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Cloak and Dagger **** (1946, Gary Cooper, Robert Alda, Lilli Palmer) – Classic Movie Review 2601

Director Fritz Lang’s 1946 release stars Gary Cooper as mild-mannered science professor called Alvah Jesper who becomes an agent for the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), the World War Two forerunner of the Central Intelligence Agency. […]

Jun, 14

Flight to Mars *** (1951, Cameron Mitchell, Marguerite Chapman, Arthur Franz, Virginia Huston, John Litel, Richard Gaines, Morris Ankrum) – Classic Movie Review 2561

  Director Lesley Selander’s pioneering 1951 low-budget sci-fi movie quickie, produced by Walter Mirisch for poverty row studios Monogram, stars Cameron Mitchell, Marguerite Chapman, Arthur Franz, Virginia Huston, John Litel, Richard Gaines and Morris Ankrum. […]

Jun, 06

Forbidden Planet ***** (1956, Walter Pidgeon, Anne Francis, Leslie Nielsen) – Classic Movie Review 2555

Director Fred McLeod Wilcox’s 1956 sci-fi version of Shakespeare’s The Tempest is a genre classic, haunting and beautiful looking, gaining an immense amount of other-worldly mood and atmosphere from being all artificially filmed in the […]

Jun, 04

Fantastic Voyage **** (1966, Stephen Boyd, Raquel Welch, Edmond O’Brien, Donald Pleasence, Arthur O’Connell, Arthur Kennedy) – Classic Movie Review 2516

Director Richard Fleischer’s 1966 sci-fi cult favourite Fantastic Voyage stars Raquel Welch, who gives a notable turn as the sole woman among the crew of five doctors put into a capsule, shrunken to microscopic size […]

May, 25

It Conquered the World ** (1956, Peter Graves, Beverly Garland, Lee Van Cleef ) – Classic Movie Review 2485

Producer-director Roger Corman’s 1956 monster movie stars Peter Graves as a well-meaning scientist called Dr Paul Nelson. Lee Van Cleef plays Nelson’s old friend and fellow scientist, the disgruntled Tom Anderson, who cultivates the friendship of […]

May, 15

The Creeper *** (1948, Ralph Morgan, Eduardo Ciannelli, Onslow Stevens, June Vincent) – Classic Movie Review 2445

Ralph Morgan and Onslow Stevens star as experimenting research doctors Dr Lester Cavigny and Dr Jim Bordon, who are being assisted in their work by Gwen Runstrom (June Vincent). But the doctors are clashing and […]

May, 02

This Island Earth **** (1955, Jeff Morrow, Faith Domergue, Rex Reason) – Classic Movie Review 2,444

Director Joseph Newman’s 1955 movie This Island Earth is a memorable, huge fun Fifties sci-fi thriller with a sprightly yarn about benevolent aliens kidnapping earthling scientists to save their planet. The film is fondly remembered […]

May, 02

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