Earth vs. The Spider
Bert I. Gordon built his career on the atomic age monster movie. Over the course of the fifties Gordon perfected the formula for giant monster spectacles. Films like The Amazing… Read more »
Tag: 1950s
De dødes tjern
De dødes tjern (1958) follows a group of friends to a cabin in the woods. While there, they uncover a mystery that has links with a local legend about a… Read more »
Terror In A Texas Town
Dalton Trumbo’s script for Terror In A Texas Town (1958) pits farmer against land owner; it’s a case of free will versus authoritarianism, socialism versus capitalism. These conflicts are rendered… Read more »
Bayou
When I was a kid my father worked at the video store Movies Unlimited. My dad used to cut a bunch of scenes together from different movies, sometimes looping them,… Read more »
Untamed Mistress
Ron Ormond’s low budget quickie Untamed Mistress (1956) follows a doctor and his party on safari into the heart of the African jungle. Here, in gorilla country, the half-wild Velda… Read more »
Westward The Women
Westward The Women (1951) follows Buck Wyatt (Robert Taylor) as he leads a group of one-hundred and forty women (including Denise Darcel, Hope Emerson and Julie Bishop) from Chicago to… Read more »
Das singende, klingende Bäumchen
In the years following its original release, Das singende, klingende Bäumchen (1957) became something of a staple on British television during the holidays. As Christmas drew ever closer, Das singende,… Read more »
Taza, Son Of Cochise
Taza, Son Of Cochise (1954) is rather anomalous in the cycle of films made by producer Ross Hunter and director Douglas Sirk at Universal pictures as it is a Western… Read more »
Land Of The Pharaohs
It’s funny how Land Of The Pharaohs (1955) is better known today as a favorite film of a celebrated auteur rather than as the lost masterpiece of one of the… Read more »
Day Of The Outlaw
Andre DeToth’s masterpiece of the Western genre, Day Of The Outlaw (1959), is one of the most influential and important films of its genre ever made. From Il grande silenzio… Read more »
