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King of the Rocket Men Overview:

King of the Rocket Men (1949) was a Action - Adventure Film directed by Fred C. Brannon and produced by Franklin Adreon.

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King of the Rocket Men (1949, Fred C. Brannon)

By Andrew Wickliffe on Oct 20, 2017 From The Stop Button

King of the Rocket Men isn’t a long serial. It’s only twelve chapters and almost one of them is a recap of the first three chapters. The final chapter spends most of its time setting up a big showdown, with the grand action finale–at least the grand action finale not recycling disaster footage... Read full article

King of the Rocket Men (1949, Fred C. Brannon), Chapter 12: Wave of Disaster

By Andrew Wickliffe on Oct 18, 2017 From The Stop Button

The Wave of Disaster does have some great special effects for Rocket Men’s finale. Sure, they’re from an earlier film, but they’re still great. The Rocket Man effects are fine too, they’re just boring. After yet another tepid cliffhanger resolution–maybe the first to directly contradict th... Read full article

King of the Rocket Men (1949, Fred C. Brannon), Chapter 11: Secret of Dr. Vulcan

By Andrew Wickliffe on Oct 17, 2017 From The Stop Button

About halfway through the chapter–the penultimate Rocket Men chapter–Tristram Coffin and Mae Clarke go over a cliff in a car into a lake. They’ve already gone over a cliff together as a cliffhanger. And Coffin forced a motorcycle driver to his death over the cliff into a lake. It really felt l... Read full article

King of the Rocket Men (1949, Fred C. Brannon), Chapter 10: The Deadly Fog

By Andrew Wickliffe on Oct 16, 2017 From The Stop Button

The Deadly Fog is a clip chapter. Sadly, the fog doesn’t refer to the misting effect when Deadly goes into flashback to the moments from the first three chapters. After another lackluster cliffhanger resolution, Tristram Coffin ignores the weapon of mass destruction in a nearby car–he re... Read full article

King of the Rocket Men (1949, Fred C. Brannon), Chapter 9: Ten Seconds to Live

By Andrew Wickliffe on Oct 15, 2017 From The Stop Button

Ten Seconds to Live is a new low as far as Rocket Men quality goes. It’s bad to the point the badness becomes more engaging than the story, partially because there’s no story, mostly because the good guys are just so dumb. The cliffhanger resolution is bad. The subsequent setup for the c... Read full article

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King of the Rocket Men Quotes:

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King of the Rocket Men Facts
Jeff King's atomic powered rocket suit was so advanced that it required only three operational controls: on/off, up/down and slow/fast.
Titles of Chapters
  • 1. Dr. Vulcan. Traitor
  • 2. Plunging Death
  • 3. Dangerous Evidence
  • 4. High Peril
  • 5. Fatal Dive
  • 6. Mystery of The Rocket Man
  • 7. Molten Menace
  • 8. Suicide Flight
  • 9. Ten Seconds To Live
  • 10. The Deadly Fog
  • 11. Secret of Dr. Vulcan
  • 12. Wave of Disaster Note: The On Screen number to this is 'Last Chapter' instead of '12'

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.
As in other Republic serials, Republic's top stuntmen, Dale Van Sickel, Tom Steele and David Sharpe, not only did stunts for other actors, they were given multiple roles throughout the serial. The audience were meant to see only one episode per week and therefore not expected to remember the faces of each henchman or extra.
The footage from the final chapter showing the destruction of New York City was taken from Deluge.
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