Old Movies Thread

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Attack of the Crab Monsters is a 1957, black-and-white, science fiction film produced and directed by Roger Corman, that stars Richard Garland, Pamela Duncan and Russell Johnson. The film was theatrically distributed by Allied Artists Pictures Corp. on a double bill with Not of This Earth.
Plot: A scientific expedition that is sent to a remote Pacific island to discover what happened to the scientists of the first. Unknown to them when they arrive, the island is inhabited by a mating pair of two radiation-mutated intelligent giant crabs. The giants are also slowly undermining the geology of the island, causing it to fall away, piece by piece, into the ocean.

 

[T-Bob]

My contribution for tonight....Beginning of the End (1957), which unfortunately isn't available on Youtube......Another film directed by Bert I. Gordon.....We just watched The Spider (1958) that he directed last week.. ....This week we're going for another one of his films, Attack of the Puppet People (1958). I love this film, starring Peter Graves and Peggie Castle. Also, watch for Hank Patterson (Fred Ziffel from Green Acres), and Kirk Alyn, the first Superman. Giant grasshoppers invade Southern Illinois and advance to Chicago......Peter Graves has to figure out how to save the city, and ultimately the country from destruction.

 

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Rare Photo of A Theater Display in Sydney, Australia, for 'Bride of Frankenstein' (1935)

 

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Western actor, Tom Tyler, in The Mummy's Hand, 1940.

 

[T-Bob]

Remembering actor and singer TEX RITTER (1905 – 1974), who was born on January 12. His motion picture debut was in Song Of The Gringo (1936) for Grand National Pictures. He starred in twelve B-movie Westerns for Grand National, including Headin' For The Rio Grande (1936), and Trouble In Texas (1937) co-starring Rita Hayworth (then known as Rita Cansino). After starring in Utah Trail (1938), Ritter left financially troubled Grand National. Between 1938 and 1945, he starred in around forty "singing cowboy" movies. He made four movies with actress Dorothy Fay at Monogram Pictures: Song of the Buckaroo (1938), Sundown on the Prairie (1939), Rollin' Westward (1939) and Rainbow Over the Range (1940). Ritter then moved to Universal Pictures and teamed with Johnny Mack Brown for films such as The Lone Star Trail (1943), Raiders of San Joaquin (1943), Cheyenne Roundup (1943) and The Old Chisholm Trail (1942). He was also the star of the films Arizona Trail (1943), Marshal of Gunsmoke (1944) and Oklahoma Raiders (1944). When Universal developed financial difficulties, Ritter moved to Producers Releasing Corporation as "Texas Ranger Tex Haines" for eight features between 1944 and 1945. He did not return to acting until 1950, playing mostly supporting roles or himself. In 1952, Ritter recorded the movie title-track song "High Noon (Do Not Forsake Me Oh My Darlin')", which became a hit. At the first televised Academy Awards ceremony in 1953, he sang "High Noon", which received an Oscar for Best Song that year.

 

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Two Kings of Horror. Can you name them?

 

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Night Monster is a 1942 black-and-white horror film featuring Bela Lugosi and produced and distributed by Universal Pictures. The movie uses an original story and screenplay by Clarence Upson Young and was produced and directed by Ford Beebe. For box office value, star billing was given to Bela Lugosi and Lionel Atwill, but the lead roles were played by Ralph Morgan, Irene Hervey and Don Porter, with Atwill actually in a character role as a pompous doctor who becomes a victim to the title character, and Lugosi in a small part as a butler.

 

[T-Bob]

Night Monster is a 1942 black-and-white horror film featuring Bela Lugosi and produced and distributed by Universal Pictures. The movie uses an original story and screenplay by Clarence Upson Young and was produced and directed by Ford Beebe. For box office value, star billing was given to Bela Lugosi and Lionel Atwill, but the lead roles were played by Ralph Morgan, Irene Hervey and Don Porter, with Atwill actually in a character role as a pompous doctor who becomes a victim to the title character, and Lugosi in a small part as a butler.

A very good film.....I'll watch anything Ford Beebe directed.....It's disappointing that Lugosi has a very minor role....and Atwill is killed near the beginning of the show.....but it holds together, as mosy Universal horror films from the time do.

 

[T-Bob]

You've all seen this one before.......

 

[Debi]