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From: swarren@convex.com (Steve Warren)
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Subject: Re: Rocket Ranger in the movies!?
Message-ID: <1991May21.210156.1257@convex.com>
Date: 21 May 91 21:01:56 GMT
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In article <77346@eerie.acsu.Buffalo.EDU> v125lqbx@ubvmsa.cc.buffalo.edu writes:
]In article <1991May21.184810.541@ms.uky.edu>, kherron@ms.uky.edu (Kenneth Herron) writes...
]|>>
]|>>I spotted a new movie soon to be released that looks very much like
]|>>a spin-off of our beloved Rocket Ranger.  
]| 
]|>No, both of these are take-offs from the cheap sci-fi thrillers of the 30s
]|>and 40s.
]| 
]|*Sigh*.  _Rocket Ranger_ is adapted from a comic book, which in turn
]|was inspired by the serials.
]
]The comic book is called The Rocketeer, which is what the movie called, as
]well.  Like I'm sure you all wanted to know that.  :-)  Anyway, the point
]is that the game and the movie are both spinoffs of the comic book.


Which in turn was inspired by the serials.  ie, "the cheap sci-fi thrillers of
the 30s and 40s".  *Sigh*


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