The Lost Planet, a 15-chapter serial from Columbia in 1953, starring Judd Holdren and Vivian Mason. Flying saucers are reported over the city, then one supposedly crashed in the mountains nearby. Reporter Rex Barrow (Holdren) and his photographer, Ted Thorpe (Tim Johnson) locate the crash site, but meet a girl there, too. She claims to be Ella Dorn (Mason) the daughter of professor Dorn (Forest Taylor) who has been missing. The three are captured and sent to the planet Ergro as workers in mining a special mineral. The first half of the serial is jumping back and forth between Earth and Ergro in a space rocket or jet plane. With the serial going nowhere, at midway gangsters are brought to spice up the plot. Unfortunately, this is 1953, and serials are about finished. I was told that Lost Planet was supposed to be a sequel to Captain Video, but I don’t know that for a fact. In any case, as serials go, this one didn’t. This may have been Columbia’s final serial, if not it should have been. Not one of the best.
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