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Last week's Movie Quiz winners

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There's no defending last week's quiz movie, the 1936 serial Undersea Kingdom, but I love it anyway. Co-directed by B-Western great Joseph Kane, it stars Ray "Crash" Corrigan, who made a lot of Westerns himself after breaking into movies as a professional gorilla-- he had his own suit and was an unbilled ape for his first several film performances. The story follows Crash and his posse as they take a submarine ride to Atlantis and incur the wrath of Unga Khan (played by sour-faced character actor Monte Blue, who was in over 250 films and did stuntwork in Birth of a Nation).

The rest of the cast is fun, as well, especially Smiley Burnette and Frankie Marvin as Briny Deep and Salty, who accomplish the impossible and provide comedy relief that's actually funny. It even features Lon Chaney, Jr., three years before Of Mice and Men.

So congratulations to the following serial buffs who recognized one of the best the genre has to offer: Wayne Palmer, Jim Scott, Tammy Riggins, E. Yarber, Hank Parmer, Mark Gisleson and Connor Rice.

Posted by Steve Monaco at June 20, 2005 3:56 AM

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