February 23, 1935
Mascot Pictures
Western, Sci-Fi, Musical
VHS
C+
Low-budget serial edited into a feature, yes, covering all of the above genres. Gene Autry, sort of playing himself, is a radio singer who, with his teen sidekicks Frankie and Betsy, battles evil scientists and evil Muranians. The movie is never as much fun as all the elements would suggest, even if it does have such futuristic Muranian devices like gingerbread-men-like robots, a television device, and "wireless telephone," combined with horses, an airplane, and corny Country songs. Still worth a look, if only as one of the stranger movies to be influenced by The Birth of a Nation.
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