Gmen VS the Black Dragon Chapers 8 15

[@angelamagruder5911]

Watching these shows is just like reading comic books a Sunday comics. Thanks!!

[@Fattbank]

Vivian March shoots a Tommy gun, pilots a fighter plane, and looks stylish.

[@marvinjones4415]

She deserved her own serial

[@peterjohnson617]

for a big guy Rex is not much of a fighter but he keeps coming back for more.... love this old stuff...thank you.

[@leelarson107]

Big guys can rely on size and heft to beat down the enemy. Smaller men have to rely on skill...……..or guns.

[@mikenewton474]

I was out in California visiting Hollywood and staying at a Burbank motel. I fell asleep while watching TV and when I woke up later, there was a movie on where the good guys and the bad guys were fighting every few minutes. They were dressed in 40's clothing. I checked the TV guide and discovered that it was the feature version of G-Men vs. the Black Dragon. Republic at that time was re=releasing their serials in feature version to cash in on the then current Batman nostalgia craze.

[@Godzillaforever1954]

The first chapter cliffhanger is one of the very best in the history of cliffhanger serials, if not the very best!

[@CaribouDataScience]

Why do bad guys always have to come up with some clever way to kill?

[@eccoshoe1]

great second half of this serial, thanks atomic....

[@ainsleylucky3511]

Those serials of long ago . Sheer entertainment as long as you apply your suspension of disbelief . Easy to see where " Raiders if the Lost Ark" got its inspiration .Nothing is original. Where would Tarantino be without these classics of imagination? He'd probably be selling them across the counter.

[@SantiagoBernebeu]

Lol.....Vivian Marsh came in gun blazing @1:44:36 and was knocked out when an empty tin was thrown at her head, but @1:44:43, a man caught a chair that did not hit his head and he was out like a light. Those fight scenes must've had only 1 take because the sets were completely wrecked. Thanks for posting.

[@mikenewton474]

Notice the dark haired girl talking on the phone at the beginning of Chapter 8, this was Maxine Doyle, Bill Witney's wife who was doing guest spots in films while Bill served overseas.

[@daleanderson1727]

Thanks for sharing.

[@francesrude3007]

I think these vids are excellent.Thanks so much. I don't comment on all, but I am subbed.

[@aubreypolgreen9980]

Boy they sure can wreak a room

[@snackcakeman]

That Black dragon is cold hearted. After he loads a spear he lights up cigarette.

[@donniedickerson8077]

Perfect For The Rainy Cold Day We're Having Today, What Can Ya Say ,, Awesomeness Thanks For The Fantastic Flick,, LoL 😂 Rex was a Scrappy Dude ,he Whooped More Ass Than Mike Tyson LoL 😂😂😂,, He needed A Louisville Slugger To Bop The Hell Outta Them bad guys LoL 😂😂😂,, Just Playing , This is Great Stuff , Thanks Again

[@patoni860]

It took 10 good ass kickings... But he finally learn how to fight

[@randyhonea3543]

It never does fail. When they have a fight they destroy the room.

[@leelarson107]

But the room is completely restored the next time you see it.

[@snackcakeman]

Haruchi survived, in intensive care. Medically endused coma.

[@howardkerr8174]

I think that the spear throwing machine was either a Las Vegas reject or the inspiration for several pricing games on The Price Is Right tv show.

[@JacquelynJohnson-jh7nv]

❤ looooove them too

[@personalbyedl]

it cracks me up with all the destruction the bad guys infiltrate. Blowing up power towers, running trucks into buildings-absolutely obliterating them, ungodly accounts of attempted and actual murder, kidnapping, theft, etc. that if these things happened even minimally in the real world, there would be severe consquences to the bad guys even for the for petty things, but this is how they dramatized the serial to make it what it was to sell at the box office.

[@johnscott2852]

No matter many times they get the drop on someone they stand right next to the person and get the gun knocked out of their hands, but, they repeat over and over. I love the way the villains when the capture someone it's always about some super complicated way to kill them. Just shoot them lol.

[@personalbyedl]

One of the many ideas behind the evil villians method to do away with the good guys (i.e. Batman) and of course leave you on the edge of your seat in those days. There had to be an escape of some sort to continue to the next chapter and make the patrons come back for more.

[@jamessnee7171]

It was against the law for a man to not wear a hat back then.

[@AtomicAgePictures]

I believe it was in particular parts of the country.

[@ronaldstephenson6106]

I did get to meet star Rod Cameron, his stuntman Tom Steele, director of photography, Bud Thackery, and director William Witney.

[@brendaromano7796]

Vivian and Parnell must have had the same interior decorator for their apartments. For the plane fiasco, Bennett should have been put on permanent suspension until retirement. Funny how the bad guys are so good at shooting out tires on a moving automobile but the good guys couldn't hit the broadside of a barn. You have a British agent with no English accent and a Chinese agent with no Chinese accent - hummmmm ? Great serial to watch.

[@randyhonea3543]

It must have been tough making these serial movies. Getting beat up all the time. And destroying all that furniture.

[@mikenewton474]

This was what was known as wish fulfillment. All the little boys wanted to fight with their brothers like that in the livingroom without Mom getting mad.

[@leelarson107]

Not me. No, Sir. I just wanted to kill a few classmates and a couple of teachers. And that's while I was still in the 3rd Grade.

[@sittinknittin4546]

Great entertainment while I knit. So much fisticuffs. Glad nobody got bruises and broken bones. And also make sure your hat stays on. Twist, turns and cliffhangers kept me biting my nails. G men and women for the win.

[@jerrygriceman1075]

The Black Bird has changed sides at the End of the Serial!! Humorous end to the Serial!!😀😀😀😁😁😁😃😃😃😄😄😄😅😅😅😉😉😉😎!

[@leelarson107]

I hate birds.

[@veecee3669]

Jerry Griceman I have to learn not to read the comments until the end, because inevitably, someone gives away the ending. That would be you, in this instance.

[@perniciouspete4986]

The bird was a double agent.

[@kernailsinghsandhukensandh7572]

With all the fighting and smashing, their hats are always intact on their Heads, Western films alike..... Glued up...

[@randyhonea3543]

Yeah they must have glued them on.

[@personalbyedl]

So what happens at 1:58:58... does Rex somehow avoid having his throat slashed by Haruchi but leaning right to fall away from it and Ranga doesn't have a good grip of his hair? Something went flying also behind Rex as if the blade came loose from the hilt and missed everything in its path. I keep playing it over and over to try and figure out exactly what happened there. Realistically, if Harchui had missed he could have done away with him in a second instead of assisting in the gunfight. The sabre was intact from what I can tell when Haruchi puts it on the desk to help with the onslaught. Someone explain this to me because the plot and execution thereof in those two seconds just doesn't add up here. 🤨

[@randyhonea3543]

Boy he sure can run fast

[@carolynhughes8364]

The cars had a lot of room ad air conditioners and power steering and XM radio .it would be the perfect car to tool around in.

[@stanthology]

They sell 'em. They put old heaps on new frames with new Chevy engines, (Corvette stye) Disk brakes. But they cost a fortune. I forget what they call them. It has a lizard for a trade mark.

[@fernandofernandez1630]

fernando fernandez y sigo viendo la pelicula serial el dragon negro y a Rod cameron la pelicula y el Actor inmortales hay muchas peliculas serial esta es la numero 1 y la numero 2 es el maravilloso enmascarado tanbien pelicula serial

[@blancatirado576]

This is a great series. Wish Hollywood would make a remake of this. Hopefully with no politically correctness.

[@carolynhughes8364]

Blanca Tirado today’s remake Hollywood would make America the bad guys.

[@Charlesputnam-bn9zy]

You ask for the impossible.

[@mikenewton474]

Obviously the serial was made to instill patriotism in American kids whose fathers and brothers were fighting in the war. It took the then current situation and lowered it to a level that kids could understand. Nobody even thought that the seriasl would have been dug up and shown as how Americans felt about the situation. These serials were a product of their time.

[@howardkerr8174]

@@mikenewton474 In the 60s, shows like Mission:Impossible made up the names of countries that the agents were sent into. They could re-make this with either fictitious countries or making some of the less important countries that the U.S. has "problems" with, the bad guys. Probably a big difference between the 40s serials and today? The ridiculous cliffhangers and torture systems.

[@perniciouspete4986]

Which do you want, for Hollywood to make a movie or a movie with no political correctness? Apparently, you can't have both.

[@carolynhughes8364]

The cleaning bill and the clothing allowance for the G men must have really been large.

[@leelarson107]

Some of the performers in the 'Poverty Row' films wore their own clothes, and with no clothing allowance.

[@brendaromano7796]

The car and boat allowance must have been huge with all the blowups.

[@howardkerr8174]

@@brendaromano7796 Take a really good look, the explosions nearly always utilized miniatures and shots of many explosions, cars running off cliffs, planes flying into mountains are both miniatures and recycled quite often. And as a bit of a car nut I can tell you that many of these serials used the same 5 or 6 cars, and the newer cars are almost always Fords and Plymouths while at least half the older cars are 5 or more years old and probably didn't cost that much.

[@howardkerr8174]

@@leelarson107 All the fighting in this particular serial, and only 1 guy tears up a jacket (in one of the early episodes). Guess clothes were better made back then?

[@warmflash]

The suites were beautiful • I wonder where they were from? Custom made or Brooks Bros?

[@claycoates5056]

Fantastic

[@warmflash]

Outstanding fun • 5 Stars •

[@stanthology]

That Vivian kind of looks like the blond broad in "The Spy Who Dumped Me".

[@randyhonea3543]

What luck. The bad guy shoot's at the good guy and kills the other bad guy

[@leelarson107]

Friendly fire. Happens in the military all the time.

[@howardkerr8174]

Actually, I thought that this was somewhat realistic. I mean, heat of the battle, less precise aiming, accidents should happen.

[@thekaiser4333]

I like Mr. Haruchi.

[@mikenewton474]

That was Johnny Arthur, who played Darla Hood's father in the Little Rascals comedies.

[@richardwarner3705]

🎭🎬📽️✨👍

[@randyandtheretreads3144]

A thrill a minute. Way more exciting than most modern stuff. Could do without the long fisticuffs scenes in every chapter though. I guess 1940's men enjoyed boxing so this was to cater to that. Looks like no stunt men so expect some real injuries were incurred.

[@warmflash]

These were some of the first choreographed fight scenes in Hollywood • They were game changers • New camera angles, more focused fights, and theoretically, more thrills •

[@fernandofernandez1630]

fernando fernandez me cuesta creerlo estoy viendo la pelicula serie el Dragon Negro con Rod Cameron esta pelicula yo la vi seguramente los Años1950 por ahi yo tendria 15 añós de edad esto en mi Potosi Bolivia y en el cine Omiste cuantos Recuerdos no y hoy dia martes /26 /11/19pero espere muy pacientemente.valio la pen" Gracias you tube.

[@mikenewton474]

At the end of Chapter 8, the same cliffhanger ending was used with figures touching spears to set off a larger spear as in Lost City of the Jungle (Universal, 1946) where Jane Adams was trussed up in a similar type of chair. Could Universal scriptwriters have seen this chapter to get their idea? Sounds like plagerism to me.

[@leelarson107]

There are just so many possible plots. It's hard to show plagiarism in such a case.

[@peterjohnson617]

the bird talking crow....

[@rickolson8405]

Why is there always an alternating ending of each chapter? Could always have another actor/actress to take her/his role.

[@leelarson107]

I don't follow that. Where is the alternative ending? Whaddahell you talking about?

[@Robbie_S]

Lee Larson I think he means that each episode has a dramatic cliffhanger where lead actors are in imminent life threatening danger when the episode ends, but on the next one we are shown how they come out of those dangers unharmed. Like every explosions and that saw mill Vivian was under, or when she was inside that blazing closet.

[@mikenewton474]

This is what scriptwriters called "Suspension of Disbelief" These last minute solutions could not happen in real life, but of course in the movies, the audience (usually nine or ten year old boys) accepted what they saw.

[@garyranieri3856]

at 105:20- how did Bennett find a parachute in a 'robot plane'? why put a parachute in a plane that will not have a pierson in it?

[@AtomicAgePictures]

If you're wondering how he eats and breathes And other science facts Then repeat to yourself "It's just a show I should really just relax" -theme from Mystery Science Theater 3000

[@garyranieri3856]

Sure but sometimes these oversights just get to you. On a 'Wild Wild West' episode, there was an auction and it came down to 2 last bidders. A bidder said '100,000 and I can go no higher' final bid and the other said '110,000'. Why not bid one dollar higher since the other guy was out? Why throw away almost $10,000? But you're right- as I said when describing '3 Amigos' 'just check your brain at the door'

[@peter4Flags]

Five ✨ 👍

[@luizbzn1969]

kade o ano do filme 😕