Buck Rogers

Buck Rogers

BUCK ROGERS BATTLES INVASION FROM FOREIGN PLANETS!...Space ships exploded by giant ray machines! Mountains crumbled by disintegrating machines!

NR 1939 · 237 min · ★ 6.1 · Science Fiction

Buck Rogers and Buddy Wade are in the middle of a trans-polar dirigible flight when they are caught in a blizzard and crash. Buddy then releases a special gas to keep them in suspended animation until a rescue party can arrive. However, an avalanche covers the craft and the two are in suspended animation for 500 years. When they are found, they awake to find out that the world has been taken over by the outlaw army of Killer Kane. Along with Lieutenant Wilma Deering, Buck and Buddy join in the fight to overthrow Kane and with the help of Prince Tallen of Saturn and his forces, they eventually do and Earth is free of Kane's grip.

Directed by Ford Beebe · Written by Norman S. Hall

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Cast

Buster Crabbe Buck Rogers
Constance Moore Wilma Deering
Jackie Moran George 'Buddy' Wade
Anthony Warde Killer Kane
C. Montague Shaw Prof. Huer
William Gould Air Marshal Kragg
Philson Ahn Prince Tallen
Guy Usher Aldar
Henry Brandon Capt. Laska
Wheeler Oakman Lt. Patten
Kenne Duncan Lt. Lacy
Jack Mulhall Capt. Rankin

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