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The Neanderthal Man (1953) starring Richard Crane, Robert Shayne

The Neanderthal Man

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In The Neanderthal Man, a mad scientist transforms himself into a prehistoric caveman, his cat into a saber-toothed tiger, and his housekeeper into an ape person. He alienates his daughter and girlfriend in the process.  And unwittingly kills several of his friends.

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Dangerous When Wet, starring Esther Williams, Jack Carson, Fernando Lamas

Dangerous When Wet

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Dangerous When Wet (1953), starring Esther Williams, Jack Carson, Fernando Lamas

Synopsis of Dangerous When Wet

In Dangerous When Wet, Esther Williams stars as a spirited member of a fitness-obsessed family who sets out to swim the English Channel and finds romance along the way.

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Robot Monster (1953) - one of the worst films ever made!

Robot Monster

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Speaking of cheesy monster movies — here’s Robot Monster. Ro-Man, an alien that looks like a gorilla in a diving helmet, has destroyed all but six people on the planet Earth. He spends the film trying to finish them off. Until he falls for the young woman in the group. Love that bubble machine!

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Stalag 17 (1953) starring William Holden, Otto Preminger

Stalag 17

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Stalag 17 (1953) starring William Holden, Otto Preminger

[Opening narration]

Cookie: I don’t know about you, but it always makes me sore when I see those war pictures… all about flying leathernecks and submarine patrols and frogmen and guerillas in the Philippines. What gets me is that there never w-was a movie about POWs – about prisoners of war. Now, my name is Clarence Harvey Cook: they call me Cookie. I was shot down over Magdeburg, Germany, back in ’43; that’s why I stammer a little once in a while, ‘specially when I get excited. I spent two and a half years in Stalag 17. “Stalag” is the German word for prison camp, and number 17 was somewhere on the Danube. There were about 40,000 POWs there, if you bothered to count the Russians, and the Poles, and the Czechs. In our compound there were about 630 of us, all American airmen: radio operators, gunners, and engineers. All sergeants. Now you put 630 sergeants together and, oh mother, you’ve got yourself a situation. There was more fireworks shooting off around that joint… take for instance the story about the spy we had in our barracks… 

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Mesa of Lost Women (1953) starring Jackie Coogan, Allan Dixon, Richard Travis, Mary Hill, Tandra Quinn

Mesa of Lost Women

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Mesa of Lost Women (1953) starring Jackie Coogan, Allan Dixon, Richard Travis, Mary Hill, Tandra Quinn

Spider-women lure men to their death in this thriller from the golden era of Drive-in schlock!  Mesa of Lost Women is regarded as one of the worst movies ever made.  A mad scientist named Arana (Jackie Coogan) is creating giant spiders, dwarves, and indestructible spider women hybrids in his lab on Zarpa Mesa in Mexico. He wants to create a master race of superwomen by injecting his female subjects with spider glands.

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The Juggler (1953) starring Kirk Douglas, Milly Vitale, Joseph Walsh

The Juggler

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The Juggler (1953) starring Kirk Douglas, Milly Vitale, Joseph Walsh

The Juggler is a powerful, touching story of a Holocaust survivor. Once a world-famous juggler, he’s made his way to Israel. He blames himself for the deaths of his wife and child in the Nazi death camps.

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Titanic (1953) starring Clifton Webb, Barbara Stanwyck

Titanic 1953

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Titanic (1953) starring Clifton Webb, Barbara Stanwyck

Titanic (1953) is the story of an unhappily married couple, on board the doomed ship.

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