Gmen VS the Black Dragon Chapers 1 - 7

[@veecee3669]

Since I've been sheltering at home, I've become totally addicted to these old serials. I absolutely love them!

[@Rob-z7k]

Same here. Ad a kid i couldnt watch anything black and white. These are pretty cool

[@veecee3669]

@@Rob-z7k Yes, I totally enjoy any and all old time movies and serials. I'm particularly fond of British mysteries and thrillers right now. And the Nero Wolfe series from A&E circa 2000.

[@eccoshoe1]

ATOMIC, thanks so much for these serials i watched as a kid, keep up adding to them if you can they are a lifesaver, during these covid times....you cant imagine how much they are appreciated...

[@garfieldsmith332]

These old serials are still just as much fun to view today as they were when first released. A lot are even better than some of the crap Hollywood churns out today.

[@leelarson107]

Good movies, collectively, are a thing of the past.

[@lamonthamilton667]

Much better

[@veecee3669]

Garfield Smith Yep!

[@16tons30]

@Garfield Smith "as much fun to view today as they were when first released" This serial was released in 1943. Nice to hear from a contemporary witness who already enjoyed it 78 years ago.😊 But, yes, you might be right.

[@garfieldsmith332]

@@16tons30 Yes. Not quite 78 years ago but a long time ago. They reran a lot of these serials in the 1950's at Saturday Matinee. That is where I saw most of them. I have several serials on DVD. In the late 19060s with the popularity of the TV show Batman, they re-released the entire 1949 Serial of Batman and Robin at the theaters. A 3 hour show, every episode being shown. The place was packed.

[@markmarderosian9657]

These were made and shown way before my youth and yet they are entertaining to watch and fill me with nostalgia. Good figure.

[@Rob-z7k]

Same here. I just discovered these black and white serials. These are pretty cool to see from a time before the internet

[@jhammond64]

Great serial! Punch ups between the same guys every episode... twice AND their hats stay on! Love it!

[@leelarson107]

Don't forget no clothes torn or buttons ripped off or black eyes or skinned knuckles. And then there's having a wooden chair broken over you without injury. I wish I knew how to do that.

[@warmflash]

I just started watching G-Men vs Black Dragon. It's GREAT.

[@dudelebowski9552]

I love all these serials. Captain Marvel is my favorite. He's a homicidal maniac in it

[@warmflash]

It's way more interesting than the crap Hollywood is churning out now. And the clothes are FANTASTIC.

[@veecee3669]

If there's one thing I've learned since watching these 75 year old movie serials, it's to always cuff the bad guys before they are searched.

[@donniedickerson8077]

Awesomeness,,what else can ya say,these old serials can't be Beat ,

[@sittinknittin4546]

Great entertainment. Writer must of had stock in a dynamite company. Cliffhanger left me on the edge of my seat. 🤪😍

[@CaribouDataScience]

Supposedly the Charlie Chan movies were made to counter the " yellow peril"

[@daleanderson1727]

Thanks for sharing these cool serials.

[@claycoates5056]

this is wonderful like it love the Special Effects and that gun shot generator is fantastic

[@johncolemaniii3716]

Thank you so much me and my father look them every Saturday afternoon my Brothers and sisters would be outside i would watch me and dad i miss him so much

[@carolynhughes8364]

Lucky guy😊

[@richarddowney1972]

He will always be with you. He is in every cell of your body. Even in your love of these great old serials.

[@johncolemaniii3716]

Thank you so much Thank means lot

[@jayrosen6663]

@@johncolemaniii3716, their spirit will never leave you. My parents are long gone as well!!!

[@johncolemaniii3716]

@@jayrosen6663 Thank you so much

[@RRW1982]

You have to love the scene whrere Rex Bennett is about to axe his way through the door, and to is right is a collection of very large wooden boxes, one of which reads 'THIS SIDE UP', only it is upside down!

[@jerrygriceman1075]

That's John Hamilton in Chapter 7!! !! !!! Perry White the newspaper editor of the Daily Planet in 1950s Superman!!

[@francesrude3007]

great shows!! thanks!!

[@springtrapstarwar5557]

I wish this was in color though but this is more better than those modern Hollywood movies

[@AtomicAgePictures]

Embrace the black and white!

[@springtrapstarwar5557]

I know i like black and white movies but it will be more better with color.

[@garfieldsmith332]

@@AtomicAgePictures Glorious Black and White.

[@CarterStanB]

Wow. Vivian Marsh blasting away with a Tommy gun. And I thought Emma Peel was bad-ass!

[@johnoconnor4111]

I love all these serials. Remind me of Saturday morning pictures. Lol they had no idea about personal protection. One guy instead of a platoon. So funny.

[@eccoshoe1]

it used to cost me 25 cents to see these as a kid at my local movie house...

[@georgereynolds7254]

I should be ashamed. I forgot to mention the Lydecker brothers, Howard and Theodore, who handled the special effects for Republic. Howard flew solo on this one. Check out the spectacular explosion at the end of chapter one. A miniature, shot outdoors, in natural sunlight. No cgi, just talent and creativity.

[@Sch00lbu5]

These serials are great to see. Too bad the "night" scenes are so dark.

[@AtomicAgePictures]

I agree about the night scenes. I tried to lighten them up a little bit but there was only so much I could do with the source materials.

[@leelarson107]

You're working with a bad print. Colorization would help considerably. The older westerns were terrible for night scenes.

[@jmp.t28b99]

What ever you do, don't lose that hat. It must be back in PROPS for the next episode!!

[@gregscalia3232]

Presto! a little eye makeup and a white guy becomes Japanese ! They must glue on those hats ! I like how at the end of each episode you think the heroes are killed but in the next episode you see how they escaped.

[@Billys-Joint]

There goes the furniture again. Republic rules!

[@alanl.simmons9726]

After 9/11 US stepped up security at Boulder (Hoover) Dam. Including building a bridge so you can no longer drive trucks across the damn. The Columbia Dam generators were a big factor in winning the war powering northwest industries.

[@lithium452]

If the good guys in these serials were half as good holding prisoners they get the drop on as they are at jumping out of speeding cars most serials could be wrapped up in one reel.

[@leelarson107]

Someone mentioned getting a hat back to the wardrobe department. **At about 19:30 in the film, the female lead seems to be wearing the same hat worn by Linda Hayes in 'Romance On the Range' (1942).

[@Nosaracasalaplaya]

The best fights scenes ! No busted lips or anything ! Everything blows up at the end hahhs

[@jamessnee7171]

Nino's accent as the head of the Black Dragon is interesting. It sure does not sound Japanese. Even a WW II era stereotype. More like a French, German, Polish type accent. Throw in a few others. He just flows from one to another sometimes in the same sentence.

[@snackcakeman]

I knew the guy with a moustache was a bad guy. All bad guys have one.

[@georgereynolds7254]

Whatever they paid the Republic stunt team, it wasn't enough. I'm just saying...

[@billjudd9673]

I guess jumping out of a moving car was the thing back then

[@alainfougeres9604]

Allumer la lumière...

[@michaellefebvre793]

michaael

[@brendaromano7796]

These old serials are great. The good guys and their cronies (when they have any) are inept, incompetent and morons. They are several loads shy of a full load but somehow they muddle through. If it wasn't for their stupidity there would be no comic relief. The bad guys are the only ones with brains but you can't allow the bad guys to win. Great to see John Hamilton (Perry White from Superman).

[@charlesbaker8592]

Met the director of this serial in Knoxville, Ten. at a convention in 1990 honoring Republic Pictures Studios. William Witney was a pleasure to talk Too.

[@jamesherndon3886]

This is unbelievable every 3 or 4 minutes another ad

[@AtomicAgePictures]

Sorry it sounds like KZbin has moved the ads around again. I try to place ads only between the episodes, but sometimes KZbin has other ideas and moves them around.

[@user_name_redacted]

"Yellow peril" Oooh noooooo

[@adrianlois7322]

Me encantan estas películas de antes, algunas veía allá por 1960/61 en el 59 ya teníamos tv en casa, lastima que no tengan subtitulos en castellano

[@jackchafin8475]

oye, Adrian, no necesita saber mucha ingles a ser encantado con ese clase de pelicula. Es bastante a ver los actors haciendo que lo haces. Lo siento por mi minimo comprehension de escriben Castellano, pero, yo creo tu sabe que yo diciendo. Si? Luego, Jack Chafin.

[@allenwatkins4972]

@@jackchafin8475 That's not too bad. You get the point across. Errors?? Yes.

[@ajweberman]

WAREHOUSE ON TOP OF SKYSCRAPER?

[@StephenLyons-tl8ie]

72 seconds in and a bloody ad appears!!

[@AtomicAgePictures]

So sorry every once in a while KZbin changes the order of the ads. I try to put them in so that they only appear between the episodes and sometimes KZbin changes them on me without notifying me I will go back and reorder the ads for this one

[@StephenLyons-tl8ie]

@@AtomicAgePictures It's not your fault at all, but KZbin doing what it wants to do!! Keep up the good work.

[@huskerjpg]

Back when borders mattered.

[@leelarson107]

That won't happen again, at least until 2024.

[@nikrogers123]

The important thing is they believe in it and that makes you believe it today your not allowed to believe in anything so you gotta watch somebody else do it

[@thekaiser4333]

Forward Black Dragons!

[@DCShaneTours]

A commercial 3 minutes in??? Dude! Unwatchable.

[@AtomicAgePictures]

Unfortunately I don't have any control over were or when KZbin puts the commercials.

[@leelarson107]

I used to have the same problem, and repeatedly complained loudly and bitterly about it. But my computer tech has now installed a couple of ad-blockers, and now I can actually watch the movie rather than ads for crap I wouldn't want anyway.

[@leelarson107]

I rather like the movie, but that theme music, at the beginning AND END of EVERY CHAPTER, gets a little tiresome.

[@AtomicAgePictures]

To be fair, they weren't originally intended to be seen back to back. A new chapter would come to the theater each week, so the music would likely have not seemed to repetitive.

[@theretiringbarber]

I believe Rod Cameron was a Canadian as was Glenn Ford .

[@oscargrillo9508]

Nino Pipitone as "Haruchi"!

[@rommel9241]

Oh my good

[@APRAPR-nq2wn]

you gotta love it

[@Jimvanhise]

So they have an actual Asian actor plus a guy painted up to look Asian?

[@mbern4530]

I've never seen an asian actor in a main roll from this time, they always gave them secondary rolls in these shows.

[@snackcakeman]

Black Dragon needs more ravens and less of those dumb associates

[@136Fox]

Uma pena nao ser legendado. A legenda qca gente consegue é Português de Portugal e nao dá pra entender quase nada.

[@136Fox]

Até essa data eu não sabia como legendar,mas atualmente aprendi e é simples.

[@howardkerr8174]

Wow, a young Rod Taylor was a pretty sexy looking guy. I guess he either wasn't a terrific actor or never got the "right" parts, or he would be talked of in the same breath as Clark Gable.

[@kernailsinghsandhukensandh7572]

It's Rod Cameron in the Lead Role.

[@94110mission]

Howard Kerr No, I don’t see anything about him that rivals Clark Gable. He looks like a “guy”. A big guy to be sure, but just a guy. He looks like the coach of a high school football team to me.

[@leelarson107]

Rod Cameron made news decades ago when he divorced his wife and married HER MOTHER. Fraaalf.

[@leelarson107]

AND BY THE WAY: That isn't Rod Taylor and it isn't Rod Cameron in the lead role. 'Spy Smasher' was played b y KANE RICHMOND, who did have matinee-idol looks.

[@RockOfLions]

@@leelarson107 Not sure why you say it isn't Rod Cameron in the lead role. The credits say so, IMDb says so, wikipedia says so, and it's clearly the same actor from secret service in Africa which was Rod Cameron

[@ajweberman]

3 FBI AGENTS NO BACK UP

[@leelarson107]

3 FBI agents today would be lying to Congress and bringing the agency into disrepute

[@brendaromano7796]

So true!

[@bookerevans8316]

These guys would never make it into today's FBI

[@leelarson107]

Today's FBI is a disgrace and should be either overhauled or simply abolished in favor of a better agency.

[@tayfuncakar6715]

Neden TÜRKÇE dublajlı değil..

[@ajweberman]

THAT NOT THE EIGHT FLOOR 1:11:27

[@carloderosa5622]

In lingua italiana🙏

[@AtomicAgePictures]

Mi dispiace non avere la possibilità di fare una traduzione del video.

[@vincentdawn9689]

As obscenely racist as these serials could be (I'm still a fan and connoisseur, but you have to be an asshole and a racist yourself to deny it), I must admit that the Vivian Marsh character is something of an outlier in terms of how these things usually depict women. Yeah, she still gets captured and saved a bunch, but she gets off a few kills and rocks up with the Thompson when shit is getting heavy. Pretty cool.

[@leelarson107]

Ooh, you Politically Correct THING, you! Do you feel better now that you've made your statement? Is your 'White Guilt' now atoned for? I bet you and your boyfriend(s) all think alike.

[@AtomicAgePictures]

These serials are definitely a product of their time, and should be viewed in that context.

[@user_name_redacted]

The Italian playing a Japanese criminal in a Chinese temple by squinting certainly threw me off. Haven't had a chuckle that good in a long time. I am absolutely not condoning it, but it's so absurd it's funny