Ford Beebe

Director, Ford Beebe, was born Ford Ingalsbe Beebe on Nov 26, 1888 in Grand Rapids November 26, Michigan. Beebe died at the age of 90 on Nov 26, 1978 in Lake Elsinore, CA and was cremated and his ashes scattered on private property near Desert Hot Springs.

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Flash Gordon’s Trip to Mars (1938, and Robert F. Hill)

By Andrew Wickliffe on Oct 1, 2018 From The Stop Button

Flash Gordon?s Trip to Mars is far from the ultimate trip. It?s not even a very good trip. It?s the kind of trip where you go somewhere, go somewhere else, then somewhere else, then go back to the second place, then go back to the first place, then go back to the third place, then go back to the fir... Read full article

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Flash Gordon’s Trip to Mars (1938, and Robert F. Hill), Chapter 15: An Eye for an Eye

By Andrew Wickliffe on Sep 29, 2018 From The Stop Button

An Eye for an Eye is a disappointing finish for Flash Gordon?s Trip to Mars but maybe not an unexpected one, not given the serial?s trajectory. The cliffhanger resolution is quick?Buster Crabbe gets away from Charles Middleton due to Middleton?s lack of observational prowess. They?re fitting foes. N... Read full article

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Flash Gordon’s Trip to Mars (1938, and Robert F. Hill), Chapter 14: A Beast at Bay

By Andrew Wickliffe on Sep 26, 2018 From The Stop Button

A Beast at Bay could just as easily be called We Give Up, There?s One More. After a lackluster cliffhanger resolution, Buster Crabbe?s plan to save the Clay kingdom fails because he couldn?t control one unarmed prisoner and then couldn?t beat him in a fistfight. The thirteen chapters of Crabbe kicki... Read full article

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Flash Gordon’s Trip to Mars (1938, and Robert F. Hill), Chapter 13: The Miracle of Magic

By Andrew Wickliffe on Sep 24, 2018 From The Stop Button

The Miracle of Magic is a funny title for the chapter since nothing really miraculous happens. There?s some anti-miracles. Maybe it refers to the curse of the Clay people getting lifted, which involves magical receptacles, but not really magic itself. It?s a strange sequence where the still suspicio... Read full article

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Flash Gordon’s Trip to Mars (1938, and Robert F. Hill), Chapter 12: Ming the Merciless

By Andrew Wickliffe on Sep 22, 2018 From The Stop Button

It?s a good thing Ming (Charles Middleton) loves to carelessly gloat because if he didn?t, there?s no way Buster Crabbe could?ve got the upper hand this chapter. Ming the Merciless is, sort of, about Martian queen Beatrice Roberts finding out Middleton isn?t really her pal. But she doesn?t have much... Read full article

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