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Voyage to the Planet of Prehistoric Women * (1968, Mamie Van Doren, Mary Marr, Paige Lee) – Classic Movie Review 4859

Following Voyage to the Prehistoric Planet (1965), the ever enterprising producer Roger Corman squeezed a second sci-fi movie out of cannibalising the 1962 Soviet film Planeta Bur. The 1968 American science fiction film Voyage to […]

Jan, 08

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

Halls of Montezuma **** (1950, Richard Widmark, Jack Palance, Robert Wagner, Karl Malden, Richard Boone, Jack Webb) – Classic Movie Review 3505

Director Lewis Milestone’s patriotic 1950 war movie stars Richard Widmark, who is on fine fighting form as Lieutenant Carl Anderson, the former school teacher who turns a rag-tag company of American Marines into an effective fighting […]

Mar, 26

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

The Quatermass Xperiment [The Creeping Unknown] *** (1955, Brian Donlevy, Jack Warner, Margia Dean, Gordon Jackson) – Classic Movie Review 3164

The Quatermass Xperiment is notable as Hammer’s first venture into horror movies, and the first X-certificate movie from a British company. Director Val Guest’s 1955 first spin-off from Nigel Kneale’s BBC TV serials is a […]

Dec, 17

Woman in the Moon [Frau im Mond] **** (1929, Klaus Pohl, Willy Fritsch, Gustav von Wangenheim, Gerda Maurus, Fritz Rasp) – Classic Movie Review 3006

Director Fritz Lang’s last silent movie from 1929 is one of the first and most important sci-fi movies with its story of obsession about a half-mad greedy scientist, Professor Georg Manfeldt (Klaus Pohl), who finds that there […]

Oct, 23

The Rock **** (1996, Sean Connery, Nicolas Cage, Ed Harris, David Morse, William Forsythe, Michael Biehn, John C McGinley, Vanessa Marcil) – Classic Movie Review 2726

Everybody just loved The Rock. The cheeky 1996 action thriller about a threatened nerve gas attack on San Francisco stars Sean Connery, Nicolas Cage and Ed Harris and is directed by Michael Bay, for producers […]

Jul, 21

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