The Lost Planet

A documentary film by Christophe Cognet

The "serial.The "serial." after having fed the American imagination

The "serial," after having fed the American imagination, continues to inspire the action movies of Spielberg, Lucas and others. It has contributed to inventing a new popular mythology, offering up a cinema debut to such characters as Flash Gordon, the Masked Marvel, Superman, Batman, Nyoka, the Black Dragon, Fu Manchu, the Bronze Mask, Dick Tracy, the Spy Smasher, Zorro, etc.
Here are some of the best moments of this hybrid genre, commented upon and analyzed with humour.You'll never come back from The Lost Planet.