The Phantom Empire (1935 film serial)

The Phantom Empire
Directed by	Otto Brower, Breezy Easton (B. Reeves Eason)
Produced by	Nat Levine
Written by	Wallace MacDonald, Gerald Geraghty, Hy Freedman, Maurice Geraghty
Starring	Gene Autry, Frankie Darro, Betsy King Ross, Dorothy Christy, Wheeler Oakman, J. Frank Glendon
Production company	Mascot Pictures
Release date	1935
Running time	245 minutes (12 episodes)
Country	United States
Language	English

The Phantom Empire is a serial film in twelve parts, released in 1935 by Mascot Pictures, which details the discovery by Gene Autry, the Singing Cowboy, and his assistants of an underground remnant of Mu, known as the Scientific City of Murania, beneath Autry's Radio Ranch in New Mexico and their subsequent confrontations and adventures. A highly abbreviated version of the serial, running seventy minutes (compared to the over four-hour run-time of the full serial), was released as a feature film in 1940 under the title Men With Steel Faces (or Radio Ranch).

Chapters

1. The Singing Cowboy: https://www.archive.org/details/phantom_empire_chapter_1
2. The Thunder Riders: https://www.archive.org/details/phantom_empire_chapter_2
3. The Lighting Chamber: https://www.archive.org/details/phantom_empire_chapter_3
4. Phantom Broadcast: https://www.archive.org/details/phantom_empire_chapter_4
5. Beneath the Earth: https://www.archive.org/details/phantom_empire_chapter_5
6. Disaster from the Skies: https://www.archive.org/details/phantom_empire_chapter_6
7. From Death to Life: https://www.archive.org/details/phantom_empire_chapter_7
8. Jaws of Jeopardy: https://www.archive.org/details/phantom_empire_chapter_8
9. Prisoner of the Ray: https://www.archive.org/details/phantom_empire_chapter_9
10. The Rebellion: https://www.archive.org/details/phantom_empire_chapter_10
11. A Queen in Chains: https://www.archive.org/details/phantom_empire_the_chapter_11
12. The End of Murania: https://www.archive.org/details/phantom_empire_chapter_12

Reading

• Turner, George (April 1994), "The Phantom Empire: Blazing a Trail to The Autry Empire, Serail Sends Singing Cowboy's Career Into Orbit", American Cinematographer 75 (4)