Sockin’ Rockin’ Double Action Show! (July, 1957)

 

 

 

Other Points of Interest:

Full review of Rock All Night at the Brewery.

Poster campaign for Rock All Night at the Archive.

Poster campaign for Dragstrip Girl at the Archive.

Dragstrip Girl (1957) Golden State Productions :: American International Pictures / EP: Samuel Z. Arkoff / P: Alex Gordon / D: Edward L. Cahn / W: Lou Rusoff / C: Frederick E. West / E: Ronald Sinclair / M: Ronald Stein / S: Fay Spain, Steven Terrell, John Ashley, Frank Gorshin, Russ Bender, Tommy Ivo

Rock All Night (1957) Sunset Productions :: American International Pictures / EP: James H. Nicholson / P: Roger Corman / D: Roger Corman / W: Charles B. Griffith, David P. Harmon / C: Floyd Crosby / E: Frank Sullivan / M: Buck Ram, Ronald Stein / S: Dick Miller, Abby Dalton, Russell Johnson, Robin Morse, Mel Welles, Richard Cutting, Jeanne Cooper, Chris Alcaide, Jonathan Haze, Barboura Morris, Beach Dickerson, Clegg Hoyt, Richard Karlan, Bruno VeSota, Ed Nelson

A Mad Romp with Spirits of the Dark! You’re Invited — If You Have the Nerve!(October, 1961)

 

 

 

 

Weird … Macabre! A Plan of Torture! (October, 1964)

 

 

Strange Temptations! Being Devoured in a Manner Inconceivable to the Human Mind! (October, 1963)

 

 

 

Couple of imports this go around, one Italian the other Russian. The second feature most infamously for Francis Ford Coppola’s re-editing and inserting a monster fight into Nebo zovyot, whose monsters are so hilarious phallic in a TAb-A goes into Slot-B sense that one can only watch and boggle.
 

 
Samson and the 7 Miracles of the World (1961) Panda Film :: Gallus Film :: American International Pictures / P: Salvatore Billitteri, Luigi Carpentieri, Ermanno Donati / D: Riccardo Freda / W: Oreste Biancoli, Duccio Tessari, George Gonneau, Lee Kresel / C: Riccardo Pallottini / E: Ornella Micheli / M: Les Baxter / S: Gordon Scott, Yôko Tani, Hélène Chanel, Dante DiPaolo

Battle Beyond the Sun (1959) A.P. Dovzenko Filmstudio :: The Filmbgroup / P: Roger Corman / D: Mikhail Karzhukov, Aleksandr Kozyr, Francis Ford Coppola / W: Mikhail Karzhukov, Yevgeni Pomeshchikov, Aleksey Sazonov / C: Nikolai Kulchitsky / E: L. Mkhitaryyanch / M: Yuli Meitus, Carmine Coppola / S: Ivan Pereverzev, Aleksandr Shvorin, Konstantin Bartashevich, Linda Barrett, Frederick Farley, Mary Kannon

Hot Romance! Cool Music! Sizzling Story! (May, 1956)

 

 

 
Rock Around the Clock (1956) Clover Productions :: Columbia Pictures / P: Sam Katzman / D: Fred F. Sears / W: James B. Gordon, Robert E. Kent / C: Benjamin H. Kline / E: Saul A. Goodkind, Jack Ogilvie / M: Fred Karger / S: Johnny Johnston, Alix Talton, Lisa Gaye, Alan Freed, Bill Haley and the Comets

Apache Woman (1955) Golden State Productions :: American Releasing Corporation / EP: Alex Gordon / P: Roger Corman / D: Roger Corman / W: Lou Rusoff / C: Floyd Crosby / E: Ronald Sinclair / M: Ronald Stein / S: Lloyd Bridges, Joan Taylor, Lance Fuller, Paul Birch, Jonathan Haze

It’s BIG! It’s FUN! Thrill and Horror Show! (May, 1965)

 

 

 

Violence is Their God! And Lust the Law They Live By! (June, 1967)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
Man, those character descriptions are hoot and a half … After the surprising financial success of their first hell-razin’ outlaw biker flick, Roger Corman immediately followed up The Wild Angels with another sordid tale of motorized hooligans. Based loosely on a Monterey, California, incident back in 1965, where several members of the Hell’s Angels were accused, arrested, and later acquitted on several rape charges, Devil’s Angels came to the same conclusion for the fictionalized Skulls club — but then deviates rather radically on the biker’s reaction to being railroaded by local law-enforcement. Needless to say, the locals didn’t “Stay out of their way…”

Devil’s Angels (1967) American International Pictures / EP: James H. Nicholson, Samuel Z. Arkoff / P: Roger Corman, Burt Topper / AP: Jack W. Cash / D: Daniel Haller / W: Charles B. Griffith / C: Richard Moore / E: Kenneth G. Crane, Ronald Sinclair / M: Mike Curb / S: John Cassavetes, Beverly Adams, Mimsy Farmer, Leo Gordon, Buck Taylor

The William Shatner Blogathon :: Hot Lead, Hot Cars, Hot Damn! (August, 1974)

 

 

 

 

 
Way back in June of 2010, the fine folk behind the magnificent She Blogged by Night held The Shatnerthon!, a tribute to the great William Tiberius Shatner. Scenes from the Morgue heeded the call and participated back then, and now, to celebrate Wild Bill’s birthday this weekend, it was high time we migrated those ads over to the new site plus a few more treats mixed in. Enjoy.
 
 
 
 
 
Big Bad Mama (1974) Hit Woman Productions Inc. :: Santa Cruz Productions Inc. :: New World Pictures / P: Roger Corman / AP: Jon Davison, Teri Schwartz / D: Steve Carver / W: William W. Norton, Frances Doel / C: Bruce Logan / E: Tina Hirsch / M: David Grisman / S: Angie Dickinson, William Shatner, Tom Skerritt, Susan Sennett, Joan Prather

Fast Cars, Fast Girls, Thrills and Shocks! (December, 1960)

 

 

 

 
Happy New Year, Boils and Ghouls, from all of us at Scenes from the Morgue.

Stalk ‘n’ SlashCinema :: Close Your Eyes for a Second … And Sleep Forever! (July, 1982)

 

 

 
Roger Corman exploited many a genre over the years, some better than others. The Slumber Party Massacre is a complete goof with a refreshing all-female twist behind and (mostly) in front of the camera. I had fond memories of it, but when I dusted it off and showed some friends awhile back it landed with a thud. That’s me shrugging right now. Could be worse, though. Could be Sorority House Massacre. *bleaurgh*
 

 
The Slumber Party Massacre (1982) Santa Fe Productions :: New World Pictures / EP: Roger Corman / P: Amy Holden Jones, Aaron Lipstadt / AP: Mark Allan / D: Amy Holden Jones / W: Rita Mae Brown / C: Stephen L. Posey / E: Sean Foley / M: Ralph Jones / S: Michelle Michaels, Robin Stille, Michael Villella, Debra De Liso, Andree Honore

Hell Night (1981) BLT Productions :: Media Home Entertainment :: Compass International Pictures / EP: Chuck Russell, Joseph Wolf / P: Bruce Cohn Curtis, Mark L. Rosen, Irwin Yablans / D: Tom DeSimone / W: Randy Feldman / C: Mac Ahlberg / E: Anthony DiMarco / M: Dan Wyman / S: Linda Blair, Vincent Van Patten, Jenny Neumann, Peter Barton