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HOW REPUBLIC SERIALS
INSPIRED INDIANA JONES::

REPUBLIC SERIALS
MODEL FOR
WILLIE SCOTT

ZORRO'S
BLACK WHIP

THE CRIMSON GHOST SKULL


REPUBLIC PICTURES turned out movies that many teenagers and younger saw during Saturday morning cinema. These adventure hero serials have 12 parts.
Linda Stirling starred in THE TIGER WOMAN (1945), about a jungle girl lost in the South American rain forest. I think the joke Lucas did was have her a nightclub singer from Shanghai completely out of her element in India. She sits on an elephant.

Linda Stirling also starred in other Republic Pictures, ZORRO'S BLACK WHIP (1944), hence Indy's whip, and DAKOTA (1945) as an entertainer. Hence entertainer and Indiana.

1946. The Crimson Ghost which features not only a really striking SKULL mask on the villain but the radio-controlled death collars the Crimson Ghost uses to threaten and direct his victims. The bad guy never seen steals an atomic weapon to enslave the world. Talks by radio, wear a dog collar for obeedience. (Shia in DISTURBIA wears a detention collar).

Dr. Cyrus Maldor was a museum curator in CAPTAIN AMERICA, 1944. Indiana Jones was funded by Marcus Brody. How many letters of Cyrus Maldor are the same letters of MARCUS BRODY?

Sir Eric Hazarius and his daughter Marjorie Elmore are probably the model for Abner and Marion Ravenwood. From LOST CITY IN THE JUNGLE (1946). Sir Eric wrote a Panama Hat (change to Fedora). Searched Tibet for Meteorium 245, a cure for the Atomic Bomb. Tibet! Sir Eric faked his own death. See INDY 4 PLOT

Why Indiana?

In MANDRAKE THE MAGICIAN, (1939) Mandrake had to stop the Wasp from stealing Professor Houston's radium energy machine. Professor Houston becomes Professor Indiana. Does his daughter Betty become Mutt, his son.

CRYSTAL SKULLS are in INDY 4.

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