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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: CRABBE,BUSTER
Fabric Type: 9786305989394
Graphics Memory Size: Black & White, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC
Legal Disclaimer: 6305989397
Manufacturer Labor Warranty Description:
Maximum Color Depth: Vci Video
Maximum Focal Length:
Metal Type: Vci Video
Pearl Type: 8248
Publisher: 1
Total Firewire Ports: Vci Video
Total Metal Weight: 1
Total Parallel Ports: September 19, 2000
Total S Video Out Ports: 241 minutes
Vci Video
February 06, 1939
Editorial Review:
Product Description:
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Genre: Serials
Rating: NR
Release Date: 10-AUG-2000
Media Type: DVD
Amazon.com:
While it lacks the baroque, fantastical quality of the previous Flash Gordon serials (which also starred Buster Crabbe), the Buck Rogers serial still exemplifies the freewheeling spirit of pulp-magazine space opera of the 1930s. Crash-landing in the Arctic in the 20th century, Buck Rogers and his sidekick Buddy Wade (Jackie Moran) use a special gas to induce suspended animation, only to be awakened 500 years later when the world is ruled by the evil Killer Kane. We are told that Kane's ascendancy is a direct result of the 20th century's failure to solve the problem of crime. But luckily, Buck Rogers is here to fight Kane's evil domination of mankind, which involves making obedient robots out of folks by strapping an "amnesia helmet" on their heads. (The helmet looks like the sawed-off end of a cheesy rocket ship, complete with fins.) Most of the episodes deal with invasion forces from the planet Saturn and whose side they're going to take, Killer Kane's or Buck's, affording plenty of opportunity for spaceships to zip back and forth, propelled by sparks and rising smoke. All the trappings and tropes of space opera abound: ray guns, space travel, villainous political figures, alien civilizations. In a way, the flaws seem quaint--the wooden acting, the cheesy costumes and sets, the flimsy space crafts, the similarity between the surface of Saturn and certain California deserts, and the way Buck needs no learning curve after traveling 500 years into the future. It's great adolescent fun. --Jim Gay
Average Rating: 
Rating:
- Have not receivedI ordered this title at the same time as "Son of Tarzan" & I have never received it as of this date.
Rating:
- No Flash Gordon, but you may not care when you watch this stunning VCI restorationFirst things first: BUCK ROGERS is rather weak and disappointing compared to the two FLASH GORDON serials (1936 and 1938) that preceded it and that also star Buster Crabbe - though I think it's at least the equal of the last FLASH (FLASH GORDON CONQUERS THE UNIVERSE). It looks even cheaper - I think FLASH had at least a couple more sets and not every outdoor shot was done in the same rocky western terrain - and it lacks a couple of the major ingredients that make those first two Flash serials as ... Read More
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- One small complaintThe restoration and quality of the picture is outstanding. This is the best DVD version of Buck Rogers that has ever been and likely will ever be released. One small quibble -- as far as I can tell the picture is interlaced. Why, oh WHY, go to all the trouble and expense to restore this serial from film and then release it interlaced???
Rating:
- a 70 year old series that looks this good has to get 5 starsI'm not reviewing this classic serial (nor get into a Buck Rogers/Flash Gordon debate)...but offering a review of the 2 DVD set that I picked up yesterday out of curiosity as it was so inexpensive and I remember seeing many of these episodes as a youngster on Saturday morning tv. The main reason for my review is to say that these are NOT public domain garbage transfers but seemingly first generation prints right off the film and film that is in remarkably great shape! Of course the space crafts are ... Read More
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- Excellent remastered picture! Worth the upgrade.I've watched three of the episodes so far. The picture quality is a HUGE improvement over the original VCI release which I found to be murky, dark and blurry at times. The remastered image of the new release blows the old one away by miles. It is consistently sharp and bright. The audio quality is also very good.
The 2 disc set also includes a bunch of extras including a brief history of Buck Rogers, an audio speech given by Buster Crabbe about his career, 2 radio episodes of Buck Rogers, ... Read More
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