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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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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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…
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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Never Wave at a WAC is a service comedy, focused on two young ladies who join the Women’s Army Corps. One is an entitled daughter of a senator, divorced, and joins the Army to be near her new fiancee. But she’s going to be under the command of her ex-husband. The other is a stereotypical dumb blonde, who wants to be in military intelligence.
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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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Cat-Women of the Moon (1953) starring Sonny Tufts, Marie Windsor The Cat-Women of the Moon want to escape their dying Lunar caves. And escape to… Read More »Cat-Women of the Moon
Titanic (1953) is the story of an unhappily married couple, on board the doomed ship.
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Doris Day saddles up as wild West heroine Calamity Jane. She’s a tomboy gunslinger who leaves Arizona to go to Chicago to bring back a stage star to perform in a frontier saloon. She pines for an attractive soldier and swoons over rough-riding Wild Bill Hickock.
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