Treat Williams, as Drax, is implacably evil (he blinds a librarian by hiding spring-loaded needles in a microscope) and also slick and oily in the best pulp tradition. He often functions as the calm center of the storm. Timothy's! The only power I believe in comes out of the barrel of a gun!”Zane plays the Phantom as essentially an ordinary, if talented, human who wears a purple suit and an eye-mask (of course Diana can’t recognize him when he'swearing the mask). And when Diana tries to run the show: “Fine, go ahead-it's your rescue.”The movie's best line is said by a bad guy from the big city who now finds himself, in brown suit and fedora, inside a menacing jungle cavern: “Skulls!Powers of darkness! This isn't right! I was an altar boy, for the love of Pete,at St. “No smoking in the skull cave,” he says at one point. He and Billy Zane find the right tone for the Phantom: bemused,all-knowing, wise, irreverent. The director, Simon Wincer, orchestrates these events just a hair this side of parody. At the end, as a bonus, there's a really neat miniature submarine. A chase in which the Phantom and Diane successfully drop from a plane and land on the back of Hero, the white stallion, just before the plane crashes into a mountain.Īnda showdown inside an eerie mountain cave, where members of the Singh Brotherhood and Drax battle for the skulls against the Phantom and the forces of good. Two perilous crossings by truck over a disintegrating suspension bridge. There's an aerial dogfight between a Pan American Clipper and two red biplanes. The movie's plot is essentially a series of adventure sequences. Phantom, bu there they are meeting again for the first time after her college courtship with Kit that ended when he mysteriously disappeared. Phantom fans of course know Diane eventually becomes Mrs. Fighting against Drax's schemes is a heroic newspaper publisher ( Bill Smitrovich), who dispatches his niece, Diana Palmer (Kristy Swanson), to the jungle in search of one of the skulls. His fury is roused when an evil industrialist named Xander Drax (Treat Williams) schemes to bring together three priceless skulls that, when assembled, will give him power over mankind. (How the Phantoms have found 20 brides willing to live in the Skull Cave is a question not answered in this film.) The film stars Billy Zane as the Phantom, a.k.a.mild-mannered Kit Walker. Although he's known to those who fear him as “The Ghost Who Walks,” he isn't immortal he's the 21st in a line of Phantoms, who trace their heritage back to the first Phantom's vow to fight evil and piracy.
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