For the Love of Science-Fiction :: Every Living Thing Flees Before the Terror of Its Giant Poison Fangs and Crushing Claws of Death! (December, 1955)

 

 

 

 

This post is part of the For the Love of Film: The Film Preservation Blogathon hosted by Ferdy on Films, This Island Rod, and Wonders in the Dark. This year’s theme is science-fiction, and we’ll be leaning hard toward the “mad science” portion of the genre. Hope you enjoy, and please click on the link above and donate to help restore the silent film, Cupid in Quarantine. The goal is to raise $10,000. Give what you can, won’t you? Thank you!

Tarantula (1955) Universal International / P: William Alland / D: Jack Arnold / W: Robert M. Fresco, Martin Berkeley, Jack Arnold / C: George Robinson / E: William Morgan / M: Herman Stein / S: John Agar, Mara Corday, Nestor Paiva, Leo G. Carroll, Ross Elliot

Running Wild (1955) Universal International / P: Howard Pine / D: Abner Biberman / W: Leo Townsend, Ben Benson (novel) / C: Ellis W. Carter / E: Edward Curtiss, Ray Snyder / M: Joseph Gershenson / S: William Campbell, Mamie Van Doren, John Saxon, Keenan Wynn, Kathleen Case

Two Trigger-Happy Thrill-Jammed Features! (May, 1958)

 

 

 

 
And 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

Stark and Brutal! All New Giant Thrill Show! (October, 1955)

 

 

 

 

 
Tarantula (1955) Universal International / P: William Alland / D: Jack Arnold / W: Robert M. Fresco, Martin Berkeley, Jack Arnold / C: George Robinson / E: William Morgan / M: Herman Stein / S: John Agar, Mara Corday, Nestor Paiva, Leo G. Carroll, Ross Elliot

Running Wild (1955) Universal International / P: Howard Pine / D: Abner Biberman / W: Leo Townsend, Ben Benson (novel) / C: Ellis W. Carter / E: Edward Curtiss, Ray Snyder / M: Joseph Gershenson / S: William Campbell, Mamie Van Doren, John Saxon, Keenan Wynn, Kathleen Case

A Turd … A Turd as Big as a Battleship (June, 1957)

 

 

 

Other Points of Interest:

Full film review of The Giant Claw at 3B Theater.

Poster campaign for The Giant Claw at the Archive.

The Giant Claw (1957) Clover Productions :: Columbia Pictures / P: Sam Katzman / D: Fred F. Sears / W: Samuel Newman, Paul Gangelin / C: Benjamin H. Kline E: Tony DiMarco, Saul Goodkind / M: Mischa Bakaleinikoff / S: Jeff Morrow, Mara Corday, Morris Ankrum, Louis Merrill, Robert Shayne, Edgar Barrier

The Night the World Exploded (1957) Clover Productions-Columbia Pictures / D: Fred F. Sears / W: Jack Natteford, Luci Ward / C: Benjamin H. Kline / P: Sam Katzman / S: Kathryn Grant, William Leslie, Tristram Coffin