Undersea Kingdom is a 12-part serial produced by Republic Pictures in 1936. It stars Ray "Crash" Corrigan as a character with the same nickname and surname.
The first two episodes were featured during Season 4 of Mystery Science Theater 3000.
Plot Summary[]
Chapter One: "Beneath the Ocean Floor"[]
- appears in Episode #406 - Attack of the Giant Leeches
Chapter Two: "The Undersea City"[]
- appears in Episode #409 - Indestructible Man
Cast[]
- Ray "Crash" Corrigan as Crash Corrigan
- Lois Wilde as Diana Compton
- Monte Blue as Unga Khan
- William Farnum as Sharad
- Boothe Howard as Ditmar
- Raymond Hatton as Gasspom
- C. Montague Shaw as Professor Norton
- Lee Van Atta as Billy Norton
- Smiley Burnette as Briny Deep
- Frankie Marvin as Salty
- Lon Chaney Jr. as Captain Hakur
- Cy Schindell as Khan's guardsman
Notes[]
- In addition to its original score, Undersea Kingdom made use of stock music from R.H. Bassett, Joseph Carl Breil, Charles Dunworth, Arthur Kay, Hugo Riesenfeld, Milan Roder, Heinz Roemheld, Leon Rosebrook, Frederick Stahlberg, and Meredith Willson
MST3K Connections[]
- Raymond Hatton also portrayed Pete in Day the World Ended.
- Lon Chaney Jr. also portrayed Charles Benton in Indestructible Man.
- Lane Chandler (Darius) also portrayed a henchman with Rankin in The Phantom Creeps.
- Jack Mulhall (Lt. Andrews) also portrayed Lombardi's lawyer in The She-Creature.
- Franklyn Farnum (Atlantis official) also portrayed a man from Omaha in Invasion USA and a party guest in The She-Creature.
- David S. Horsley (Navy sentry) was also a special effects technician for This Island Earth.
- Actor and stunt double Eddie Parker (Khan's guardsman) was also Bela Lugosi's stunt double in Bride of the Monster and portrayed a mole person in The Mole People.
- Cy Schindell also portrayed a crowd control policeman in The Brute Man.
- Actor and stuntman Tom Steele (guardsman) was also a stuntman in Radar Men from the Moon (in which he also portrayed Zerg), The Phantom Creeps (in which he also portrayed a train conductor and a radio truck driver), Jungle Goddess, and Day the World Ended.
- Production supervisor Barney A. Sarecky was also associate producer for The Corpse Vanishes and producer for Radar Secret Service.
- Special effects technician Howard Lydecker was also special effects technician for Radar Men from the Moon.
- Special effects technician Theodore Lydecker was also special effects technician for Radar Men from the Moon.
- Supervising editor Joseph H. Lewis was also supervising editor for Indestructible Man.
- Stock music composer Charles Dunworth also composed stock music used in The Corpse Vanishes.
- Stock music composer Heinz Roemheld was also score collaborator for The Mole People and composed stock music used in The Phantom Creeps.