Radar Men From The Moon

I mentioned the other day somewhere that I'm watching a serial movie from the '40s, "Radar Men From The Moon."

It has the character Commando Cody. Big whoop, right? Right.

I don't know if I've seen a stupider hero than Commando Cody. But the hero has to be fairly stupid in these serials, in order to get himself in some kind of idiotic danger within 12 minutes.

In the episode I was watching this morning, there's a couple of thugs at a car. Cody flies in (he has a jet pack on his back). He's up among the rocks, but he's so careless that they immediately see him. Bang, bang. Then they run and are up against a cliff. One of the thugs hides and tells the other to stand there. Cody runs into the scene, doesn't notice it's an obvious set up, gets hit in the head with a rock and falls off the cliff.

What a moron.

And the guy they had playing Cody is not exactly the heroic type. Talk about bad casting. He looks like someone's old Uncle Delbert.

How about this? The thugs are in his office/laboratory like it has a revolving door. It doesn't. And they never think, "How about locking the door next time?" The woman gets kidnapped, the other guy gets kidnapped. If they had a dog it'd get kidnapped too.

This is a very bad movie. I usually like campy stuff but this is pure tripe.