Hell Below! Havoc Above! (November, 1958)

 

 

 

 

 
Torpedo Run (1958) Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) / P: Edmund Grainger / D: Joseph Pevney / W: Richard Sale, William Wister Haines / C: George J. Folsey / E: Gene Ruggiero / S: Glenn Ford, Ernest Borgnine, Diane Brewster, Dean Jones, L.Q. Jones, Richard Carlyle

Told in Blood! Cosa Nostra Story in 2 Shocking Motion Pictures! (November, 1963)

 

 

 

 

 
Al Capone (1959) Allied Artists Pictures / P: Leonard Ackerman, John H. Burrows / D: Richard Wilson / W: Malvin Wald, Henry F. Greenberg / C: Lucien Ballard / E: Walter Hannemann / M: David Raksin / S: Rod Steiger, Martin Balsam, Fay Spain, James Gregory, Nehemiah Persoff

Pay or Die! (1960) Allied Artists / P: Richard Wilson / D: Richard Wilson / W: Richard Collins, Bertram Millhauser / C: Lucien Ballard / E: Walter Hannemann / M: David Raksin / S: Ernest Borgnine, Zohra Lampert, Alan Austin, Vito Scotti, John Marley

Random Drive-In Mash-Up :: June, 1973

 

 

The CinemaScope Blogathon :: The Picture that Screams with SUSPENSE! (March, 1955)

 

 

Other Points of Interest:

Full review of Bad Day at Black Rock at the Brewery.

Poster Campaign for Bad Day at Black Rock at the Archive.

This post is part of ClassicBecky’s Brain Food and Wide Screen World’s CinemaScope Blogathon. Be sure click on over and check out all the other wonderful entries. And be sure to check out all the other CinemaScope ads already posted with this handy linkage.

Bad Day at Black Rock (1955) Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) / P: Dore Schary / AP: Herman Hoffman / D: John Sturges / W: Millard Kaufman, Don McGuire, Howard Breslin (story) / C: William C. Mellor / E: Newell P. Kimlin / M: André Previn / S: Spencer Tracy, Robert Ryan, Anne Francis, John Ericson, Walter Brennan, Ernest Borgnine, Lee Marvin, Dean Jagger

Multiplex Mash-Up :: A Journey that Begins Where Everything Ends (December, 1979)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Wow. Two of my favorite and over-maligned movies debuted on the same day: Disney’s sci-fi epic, The Black Hole, marking their initial plunge into PG territory, and Spielberg’s ode to calamitous chaos and wonton mass-destruction, 1941.

Hell, Upsided Down! Who Will Survive in One of the Greatest Escape Adventures Ever! (January, 1973)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
To me, The Towering Inferno will always be the apex of Irwin Allen’s disaster/photo-box cycle but there’s still a lot of topsy-turvy fun to be had on The S.S. Poseidon, with absolutely no threat of getting the bends. And to give credit where credit is due, if one deserves credit for such a thing (– though some would argue the ‘lay the blame card’), but, Mr. Allen beat Mr. Spielberg to the punch on the whole B-Movie with an A-Movie budget and cast by over two years. And for the record, the super-secret screening alluded to in the later ads was for Franklin Schaffner’s Nicholas and Alexandra.

The Poseidon Adventure (1972) Kent Productions :: 20th Century Fox / EP: Steve Broidy, Sherrill C. Corwin / P: Irwin Allen / AP: Sidney Marshall / D: Ronald Neame / W: Stirling Silliphant, Wendell Mayes / C: Harold E. Stine / E: Harold F. Kress / M: John Williams / S: Gene Hackman, Ernest Borgnine, Shelley Winters, Stella Stevens, Red Buttons, Carol Lynley, Pamela Sue Martin

All the Suspense of High Noon! All the Excitement of Shane! He is All Man, with the Devil in His Eyes and Danger in His Heart! (June, 1954)

 

 

 

 

 
Johnny Guitar (1954) Republic Pictures / P: Herbert J. Yates, Nicholas Ray / D: Nicholas Ray / W: Philip Yordan, Roy Chanslor (novel) / C: Harry Stradling Sr. / E: Richard L. Van Enger / M: Victor Young / S: Joan Crawford, Sterling Hayden, Mercedes McCambridge, Scott Brady, Ward Bond, Ernest Borgnine

The Most Fantastic Undersea Odyssey Ever Filmed! (July, 1973)

 

 

 

 

 

 
The Neptune Factor (1973) Conquest of the Deeps Limited and Company :: Quadrant Film :: Bellevue Pathé Ltée :: 20th Century Fox / EP: Harold Greenberg, David Perlmutter / P: Sandy Howard / D: Daniel Petrie / W: Jack DeWitt / C: Harry Makin / E: Stan Cole / M: Lalo Schifrin / S: Ben Gazzara, Yvette Mimieux, Walter Pidgeon, Ernest Borgnine, Donnelly Rhodes

Entering the 3rd Dimension :: For Men with a Killing Coming to Them! (October, 1953)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
After the brutal massacre at Lawrence, Kansas, one of Quantrill’s lead scouts sours on all the killing and flees to the Arizona territories. Alas, old habits are hard to break as he falls in with another bad bunch of stagecoach bandits. But once again, a senseless killing triggers a long dormant conscience, and payback with lead interest has finally come due! Based on John Cunningham’s novel Yankee Gold, this was director Andre de Toth’s 3-D follow up to House of Wax. And this was also only one of about a half-dozen oaters that de Toth made with star Randolph Scott. Now. There were some conflicting reports that The Stranger Wore a Gun was never released in 3-D, but these ads kinda skewer that notion, don’t ya think?

The Stranger Wore a Gun (1953) Scott-Brown Productions :: Columbia Pictures / P: Harry Joe Brown / AP: Randolph Scott / D: André De Toth / W: Kenneth Gamet, John W. Cunningham (novel) / C: Lester White / E: Gene Havlick, James Sweeney / M: Mischa Bakaleinikoff / S: Randolph Scott, Claire Trevor, Joan Weldon, George Macready, Lee Marvin, Ernest Borgnine

9 Wild and Angry Men Who Came too Late and Stayed too Long! (November, 1969)

 

 

 

 
The Wild Bunch (1969) Warner Brothers/Seven Arts / P: Phil Feldman / AP: Roy N. Sickner / D: Sam Peckinpah / W: Walon Green, Roy N. Sickner, Sam Peckinpah / C: Lucien Ballard / E: Lou Lombardo / M: Jerry Fielding / S: William Holden, Ernest Borgnine, Robert Ryan, Edmond O’Brien, Warren Oates, Ben Johnson, Jaime Sánchez, Emilio Fernández, Strother Martin, L.Q. Jones, Albert Dekker