Radio Ranch & Planet Outlaws (1940) DVD

RADIO RANCH (1940)
The legendary Gene Autry stars in Radio Ranch - a story which is equal parts singing cowboy western and science-fiction/fantasy. Autry performs daily broadcasts from the Ranch, a place which also hosts kids who wish to escape city life. Two such kids are out on the prairie one day, when they encounter a mysterious band of men on horseback, whom they dub "the Thunder Riders." Unbeknownst to the kids, the riders are from a subterranean city named Murania, nearly 20,000 feet below ground, which has existed for over 100,000 years! Enter a team of mining investors, interested in the land under the Ranch for its rich deposits of radium... and one scientist who believes in the lost city and wishes to uncover it's secrets. Autry must do battle with both the Muranians and the conniving mining team, all while never failing to perform his daily 2pm broadcast from Radio Ranch!

Cast: Gene Autry, Frankie Darro, Betsy King Ross, Dorothy Christy
Screenplay: Hy Freedman, Gerald Geraghty
Director: Otto Brower
68 minutes, black & white, 4:3 full-frame, unrated

PLANET OUTLAWS (1953)

In this condensed version of the popular 1930's Buck Rogers serial, Rogers (Crabbe) plays an American soldier who is suspended in time, then discovered and awakened in the futuristic world of the year 2500. He soon learns that an evil dictator named Killer Kane has all but taken over the earth, driving underground the small band of rebels who revived him. Rogers takes up their nobel cause, putting his own life on the line in the battle against the sinister Kane!

Cast: Buster Crabbe, Constance Moore, Jackie Moran, Jack Mulhall
Screenplay: Norman S. Hall, Helen Leighton
Director: Harry Revier
69 minutes, black & white, 4:3 full-frame, unrated

Quality:  Very Good -      Run time:  137 mins. 
Picture:  Black & White      Format:  1.33:1 full frame 
Language:  English 
U.S. Rating:  Unrated