that alongside a super action cowboy movie, you saw a weekly chapter of a movie serial.
The movie serial, also known as chapterplays, got their start in the 1910s with the likes of Pearl White in THE PERILS OF PAULINE, but really flourished in the roarin' twenties and maintained their popularity through the mid-fifties, when television finally took its final toll on the "weeklies."
Week after week, audiences were drawn back to their local movie houses to see if the hero or heroine escaped the cliffhanger which had ended the previous week's chapter. Of course, they did survive and battled the diabolical villain through 12 - 15 chapters before finally bringing the ruffian to justice, either by death or capture.
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| TARZAN THE FEARLESS 1933 |
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| THE MIRACLE RIDER 1945 |
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| FLASH GORDON 1936 |
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| DICK TRACY 1937 |
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| RED BARRY 1938 |
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| DRUMS OF FU MANCHU 1940 |
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| THE GREEN HORNET 1940 |
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| ADVENTURES OF CAPTAIN MARVEL 1941 |
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| PERILS OF NYOKA 1942 |
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| KING OF THE ROCKET MEN 1949 |
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| GHOST OF ZORRO 1949 |
