The Adventures of Sir Galahad

• Chapter Titles: 1. Stolen Sword 2. Galahad’s Daring 3. Prisoners of Ulric 4. Attack on Camelot 5. Galahad to the Rescue 6. Passage of Peril 7. Unknow Betrayer 8. Perilous Adventure 9. Treacherous Magic 10.The Sorcerer’s Spell 11.Valley of No Return 12.Castle Prilous 13.The Wizard’s Vengeance 14.Quest for the Queen 15.Galahad’s Triumph

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Great Fun. (Seeing this on TV or finding a copy might be tough. Trye-bay)

2) Ben Affleck playing George Reeves in Hollywoodland has a scene where hecomments negatively about his career stalling and being reduced todoing this serial. Despite Reeves displeasure this is a good, ifjuvenile, serial that is completely unlike any other one from the soundera in that it concerns knights in armor. The plot has Galahad tryingto find the stolen sword Excalibur and battling various baddies whowant to take over Camelot. With its use of swords and sorcery even themost run of the mill cliffhangers have a new sheen to them. You have togive the serial points for giving us a cliffhanger that has a tree inan enchanted forest come to life and grab Galahad and hold him tightwhile a ring of magic fire tries to roast him. Actually you have togive the serial points simply for doing something differently at a timewhen the production of serials was shifting towards reuse and cookiecutter interchangeability. Because of its setting nothing could reallyhave been reused from other serials so its all pretty new. To becertain the performances are uneven, with many people walking throughtheir roles and Reeves good sometimes and bored at others.Unfortunately, even though he liked to think otherwise he was a goodactor of limited range. He was pretty much always the same guy. Comparethis role to Superman/ Clark Kent- it's basically the same character.The story is also a bit too geared towards kids at times with thingsconstantly looping back on itself. Still this is a good time killerthat remains watchable thanks to the uniqueness of the setting.Recommended.

3) If you’re a George Reeves fan, and can track this serial down, it’sdefinitely worth watching, especially to see George sport a "PrinceValiant"haircut. Working on this low-budget serial probably prepared him for thelow-budget on the series that would catapult him to stardom, TheAdventuresof Superman.

4) Made on the cusp of the 50s this klunky sword and derring do sillinessis fun in an interminable way. Columbia’s serials for no known reasonusually ran for 15 chapters. Republic had the good manners to fit allthe chasing and fighting into a neat dozen..and basically get on withit. If you watch enough of them from any studio you can usually watchchapters 1 and 2 and then the last two and still follow the story. Thechapters in the middle are lots of chasings, everyone chases everyoneand then they all swap. In between they all run in and out ofwharehouses (or castles, or huts) and slug it out with each other andfall over. It is such hilarious great fun. This one uses leftover KingArthur bits and some GREEN ARCHER doorways and a lot of tin armoury andwobbly swords. The same bad guys are seen in every serial, but thistime the lead actor is Superman fresh from his 1948 serial and in a tincan suit with a feather on the top. It is a wonder Buster Crabbe didn’tride over from PRC ranch with Fuzzy Knight (haha…if you all getthat). Columbia’s serial interest were waning and box office was aboutto dive into TV abyss…..see this serial and then watch the creakyCAPTAIN KIDD made a few years later as a bargain counter costume epicunder severe restrictions. More Sir Galah than Sir Galahad and immensefun all the clippety clop way.