Derek Winnert

Posts Tagged "Outer Space"

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Invasion of the Star Creatures * (1962, Robert Ball, Frankie Ray) – Classic Movie Review 3776

Robert Ball and Frankie Ray are putridly unfunny as Private Philbrick and Private Penn, US soldiers who investigate a mysterious crater in an atomic detonation area and uncover the titular lady alien Star Creatures (Dolores Reed […]

May, 28

The Strange World of Planet X [Cosmic Monsters] ** (1958, Forrest Tucker, Gaby André, Martin Benson) – Classic Movie Review 3758

Director Gilbert Gunn’s 1958 British sci-fi movie stars Alec Mango as British scientist Doctor Laird, who is experimenting with the Earth’s magnetic field along with his team. But, just when when their insect enlarging contraption […]

May, 27

Stranger from Venus * (1954, Patricia Neal, Helmut Dantine, Derek Bond, Cyril Luckham) – Classic Movie Review 3755

Producer-director Burt Balaban’s amateurish independently made 1954 British black-and-white science fiction film about first contact with aliens stars a down-on-their-luck Patricia Neal and Helmut Dantine. Neal plays Susan North, an American woman who crashes her car […]

May, 26

Target Earth ** (1954, Richard Denning, Kathleen Crowley, Virginia Grey, Whit Bissell, Richard Reeves, Robert Roark, Arthur Space, Steve Pendleton) – Classic Movie Review 3754

Director Sherman A Rose’s 1954 vintage black-and-white post-war paranoia sci-fi horror movie Target Earth tries to terrify us by supposing that giant robots from Venus are invading Chicago. Though trashy and low budget, it is notable as […]

May, 26

War of the Satellites ** (1958, Richard Devon, Dick Miller, Susan Cabot, Eric Sinclair, Michael Fox, Robert Shayne, Bruno VeSota) – Classic Movie Review 3753

Producer-director Roger Corman’s primitive 1958 low-budget ($70,000) black-and-white science-fiction film stars Richard Devon (as Dr Pol Van Ponder), Dick Miller (as Dave Boyer) and Susan Cabot (as Sybil Carrington), and was quickly made to exploit the media frenzy over the launch of […]

May, 26

I Married a Monster from Outer Space *** (1958, Tom Tryon, Gloria Talbott, Peter Baldwin, Ty Hardin) – Classic Movie Review 3696

Aliens are employing Bill Farrell (Tom Tryon) to control the Earth in producer-director Gene Fowler Jnr’s cheap and cheerful 1958 sci-fi cult movie, made for just $175,000 by Paramount. Poor Marge (Gloria Talbott) finds that being Tryon’s new […]

May, 11

Quatermass 2 [Enemy from Space] *** (1957, Brian Donlevy, John Longden, Sidney James, Bryan Forbes, Vera Day) – Classic Movie Review 3165

American star Brian Donlevy is back to reprise his sombre performance as the troubled rocket scientist Professor Bernard Quatermass in the second in Hammer Films’ trio of screen versions of Nigel Kneale’s classic 1950s BBC serials. This […]

Dec, 17

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