NEW SERIAL.
“THE PHANTOM CREEPS.” A giant mechanical man, standing more than eight fet in height and guided by electrical remote control, plays a featured role in Universal’s 12-chap-ter mystery serial, “The Phantom Creeps” with Bela Lugosi, Robert Kent, Dorothy Arnold and Regis Toomey heading a large cast. Moving about on the screen with the case of a human being, the iron robot is a weird invention -of Lugosi, /an eccentric scientist, and helps to lend chills and thrills to a story which is replete with dramatic action. The screenplay concerns itself with the desperate attempts of secret service agents dnd foreign spies to gain control of powerful war weapons which Lugosi has created in his strange laboratory. Told in twelve spectacular chapters, “The Phantom Creeps/’ opens at. the St. James next week.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 61, Issue 124, 7 March 1941, Page 3
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