Atom Man vs. Superman
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| Atom Man vs. Superman | |
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 Promotional poster for Atom Man vs. Superman |
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| Directed by | Spencer Gordon Bennet |
| Produced by | Sam Katzman |
| Written by | David Mathews George H. Plympton Joseph F. Poland |
| Starring | Kirk Alyn Lyle Talbot Noel Neill Tommy Bond |
| Music by | Mischa Bakaleinikoff |
| Cinematography | Ira H. Morgan |
| Editing by | Earl C. Turner |
| Distributed by | Columbia Pictures |
| Release date(s) | July 20, 1950 (U.S.) |
| Running time | 252 min (15 episodes) |
| Country | United States (USA) |
| Language | English |
| Preceded by | Superman (1948) |
| IMDb profile | |
Atom Man vs. Superman, Columbia's 43rd serial, finds Lex Luthor (Lyle Talbot), secretly the Atom Man, blackmailing the city of Metropolis by threatening to destroy the entire community. Perry White (Pierre Watkin), editor of The Daily Planet, assigns Lois Lane (Noel Neill), Jimmy Olsen (Tommy Bond) and Clark Kent (Kirk Alyn) to cover the story. Luthor invents a number of deadly devices to plague the city, including a disintegrating machine which can reduce people to their basic atoms and reassemble them in another place. But Superman manages to thwart each scheme. Since Kryptonite can rob Superman of his powers, Luthor decides to create a synthetic Kryptonite and putters about obtaining the necessary ingredients: plutonium, radium and the undefined 'etc.' Luthor places the Kryptonite at the launching of a ship, with Superman in attendance. He is exposed to the Kryptonite and passes out. Superman is taken off in an ambulance driven by Luthor's henchmen, and he is now under the control of Luthor. Superman is placed in a device, a lever is pulled, and the Man of Steel vanishes into "The Empty Doom." With eight chapters remaining, the odds are high he will return. Most of chapter 7 is a repeat of the origin story from chapter 1 of Columbia's first "Superman" serial, and this serial also finds a way to work in stock footage from Ken Maynard's 1936 Avenging Waters (also directed by Spencer Gordon Bennet [1]).
It was officially released on DVD by Warner Home Video, along with its predecessor, 1948's Superman, on November 28, 2006.
[edit] Episodes
- Superman Flies Again
- Atom Man Appears
- Ablaze In The Sky
- Superman Meets Atom Man
- Atom Man Tricks Superman
- Atom Man's Challenge
- At The Mercy Of Atom Man
- Into The Empty Doom
- Superman Crashes Through
- Atom Man's Heat Ray
- Luthor's Strategy
- Atom Man Strikes
- Atom Man's Flying Saucers
- Rocket Of Vengeance
- Superman Saves The Universe
