King of the Rocket Men (1949)

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Tristram Coffin

Jeffrey King

Mae Clarke

Glenda Thomas

Don Haggerty

Tony Dirken

House Peters Jr.

Burt Winslow

James Craven

Prof. Millard [Chs. 1-7, 10]

I. Stanford Jolley

Prof. Bryant

Douglas Evans

Chairman [Ch. 12]

Ted Adams

Martin Conway [Chs. 1-4]

Stanley Price

Gunther Von Strum

Dale Van Sickel

Martin - Henchman [Ch.1]…

Tom Steele

Knox - Henchman [Chs. 1, 3-4, 7]…

David Sharpe

Blears - Henchman…

Eddie Parker

Rowan [Ch. 3]

Michael Ferro

Turk - Henchman [Ch. 8]

Frank O'Connor

Warehouse Guard [Chs. 1, 10]

Buddy Roosevelt

Phillips - Henchman [Chs. 9-10]

Marshall Bradford

Prof. Graftner
(uncredited)

Arvon Dale

Chairman's Aide [Ch. 12]
(uncredited)

Director
- Fred C. Brannon
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Trivia
This was another of Republic's titles to use a play-on-words for "King of..." "King" was actually the name of the main character.

Goofs
Conway is murdered by having a knife thrown into the middle of his back, yet Glenda accepts his death as a suicide (and wonders why he'd kill himself before ending his suicide confession/note).

Quotes
Glenda Thomas: Am I glad you caught up with me again.
Jeffrey King: It's getting to be a habit that I'd like to break.
Glenda Thomas: Well, I was only trying to help.
Jeffrey King: The best you can do is help yourself to a ride back to town. The highway is right over there.

Alternate versions
This Republic serial was edited down to a feature film and released under the title "Lost Planet Airman."

Connections
Edited into Lost Planet Airmen (1951)

Childhood Saturday mornings... all over again

This movie serial has been on my mind for years. I finally found it via the internet. What a wonderful find! Not the greatest of acting, just a nice memory from days gone by, from when I was a kid and paying 3d (pennies) old stuff!!, in 1956-7 to go to Saturday morning movies with my brothers and be so excited at having to wait until the following week to see if Jeff King would escape! He always did, but it was never as was portrayed the previous week.... the mind forgets the small details when a week has gone by. Tristram Coffin made hundreds of film and television appearances, none of which were Oscar winners, but he was always presenting himself with a hero presence. As I say, not the greatest acting, but a brilliant step back in time to when all life was really rather innocent. Great stuff!!