The Phantom
- Release Date
- June 6, 1996
- Director
- Simon Wincer
- Cast
- Billy Zane , Kristy Swanson , Treat Williams , Catherine Zeta-Jones , James Remar , Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa
- Runtime
- 100
- Main Genre
- Action
- Writers
- Lee Falk , Jeffrey Boam
- Tagline
- The Ghost Who Walks. The Man Who Cannot Die.
Summary
The legend of "The Phantom" began four hundred years ago when a small boy witnessed his father's savage murder at sea by pirates of the Sengh Brotherhood. Washed ashore near the Bengalla Jungle, the boy swore an oath of vengeance -- to fight piracy, cruelty and injustice in all its forms. That boy became the first Phantom, creating a sacred tradition passed down from father to son over twenty generations. No one understood how The Phantom survived the centuries unchanged, and so believed him to be immortal. They dubbed him "The Ghost Who Walks." Set in a romantic time when anything seemed possible, Paramount Pictures' "The Phantom" brings Lee Falk's internationally acclaimed comic strip superhero to the screen in an electrifying blend of swashbuckling high adventure and escapist fun certain to appeal to audiences seeking a change from the brooding, troubled anti-heroes of today. Deep in the jungled island of Bengalla lie two centuries-old secrets the outer world only suspects exist. The Skulls of Touganda--one of gold, another of silver, and the third of rare black jade -- are ancient relics of incalculable value, and even more incalculable power. According to legend, they harbor an energy source one thousand times greater than anything known to civilized man. If they can be unearthed from their scattered hiding places and brought together by some resourceful person, they will confer ultimate power upon him. The ruthless Xander Drax, and the blood-thirsty Pirates of the Sengh Brotherhood, seek to control the Skulls. But their quest for unbridled power takes them into the mysterious jungle domain of Bengalla's other legend -- a masked figure of mystery, garbed in purple, who for over 400 years has served as protector and avenger of jungle folk. Believed immortal by natives and dismissed as a myth by outsiders, he is both feared and respected as the Ghost Who Walks -- The Phantom! The Phantom patrols his jungle realm astride a white stallion named Hero and assisted by a fierce gray wolf appropriately named Devil. Little is known of him, except this: The Phantom has sworn to fight piracy on land and sea, and he holds a deadly grudge against the Sengh Brotherhood that stretches back four centuries -- a grudge that puts him on an unavoidable collision course with Drax and his pirate allies.
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