VCI Entertainment has dated its upcoming Blu-ray release of Ray Taylor's The Phantom of the Air (1933), starring Tom Tyler, Gloria Shea, and LeRoy Mason. The release will be available for purchase on July 6.
Description: After inventing an anti-gravity device called the Contragrav, scientist Thomas Edmunds and his daughter, Mary, attend the National Air Races in Cleveland, Ohio in search of a pilot to demonstrate the device and Bob Raymond, from the U.S. Border Patrol, is chosen. Unbeknownst to Edmunds and Mary, Mortimor Crome, who is the owner of the International Import and Export Company and a friend of Mary's, is actually the leader of a gang of smuggler's and is after Edmund's invention. During the demonstration at the air meet, Bob Raymond narrowly escapes death after his aircraft is sabotaged by Mortimer Crome and one of his cronies. This leads to Raymond being all-in and coming to Edmunds aid in foiling Crome's plans and ultimately defeating him, using another of Edmund's inventions, which was a superplane, called the Phantom.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
NEW 4K RESTORATION OF THE ENTIRE SERIES (12 CHAPTERS)