Buck Rogers

Buck Rogers (1939) is a Universal serial film based on the Buck Rogers comic strip. It starred Buster Crabbe (who had previously starred in two Flash Gordon serials) as the heroic Buck Rogers, Constance Moore as relatively seldom-seen romantic interest Wilma Deering, Jackie Moran as sidekick George "Buddy" Wade, and Anthony Warde as "super-racketeer" "Killer" Kane. The story begins with Buck Rogers and Buddy Wade in the midst of a dirigible fligh... more

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  • Feb 2, 1939

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Directed by

Ford Beebe

Ford Beebe (26 November 1888 in Grand Rapids, Michigan – 26 November 1978 in Lake Elsinore, California) was a screenwriter and director of several movies. He is sometimes credited with an I. or L. as his middle initial.

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Armageddon 2419 A.D.

Armageddon 2419 A.D. is Philip Francis Nowlan's novella which first appeared in the August 1928 issue of the pulp magazine Amazing Stories. Later, in the 1960s, the novella and its sequel, The Airlords of Han, were combined by editor Donald A. Wollheim into one paperback novel, titled Armageddon...
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