The Lost Planet: Living or Dead?

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By Adder Lovelace

Updated 18 March 2023

Image info

Artist	Lone Star Productions
Credit	Jinetes del destino
License	pd
Desc	El actor estadounidense Forrest Taylor en una escena de la película Jinetes del destino.
Usage	Public domain

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1953 film by Spencer Gordon Bennet

The Lost Planet

Released	1953 (69 years, 9 months ago)

Director	Spencer Gordon Bennet
Genre	science fiction film
Country of origin	United States of America
Screenwriter	Arthur Hoerl
Producer	Sam Katzman

About The Lost Planet

The Lost Planet is a 1953 Columbia Pictures 15-chapter serial which has the distinction of being the last interplanetary-themed sound serial ever made. It was directed by Spencer Gordon Bennet with a screenplay by George H. Plympton and Arthur Hoerl (who also wrote for Rocky Jones, Space Ranger). It appears to have been planned as a sequel to the earlier chapterplay Captain Video: Master of the Stratosphere and shares many plot-points, props and sets, as well as some of the same cast. However, the Video Rangers do not appear, and their uniforms are instead worn by "slaves" created electronically by Reckov, the dictator of the Lost Planet (Gene Roth) with the help of mad scientist Dr. Grood (Michael Fox) and enslaved "good" scientist Professor Dorn (Forrest Taylor).