The Purple Monster Strikes

The Purple Monster Strikes
Directed bySpencer Gordon Bennet
Fred C. Brannon
Written byRoyal Cole
Albert DeMond
Basil Dickey
Lynn Perkins
Joseph Poland
Barney Sarecky
Produced byRonald Davidson
StarringDennis Moore
Linda Stirling
Roy Barcroft
James Craven
Bud Geary
John Davidson
CinematographyBud Thackery
Music byMort Glickman
Distributed byRepublic Pictures
Release dates
  • October 6, 1945 (1945-10-06) (U.S. serial)[1]
  • March 25, 1957 (1957-03-25) (U.S. re-release)[1]
  • 1966 (1966) (U.S. TV)[1]
Running time
15 chapters (209 minutes) (serial)[1]
100 minutes (TV)[1]
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$160,057 (negative cost: $183,803)[1]

The Purple Monster Strikes is a 1945 Republic Movie serial.[2] It was also released as a Century 66 television film under the title D-Day on Mars (1966).

The original production title for the serial was The Purple Shadow Strikes. The sequel to this serial was the 1950 Flying Disc Man from Mars, which used much of the footage from the original.[3]

  1. ^ a b c d e f Mathis, Jack (1995). Valley of the Cliffhangers Supplement. Jack Mathis Advertising. pp. 3, 10, 86–87. ISBN 0-9632878-1-8.
  2. ^ Kinnard, Roy (1998). Science Fiction Serials: A Critical Filmography of the 31 Hard SF Cliffhangers. McFarland & Co. p. 121. ISBN 978-0786437450.
  3. ^ Harmon, Jim; Glut, Donald F. (1973). Great Movie Serials. Routledge. pp. 54–55. ISBN 0-7130-0097-X.