King of The Rocket Men - Plot Synopsis

Plot Synopsis

An evil genius of unknown identity, calling himself "Dr Vulcan," plots to conquer the world, but first needs to eliminate, one by one, the members of the Science Associates, an organization of the Earth's greatest scientists. After narrowly escaping an attempt on his life by Vulcan, one member of Science Associates, Dr. Millard (James Craven), outfits another member, Jeff King (Tristram Coffin) with an "atomic powered rocket flying suit" with a bullet-shaped, aerodynamic helmet.

With the help of the flying suit, a magazine photographer named Glenda Thomas (Mae Clarke), and using other inventions by Dr. Millard, King, as the Rocket Man, battles the minions of Dr. Vulcan for 12 suspenseful, cliffhanger-ending chapters. Eventually, Vulcan steals one of Millard's more dangerous inventions, the Decimator, and uses it to flood and destroy Manhattan Island (courtesy of stock footage from the once-thought-lost film, Deluge (1933)), before being brought to justice by Jeff King as Rocket Man, wearing his jet pack.