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Auction History Result 9f710 PHANTOM EMPIRE Mexican LC '40s really cool sci-fi artwork of rocketship battle! Date Sold 12/27/2009 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original circa 1940s (from the first release of this movie in Mexico) Vintage Theatrical Mexican Movie Lobby Card (LC; measures 12" x 16") (Learn More) The Phantom Empire, the 1935 Otto Brower & B. Reeves Eason science fiction (sci-fi) singing cowboy western musical (!) serial ("A Mascot Master Serial") starring Gene Autry ("The world famed star of radio and screen"), Frankie Darro, Betsy King Ross, Smiley Burnette, Dorothy Christy (as Queen Tika), Richard Talmadge, and Wheeler Oakman. Note that this is one of the wackiest serials ever! Gene Autry owned the "Radio Ranch" where he broadcast he weekly radio show from. In this movie, he discovers that the "ancient continent of Murania" (a lot like Atlantis) had sunk beneath the ocean, but that the inhabitants, called "Muranians", had survived in underground caverns, and some of them lived in a cavern directly below his Radio Ranch! They were very peaceful, and very scientifically advanced, having invented television, ray guns, and really funky robot outfits, but they felt threatened by the Earth people from the surface who discovered them, and in this movie, Autry alternately tries to stop the Muranians from attacking the Earth people, while taking frequent breaks to perform songs on his radio show! This was one of the very few science fiction movies of the 1930s, and also one of the very few to show robots (actually men in robot suits)! Also Note that Richard Talmadge was born "Sylvester Alphonse Metz", and he was an acrobat with the Barnum and Bailey Circus. He got a job in Hollywood as a stuntman for Douglas Fairbanks Sr., and then graduated to starring in movies, always performing lots of stunts. He had two acrobat brothers, Otto Metzetti and Victor Metz, who appeared with him in some of his movies. NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Important Added Info: Note that this Mexican Lobby Card is a silkscreen printed poster with an actual black & white photo which has neatly been "tipped in" (glued to the lower left corner of the poster). Note that the silkscreen portions of this poster usually pick up scuff marks far more easily than other posters of this period (this was caused by the method of silkscreen printing, and is very common on these posters, and is not considered a major defect, unless it is very noticeable or distracting). Condition: very good to fine. Learn More about condition grades 
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