“I think it’s the thought of trying to bring something to life, an inanimate object to life. Maybe it’s a Frankenstein complex.”
Ray Harryhausen
(1920-2013)
The 7th Voyage of Sinbad (1958) Morningside Productions :: Columbia Pictures / P: Charles H. Schneer / AP: Ray Harryhausen / D: Nathan Juran / W: Ken Kolb / C: Wilkie Cooper / E: Edwin H. Bryant, Jerome Thoms / M: Bernard Herrmann / S: Kerwin Mathews, Kathryn Grant, Richard Eyer, Torin Thatcher, Nana DeHerrera
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Poster campaign for Viking Women & the Sea Serpent at the Archive.
Poster campaign for The Astounding She-Monster at the Archive.
The Saga of the Viking Women and Their Voyage to the Waters of the Great Sea Serpent (1957) Malibu Productions :: American International Pictures / EP: James H. Nicholson, Samuel Z. Arkoff / P: Roger Corman / D: Roger Corman / W: Lawrence L. Goldman, Irving Block (story) / C: Monroe P. Askins / E: Ronald Sinclair / M: Albert Glasser / S: Abby Dalton, Susan Cabot, Bradford Jackson, June Kenney, Jonathan Haze, Richard Devon, Betsy Jones-Moreland, Sally Todd
The Astounding She-Monster (1957) Hollywood International Pictures :: American International Pictures / P: Ronald V. Ashcroft / D: Ronald V. Ashcroft / W: Frank Hall / C: William C. Thompson / E: Ronald V. Ashcroft / M: Gene Kauer / S: Robert Clarke, Kenne Duncan, Marilyn Harvey, Jeanne Tatum, Ewing Miles Brown, Shirley Kilpatrick
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Poster campaign for I Was a Teenage Werewolf at the Archive.
Poster campaign for Invasion of the Saucer-Men at the Archive.
I Was a Teenage Werewolf (1957) Sunset Productions :: American International / EP: James H. Nicholson, Samuel Z. Arkoff / P: Herman Cohen / D: Gene Fowler Jr. / W: Herman Cohen, Aben Kandel / C: Joseph LaShelle / E: George Gittens / M: Paul Dunlop / S: Michael Landon, Yvonne Lime, Whit Bissell, Guy Williams, Tony Marshall, Ken Miller, Cindy Robbins, Dawn Richard
Invasion of the Saucer-Men (1957) Malibu Productions :: American International / EP: James H. Nicholson, Samuel Z. Arkoff / P: Robert J. Gurney Jr. / D: Edward L. Cahn / W: Robert J. Gurney Jr., Al Martin / C: Fred West / E: Charles Gross Jr. / M: Ronald Stein / S: Steven Terrell, Gloria Castillo, Frank Gorshin, Raymond Hatton, Lyn Osborn
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Poster campaign for Earth vs the Flying Saucers at the Archive.
Poster campaign for The Werewolf at the Archive.
Earth vs the Flying Saucers (1956) Clover Productions :: Columbia Pictures / EP: Sam Katzman / P: Charles H. Schneer / D: Fred F. Sears / W: Curt Siodmak, George Worthing Yates, Bernard Gordon, Donald E. Keyhoe (novel) / C: Fred Jackman Jr. / E: Danny B. Landres / M: Mischa Bakaleinikoff / S: Hugh Marlowe, Joan Taylor, Donald Curtis, Morris Ankrum, John Zaremba, Thomas Browne Henry
The Werewolf (1956) Clover Productions :: Columbia Pictures / P: Sam Katzman / D: Fred F. Sears / W: James B. Gordon, Robert E. Kent / C: Edward Linden / E: Harold White / M: Mischa Bakaleinikoff / S: Steven Ritch, Don Megowan, Joyce Holden, Eleanore Tanin, Kim Charney, Harry Lauter, Ken Christy, S. John Launer
We’ll Bury You! (1962) Contempora Production :: Columbia Pictures / P: Jack Leewood, Jack W. Thomas / D: Jack W. Thomas / W: Jack W. Thomas / E: Alan Presberg, Philip R. Rosenberg, Maurice Wright / S: William Woodson
The Trunk (1962) Donwin Films :: Columbia Pictures / P: Lawrence Huntington / D: Donovan Winter / W: Donovan Winter, Edward Abraham (short story), Valerie Abraham (short story) / C: Norman Warwick / E: Reginald Beck / M: John Fox / S: Philip Carey, Julia Arnall, Dermot Walsh, Vera Day, Peter Swanwick
I first saw Samuel Fuller’s Run of the Arrow under the alternate title, The Last Bullet, on the late-late show many moons ago. Kind of a nastier, edgier version of Dances with Wolves (that final massacre is just brutal), this was my introduction to both Fuller and Rod Steiger and it needs to be seen by a lot more folks.
Run of the Arrow (1957) Globe Enterprises :: RKO Radio Pictures / P: Samuel Fuller / D: Samuel Fuller / W: Samuel Fuller / C: Joseph F. Biroc / E: Gene Fowler Jr. / M: Victor Young / S: Rod Steiger, Sara Montiel, Brian Keith, Ralph Meeker, Jay C. Flippen, Olive Carey, Charles Bronson
A lot of folks are probably keenly aware of Georgie Weiss and Ed Wood’s aborted-to-altered attempt to bring George Jorgensen’s transformative tale to the big screen in Glen or Glenda. However, more folks should really be aware that there really was an officially sanctioned adaptation that came out in 1970, The Christine Jorgensen Story, produced by the equally schlock-minded Edward Small (Monkey on My Back, IT! The Terror from Beyond Space) and written by his usually partners in crime, Robert Kent and Ellis Joseph. At last check, this gonzoidal classic was streaming on Netflix for all to see.
Two Trigger-Happy Thrill-Jammed Features! (May, 1958)
Posted in 1950-1959, Movie Ads with tags Abby Dalton, Bad Girls, Barbara Bostock, Crime, Girls on the Loose, Harry Rybnick, Ib Melchior, Jewell Enterprises Inc., Joyce Barker, Juvenile Delinquents, Lita Milan, Live Fast Die Young, Mara Corday, Mary Murphy, Mike Connors, Paul Henreid, Richard Kay, Social Commentary, The Long Hot Summer, Troy Donahue, Universal Pictures on February 6, 2013 by WB KelsoAnd here we have a couple of Paul Henreid helmed shock-sock-o-ramas about some very bad girls doing some very bad things. First up, an all girl-gang of payroll robbers, including the lovely Mara Corday, have to silence their inside gal when she gets a little too chummy with the cops, which results in quite the blood bath. Then, we head down the very same road to hell and ruination when another girl gang of jewel thieves’ luck finally runs out.
Girls on the Loose (1958) Jewell Enterprises Inc. :: Universal Pictures / P: Richard Kay, Harry Rybnick / AP: Edward B. Barison / D: Paul Henreid / W: Alan Friedman, Dorothy Raison, Julian Harmon, Allen Rivkin / C: Philip H. Lathrop / E: Edward Curtiss / M: Irving Gertz, Henry Vars, Stanley Wilson S: Mara Corday, Barbara Bostock, Lita Milan, Abby Dalton, Joyce Barker
Live Fast, Die Young (1958) Jewell Enterprises Inc. :: Universal Pictures / P: Richard Kay, Harry Rybnick / AP: Edward B. Barison / D: Paul Henreid / W: Ib Melchior, Allen Rivkin / C: Philip H. Lathrop / E: Edward Curtiss / M: Irving Gertz / S: Mary Murphy, Norma Eberhardt, Peggy Maley, Mike Connors, Troy Donahue
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