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The Phantom Empire

by | Aug 1, 2008 | Western Movies

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Gene Autry wasn’t completely green when he starred in the 12-chapter serial The Phantom Empire in 1935.  He’d made a musical appearance in 1934’s In Old Santa Fe, a Ken Maynard Western for Nat Levine’s Mascot Pictures, and had a small, uncredited part in another Maynard serial, but when Levine removed Maynard and cast Autry in his new chapter play, it marked the true beginning of Gene Autry


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