Buck Rogers

Buck Rogers

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NR 1977 · 90 min · ★ 5.8 · Science Fiction

Edited version of the 1939 Universal serial "Buck Rogers." A 20th Century pilot named Buck Rogers and his young friend Buddy Wade awake from 500 years in suspended animation to find that the world has been taken over by the outlaw army of Killer Kane.

Directed by Saul A. Goodkind · Written by Norman S. Hall

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