Mandrake the magician torrent

Warren Hull plays the dapper Mandrake in top hat and tails and seemingly an expert in every field and every form of fisticuffs.

With him is his faithful Lothar, a servant who like Mandrake can fight at will and ease under any circumstances. Of course when Lothar fights - the actor playing him Al Kikume is easily seen not to be fighting as the stunt double looks nothing like him. That is just one of a host of problems with the serial in terms of direction, production, and cinematic achievement. Routinely actors are poorly doubled. Fight scenes are nothing more in some instances than actors playing patty-cake with their fists.

The identity of the serial villain - the Wasp - is clearly evident in the final three or four chapters. The leading lady - Doris Weston - is as bland as cottage cheese. When would the parade of henchmen end?

But despite all these things, Mandrake the Magician is a lot of fun to watch, and I must confess that for at least the first 9 chapters I had to find out who the Wasp was as three of Mandrake's circle were framed so as to suggest each one.

Each episode left with some great calamity, and this serial is definitely worth a peek. BaronBl00d May 31, Details Edit. Release date May 6, United States. United States. Mandrake, el mago. Columbia Pictures.

Technical specs Edit. Runtime 3 hours 35 minutes. Black and White. Related news. Jan 29 SneakPeek. Nov 28 Comicmix. Internet Archive's 25th Anniversary Logo. Search icon An illustration of a magnifying glass. User icon An illustration of a person's head and chest. Sign up Log in. Web icon An illustration of a computer application window Wayback Machine Texts icon An illustration of an open book. Books Video icon An illustration of two cells of a film strip.

Video Audio icon An illustration of an audio speaker. Audio Software icon An illustration of a 3. Software Images icon An illustration of two photographs. Louis in A graduate of the University of Illinois, he spent four years writing copy and directing radio shows for an advertising agency in St. Once he was comfortably situated as the producer of two of the most sensationally successful features in daily newspapers, Falk took to globetrotting. For many years, the adventures of both The Phantom and Mandrake the Magician were as often as not set to paper in hotel rooms in one of the world's great capitals.

The inexhaustible stories continued to come one after another even as World War II intervened. Immediately after Pearl Harbor was attacked, the patriotic Falk took on duties in secret intelligence operations with the Office of War Information and became chief of its radio foreign language division.

In , Falk enlisted in the United States Army. Up until the time of his death in , the expert storyteller still roamed every corner of the globe and continued to mastermind the daily and Sunday newspaper adventures of both The Phantom and Mandrake the Magician. Fred Fredericks was born in in Atlantic City, N. He wrote and illustrated history comic strips in regional papers. In , he began working with the Dell and Gold Key comic books doing funny animals and adventure titles.

Fredericks lives in Massachusetts with his wife, Frances, and has two children, Connie and Patrick. New Archive About Trending Shop. Lothar is Mandrake's assistant in criminal investigations and his best friend. His immense physical strength has often saved Mandrake from dire peril. The two met during one of Mandrake's many jaunts around the world and fast became friends.