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Beginning of the End (1957)

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Invaders from Mars (1953)

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Morris Ankrum-Hedy Lamarr-William Powell "Mundo celestial" (The heavenly body) 1944, de Alexander Hall, Vincente Minnelli.

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Zombies of Mora Tau (1957)

"We all die in good time, Mrs. Harrison. There's a grave waiting for all of us."

"You old hag! You're dead already, you just don't have sense enough to lie down!"

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GIANT FROM THE UNKNOWN Reviews and free on Plex and YouTube

‘It came from another world’ Giant from the Unknown is a 1958 horror film in which a large Spanish conquistador is freed from suspended animation by lightning. The resurrected “diablo” monster goes on a killing spree in a small town. Directed and photographed by Richard E. Cunha (Girl in Room 13; Frankenstein’s Daughter; Missile to the Moon; She Demons) from a story and screenplay co-written by…

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Impact

“Charming” isn’t a word normally associated with film noir, yet it fits Arthur Lubin’s IMPACT (1949, TCM, Tubi, Plex, Prime, YouTube). From the intricate plot in which everything falls neatly into place to the location photography in San Francisco and Larkspur, CA, to, most importantly, the not quite love scenes between Brian Donlevy and Ella Raines, it’s an ongoing delight. Wealthy industrialist Donlevy is driving to Denver for a plant opening when his wife (Helen Walker) contrives to have her lover go along for the ride and kill him. The lover is neither very good with a tire iron nor with a steering wheel and ends up dead in a fiery car crash while Donlevy, stunned to discover what the Mrs. had been doing, wanders the countryside until he winds up at war widow Raines’ filling station. Romance is as inevitable as Hollywood usually makes it. Meanwhile, police detective Charles Coburn, in one of his least fussy performances, tries to make sense out of the plot.

With lots of scenes shot on location (including the same San Francisco hotel where Kim Novak’s character stayed in VERTIGO), IMPACT is a lot sunnier than most film noirs, but the plot is so twisted and Walker such a great femme fatale it doesn’t matter. The script, by Dorothy Davenport (that’s Mrs. Wallace Reid to you) is a masterpiece of efficiency, with key facts and events planted effortlessly and events communicated through telegrams, newspaper headlines and even a radio broadcast by gossip columnist Sheilah Grahame. Raines was never distinctive enough to be a star, but she’s a darned good actress and lots better than you’d expect from a film noir good woman. Donlevy, whose leading man days were largely over by 1949, has beautiful moments as he realizes what’s going on in his life. Anna May Wong deserved a lot better than her brief role as Walker’s maid, but she delivers a solid performance in her next-to-last film. Her friend (and merkin?) Philip Ahn is on-hand in old-age makeup as her uncle. You may also spot Robert Warwick as a police captain, Clarence Kolb as chairman of Donlevy’s board, silent great Mae Marsh as Raines’ mother, Jason Robards, Sr. as a judge, Erskine Sanford as a doctor and horror film standby Morris Ankrum as Donlevy’s assistant.

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Films Watched in 2023: 104. Zombies of Mora Tau (1957) - Dir. Edward L. Cahn

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Bad movie I have The Adventures of Fu Manchu 1956

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Cult Faction Podcast Ep. 98: Invaders From Mars (1953)

Directed by William Cameron Menzies, Invaders From Mars (1953) goes under the spotlight this week. Plus you get the usual razzle dazzle discourse you know and love from us! Invaders From Mars stars Jimmy Hunt, Helena Carter, Arthur Franz, Morris Ankrum, Leif Erickson, and Hillary Brooke; plus a whole host of cameos from Todd Karns playing Jimmy the gas station attendant, who was also in It’s a…

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The Giant Claw (1957)

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The Giant Claw

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. (more…)

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The Giant Claw (1957)

"Now, if this thing of mine works, and we can get close - real close - and bombard that bird's antimatter energy shield with a stream of mesic atoms, I think we can destroy that shield. The bird would be defenseless then except for beak, claws, and wings. You could hit it with everything but the kitchen sink."

"We've got kitchen sinks to spare, son."

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Gloria Grahame and Humphrey Bogart in In a Lonely Place (Nicholas Ray, 1950)

Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Gloria Grahame, Frank Lovejoy, Carl Benton Reid, Art Smith, Jeff Donnell, Martha Stewart, Robert Warwick, Morris Ankrum, William Ching, Steven Geray, Hadda Brooks. Screenplay: Andrew Solt, Edmund H. North, based on a story by Dorothy B. Hughes. Cinematography: Burnett Guffey. Art direction: Robert Peterson. Film editing: Viola Lawrence. Music: George Antheil.

The "lonely place" is Hollywood, where Dixon Steele (Humphrey Bogart) is a screenwriter with a barely held-in-check violent streak. This celebrated movie contains one of Bogart's best performances, though it looks and feels like the low-budget production it was. Bogart's own company, Santana, produced it for release through Columbia, instead of Bogart's employer, Warner Bros., which may explain why, apart from Bogart and Gloria Grahame, the supporting cast is so unfamiliar: The best-known face among them is Frank Lovejoy, who plays Bogart's old army buddy, now a police detective. In a Lonely Place seems to be set in a different Hollywood from the one seen in the year's other great noir melodrama, Billy Wilder's Sunset Blvd. There are no movie star cameos and glitzy settings in the Bogart film. What this one has going for it, however, is a haunting, off-beat quality, along with some surprising heat generated between Bogart and Grahame, who plays Laurel Gray, a would-be movie actress with an intriguing, only partly glimpsed past that hints at a sapphic subtext. She has, for example, a rather bullying masseuse (Ruth Gillette), who seems to be a figure out of this past. In fact, the whole film is made up of enigmatic figures, including Steele's closest friends, his agent, Mel Lippman (Art Smith), and an aging alcoholic actor, Charlie Waterman (Robert Warwick). Both of them stick with Steele despite his tendency to fly off the handle: He insults and at one point even slugs the agent, while at another he defends the actor with his fists against an insult. Though the central plot has to do with Steele's being suspected of murdering a hat-check girl (Martha Stewart) he brought to his apartment to tell him the plot of a novel he's supposed to adapt, the film is less a murder mystery than a study of a damaged man and his inability to overcome whatever made him that way. And despite the usual tendency of Hollywood films to end with a resolution by tying up loose ends, In a Lonely Place leaves its characters as tensely enigmatic as they were at the start -- perhaps even more so.

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THE GIANT CLAW (1957) Reviews and free to watch online in b/w or colour

‘Flying beast out of prehistoric skies!’ The Giant Claw is a 1957 American science fiction monster film directed by Fred F. Sears (The Werewolf) from a screenplay written by Samuel Newman and Paul Gangelin. The Sam Katzman produced movie stars Jeff Morrow and Mara Corday. It was released by Columbia Pictures. The Giant Claw is usually mocked for the quality of its special effects. The bird is…

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Invaders from Mars will be released on 4K Ultra HD, Blu-ray, and DVD on July 11 via Ignite Films. Celebrating its 70th anniversary, the 1953 science fiction film was the first feature to show aliens in color.

William Cameron Menzies (Things to Come) directs from a script by Richard Blake. Jimmy Hunt, Helena Carter, Arthur Franz, Morris Ankrum, Leif Erickson, and Hillary Brooke star.

Invaders from Mars has been newly restored in 4K from the original camera negative. Special features are listed below.

Special features:

Interviews with actor Jimmy Hunt, director William Cameron Menzies’ biographer James Curtis, and Menzies’ eldest granddaughter Pamela Lauesen

Featurette with filmmakers John Landis and Joe Dante, editor Mark Goldblatt, special visual effects artist Robert Skotak, and film preservationist Scott MacQueen

2022 introduction by filmmaker John Sayles at Turner Classic Movies Festival

Alternate ending and extended planetarium scene from Alternate International version (restored in 2K)

Before/after clips of restoration with film restoration supervisor Scott MacQueen

Image gallery with press book pages and photos from the restoration process

Original trailer (restored in 4K)

2022 trailer

On a dark and stormy night, a young boy, David McLean (Jimmy Hunt), observes what appears to be a flying saucer crash-landing in his town. Shortly thereafter, the grown-ups - including his own parents - begin acting decidedly strangely. Convinced there's a link between this epidemic of bizarre behavior and what he witnessed that night, David turns to local health official Dr. Blake (Helena Carter) for help. But can these two unlikely heroes, together with famed astronomer Dr. Kelston (Arthur Franz), withstand the might of a full-blown invasion from outer space?

Pre-order Invades from Mars.