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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. Feature version of the film serial Buck Rogers by Universal Pictures, 1940.
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Audiences 39GoodWatch 44
IMDb3.9
Running time
1 h 11 min
Shorter than 9 in 10 sci-fi movies, −28 min on the typical 99
typical 9971Half of all sci-fi movies run 90–112 min.
Reach
Streams in 126 countries
+116Released
1953
January 1, 1953
73 years ago
Genre
Science FictionLanguage
English
Original language
Made in
- United States
Rated
- NRUnited States
15 of 15
Buster CrabbeCol. Buck Rogers
Constance MooreLt. Wilma Deering
Jackie MoranGeorge 'Buddy' Wade
Anthony WardeKiller Kane
Jack MulhallCapt. Rankin, Hidden City forces- PAPhilson AhnPrince Tallen
C. Montague ShawDr. Huer
Guy UsherAldar
William GouldAir Marshal Kragg
Henry BrandonCapt. Lasca
Kenne DuncanLt. Lacy
Reed HowesCapt. Roberts
Wheeler OakmanLieutenant Patten
Carleton YoungScott
Kane Richmond(archive footage)
Directing · 2
- Saul A. Goodkind Director, Editor
- Ford Beebe Director
Writing · 5
- Harry Revier Writer
- Ray Trampe Writer
- Norman S. Hall Writer
- Helen Leighton Writer
- Philip Francis Nowlan Story
Art · 1
- Jack Otterson Art Direction
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