Description

The Phantom Creeps is a 1939 in film Serial (film) about a mad scientist who attempts to rule the world by creating various elaborate inventions. In a dramatic fashion, foreign agents and G-Man (slang) try to seize the inventions for themselves. It was the 112th serial released by Universal Pictures and the 44th to have sound. The serial stars Béla Lugosi as the villainous Doctor Zorka with Dorothy Arnold (Olson) and Robert Kent (actor). It was adapted in DC’s Movie Comics #6, cover date September–October 1939, the final issue of that title.

The first three episodes of The Phantom Creeps were lampooned during the second season of the TV show Mystery Science Theater 3000.

Cast

• Béla Lugosi as Dr. Alex Zorka. Lugosi received top billing for this, his final serial appearance.
  • Robert Kent (actor) as Capt. Bob West, G-Man (slang)
  • Dorothy Arnold (Olson) as Jean Drew, reporter
  • Edwin Stanley as Dr. Fred Mallory, Dr. Zorka’s former partner
  • Regis Toomey as Lt. Jim Daley, G-Man
  • Jack C. Smith as Monk, Dr. Zorka’s assistant
  • Edward Van Sloan as Jarvis, foreign spy chief
  • Dora Clement as Ann Zorka
  • Anthony Averill as Rankin, a foreign spy
  • Hugh Huntley as Perkins, Dr. Mallory’s lab assistant
  • Ed Wolff (actor) as The Robot