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Adventures of Captain Africa

Filled from front to back with stock footage taken from the Columbia serials "The Phantom-1943" and, primarily, "The Desert Hawk-1944", with John Hart and the always-dull Rick Vallin making less-than-adequate substitutes for Tom Tyler and Gilbert Roland, this Sam Katzman "production" finds the mighty jungle avenger and legendary Captain Africa - A "Phantom" rip-off that side-stepped the need to pay King Features another fee for using the character - pledging to see that the legitimate Arabian caliph, Hamid, is restored to the throne which a tyrannical rival has usurped. He is joined in this enterprise by adventurer Ted Arnold, wild-animal trapper Nat Coleman, and his assistant Omar and, to cover all bases

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Release : 1955
Rating : 6.6
Studio : Columbia Pictures, 
Crew : Art Direction,  Set Decoration, 
Cast : John Hart Rick Vallin Ben Welden Bud Osborne Terry Frost
Genre : Adventure

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Reviews

Perry Kate
2021/05/13

Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

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Voxitype
2018/08/30

Good films always raise compelling questions, whether the format is fiction or documentary fact.

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Tymon Sutton
2018/08/30

The acting is good, and the firecracker script has some excellent ideas.

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Mathilde the Guild
2018/08/30

Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.

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TVPowers
2009/09/29

Many serial fans know that 'The Adventures of Captain Africa' was originally to be 'The Adventures of The Phantom'. Stills of this production show up from time to time.The late John Hart told me (and others) at an Old Time Radio convention in NJ that, contrary to what some film historians say, the entire Phantom serial had finished production before Columbia Studios realized that their option for a second Phantom serial had expired.Soon, producer Sam Katzman brought Hart and other actors back together to replace every shot in which The Phantom had appeared with new Captain Africa scenes.The costume assembled for Capt. A was somewhat lackluster; an aviator's cap, mask, turtle-neck, jodhpurs, gun belt and boots.Hart, an amusing and self-deprecating, man said: "As The Phantom I looked pretty good. As Captain Africa, I looked like an idiot."

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Bob Falange (bob-97)
2003/07/25

I have only seen this series once - for 15 (I think) consecutive Saturday mornings in an English cinema back in the 1950s.I absolutely loved it!!The cliffhanging endings fired my imagination. One that particularly impressed me was the one in which Captain Africa was lying senseless under a descending portcullis which was threatening to impale him. I could hardly bear to wait the seven days until the next episode to see whether (or rather, how) he would escape from that one!!I also developed a great longing to own a pith helmet - an ambition sadly unfulfilled to this day!At the time I was not aware that this serial took footage from other, more illustrious, features (as a reviewer here suggests). But from my childish perspective it was a terrific series and thoroughly entertaining. I would love to see it again.Best wishes to John Hart (still with us in 2003) and any other survivors of the series.bob

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Steve-171
1998/11/17

An obvious knock-off of THE PHANTOM, using stock footage and possessing the bare minimum of plot (and THAT incoherent), THE ADVENTURES OF CAPTAIN AFRICA is Columbia Serials at its worst. Terrible acting, bad stunt work, and heavy padding all add up fifteen chapters of pure junk that is just not worth wading through. For absolute die hard fanatic completists only.

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