Second Run Showcase :: Hallowe’en Midnight Show :: Frozen Evil meets Fiery Hate! (October, 1943)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

For the Love of Film Noir :: Caught in a Three-Ring Tornado of Thrills and Chills! (July, 1943)

 

 

 

 

 

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.

Fly By Night (1942) Paramount Pictures / P: Sol C. Siegel / AP: Colbert Clark / D: Robert Siodmak / W: Jay Dratler, F. Hugh Herbert, Ben Roberts, Sidney Sheldon / C: John F. Seitz / E: Arthur P. Schmidt / M: Gerard Carbonara / S: Richard Carlson, Nancy Kelly, Albert Bassermann, Miles Mander, Martin Kosleck, Nestor Paiva

Entering the 3rd Dimension :: Pent-Up Passion from the Devonian Age Unleashed! (April, 1954)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
As the legend goes, it was while working for Orson Wells, back in the Mercury Theater days, that producer William Alland first heard the tales of a legendary fish-man that lived somewhere way upstream in the backwaters of the Amazon river. And these tales, told by famed Mexican cinematographer Gabriel Figueroa, eventually germinated into one of the most iconic cinematic monsters ever conceived and executed on film. And though it’s usually one of the first things that come to mind while thinking about 3-D pictures, but truthfully, Creature from the Black Lagoon was one of the last big features to use the already rapidly waning process.

I’ve been lucky enough to see a 3-D print of both Creature and its sequel, Revenge of the Creature, and the differences between seeing them flat and seeing them topographical is like the difference between how long Ben Chapman and Riccou Browning can hold their breath underwater. And now, with advances in home video technology, we all can see the Gill-Man unrequited quest for love in all it’s Stereo-Scopic glory!

Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954) Universal International / P: William Alland / D: Jack Arnold / W: Harry Essex, Arthur A. Ross / C: William E. Snyder / E: Ted J. Kent / M: Joseph Gershenson, Henry Mancini, Hans J. Salter, Herman Stein / S: Richard Carlson, Julie Adams, Richard Denning, Antonio Moreno, Whit Bissell, Nestor Paiva

Project M7 (1953) Two Cities Films :: Universal Pictures / EP: Earl St. John / P: Antony Darnborough / D: Antony Darnborough / W: William Fairchild, John Pudney (novel) / C: Desmond Dickinson / E: Frederick Wilson / M: Benjamin Frankel / S: Phyllis Calvert, James Donald, Robert Beatty, Herbert Lom, Muriel Pavlow

Entering the 3rd Dimension :: You’ll FEEL the Cold Terror of the Unknown Reaching Out for YOU! (August, 1953)

 

 

 

 

 
The Maze (1953) Allied Artists / EP: Walter Mirisch / P: Richard V. Heermance / D: William Cameron Menzies / W: Daniel B. Ullman, Maurice Sandoz (novel) / C: Harry Neumann / E: John C. Fuller / M: Marlin Skiles / S: Richard Carlson, Veronica Hurst, Katherine Emery, Michael Pate, Hillary Brooke, Lilian Bond

Jeopardy (1953) Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) / EP: Charles Schnee / P: Sol Baer Fielding / D: John Sturges / W: Mel Dinelli, Maurice Zimm (novel) / C: Victor Milner / E: Newell P. Kimlin / M: Dimitri Tiomkin / S: Barbara Stanwyck, Barry Sullivan, Ralph Meeker, Lee Aaker, Paul Fierro

Entering the 3rd Dimension :: Brings Terror that Can Almost Touch You when Xenomorphs Invade our World! (June, 1953)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Other Points of Interest:

Full film review of It Came from Outer Space at 3B Theater.

Poster campaign for It Came from Outer Space at the Archive.

It Came from Outer Space (1953) Universal International / P: William Alland / D: Jack Arnold / W: Harry Essex, Ray Bradbury (story) / C: Clifford Stine / E: Paul Weatherwax / M: Irving Gertz, Henry Mancini, Herman Stein / S: Richard Carlson, Barbara Rush, Charles Drake, Joe Sawyer, Russell Johnson, Kathleen Hughes

Random Drive-In Mash-Up :: July, 1956

 

 

The Good, the Bad, and the Allosaurus (Decemeber, 1969)

 

 

 

 

 

Other Points of Interest:

Full film review of The Valley of Gwangi at 3B Theater.

Poster campaign for The Valley of Gwangi at the Archive.

The Good Guys and the Bad Guys (1969) Robert Goldstein Productions :: Ronden :: Warner Brothers/Seven Arts / EP: Robert Goldstein / P: Ronald M. Cohen, Dennis Shryack / AP: Stan Jolley / D: Burt Kennedy / W: Ronald M. Cohen, Dennis Shryack / C: Harry Stradling Jr. / E: Howard Deane / M: William Lava / S: Robert Mitchum, George Kennedy, Martin Balsam, David Carradine, Tina Louise

The Valley of Gwangi (1969) Morningside Productions :: Warner Brothers/Seven Arts / P: Charles H. Schneer / AP: Ray Harryhausen / D: James O’Connolly / W: William Bast / C: Erwin Hillier / E: Henry Richardson / M: Jerome Moross / S: James Franciscus, Gila Golan, Richard Carlson, Laurence Naismith, Gustavo Rojo, Freda Jackson, Dennis Kilbane, Mario De Barros, Curtis Arden

SEE! Thrill Crazy, Kill Crazy, Sci-Noir Double-Dose of Excitement! (May, 1953)

 

 

 
The Magnetic Monster (1953) A-Men Productions :: United Artists / P: Ivan Tors / D: Curt Siodmak / W: Curt Siodmak, Ivan Tors / C: Charles Van Enger / E: Herbert L. Strock / M: Blaine Sanford / S: Richard Carlson, King Donovan, Jean Byron, Harry Ellerbe, Leo Britt

Gun Crazy (1950) King Brothers Productions :: United Artists / P: Frank King, Maurice King / D: Joseph H. Lewis / W: Millard Kaufman, Dalton Trumbo / C: Russell Harlan / E: Harry Gerstad / M: Victor Young / S: John Dall, Peggy Cummins, Berry Kroeger, Anabel Shaw, Morris Carnovsky