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4.5/10   25 votes
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Writers:
George H. Plympton (story) &
Arthur Hoerl (story)
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Release Date:
4 June 1953 (USA) more
Genre:
Sci-Fi more
Tagline:
IT'S A SENSATIONAL PREVIEW OF TOMORROW'S WONDER-WORLD! more
Plot:
Two newspaper reporters battle a plot by the evil Dr. Grood to conquer the world. full summary | add synopsis
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Lost Planet looks a lot like California more

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)
Judd Holdren ... Rex Barrow
Vivian Mason ... Ella Dorn
Michael Fox ... Dr. Ernst Grood
Forrest Taylor ... Prof. Edmund Dorn
Gene Roth ... Reckov
Ted Thorpe ... Tim Johnson
Karl 'Killer' Davis ... Karlo, aka Robot R-4 (as Karl Davis)
Jack George ... Jarva
Frederic Berest ... Alden
John L. Cason ... Hopper (as John Cason)
Lee Roberts ... Wesley Brenn, aka Robot R-9
Nick Stuart ... Darl
Leonard Penn ... Ken Wopler

I. Stanford Jolley ... Robot No. 9
Joseph Mell ... Lah
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Planet Men
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Runtime:
(15 episodes)
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Aspect Ratio:
1.37 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono
Certification:
USA:Approved | Finland:(Banned) (1954)

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3 out of 4 people found the following comment useful:-
Lost Planet looks a lot like California, 21 November 2004
4/10
Author: Mike-764 (michaelnella@yahoo.com) from Flushing, NY

Dr. Grood, a mad scientist, plans to conquer the Earth using his scientific inventions directed from a lost, but nearby planet Ergro. While investigating a flying saucer crash near Grood's earth hideout in the hills, Rex Barrow (news writer) and Tim Johnson (staff photographer) are kidnapped and sent to Ergro by Grood, along with Ella Dorn, whose father is on Ergro, used by Grood to develop his gadgets. For 15 chapters, Rex, Ella, Tim, and Prof. Dorn must overcome the hypnotic effects of Grood's mind control devices to prevent Grood from taking over the world. A very imaginative serial with new gadgets and inventions popping up in every chapter make this late Columbia chapterplay fun to watch. The serial is repetitive and probably has the least amount of fistfights of any serial (I think they all happened when Rex was invisible "fighting" Grood's planet guards.) The addition of the racketeer character, Wolper, doesn't help the serial like the character should have. The bad characters should have been meaner, IMO. Rating, based on serials, 4.

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