Buck Rogers Movie
The story of buck rogers an astronaut from 20th century who awakens after remaining dormant for 500 years and attempts to save the earth from an evil ruler.
Buck rogers movie. Larson who co wrote the screenplay with leslie stevens based on the character buck rogers which was created by philip francis nowlan in 1928. Buster crabbe graduated from the university of southern california. A 12 part buck rogers serial film was produced in 1939 by universal pictures company. Movie info buck rogers the comic strip hero turned serial star and later successful television character is revived as a big budget movie production from death race director paul w s.
A 20th century pilot named buck rogers and his young friend buddy wade awake from 500 years in suspended animation to find that the world has been taken over by the outlaw army of killer kane. In 1987 captain william buck rogers pilots his space shuttle ranger 3 on a mission but a meteor storm freezes him into an orbit that returns him to earth 500 years later. In 1931 while working on that s my boy 1932 for columbia pictures he was tested by mgm for tarzan and rejected. This is the opening to the original theatrical release march 1979 of the buck rogers in the 25th century theatrical film.
In 2491 his shuttle is found and captured by the draconian flagship under the command of princess ardala and her second in command kane. Of course he is mistaken for a. Starring gil gerard in the title role and erin gray as colonel wilma deering it was produced by glen a. It is significantly different from the opening to the television series.
Buck rogers buster crabbe and his young friend buddy wade get caught in a blizzard and are forced to crash their airship in the arctic wastes.