Sunday, April 05, 2009

#160. The Phantom (1943 Movie Serial)

The Phantom (1943)

Directed by B. Reeves Eason

Based on the King Feature comic strip hero "Phantom," an exciting serial adventure produced by Columbia Pictures (USA) & released on 24 December 1943. The serial also features Jeanne Bates as the Phantom's girlfriend Diana Palmer, and Ace the Wonder Dog as the Phantom's trusty German shepherd Devil.

Plot:

Two expeditions are trying to reach the Lost City of Zoloz--one headed by Prof. Davidson, a scientist who wants to establish an archaeological site, and the other by a greedy treasure hunter who wants to keep the fabled treasures of the city for himself. An agent of a foreign power also wants to establish a secret airbase there, so he stirs up the natives against The Phantom, who has been able to get them to stay peaceful so far. When The Phantom is murdered, his son takes his place and sets out to restore peace to the jungle and stop the agents' and the treasure hunters' nefarious plans.

Includes 15 episodes:

chapter 1: The Sign of the Skull

chapter 2: The Man Who Never Dies

chapter 3: A Traitor's Code

chapter 4: The Seat of Judgement

chapter 5: The Ghost Who Walks

chapter 6: Jungle Whispers

chapter 07: The Mystery Well

chapter 08: In the Quest of the Keys

chapter 09: The Fire Princess

chapter 10: The Chamber of Death

chapter 11: The Emerald Key

chapter 12: The Fangs of the Beast

chapter 13: The Road to Zoloz

chapter 14: The Lost City

chapter 15: Peace in the Jungle

Download: Link

Writing credits
Leslie Swabacker
(screenplay) (as Leslie J. Swabacker) &
Morgan Cox
(screenplay) (as Morgan B. Cox) &
Victor McLeod
(screenplay) &
Sherman L. Lowe
(screenplay) (as Sherman Lowe)

Lee Falk
comic strip (as Leon Falk)
Ray Moore
comic strip

All credits to the rippers, encoders & uploaders . It's a Frank's Contribution.

32 comments:

  1. Looks a promising TV Series, let me watch at a leisue time. Don't remember many on Phantom, so far. Thanks for sharing Prabhat & Frank.

    By the way Thanks too, for linking up my blog :).

    ÇómícólógÝ

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  2. Rafiq Raja: According to Bala ji, It's interesting. He recommended watching. As I come to know about it, first posted, then decided to download.

    No need to thank, it was me who was late in adding your site.

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  3. Nice posting but where are links.

    Thanx

    Ajay

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  4. Prabhat, I have seen this serial on DVD. The only problem is because it was a serial, there is a lot of repetition of the previous part in each episode. If someone can edit out the titles and "story so far" this would be a very good movie. There is also a Phantom movie (shot in the Asia-Pacific) in color.

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  5. Hello Prabhat
    In reply,
    Kharasaw, Speciba.
    That is all I know as of now. More in the years to come.
    LG.

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  6. Hey! Are the files of this serial password protected. Tried to open chapter1 part1, and the rar file was asking for password.

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  7. @Divish: Ajay! Links are in post.

    @ Srikanth: I don't know it's edited or not. Thanks for feedback.

    @Jai: Soon you will talk freely in Russian. :)

    pass: cms

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  8. Wow.This is a scoope of the decade, an old Phantom serial. We all have watched Billy Zane's Phantom movie and are more hungry to see Phantom in flesh on the screen. Its taking ages to download but I have the patience. Looks like its password protected to keep pirates from mongo planet at bay. Can I have it plz Prabhat?

    ravindragokhale@yahoo.com

    Many thanks.

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  9. ravi gokhale: Pls download link, there are all links & password. Earlier I posted serial wise, but at contributor's request reposted link this way.

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  10. This will be interesting... but I am having problems getting to the episodes..

    When you click on the link.. it takes you to http://link-protector.com/x-61661

    and when you download from there .. it says "Bad referrer"

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  11. Thanks for the pass.
    Works great.
    Saw episode 1 and 3. Episode 2 seems to be repeat of 1.
    Enjoyed it all the same.
    The natives all look so well fed and chubby, real fun :))

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  12. Prabhat,

    While trying to downlaod the Frew comics and the links for Phantom TV series i am facing problems

    http://x.link-protector.com/x-61840

    itsays MP3 downloads.

    can you please tell me what would be the process, maybe i am making some error. My emailid is raju1969_2000@yahoo.com

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  13. hello friend ,

    i cannot get the download links , as , on link-protector.com, it says bad refferer. plz help. and plz continue posting ijcs in this way to avoid that PIYUSH creature.
    regards - Subhagata

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  14. How do you download the file? I get "Bad referrer" when I click on that link.

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  15. Great Bumper Bonanza. :) Thanks.

    But mind my word Prabhat, Most Link Protectors are Viral with Malwares. Even KL doesn't allow them for their such hidden acts. I think it's better to avoid them in future. Even Hari's FCB visitors faced lots of problems in the past for using them, and finally they stopped using Link Protectors.

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  16. I think some of us were able to download the Frew comics before "PM" copied them over to his blog.

    The link protector seems to have a mind of its own. It does not now allow us to d/l the comics. I am not able to download the serials. I think something needs to be tweaked.

    BTW, the "PM" guy has banned all comments from his site. He has cleaned up all the vulgar comments from his blog. The only thing remaining are his own vulgar posts - the blatant copying of the links.

    As though he wants to help you guys to have increased traffic, he is asking everyone who wants to contact him to leave messages at the 12 blogs he had listed in his first post.

    I am not sure what kind of unwanted work that is going to bring to you guys!! You just gotta love this "PM" guy!!

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  17. Hi Prabhat, it looks like the nameless perp is continuing on with his asinine work! The shameless guy is still carrying on his work - so, I think you should remove his link from your earlier blog! That way nobody will be tempted to go there!

    I keep hoping that someday someone will do a big screen reboot of Phantom. That Billy Zane one was so bad; it sucked really bad! The only thing good about that one was their choice of Diana! ;) But well, they are making a Mandrake movie, hopefully they won't screw that up!

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  18. Saw the movie- some how felt that it does not so proper justice to the comic character. Just my feeling.

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  19. Link-Protector is good only for preventing AUTOMATED compilation of links by crawlers etc. It will not stop a determined crook who will click, copy and paste. I agree that the link to the pm blog should be removed.

    This serial would have been wonderful if they cut out the repetition. There would be a four minute repetition from previous episode (approx), six minutes of real story and titles! It drove me crazy. I was spending roughly the same time on the forwarding and watching! I hope someone with the right software can just edit out the repetition/titles and make one big file. The whole movie should last under 90 minutes then, most likely.

    I liked the Billy Zane movie better - the story was from a forties comic strip and the photography was quite good. I don't understand why there are no Phantom movies coming out when they are making movies of every comic hero.

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  20. I was now able to download the RAR file. I have not yet started downloading any of the 15 parts.

    the more I look at the way link-protector works, I am not sure that ths is a remedy for the PM malice.

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  21. Wow! Great post Prabhat. Had heard a lot abt this serial, and looking fwd to download and watch it. The Billy Zane movie sucked majorly, with the Phantom unmasked most of the time (of course, not commercially smart in keeping the lead masked all the time :P) I hope this serial will be more honest with the story-line.
    PS: I hope someone will soon make really good movies on Phantom and Mandrake.

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  22. The first episode of first movie zip has CRC error and broken archive. It cannot be extracted. Is it possible to upload them in mediafire ?

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  23. Hey , I have downloaded the first file of episode 2. But when I tried to extract using 7zip, again it reports CRC error and broken archive. Plz help.

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  24. @ Suman
    I experienced the same problem.
    Solution is we have to download all the three parts for each episode.
    All the three files are linked. On opening the second and third file, it will ask, replace file, say yes.
    Finally you will get to see the episode.

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  25. Thanx Jai, I can now extract the full episode. Can anybody provide the links of Mandrake Movie as found in Mandrake blog ?

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  26. Welcome friends! It's great you all are enjoying & solved some problems.

    Bala Ji will post Mandrake Movie soon. :)

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  27. Dear Prabhat, If you are having a Linux OS, you can easily Convert your Scanned jpg images into a Handy PDF File with the following Command:

    Browse into the comics directory, then execute this command:

    convert *.jpg -adjoin comics.pdf

    PDF Files are easier to Read then jpg images.

    Hope this is Helpful......

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  28. Dear Prabhat, If you are having a Linux OS, you can easily Convert your Scanned jpg images into a Handy PDF File with the following Command:

    Browse into the comics directory, then execute this command:

    convert *.jpg -adjoin comics.pdf

    PDF Files are easier to Read then jpg images.

    Hope this is Helpful......

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  29. The first episode of first movie zip has CRC error and broken archive. It cannot be extracted. Is it possible to upload them in mediafire ?

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  30. I was now able to download the RAR file. I have not yet started downloading any of the 15 parts.

    the more I look at the way link-protector works, I am not sure that ths is a remedy for the PM malice.

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  31. http://www.mediafire.com/file/zzymm4yjnhj/Phantom.rar

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  32. Where is the link ? I can't see it.

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