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Desk Set, starring Spencer Tracy, Katherine Hepburn

Desk Set

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Desk Set (1957), starring Spencer Tracy, Katherine Hepburn

In Desk Set, a TV-network researcher with an amazing memory humors an efficiency expert. He’s been sent to improve her department – and lay off her staff? This is progress?

Desk Set
Quatermass 2 (1957) starring Brian Donlevy

Quatermass 2

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In Quatermass 2, Professor Quatermass, still shook up from London’s refusal to proceed with his project to colonize the Moon, is intrigued by the mysterious traces that have been showing up on his radar – meteorites crashing to the Earth! Following them where they should be landing, he finds a destroyed village, a mysterious factory too close to his designs for the Moon colony for comfort, and some strange, aerodynamic objects containing a mysterious, ammonia-based gas that infects one of his assistants. Officially, the factory is producing synthetic food; but despite the veil of secrecy surrounding it Quatermass succeeds in finding out it harbours aliens with deadly designs on the Earth…

Quatermass 2

The Cyclops

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In The Cyclops, Susan organizes an expedition into the wilds of Mexico to find her fiancé after a plane crash. Instead they find uranium, giant lizards, and …

The Cyclops

The Vampire

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The Vampire – a very interesting, different kind. of vampire movie. At first, the widowed doctor doesn’t realize what’s happened …

The Vampire

Ten Thousand Bedrooms

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Ten Thousand Bedrooms (1957) starring Dean Martin, Eva Bartok, Anna Maria Alberghetti, Walter Slezak

Synopsis of Ten Thousand Bedrooms

In Ten Thousand Bedrooms a wealthy hotel man acquires a world-class Italian property with ten thousand bedrooms.  Soon, he falls in love with a young Italian woman. But to marry the lady, he has to get her three older sisters married off.  But which sister is he truly in love with?

Ten Thousand Bedrooms

The Black Scorpion

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In The Black Scorpion, volcanic eruptions in Mexico free giant scorpions from underground who start terrorizing the people. Fortunately they attack each other until only one is standing … And that one is going to be killed in the stadium of Mexico City!

The Black Scorpion

How to Make a Monster

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Synopsis

In How to Make a Monster, master monster make-up man Pete is fired by the new bosses of American International studios. He then uses his creations to exact revenge.

How to Make a Monster

Gunfight at the O.K. Corral

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Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (1957) starring Burt Lancaster, Kirk Douglas, Rhonda Fleming, Jo Van Fleet, John Ireland

Burt Lancaster and Kirk Douglas star as larger-than-life heroes in Gunfight at the O.K. Corral, directed by John Sturges. First, frontier lawman Wyatt Earp (Lancaster) joins his three brothers in their feud against the villainous Clanton gang, a local clan of cattle thieves in Tombstone, Arizona. When Earp defends the sickly gambler John “Doc” Holliday (Douglas) and puts a stop to the Clanton’s lawlessness, the ruthless outlaws seek revenge and murder one of Earp’s brothers. This leads the men into the most devastating showdown in Wild West History! Gunfight at the O.K. Corral is a timeless, cinematic tale of good versus evil.

Gunfight at the O.K. Corral

The Giant Claw

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The Giant Claw (1957), starring Jeff Morrow, Mara Corday, Morris Antrum

Synopsis

In The Giant Claw, a giant bird appears out of nowhere, the size of a battleship. invisible to radar. And in movie monster tradition, it starts attacking everyone and everything. How will the Earth survive? By laughing at the ridiculously silly effects, apparently.

The Giant Claw

Invasion Of The Saucer Men

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Invasion Of The Saucer Men (1957) starring Frank Gorshin

Adults won’t listen, and the other teenagers are busy making out – who can stop the Invasion Of The Saucer Men? One of those “so bad it’s good” movies.

Invasion Of The Saucer Men
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