Random Drive-In Mash-Up :: Bomb Shells, Sky Rockets, Fountains, Helicopters, the Duke, McQueen and Hope (July, 1964)

 

 

 

Happy 4th July to all of you from Scenes from the Morgue.

Fire Can’t Burn IT! Bullets Can’t Kill IT! Where Did IT Come From? How Did IT Get Here? WHAT IS IT?!? (July, 1951)

 

 

 

 

 

 
Christian Nyby or Howard Hawks? In the end, I really don’t care who directed our main feature as this sci-fi epic about a Killer Carrot from Outer Space is a whole six-pack of un-ironic awesomeness and my love for it knows no bounds. Nope, no gut-check or toiling or sweating over the answer when posed a query of ‘What’s your favorite movie of all time?’ No ifs, ands or buts, it’s The Thing from Another World. And with that, we have officially finished migrating all the ads over from the old blog. *whew* Fear not, there’s still lots and lots of new stuff to post for your viewing pleasure so stay tuned. And until then, Boils and Ghouls, keep watching the skies!

The Thing from Another World (1951) Winchester Pictures :: RKO Radio Pictures / P: Howard Hawks / AP: Edward Lasker / D: Christain Nyby, Howard Hawks / W: Charles Lederer, John W. Campbell Jr. (story) / C: Russell Harlan / E: Roland Gross / M: Dimitri Tiomkin / S: Kenneth Tobey, Margaret Sheridan, Robert Cornthwaite, Dewey Martin, Douglas Spencer, James Young, Robert Nichols, William Self

Homicide for Three (1948) Republic Pictures / P: Stephen Auer / D: George Blair / W: Bradbury Foote, Hugh Wheeler (novel), Richard W. Webb (novel) / C: John MacBurnie / E: Harry Keller / M: R. Dale Butts / S: Warren Douglas, Audrey Long, Grant Withers, Lloyd Corrigan, Stephanie Bachelor

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 William Castle Blogathon :: A Story that’s Slightly Different… (October, 1946)

 

 
As a character, Rusty the dog had a total of eight movie adventures. Here, in the first sequel, Castle gives us a thinly veiled retread of Gus Edson and Irwin Hasen’s Dondi — a popular syndicated comic strip (who has its own tale of cinematic infamy), where our canine hero helps another war orphan, who stowaway-ed his way to the States, in an attempt to find the G.I. who befriended him back in Czechoslovakia. Other directors who handled Rusty’s leash include John Sturges (The Magnificent Seven, The Great Escape) and Lew Landers (The Raven, Return of the Vampire).
 

 
This post is part of Goregirl’s Dungeon and The Last Drive-In’s The William Castle Blogathan, a week long tribute to the King of Schlock. Follow the linkage, Boils & Ghouls. It’s gonna be a great week. And stick around, as we’ll be showcasing Castle’s film career from its fairly normal beginnings through it psychotronic glory days. Stay tuned!

The Return of Rusty (1946) Columbia Pictures / P: Leonard S. Picker / D: William Castle / W: Lewis Helmer Herman, William Sackheim / C: Philip Tannura / E: James Sweeney / M: George Duning / S: Ted Donaldson, John Litel, Mark Dennis, Barbara Woodell, Dwayne Hickman

The Last Crooked Mile (1946) Republic Pictures / P: Rudolph E. Abel / D: Philip Ford / W: Jerome Gruskin, Robert L. Richards, Jerry Sackheim / C: Alfred S. Keller / E: William P. Thompson / M: Joseph Dubin / S: Don Barry, Ann Savage, Adele Mara, Sheldon Leonard, Nestor Paiva

The William Castle Blogathon :: Was She Married to a Man … or a Killer?!? (March, 1945)

 

 

 
Originating from Poverty Row, from the cast to execution, When Strangers Marry is about as close to an A picture as the King Brothers or Monogram ever got. A bit of a sleeper hit at the box office, this idiosyncratic film noir drew high praise from Orson Welles, leading to Castle’s eventual collaboration with him on The Lady from Shanghai.
 

 
This post is part of Goregirl’s Dungeon and The Last Drive-In’s The William Castle Blogathan, a week long tribute to the King of Schlock. Follow the linkage, Boils & Ghouls. It’s gonna be a great week. And stick around, as we’ll be showcasing Castle’s film career from its fairly normal beginnings through it psychotronic glory days. Stay tuned!

Comin’ ‘Round the Mountain (1936) Republic Pictures / P: Nat Levine / D: Mack V. Wright / W: Oliver Drake, Dorrell McGowan, Stuart E. McGowan / C: William Nobles / E: Lester Orlebeck / M: Harry Grey / S: Gene Autry, Ann Rutherford, Smiley Burnette, LeRoy Mason, Raymond Brown

When Strangers Marry (1944) King Brothers Productions :: Monogram Pictures / P: Frank King, Maurice King / D: William Castle / W: Philip Yordan, Dennis J. Cooper, George Moskov / C: Ira H. Morgan / E: Martin G. Cohn / M: Dimitri Tiomkin / Robert Mitchum, Kim Hunter, Dean Jagger, Neil Hamilton, Rhonda Fleming

For the Love of Film Noir :: A Startling Case of Love-Madness! (November, 1947)

 

 

 

 

This post is part of my rehash and continuation of the For the Love of Film Noir Blogathon originally held back in February of 2011. Thus and so, we will be heading down the rain-soaked streets and neon-drenched back alleys of Noirville again for the entire month of March. And along with all the old material migrating over from the old site, we’ll also be scattering around a lot of new stuff as well. Also of note, we’ll be posting them in chronological order to show how the genre evolved and progressed from the 1940′s through the late ’50s. And as an added bonus, I’ll be posting some vintage adverts to stuff I’ve always associated with the genre — cigarettes, booze and fashionable ladies.

Possessed (1947) A First National Picture :: Warner Bros. / EP: Jack L. Warner / P: Jerry Wald / D: Curtis Bernhardt / W: Silvia Richards, Ranald MacDougall, Rita Weiman (story) / C: Joseph A. Valentine / E: Rudi Fehr / M: Franz Waxman / S: Joan Crawford, Van Heflin, Raymond Massey, Geraldine Brooks, Stanley Ridges, Peter Miles

Blackmail (1947) Republic Pictures / P: William J. O’Sullivan / D: Lesley Selander / W: Royal K. Cole, Robert Leslie Bellem, Albert DeMond / C: Reggie Lanning / E: Tony Martinelli / M: Mort Glickman / S: William Marshall, Adele Mara, Ricardo Cortez, Grant Withers, Stephanie Bachelor

For the Love of Film Noir :: Violent Love! And Violent Thrills! (August, 1947)

 

 

 

 

This post is part of my rehash and continuation of the For the Love of Film Noir Blogathon originally held back in February of 2011. Thus and so, we will be heading down the rain-soaked streets and neon-drenched back alleys of Noirville again for the entire month of March. And along with all the old material migrating over from the old site, we’ll also be scattering around a lot of new stuff as well. Also of note, we’ll be posting them in chronological order to show how the genre evolved and progressed from the 1940′s through the late ’50s. And as an added bonus, I’ll be posting some vintage adverts to stuff I’ve always associated with the genre — cigarettes, booze and fashionable ladies.

The Two Mrs. Carrolls (1947) First National Pictures :: Warner Bros. / EP: Jack L. Warner / P: Mark Hellinger / D: Peter Godfrey / W: Thomas Job, Martin Vale (play) / C: J. Peverell Marley / E: Frederick Richards / M: Franz Waxman / S: Humphrey Bogart, Barbara Stanwyck, Alexis Smith, Nigel Bruce, Isobel Elsom, Ann Carter

Yankee Fakir (1947) W. Lee Wilder Productions :: Republic Pictures / P: W. Lee Wilder / D: W. Lee Wilder / W: Mindret Lord, Richard S. Conway / C: Robert Pittack / E: Jodie Copelan / M: Alexander Laszlo / S: Douglas Fowley, Joan Woodbury, Clem Bevans, Frank Reicher, Marc Lawrence

Mothers Bring Your Daughters! Fathers Bring Your Sons! (March, 1937)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
Apparently, the Road to Ruin is a very slippery slope — as good girl Anne Dixon finds out, the hard way — which quickly rockets you down a path wrought with fast cars, booze and drugs, that ultimately dead-ends with an illegitimate teen pregnancy, and, horror of horrors, an abortion! And a lethally botched one, at that! Written and directed by Dorothy Davenport, a pioneer of sorts in the male dominated studio system, who apparently made it her life’s goal to warn others about the horrors of narcotics after her husband, writer/director Wallace Reid, died of an accidental overdose of morphine.

The Road to Ruin (1934) Willis Kent Productions :: True-Life Photoplays :: First Division Pictures / P: Willis Kent / D: Dorothy Davenport, Melville Shyer / W: Dorothy Davenport / C: James Diamond / E: S. Roy Luby / S: Helen Foster, Nell O’Day. Glen Boles, Robert Quirk, Virginia True Boardman

Hearts in Bondage (1936) Republic Pictures / EP: Herman Schlom / P: Nat Levine / D: Lew Ayres / W: Karl Brown, Olive Cooper, Wallace MacDonald, Bernard Schubert / C: Jack Marta / E: Ralph Dixon / M: Hugo Riesenfeld / S: James Dunn, Mae Clarke, David Manners, Fritz Leiber

Madness … or Murder? (November, 1946)

 

 

 

 

Other Points of Interest:

Film review of Shock at the Brewery.

Shock (1946) Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation / P: Aubrey Schenck / D: Alfred Werker / W: Eugene Ling, Albert DeMond, Martin Berkeley / C: Joseph MacDonald, Glen MacWilliams / E: Harmon Jones / M: Harmon Jones / S: Vincent Price, Lynn Bari, Frank Latimore, Anabel Shaw, Stephen Dunne

Rendezvous with Annie (1946) Republic Pictures / P: Allan Dwan / D: Allan Dwan / W: Mary Loos, Richard Sale / C: Reggie Lanning / E: Arthur Roberts / M: Joseph Dubin / S: Eddie Albert, Faye Marlowe, Gail Patrick, C. Aubrey Smith, William Frawley

Prepare to Have Your Socks Shocked Off! (August, 1957)

 

 

 

 

 

 

Other Points of Interest:

Full film review of Beginning of the End at 3B Theater.

Poster campaign for Beginning of the End at the Archive.

Poster campaign for The Unearthly at the Archive.

Beginning of the End (1957) AB-PT Pictures Corp. :: Republic Pictures / P: Bert I. Gordon/ D: Bert I. Gordon / W: Fred Freiberger, Lester Gorn / C: Jack A. Marta / E: Aaron Stell / M: Albert Glasser / S: Peter Graves, Peggie Castle, Morris Ankrum, Than Wyenn, Thomas Browne Henry, James Seay

The Unearthly (1957) AB-PT Pictures Corp. :: Republic Pictures / P: Brooke L. Peters / AP: Robert A. Terry / D: Brooke L. Peters / W: Geoffrey Dennis, Jane Mann / C: W. Merle Connell / E: Richard C. Currier / M: Henry Vars / S: John Carradine, Myron Healey, Allison Hayes, Tor Johnson, Sally Todd