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Queen of Outer Space (1958)

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The Runaround (1946) Charles Lamont

May 24th 2025

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Season 1 Episode 8

Margie - By The Sea - ABC - December 7, 1961

Sitcom

Running Time: 30 minutes

Written by Albert E. Lewin & Burt Styler

Produced by Hal Goodman and Larry Klein

Directed by Don Richardson

Stars:

Cynthia Pepper as Margie Clayton

Dave Willock as Harvey Clayton

Wesley Marie Tackitt as Nora Clayton

Penney Parker as Maybelle Jackson

Richard Gering as Johnny Green

Johnny Bangert as Cornell Clayton

Paul Nesbitt as Barry Nichols

Harry Carter as Man

Karen Parker as Girl

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Canadian actor Jack Carson and his partner Dave Willock were belonged to the "light comedy" tradition.

Jack Carson was raised in the farming community of Carman, Manitoba. He was eleven years old when he won first prize at the Manitoba Provincial School Drama Competition for his performance in a play called My Manitoba Home.

The second runner up was Dave Willock, an American actor who grew up outside Winnipeg.

Willock and Carson partnered for a comedy act which they performed during the dying days of vaudeville. They were billed as “Something New in Comedy.” The duo performed a mock newsreel which featured them doing impressions of Mussolini, Gandhi, Laurel and Hardy, and John D. Rockefeller.

Jack Carson went on to be a Warner Brothers movie star while Willock became a character actor featured in many sitcoms.

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What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962)

"Jane, did you ever stop to think that... if anything happened to me, I mean anything bad, there wouldn't be any money for you? I wouldn't be here to sign the checks. You wouldn't even have pocket money. Did you ever think of that?"

"Yeah, I've thought about that."

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W A T C H I N G ?

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REVENGE OF THE CREATURE (1955)

😿Dog Dies

This movie suffers greatly not only from time but from trying to capitalize off of the success of the previous film. It just doesn’t have the same heart or charm as the original, at many points I found myself thinking, “Would The Creature really do that?” or “Not my Creature.” There is quite a bit about this that is done well, but too much is done in a goofy manner that makes this sequel more of a comedy than a horror.

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There was a big emphasis on the fact that The Creature could not stay out of water for long at all, but that had me thinking a lot about not only the first movie but the design of the creature. In the first film you could see when Creach was on land he was breathing from his mouth and it seemed labored. When I first saw this I assumed he was just having more trouble, like the air was too thin for him (because he wasn’t fully human yet, he hadn’t evolved all the way, BUT he was getting there, bitch got two footsies!).

I think it would be very remiss to ignore the fact that the GilMAN had two FEET. Two big fucking, flip flopping, ground slapping, webbed-ass, clown feet.  So if you take that… and his whole human looking body… and the fact he could WALK on land… and that everyone was always saying “Ay yo, is he the missing link?" but then, suddenly, the same dude who pulls himself out of the water for fun, couldn't be out of water long? But he had feet? Really? Same guy?

And you have got to be the WORST ichthyologist on earth (Helen) if you looked at the Gilman and said "Yeah, he's doing fine in captivity, I mean, he's fighting his enclosure every chance he gets and then we shock him into submission, but look at all the life in those dead eyes!”

Honestly, it is so realistic though that we (the general we) would find this beautiful and deadly creature and say "Let's put that thing in Sea World!" and then they DID just that and he started to (try to) kill as SOON as you brought him out of the coma YOU (the 'scientists') put him in..

When he escaped and went to the sea (which, our boy’s a LAGOONMAN, why was it okay for him to be in salt water? That was okay with his gills? No mention of that? (I guess Florida in general is more toxic for our boy than some saline… I would love to see The Creature vs. Florida Man.) He tried to get between some cars but they were parked too close together and in a fit of rage (and bitch ass strength) Creach flipped one of the cars and then awkwardly wattled by. “GET THAT MAN TO THE OCEAN” (I actually screamed, alone, to my tv.)

Homeboy went and found Helen, (which is WACK) she's forgotten her dog (RIP Chris, why that name and why your death) and then they had fun swimming with Creach! Honestly it was a little more exciting and stressful that there were two people swimming this time because it felt more like each swimmer would write off anything they felt as the other swimmer and not think that something was amiss. I got the willies! (But when she caught Gilman's hands it probably felt WEIRD and very much non-human and she should have said to her old man friend "are those your old, clammy ball hands with those sharp fucking nails??" COME ON! Those nails had to be sharp. But I digress)

Skip forward to my FAVORITE death, after Helen was captured, the search party was on, but who actually found her? Two hapless college kids and Mount St Creach sent one flying into a tree for a good 7 seconds. It's one of the best/worst effects I've ever seen. The lad swung like Tarzan.

The ending is the same as the first movie, except it doesn't work this time (at all). Why did he let Helen go? It isn't that he was surrounded, there were more people around when he abducted her in the first place. It's almost as though he suddenly developed a frontal lobe as he is dying (because again, they have him basically die at the very end) as he gave her back to her land life. The Creach floats towards the bottom again. The End.

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Queen of Outer Space (1958)

My rating: 3/10

Oof. Even for the 50s, this is remarkably sexist.

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Angela Lansbury with 'Pantomime Quiz' game show regulars Dave Willock, John Barrymore, Jr., and Jackie Coogan in a promotional photo forthe charades show in 1953.

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CHARACTER OF THE DAY: Dave Willock (1909 - 1990)

In a five decade career, he was for the most part an amiable guy who blended in unobtrusively as a benign servile -- cabbie, milkman, clerk, usher, soda jerk, photographer, messenger boy, bellhop, etc.

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IT CAME FROM OUTER SPACE (1953) – Episode 155 – Decades Of Horror: The Classic Era

“Where are you? What do you look like? What am I supposed to be looking for? I know you are out there hiding in the desert. Maybe I’m looking right at you and don’t even see you. Come on out!” Doesn’t the song go, “Who are you? Who, who, who, who?” Join this episode’s Grue-Crew – Chad Hunt, Daphne Monary-Ernsdorff, Doc Rotten, and Jeff Mohr – as they set their eyeballs with relish on Jack Arnold’s It Came From Outer Space (1953).

Decades of Horror: The Classic Era Episode 155 – It Came From Outer Space (1953)

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A spaceship from another world crashes in the Arizona desert and only an amateur stargazer and a schoolteacher suspect alien influence when the local townsfolk begin to act strangely.

  Director: Jack Arnold

Writers: Harry Essex; Ray Bradbury (film treatment)

Produced by: William Alland

Music by: Irving Gertz, Henry Mancini, Herman Stein (all uncredited)

Cinematography by: Clifford Stine

Editing by: Paul Weatherwax

Costume Design by: Rosemary Odell (gowns)

Makeup Department:

Joan St. Oegger (hair stylist)

Bud Westmore (makeup artist)

Jack Kevan (makeup execution) (uncredited)

Art Department: Joseph Hurley (conceptual artist) (uncredited)

Visual Effects by:

David S. Horsley (special photography)

Roswell A. Hoffmann (special photographic effects / visual effects optical printing) (uncredited)

Selected Cast:

Richard Carlson as John Putnam

Barbara Rush as Ellen Fields

Charles Drake as Sheriff Matt Warren

Joe Sawyer as Frank Daylon

Russell Johnson as George

Kathleen Hughes as Jane

Virginia Mullen as Mrs. Daylon (uncredited)

Dave Willock as Pete Davis (uncredited)

George Eldredge as Dr. Snell (uncredited)

Bradford Jackson as Bob – Dr. Snell’s Assistant (uncredited)

William Pullen as Deputy Reed (uncredited)

Robert Carson as Dugan (uncredited)

Edgar Dearing as Sam (uncredited)

Alan Dexter as Dave Loring (uncredited)

Whitey Haupt as Perry (uncredited)

Casey MacGregor as Toby (uncredited)

Dick Pinner as Lober (uncredited)

George Selk as Tom (uncredited)

Robert ‘Buzz’ Henry as Posseman (uncredited)

Kermit Maynard as Posseman (uncredited)

Ralph Brooks as Posseman (uncredited)

Ned Davenport as Man (uncredited)

Calling all “Monster Kids!” The Grue Crew tackles the sci-fi, 3-D, Jack Arnold classic, It Came From Outer Space. This one’s got it all: groovy alien eyeball monster, body-snatching shenanigans, coming-at-ya 3-D fun, and… The Professor from Gilligan’s Island. What else do you need? The Grue Crew discusses all this and much more.

At the time of this writing, It Came From Outer Space is available for streaming from the Classic Sci-Fi Movie Channel, the Classic Horror Movie Channel, and multiple PPV sources. The film is also available as a Blu-ray disc from Universal.

Gruesome Magazine’s Decades of Horror: The Classic Era records a new episode every two weeks. Up next in their very flexible schedule, as chosen by Daphne, is The City of the Dead (1960), released in the US as Horror Hotel and featuring Christopher Lee.

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The Fabulous Dorseys ** (1947, Tommy Dorsey, Jimmy Dorsey, Janet Blair, Paul Whiteman, William Lundigan, Sara Allgood, Arthur Shields) – Classic Movie Review 13,292

Brothers Tommy and Jimmy Dorsey plus Paul Whiteman play themselves in the 1947 American musical biopic film The Fabulous Dorseys that shows them spending most of their off-stage time fighting.  Director Alfred E Green’s 1947 American musical film The Fabulous Dorseys stars Tommy Dorsey, Jimmy Dorsey, Janet Blair, Paul Whiteman, William Lundigan, Sara Allgood, Arthur Shields, and Dave Willock. It…

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>Eric Fleming

Dave Willock

Eric Fleming and Laurie Mitchell- QUEEN OF OUTER SPACE (1958)

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Season 1 Episode 30

Harrigan and Son - Goodbye, Hello - ABC - May 12, 1961

Sitcom

Running Time: 30 minutes

Written by Henry Garson

Produced by Cy Howard

Directed by Sherman Marks

Stars:

Pat O'Brien as James Harrigan Sr. 

Roger Perry as James Harrigan Jr.

Georgine Darcy as Gypsy

Helen Kleeb as Miss Claridge

Dave Willock as Roster

Frank Puglia as Salvatori

John Harmon as Tom

Harry Holcombe as Judge Neery

Charles P. Thompson as Man in Park

Norman Alden as Customer (as Norm Alden)

Charles Fredericks as Moving Man

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Zsa Zsa Gabor, Eric Fleming, Dave Willock, and Lisa Davis in Queen of Outer Space (1958)