Planet Outlaws

1953 Science Fiction 69 minutes Directed by Saul A. Goodkind

About Planet Outlaws

Pilot Buck Rogers and Buddy Wade crash in an Arctic blizzard and wake in 2440. Killer Kane's outlaw army holds the world. The feature is cut from the Universal serial.

Cast & crew

More about Planet Outlaws

A 1953 feature cut from Universal's Buck Rogers serial. Wikidata credits Ford Beebe. The catalog credits Saul A. Goodkind and dates the serial 1940. Buster Crabbe plays Buck. Jackie Moran plays Buddy Wade. Constance Moore is billed. Anthony Warde plays Killer Kane. Jack Mulhall and Philip Ahn are billed. A copy is on the Internet Archive as planet_outlaws_ipod.

Themes

  • a crash that lasts 500 years
  • an outlaw army in 2440
  • Buck Rogers
  • Buddy Wade
  • Killer Kane
  • Buster Crabbe
  • 2440
  • Universal

Making

The 1953 picture is a feature assembled from the chapter play, not a new Buck Rogers story.

Preservation

A copy is on the Internet Archive.

Notes

  • The sleep is 500 years, from a crash in the Arctic to the year 2440.
  • Philson Ahn on some cast lists is Philip Ahn.
  • Henry Brandon, Karl Hackett, and Carleton Young are also billed.
  • The Commons file uses the feature title, not the serial title.

Scenes

  • The plane goes down in the blizzard.
  • They wake to Kane's hold on the future city.

Also available

  • Internet Archive (planet_outlaws_ipod)