CANNON MONTH 3: Rock ‘n’ Roll Revue (1955)
Directed by Joseph Kohn, who specialized in these music films, this was put together from several TV shorts and host segments with Willie Bryan were added. Bryan was the “Mayor of Harlem,” famous for being the host of the original Showtime at the Apollo, a 13-episode TV show that is where many of these songs originated. This […]
The Sizzlin’ Something Weird Summer Challenge 2024: Dementia (1955)
Johnny Legend’s Untamed Video (August 25 – 31) Welcome to the wonderfully wacky world of Johnny Legend’s Untamed Video! Take a walk on the wild side with troublesome teenagers, sleazy sex kittens, way-out hippies, country bumpkins, big bad bikers, Mexican wrestlers, and every other variety of social deviant you can think of. I first watched this […]
ARROW BLU RAY RELEASE: The Desperate Hours (1955)
Directed by William Wyler and written by Joseph Hayes and Jay Dratler, it was based on Hayes’ novel and stage play. That play had Paul Newman in the lead, but Humphrey Bogart was a much bigger star for the movie. The story is based on the Hill family of Whitemarsh Township, Pennsylvania. On September 11 […]
MILL CREEK SCI-FI FROM THE VAULT: It Came from Beneath the Sea (1955)
Directed by Robert Gordon and written by Hal Smith and George Worthing Yates, the real star of this movie is the stop motion animation special effects of Ray Harryhausen. It gave me a childhood fear of octopuses as this movie is all about radiation making one of them gigantic and attacking San Francisco after nuclear […]
MILL CREEK SCI-FI FROM THE VAULT: Creature With the Atom Brain (1955)
EDITOR’S NOTE: Here’s a past article about this film when it was released as part of Arrow Video’s Cold War Creatures: Four Films From Sam Katzman. Director Edward L. Cahn started by directing Our Gang shorts but made some of the most important science fiction movies of the 50s, including Invasion of the Saucer Men and It! […]
Creature with the Atom Brain (1955)
Edward L. Cahn was a director who got work done. There’s his work on American-International Pictures, his Our Gang comedies and a movie that inspired Alien — which inspired a lot of movies in its wake — called It! The Terror from Beyond Space. He also made Invisible Invaders which has pretty much the same plot as this film. […]
Day the World Ended (1955)
Produced and directed by Roger Corman, this movie somehow had newsman Chet Huntley as its narrator and tells the story of the end of the world and the mutant monster that comes afterward. U.S. Navy Commander Jim Maddison and his daughter Louise have somehow survived all the atomic bombs, a uranium miner named Rick, a […]
SON OF KAIJU DAY MARATHON: Godzilla Raids Again (1955)
A few weeks after the release of Godzilla, a welcome home party was thrown for executive producer Iwao Mori. During the party, he told producer Tomoyuki Tanaka to produce a sequel due to the box office results. With Ishirō Honda directing Love Makeup at the time, Motoyoshi Oda was brought in to direct the film. […]
Teen-Age Crime Wave (1955)
I have many movie loves, but seriously, juvenile delinquency movies are where it’s at. A Columbia stock actor and dialogue director, Fred F. Sears made a ton of movies, starting with the Charlie Starrett Westerns and Blondie series. He also made the Blackhawk serial and worked as a steady contract director for notorious cheap producer Sam Katzman, […]
REPOST: Uçan Daireler Istanbulda (1955)
EDITOR’S NOTE: Originally posted during our Turkish movie blowout — this one was originally on the site on September 13, 2020 — Uçan Daireler Istanbulda is a great example of alien women descending on our planet and fits in so well this week. Enjoy! It’s 7,296 miles from Ankara to Mexico City, but you’d never guess […]
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