CLIFFHANGER A Pictorial History of The Motion Picture Serial

Relive the excitement and thrills of those wonderful, bygone days before television in Cliffhanger. It's a colorfully written, entertainingly illustrated salute to that most exciting of film genres-the serial. Packed with 391 illustrations (many never before published!) from the author's extensive collection, Cliffhanger is a happy visit to the time when good was good and bad was bad and a whole generation of kids grew up knowing that right would triumph in the end. Discover the origins of the serial with Pearl White, a captivating heroine of the Twenties, who thrilled audiences with her near-disasters at the end of each week's episode, heroic career as Flash Gordon, Buck Rogers and Tarzan the Fearless, and was the favorite of serial fans. Learn how many serials in the Thirties served as the first public exposure for such now-famous stars as Gene Autry, John Wayne and Jennifer Jones. Comic strip characters, like Super-man, Batman, Captain America, Captain Marvel, Spy Smasher, and more, came alive in the serials and you'll see all your favorites in action. Meet the good guys, like Kane Richmond, Kirk Alyn, Dennis Moore and Charles Quigley, and their equally good gals, like Linda Stirling, Francis Gifford and Kay Aldridge and the stuntmen and daredevils who performed the exciting leaps and fights the stars got credit for.  Travel to exotic lands, with Nyoka the Jungle Girl; fight Nazi treachery with the G-Men; ride the range with Buck Jones and the Lone Ranger,  and shiver anew to the masked villains like The Lame One, The Lightning, The Ghost and The Wasp. It's all here, the frights, the fights, the fantasy and the fun! Out Of Print. Condition: Fine Minus. Bumped corners and edge wear.