Iain Petrie | 1936 Serial "Undersea Kingdom" (Atlantis) Ep 4/12. AI Enhanced & Colourised! Revenge of the Volkites @IKP1000 | Uploaded December 2022 | Updated October 2024, 13 hours ago.
In the words of author William C. Cline, Undersea Kingdom was a "totally unbelievable – but visually enjoyable – madhouse chase."
Undersea Kingdom (1936) is a Republic Pictures 12 chapter film serial released in response to Universal's Flash Gordon.
This is episode 5. The first episode can be seen here: youtu.be/rblkaP5KmrQ
It's so like Flash Gordon, if you forget your glasses you'd think it WAS Flash Gordon. The star of the serial is Ray "Crash" Corrigan. The name was created to sound similar to "Flash Gordon", in one of many similarities. Interestingly, he actually appeared in the first series of Flash Gordon in the same year, 1936. Wiki:
Corrigan's Hollywood career began as a physical fitness instructor and physical culture trainer to the stars. In the early 1930s he did stunts and bit parts in several films, billed as Ray Benard. Many of his early roles were in ape costumes, for example, as a gorilla in Tarzan and His Mate (1934) and an "orangopoid" in the first Flash Gordon serial."
The original is B&W of course, and is low resolution and quite poor quality. I've upscaled and enhanced it in Topaz Video AI and colourised it in DeOldify AI. Undersea Kingdom is mostly forgotten now, and has a low rating of 4.8 on IMDB. I think it's much better than that, see what you think. The lost undersea continent of Atlantis has evil dictators, remote-controlled soldier robots, flying war ships, ray guns, and so much more.... I'll be listing the other episodes over the coming weeks. It may take a few weeks to do them all, but I promise they will be done. Please consider subscribing if you enjoy this kind of content, as there is much more enhanced vintage material to come!
In the words of author William C. Cline, Undersea Kingdom was a "totally unbelievable – but visually enjoyable – madhouse chase."
Undersea Kingdom (1936) is a Republic Pictures 12 chapter film serial released in response to Universal's Flash Gordon.
This is episode 5. The first episode can be seen here: youtu.be/rblkaP5KmrQ
It's so like Flash Gordon, if you forget your glasses you'd think it WAS Flash Gordon. The star of the serial is Ray "Crash" Corrigan. The name was created to sound similar to "Flash Gordon", in one of many similarities. Interestingly, he actually appeared in the first series of Flash Gordon in the same year, 1936. Wiki:
Corrigan's Hollywood career began as a physical fitness instructor and physical culture trainer to the stars. In the early 1930s he did stunts and bit parts in several films, billed as Ray Benard. Many of his early roles were in ape costumes, for example, as a gorilla in Tarzan and His Mate (1934) and an "orangopoid" in the first Flash Gordon serial."
The original is B&W of course, and is low resolution and quite poor quality. I've upscaled and enhanced it in Topaz Video AI and colourised it in DeOldify AI. Undersea Kingdom is mostly forgotten now, and has a low rating of 4.8 on IMDB. I think it's much better than that, see what you think. The lost undersea continent of Atlantis has evil dictators, remote-controlled soldier robots, flying war ships, ray guns, and so much more.... I'll be listing the other episodes over the coming weeks. It may take a few weeks to do them all, but I promise they will be done. Please consider subscribing if you enjoy this kind of content, as there is much more enhanced vintage material to come!
