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Chapter 25 -- Radio Days and Saturday Matinees
Arthur Conan Doyle received deserved credit in
Chapter 16, Underground Rivers in English Fiction,
but we should also include him in regard to Saturday
matinee movie features, The Triumph of Sherlock
Holmes (1935) based on his Valley of Fear (1914)
being an example.
Holmes, facing into retirement, takes on one last
case to catch the elusive Dr. Moriarty and almost
succeeds, but Moriarty falls into an underground
river, so he could have survived.
Western Justice (1935), featuring Bob Steele as
Ace, a lawman who disguises as drifter, and a cave
with a secret tunnel and a good deal of mayhem.
Ace dynamites open the "underground river" which
the bad guys have sequestered to deny Red Fort,
Arizona its water supply.
Bob sings “Desert Breeze,” a song featured in his
earlier films and to be featured again.
In Chapter 3 of the 1936 movie serial of the Flash Gordon saga
cited in Chapter 24, Underground Rivers in the Comics, Flash
and Dale fall through a trap door into an underground river,
where Flash fights with Shark Men who wear silver bathing caps
even on land. As the events do not carrying forward any plot
implications for the rest of the serial, the episode appears to
have been inserted to get the serial's length up to the prescribed
13 chapters, and possibly to show Buster Crabbe's prowess as
an Olympic swimmer.
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