The film also co-stars Robert Paige as Dr. Again directed by Charles Lamont. With make up both Mr. Hyde and the mouse mask by Bud Westmore! Bud and Lou had already met Frankenstein, Dracula, the Invisible Man and The Wolf Man, it was just a matter of time until they met the conflicted dual personality of Dr.
Jekyll and his darker alter ego Mr. It was the first time the boys came up against a monster since Bud and Lou are American detectives who tag along Scotland Yard, and come to find out that that the menacing Mr. Hyde has been terrorizing London for years. Meanwhile the mild mannered Dr.
Jekyll is one and the same man… Boris Karloff. Of course, Lou tries so hard to get Bud to believe that the kindly Dr. Jekyll is actually Hyde. Jekyll himself is in love with Vicky as well. Universal had actually been planning a Abbott and Costello Meet the Creature from the Black Lagoon but it never got off the ground. Slim: Now look! Tubby: Now listen Slim. All I know is that I locked up the monster and when I came back, Dr. Jekyll was there. Morton and King Donovan as Dr.
Cecil Kellaway plays a well known paleontologist that Nesbitt seeks out for help. Now the Beast starts moving toward New York City believed to be the ancestral origin and breeding ground for the Rhedosaurus. It comes ashore on Manhattan, right near the Fulton Fish Market. Elson is lowered in a type of diving bell called a bathysphere so the paleontologist can study the creature up close.
Unfortunately he becomes a tasty morsel, a hard candy with a soft center… Yikes! From the moment they leave the base on route to the moon, the crew find themselves in trouble when a meteor creates trouble for the ship, a fire in the bottom of the craft started by acid forces them to land, suggested by Lt.
She picks the area in between the dark and light sides of the moon. Helen leads the crew when they go out to investigate their surroundings and find a nearby cave, they realize that the atmosphere is exactly the same as it is on earth. The gang is attacked suddenly by some cheesy hairy horned spiders which they manage to kill. In the meantime someone has stolen their spacesuits and helmets. They go deeper into the cave until they stumble onto an ancient Greekesque city inside the moon where they are greeted by women who look like a dance troupe for Martha Graham and Twyla Tharp in their black leotards.
Helen slips away to meet Alpha Brewster the leader of the Cat-Women who are telepathic. They are called Cat-Women for no reason I can glean, or that emerges from the entirely silly narrative. Helen Salinger for years, unbeknownst to the men in the crew. Alpha has been controlling Helen by imprinting an image of the moon, a white spot on her hand. Once this spot is covered it breaks the control over her. But Alpha has already gotten information out of Laird and Walt has taken Zeta back to the ship to show her how it operates.
It was Alpha who helped Helen get her assignment to the space crew. Of course, the men become enamored of Cat-Women in leotards, except for Kip Victor Jory who is suspicious of these beguiling tribe of moon temptresses. Walt Willis Douglas Fowley wanders off with one of the women to explore the cave that is filled with gold, she stabs him but not before he teaches her how to fly their spaceship.
All she wants is to go back to earth with Doug, romp around on a sandy beach drinking a Coca Cola. In this soap space opera, the staid and steady Laird has fallen for Helen, and under a sort of mind control has given all the information the Cat-Women need to take over. They make plans to return to earth with Alpha and Beta Suzanne Alexander. Lambda tries to intervene but gets brutally conked on the head with a large rock and killed. Kip shoots the evil Zeta and Alpha off screen, the remaining earth crew kill the rest of the Cat-Women, escaping with Helen and head back to earth.
The film was remade in called Missile to the Moon. The far away dreams and mysteries of other worlds. Other life. The stars. The planets. Man has been face to face with them for centuries, yet is barely able to penetrate their unknown secrets. Sometime, someday, the barrier will be pierced. Why must we wait? Why not now? We will get their women under our power, and soon we will rule the whole world!
Directed by Felix E. Based on a story written by Curt Siodmak who wrote the script for The Wolf Man , w ith the script co-written with director Feist. Patrick J. Cory, Gene Evans as Dr. The tank for the brain is literally a large tropical fish tank, again adding to the air of improvised science. Essentially Dr. Patrick Cory Lew Ayres and his associate Dr. Ronald Reagan. As fate would have it, the same day they have success with the monkey brain, a small plane crashes very close to the lab, being doctors Cory and Schratt are called upon to help the victims.
There is but one survivor, a multi-millionaire named Warren H. But, it is Dr. In many ways, looking past the sci-fi elements of the story, it is a stark crime thriller about the evils of power. Pat Cory is a good man, who happened to trigger a very bad series of events.
The film is the closest to the novel. Pat Cory, who is working with the research of the powers of the brain, seduced by the potential of unlocking the secrets of the brain, seizes the opportunity to explore his theories. Frankenstein, Dr. Pat Cory manages to keep the brain alive in a tank in his laboratory.
Donovan had been a very famous yet shady character in his business dealings, so his death draws a lot of media attention. So Pat and Frank have to keep their experiment a dark secret. The two scientists also run into a free-lance journalist Herbie Yocum played by Steve Brodie , who wants to take some sensational photos like the operating table where Donovan died. But Yokum takes a photo of the brain in the tank. The equipment in the lab also indicates that there are thought waves occurring in the brain.
All I have to do is use my brain to receive them. So he sits in front of the tank and concentrates leaving his mind open, and it works, he goes into a trance and starts to write notes in W. At this point Donovan is in complete control of Dr. Pat Cory. But Donovan alive was a very powerful and ruthless business man , one of the wealthiest men in the world who is still asserting his influence from his remote tank. He forces his will over the poor scientist and actually possesses Dr.
Pat Cory like an evil demon. Lew Ayres is a wonderful actor who does a great job of playing Dr. So good at playing sensitive civilized men, here he is at the mercy of a very strong willed cutthroat, who wants to see his missions carried out as planned right before his plane crashed. He purchases new equipment so the poor doctor can now boost his brain power even more. He even orders suits like the ones Donovan used to wear and takes up his dirty business dealings.
He knows that Donovan is still alive and starts to blackmail Pat Cory. Steve Brodie who plays the smarmy reporter Yocum pays the price of finding out about Dr.
Gene Evans is very subtle as the inebriated colleague Dr. Frank Schratt. Donovan forces Dr. Pat Cory to continue his tax evasion scheme. Cory to Bad W. Donovan are subtle and powerful. During a moment when Donovan is not in control, Pat Cory takes the opportunity to send a message to his wife, with instructions on how to destroy the monstrous brain, but we do not hear what he instructs her to do.
Later Donovan thinks that Frank Gene Evans and Janice Nancy Reagan are in the way and plans on having them taken care of the same way he did with Yokum.
Of course Dr. Pat Cory must pay for his profane crime of tampering with science and using an unauthorized brain in his experiments,but his faithful wife Janice promises to wait for him. Cory: [after Cory wakes Dr. Schratt, you sober up with more—[pauses and shrugs] grace than anyone I ever saw. I pass! Schratt, you sober up with more. The problem is to find out what chemical combinations are responsible for success… failure… happiness… misery.
There has to be a way. Directed by Terence Fisher this is a rare and obscure little film! It was rarity to find American science fiction films of the early 50s that were based on novels of the same name.
This was even more of an oddity for British films. Temple and scripted by the prolific Terence Fisher who also directed, co-scripted by Hungarian born Paul Tabori who went on to write several science fiction novels himself, the most well known being The Green Rain. The novel was published in And I find it sort of possesses an air of deviance and a serious curiosity piece concerning a love triangle that becomes a twisted kind of quadrangle. Help me, Help me! They try out their experimental machine first using a totally innocuous object — a watch, which they manage to duplicate.
Meanwhile Lena and Robin get engaged and leave to get hitched, leaving Bill to mess around with their new discovery. He uses a living subject instead of just an inanimate object.
His brother Robin returns from the honeymoon and heads out to London on business. Poor lovesick Bill asks Lena to please submit to his very profane request… to allow him to duplicate her, using the machine, so that he may fulfill his desire for her in some way.
But as they say careful what you wish for , and while the machine is effective in duplicating the subject, it does exactly that! And what happens… Helen falls in love with brother Robin as well. Oh what a tangled web we weave.
The constant trope that runs through most to all Science Fiction stories. Not to play god, not to tamper with the nature of things, nor to be as bold to force our will upon other people or the natural world, at least not without paying the consequences for these sacrilegious actions. Get over it, or get a puppy!
Starring Helena Carter as Dr. Fielding, Max Wagner as Sgt. Rinaldi William Phipps as Sgt. Baker, Milburn Stone as Capt. Cinematography by John F. Adults and children are not frightened of all of the same things, nor do they find the same things interesting.
It takes a special imagination to achieve this kind of viewpoint. David is a young star gazer who is awakened one night by a flash of bright light when he looks out his bedroom window and sees a flying saucer land out over the hill. The artistic direction and color palette reminds me of Finnish painter Hugo Simberg.
The set pieces have a surreal, simplistic yet fantastical color scheme and composition. In the morning, father George goes out to investigate near the place David saw the craft go down, the fence seems to disappear into the sand dune.
He seems like a changed man. He has no emotions at all, yet he bares a strange ill-tempered streak, verging on violent when unprovoked he strikes David hard with the back of his hand, when David questions him about a strange mark on the back of his neck. Imagine the nightmare of a twist of fate where the people who love you now hate you and the ones who are supposed to keep you safe, become the most dangerous! Once they return they appear to have the same eerie ill mood as George, zapped of any human emotion.
David panics and goes to the police station. Seeking out the symbol of authority and protection right… wrong…! David sees that the guy has the same wound on the back of his neck. Pulling his collar over it to conceal it. When the little guy runs into the police station asking to see the chief, it goes to that place where we feel most vulnerable and the panic sets in when we realize there is no one you can trust, no one to believe you.
There is no safe place. And those you love are gone. From watching this film, its seems there was an attempt to make something more adult than other shows on TV at the time.
However, these sets and special effects must of looked inadequate when seen on the big screen even in There are some surprises here. The fact that the space commander is women is unusual for a film from the early fifties, although back in the early seventies when I first saw this film I didn't think that was so odd. What did surprise me was at the end when the president is shown to be a woman. One enlightened soul in this forum called this film "sexist" and "paranoid.
Then again, maybe I'm clueless. The name almost always mentioned is the famed science fiction writer Robert A. Heinlan, who is credited as co-writer. It's a shame that this minor little film is one of the few times Heinlan ever worked on a film. The other name is Richard Talmadge who directed. Talmadge's career goes back to the silent period where he was one the silent periods great stunt men. He also was a star back then in his own right. Over the years Talmadge, acted, directed, produced, wrote and worked as a unit director on all kinds of films.
I recently watched it on video and sat through it with only minor interest. It's a minor curiosity, and a footnote in the career of Robert Heinlan. Details Edit. Release date September 4, United States. United States. Project Moonbase. Galaxy Pictures Inc.
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