Linbeymusol Wonderful character development!

Gutsycurene Fanciful, disturbing, and wildly original, it announces the arrival of a fresh, bold voice in American cinema.

Ogosmith Each character in this movie — down to the smallest one — is an individual rather than a type, prone to spontaneous changes of mood and sometimes amusing outbursts of pettiness or ill humor.

Aneesa Wardle The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

csteidler Archaeologist George Zucco has discovered an ancient Aztec treasure along with the mythical bird that guards it. He's mad, quite mad….He keeps the treasure hidden in a cave and visits it secretly.Back in town, his step-daughter has noticed that he's been acting strangely—disappearing for days on end, talking about some great imminent discovery. She shares her concern with an ornithologist friend….who soon thereafter is found savagely murdered, his throat cut and all of the blood drained from his body. What is up? Did the ornithologist's death have anything to do with the mysterious feather that Zucco had dropped at his house? Cut to New York: a radio station is sending (handsome young) mystery writer Dick Thorpe to New Mexico to investigate the strange crime and to broadcast daily reports from the field. As the plot thickens and bodies begin to pile up, Dick's daily remote broadcasts get better and better: "Ladies and gentlemen, there's been a murder at the studio. Professor Louis Havener was struck down by the feathered serpent as he stood at the window examining the feather we had just found....We'll be back on the air again tomorrow morning at the same time." The radio writer and the step-daughter (Ralph Lewis and Hope Kramer – not household names for me, I'm afraid) eventually team up on the investigation; however, while the young couple are ostensibly the protagonists in the story, it is unquestionably Zucco who has the meaty role in the picture.For example, why does he keep the treasure hidden? "Because it's mine. Mine, do you hear? All mine. I'm the richest man in the world!" Oh, the bird is good, too. Special flying effects combined with a dramatic music score actually combine well enough to make the attack scenes just a bit spooky.It's very silly, really not very good…but great fun nevertheless.

Cristi_Ciopron THE FLYING SERPENT is a mystery/ thriller, about the ancient feathered serpent, the Aztec God.A shrewd archaeologist has found Montezuma's treasure—gold, diamonds and emeralds …. To protect it—from inopportune people, from treasure seekers, from whoever might disturb him—he uses a curious monster, an ancient beast, a ferocious reptile—bird. The murders begin—first an ornithologist, then a policeman, then others ….The mean archaeologist has a fair stepdaughter; this girls uses to think, and she puts together a couple of things.The mysterious, horrible murders are investigated by a young writer of radio—broadcasts.We never find out whence the feathered serpent came.

Scarecrow-88 The diabolical Professor Andrew Forbes(George Zucco)holds possession over an ancient Aztec feathered flying serpent, Quetzacoatal, and Montezuma's treasure it was assigned to protect, imprisoning the beast in a cell within a hidden cavernous lair. Forbes plucks a feather from the serpent, using it to lure the beast towards victims. Anyone who threatens to expose his secret(..possession of the treasure and the serpent)are targeted. The serpent is a half-bird/half-reptile which feeds on blood..it severs the jugular vein of victims, draining their bodies of blood. A popular mystery writer, Richard Thorpe(Ralph Lewis), is hired by a radio station to solve the mysterious case of a murdered ornithologist who posed a threat towards discovering Forbes' secret. Forbes learned about how his bird follows the "scent" of his removed feathers when Quetzalcoatal murdered his wife. His step-daughter, Mary(the cute Hope Kramer)begins to question pop's odd behavior and temperament possibly endangering herself. It doesn't help that Mary and Richard begin a courtship as he sets his sights on catching her step-dad in his fiendish acts. After a successful series of murders, it's only a matter of time before Forbes leaves a trail Richard will sniff out.Poverty row no-budgeter benefits from Zucco's sinister villain..he's quite hissable. I was hoping for stop-motion effects being a fan, but the Quetzalcoatal is mostly an embarrassing puppet. The film itself is rather talky, unatmospheric and feels a lot longer than it is. Probably for Zucco completists more than the average horror fan unless you like these little schlocky B-movies with failed attempts at slap-sticky physical humor. It'd probably help if the monstrous bird didn't look so damn silly and unconvincing(..although this might appeal to fans of cheese).

ferbs54 George Zucco's archaeologist character has a major problem at the beginning of the 1946 cheapie "The Flying Serpent." He had recently discovered Montezuma's treasure horde in an Aztec cave in New Mexico, and now fears that the locals might start to get snoopy. Good thing he's also found Quetzalcoatl, the legendary Aztec serpent/bird god, and has learned that the creature will track down and kill whoever is in unwitting possession of one of its feathers. Thus, pretty soon, Zucco is planting Q plumage left and right, sitting back and enjoying the carnage... Anyway, this 57-minute film is minimally fun, and Zucco is always interesting to watch, but the picture is unfortunately done in by supercheap production values, a tediously talkative screenplay, occasional goofball humor, and the simple fact that we never get a solid, steady look at Quetzalcoatl itself. Worse, the film's resolution is asinine and inane, with Zucco behaving uncharacteristically stupid and contrary to common sense. Matters aren't helped by the badly damaged film print offered to us on the Image DVD that I just watched, with problematic sound, to boot. Many other viewers have noted the similarity between this picture and another PRC effort, "The Devil Bat," a Bela Lugosi vehicle released five years earlier. In that film, Bela had lured his flying killer to the intended victim by using a special shaving lotion; here, those darn feathers have been substituted. Bottom line: I would have to say that "The Flying Serpent" is a movie for George Zucco completists only, if such an animal exists. Other viewers who are interested in a film featuring the feathered serpent god alive and well in the 20th century would probably be better advised to seek out Larry Cohen's 1982 film "Q."