Captain America is the title of a low budget film based on the popular Marvel Comics superhero of the same name. While the film takes several liberties with the comic's storyline, it features Steve Rogers becoming Captain America during World War II to battle the Red Skull, being frozen in ice, and subsequently being revived to save the President of the United States. The film received a PG-13 rating from the Motion Picture Association of America.

Filming was completed in 1990, but after test marketing the film to a preview audience, more stunts were added at the end. Intended for a major theatrical release, the movie ended up with various delays for any planned release. The film eventually ended up going straight to video, although it was given a very limited theatrical release overseas.

Captain America (1944) is a Republic Movie serial based (loosely) on the comic book character Captain America. It was the last Republic serial made about a Superhero. It also has the distinction of being the most expensive serial that Republic ever made.

The serial sees Captain America, really District Attorney Grant Gardner, trying to thwart the plans of The Scarab, really museum curator Dr. Cyrus Maldor - especially regarding his attempts to acquire the "Dynamic Vibrator" and "Electronic Firebolt", devices that could be used as super-weapons.

In a rare plot element for Republic, the secret identity of the villain is known to the audience from the beginning, if not to the characters in the serial. The studio's usual approach was the use a Mystery villain who was only unmasked as one of the other supporting characters in the final chapter.

In Captain America's original story, a man named Steve Rogers - who is too weak and puny to fight in World War II - is injected with a Super-Soldier Serum and develops an enhanced physique, after which he becomes Captain America. The good Captain is the second hero, and the first American character, to possess such an enhanced physique (the first hero being Ilya Muromets, the Russian equivalent to King Arthur). This backstory was rejected by Republic during the making of this serial, as it would have required costly retakes at the time. In the serial, Captain America's real name is Grant Gardner, he is the city's district attorney, and his foe is the Scarab, aka Karl Maaldor, played by Lionel Atwill - and this altered story is why Marvel Comics suppressed the serial for years.

Chapter Titles: - 1. The Purple Death - 2. Mechanical Executioner - 3. Scarlet Shroud - 4. Preview of Murder - 5. Blade of Wrath - 6. Vault of Vengeance - 7. Wholesale Destruction - 8. Cremation in the Clouds - 9. Triple Tragedy - 10. The Avenging Corpse - 11. The Dead Man Returns - 12. Horror on the Highway - 13. Skyscraper Plunge - 14. The Scarab Strikes - 15. The Toll of Doom

Fantasy illustrator and Movie Serial and Comic Book enthusiast, Larry Ivy, believed that the original story for "The Return of Captain America" may have been intended for a sequel to The Copperhead from very fine 1941 serial "The Mysterious Doctor Satan". The decision to use a script already on hand may have been made only to bring the good Captain to the screen in a hurry. Consequently, this Captain America did not have the trademark elements like the shield, the war zone background or his sidekick, Bucky Barnes.

When a commercial artist is almost murdered by spies looking for his late father's secrets, he is saved in surgery when the FLAG formula is injected into him. This serum not only healed him but also gave him tremendous strength and lightening reflexes. To help him retaliate for his attack, a government agency equipments him with a special motorcycle loaded with gadgets and a detachable shield is not only bulletproof, but can be thrown as a offensive returning weapon. Thus armed, he battles against the nation's enemies as the Sentinel of Liberty, Captain America. Written by Kenneth Chisholm

During World War II, a brave, patriotic American Soldier undergoes experiments to become a new supersoldier, "Captain America." Racing to Germany to sabotage the rockets of Nazi baddie "Red Skull", Captain America winds up frozen until the 1990s. He reawakens to find that the Red Skull has changed identities and is now planning to kidnap the President of the United States. Written by Michael "Rabbit" Hutchison