After his dirigible crashes, an American soldier and his friend are frozen for 500 years in suspended animation. Being found in the future, they are revived and help the future people of Earth fight an interplanetary tyrant who turns men into mindless drones using helmets.
I can't really tell if this is so bad that it's good or just plain bad. The spaceships sound like leafblowers and when travelling through space, they look like they are flying through Earth sky with clouds. The hero's great plans are obvious, proving that the antagonist is stupid. It was in black and white and there was a little bit of dead air hiss on the audio. The plot was on the murky side because of this being edited from a serial.
For those who aren't familiar with serial films, a description: In the first half of the 20th century in America, movie theaters would play a short chapter of a multi-part series called a serial before the feature films. These sections always ended in cliffhangers with the hero in a perilous situation to encourage returns to view the next chapter.
Considering the history lesson and the "so bad it's good" nature of the film. I have to give this a weird pink rating. Beats me whether you should watch it or not.
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