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Spaceflight
IC-1 Bill Williams, Kathleen Breck, John Cairney, Donald Churchill, Tony Doonan, Margo Mayne
Fightin'
and feudin' among the pioneer passengers aboard an interstellar colonisation
ship, in the odd few moments when they are not talking.
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Dr. Goldfoot
And The Bikini Machine Vincent Price, Fred Clark, Frankie Avalon, Dwayne Hickman, Susan Hart, Jack Mullaney
The evil
doctor invents and manufactures life-like girl robots who are programmed
to make themselves desirable to wealthy men.
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It Happened
Here Pauline Murray,
Sebastian Shaw, Nicolette Bernard, Bart Allison, Stella Kemball
Not so much
sci-fi as 'alternate reality'. What might have happened if the Germans
had occupied England in 1940. It took seven years to film and is particularly
notable for its close attention to detail. You
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The Bedford
Incident Richard Widmark,
Sidney Poitier, James MacArthur, Eric Portman, Donald Sutherland
The captain
of an American destroyer that is pursuing a Russian submarine through
Arctic waters accidentally fires an atomic weapon.
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City
Under The Sea
(City In The Sea) (War Gods Of The Deep) Bruton / AIP Jacques Tourneur David Tomlinson, Vincent Price, Tab Hunter, Susan Hart, Henry Oscar, John LeMesurier The leader
of a band of Victorian smugglers who have acquired immortality from
the atmosphere of the underground city, Lyonesse, in which they took
refuge many years previously, kidnaps an American heiress who resembles
his dead wife. Our heroes track her down, fighting off the smugglers
and the strange original inhabitants, the amphibious gill-men, to effect
her rescue just in time before the city is destroyed by an underwater
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Fantomas
Strikes Back
(Fantomas Se Dechaine) SNEG / PAC / Victory Andre Hunebelle Jean Marais, Louis de Funes, Mylene Demongeot, Jacques Dynam, Robert Dalban Albert Dagnat Fantomas is another character involved in a 'series' of films. He is a super-criminal who, this time round, kidnaps a group of scientists and forces them to develop a ray for controlling minds in his secret volcano-based laboratory. He is eventually cornered but makes his escape in a flying car. This, the second film, is the only one of the Fantomas trilogy which has notable sci-fi content. The other two films are 'Fantomas' (1964) and 'Fantomas Against Scotland Yard' (1966). |
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The Curse
Of The Fly Carole Gray, Brian Donlevy, Yvette Rees, George Baker, Jeremy Wilkins, Bert Kwouk
A descendant
of the scientist in the original Fly movie tries to perfect the teleport
machine. The wife of one of his sons, freshly escaped from a lunatic
asylum, discovers the human results of the failed experiments. Police
looking for her nearly discover the secret laboratory and the family
decide to try and escape using the teleport machine. Whoops!
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Trap A Spy Robert Vaughn,
David McCallum, Leo G. Carroll, Luciana Paluzzi, Patricia Crowley U.N.C.L.E.
learns that industrialist and enemy agent Andrew Vulcan is planning
to assassinate Premier Ashumen, a visiting African leader, during a
tour of one of Vulcan's factories. Solo persuades Elaine May Donaldson,
one of Vulcan's old girlfriends, to infiltrate the company via Vulcan's
affections and help to thwart the plot. Also see
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Agent
505
(Agent 505 - Todesfalle Beirut) Rapid Film / Metheus Films / Compagnie Lyonnaise De Cinema Manfred R. Koehler Frederic Stafford, Chris Howland, Harald Leipnitz, Genevieve Cluny, Gisella Arden Pierre Richard A James Bond - type super-spy thriller in which an evil villain plans to destroy Beirut but is thwarted by secret agents played by Stafford and Howland. The musical score is by Ennio Morricone. |
El
Rayo Desintegrador
(Aventuras De Quique y Arturo El Robot) Petruka Films Pascual Cervera Peter Solis, Maria Jesus Balenciaga, Joaquin Nieto, Sergio Mendizabal, Jose Luis Coll Maria Hevia A group of criminals steal a secret disintegrator ray and are tracked down and dealt with by a ten year-old boy and a rusty robot called Arturo. |
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The
Heat Of A Thousand Suns
(La brûlure de mille soleils) Argos Animation: Pierre Kast Editor: Chris Marker Illustration and designs by Eduard Luis An animated French film set in the far future where a young man, bored by his surroundings, blasts off into space with only his cat and some robots for company. On a distant planet he discovers a serene, tranquil culture and falls in love with a girl. The story follows his problems adjusting to their sociological standards and customs where family units are comprised of sexual groups of eight people. |
Willy
McBean and His Magic Machine
Videocraft Intnl / Dentsu Motion Picture Company / Magna Pictures Arthur Rankin Jr. Voices: Larry Mann, Billie Richards, Alfie Scopp, Paul Kligman, Bernard Cowan, Paul Soles Animated feature using 'AniMagic' in which Professor Rasputin von Rotten invents a time machine and intends using it to claim the credit for history's greatest events. His pet monkey reveals the plot to Willy McBean and the pair of them embark on an adventure to foil the evil Professor's plans. |
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El
Planeta De Las Mujeres Invasoras
(The Planet Of Female Invaders) Estudios America / Producciones Corsa Alfred B. Crevenna Guillermo Murray, Adriana Roel, Rogelio Guerra, Elizabeth Campbell Jose Angel Espinosa 'Ferrusquilla', Lorena Velazquez, Maura Monti This was made as a follow-up to 'Gigantes Planetarios' with the same four leading characters, despite the fact that two of them were left behind in its predecessor. They find themselves on the planet Sibila which is controlled by the twins Alburnia and Adastrea who are, respectively, good and evil. The twins plan to conquer Earth but the Sibilans cannot live in Earth's atmosphere so they need to carry out experiments on human lungs in order to find a way to 'convert' their invasion forces. The young couple thwart the twins' attempts to kidnap young children for experimentation and end up killing both of them off before returning to Earth. |
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The
Faceless Monster
(Gli Amanti d'Oltretomba) (Nightmare Castle) Produzione Cinematografica Emmeci Allan Grunewald / Mario Caiano Barbara Steele, Paul Miller, Helga Line, Lawrence Clift, John McDouglas, Rik Battaglia A film which was cut to bits (from 105 mins to 73 mins) by the distributors to remove the more gory bits. It opens with a pair of lovers being disfigured - one with acid and the other with a red-hot iron. The story features a Victorian scientist involved in experiments with the electrical regeneration of blood. To finance his research he kills his wife in the hope of gaining from her will but finds that her sister inherits all her wealth and property. On trying the same trick on her he finds an opponent more capable than he had bargained for and who is out to get revenge for her sister's death. |
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The Face Of Fu Manchu
Hallam Don Sharp Christopher Lee, Tsai Chin, Nigel Green, Howard Marion-Crawford, James Robertson Justice Walter Rilla, Karin Dor 'The world has not heard the last of Fu Manchu' - apparently not, as he pops up again here with more wicked schemes for achieving world domination. This time he is collecting rare poisonous flowers from Tibet to produce a lethal gas which he tests on an English village. |
The Green
Planet
SOFAC Art: Piotr Kamler Story: Jacques Sternberg A science fiction short in which the visuals are apparently achieved by sprinkling fine sand onto a green-coloured background. The accompanying commentary describes the activities of the star-shaped inhabitants of Actur. Their chief industry is the manufacture of time - time to fill, time to gain, time to lose, and although tone deaf, they love music. It becomes increasingly obvious that the absurd creatures being described aren't Acturans at all, but a race slightly closer to home. |
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Hercules
Against The Moon Men
(Maciste E La Regina Di Samar) Nike Cinematografica / Comptoir Francais Du Film Giacomo Gentilomo Sergio Ciani, Jany Clair, Anna-Maria Polani, Nando Tamberlani, Jean-Pierre Honore Delia D'Alberti The hero Maciste is engaged by the people of Samar to help rid them of their evil queen and her army of rock-like moon men who enforce her wishes. |
Our Man
Flint
20th Century Fox Daniel Mann James Coburn, Lee J. Cobb, Gila Golan, Edward Mulhare, Benson Fong, Shelby Grant Rhys Williams, Russ Conway The first of two James Bond spoofs starring James Coburn sees super secret agent Flint spoiling the world domination plans of three evil scientists and their weather control program. More girls than Bond, more fancy gadgets, but somehow lacking in depth. |
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The
Lost Face
(Ztracena Tvar) Svabik-Prochazka Pavel Hobl Vlastimil Brodsky, Fred Demare, Jana Brezkova, Frantisek Filipovsky, Marie Vasova Martin Rurek, Nina Popelikova, Jiri Vala, Zdenka Prochazkova A face-changing medical science-fiction story in which a doctor, who can't achieve recognition or money for his talents, gains employment with the gangster element involving changing the faces of both victims and criminals as well as his own. |
The
Hyperboloid Of Engineer Garin
(Giperboloid Inzhenera Garina) (Engineer Garin's Death Ray) Based on a novel by Alexei Tolstoy Gorki Alexander Gintsburg Yevgeny Yevstigneev, Vsevolod Safonov, Mikhail Astangov, Natalya Klimova In this sci-fi film set in the mid-20s, a psycho science student steals the blueprints for a deathray and prepares to use it for evil. Yet another mad scientist who wants to destroy the world with a 'death ray'. |
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Pinocchio
In Outer Space
Swallow / Belvision Ray Goosens Voices: Arnold Stang, Conrad Jameson, Minerva Pious An animated feature in which the wooden puppet heads into space with his pal Nurtle the turtle. They land on Mars and come up against Astro, the flying Martian whale, who fancies his chances of conquering Earth but Pinnochio and Nurtle manage to ground him and his plans. |
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Mutiny
In Outer Space William Leslie,
Dolores Faith, Richard Garland, James Dobson, Pamela Curran
Returning
from the moon, a group of astronauts are affrected by an exotic fungus
that produces LSD-like effects until it is offed by some unlikely-sounding
artificial sub-zero particles.
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Who
Killed Jessie?
(Kdo Chce Zabit Jessii?) (Who Wants To Kill Jessie?) Czechoslovensky Film Vaclav Vorlicek Jiri Sovak, Dana Medricka, Olga Shoberova (Olinka Berova), Karel Effa, Juraj Visny A comedy sci-fi in which a woman scientist invents a dream manipulation machine. This allows her to view people's dreams on a screen and change the imagery so that nightmares become peaceful dreams. She decides to try it out on her husband and finds that he is having dreams about a gorgeous comic-strip character called Jessie and two villainous characters who are out to get her. The machine malfunctions and somehow brings the dream characters to life right in the couple's bedroom. |
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In Your Eye
(Berlino Appuntamento Per La Spie) Italian International Film / Publi Italia Vittorio Sala Brett Halsey, Paula Krauss, Dana Andrews, Gastone Moschin, Tania Beryl Alessandro Sperli, Mario Valdemarin, Tino Bianchi, Renato Baldini An American spy has a miniature TV camera implanted in his eye while undergoing an operation to cure his blindness. With knowledge gained from this the Russians kidnap the daughter of a dead scientist who they believe knows the secret formula that he was working on. The camera is eventually discovered and is used to send false information back to the Russians. Oh - in case you were wondering, the girl was rescued and the secret formula was found tattooed on her scalp under her hair. |
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The
Spy With My Face
MGM / Arena John Newland Robert Vaughn,
David McCallum, Leo G. Carroll, Senta Berger, Michael Evans Napoleon Solo
is captured by THRUSH who replace him with a perfect double in a bid
to infiltrate the U.N.C.L.E. organisation. Illya Kuryakin becomes suspicious
at his partner's unusual behaviour and starts to put two and two together.
In the meantime, Solo must escape and try to stop his double before
he succeeds in his plan. Also see
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Silencers
Based on the books by Donald Hamilton Meadway-Claude / Columbia Phil Karlson Dean Martin, Beverly Adams, Stella Stevens, Daliah Lavi, Cyd Charisse, Victor Buono James Gregory, Robert Webber The first of four 'Matt Helm' James Bond spoofs starring Dean Martin as the playboy secret agent. In this first adventure Helm and his gorgeous girls foil a plot to reprogram an atomic missile and cause it to land in the New Mexico testing ground. |
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The Night
Caller John Saxon,
Maurice Denham, Patricia Haines, Alfred Burke, John Carson, Jack Watson
An alien,
Mr. Medra, abducts Earth girls who answer his adverts in 'Bikini Girl'
magazine and transports them to Jupiter's Ganymede moon for the purpose
of experimental genetics. Why do they always pick on us?
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Alphaville Eddie Constantine, Anna Karina, Akim Tamiroff, Howard Vernon, Laszlo Szabo
A secret
agent travels across the galaxy to try and discover what happened to
his predecessor. He finds himself on a planet that is being ruled by
ALPHA 60, a '1984 Big Brother' computer. He eventually destroys it by
reading it poetry. Also see Alphaville
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Thunderball
Based on the novel by Ian Fleming Kevin McClory / United Artists Terence Young Sean Connery, Claudine Auger, Luciana Paluzzi, Martine Beswick, Lois Maxwell Bernard Lee, Adolfo Celi, Rik Van Nutter, Guy Doleman, Molly Peters, Desmond Llewelyn Roland Culver, Earl Cameron, Paul Stassino, Rose Alba, Philip Locke, George Pravda Michael Brennan, Leonard Sachs, Edward Underdown, Reginald Beckwith James Bond in the Bahamas investigating the disappearance of a U.S. plane with two atomic bombs on board. He comes across the involvement of SPECTRE, this time in the form of Emilio Largo and his beautiful but unsuspecting ward, Domino (Claudine Auger). Fantastic underwater battle scenes and Largo finally gets his when the Disco Volante super-boat explodes on the rocks. Also See Bond Films |
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The Human
Duplicators George Nader,
Dolores Faith, Richard Kiel, George Macready, Hugh Beaumont
Richard
Kiel can't seem to keep away from anything to do with 'Jaws'. An alien
agent is sent here from a galaxy far, far away with the objective of
conquering the planet by duplicating humans in a pottery-like material
which, fortunately for us, can be shattered like crockery. He comes
across a beautiful blind girl who worms her way into his affections
and distracts him from his purpose enough for the forces of Earth to
ultimately defeat him and his animated wedgewood army.
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Sergeant
Deadhead Eve Arden,
John Ashley, Frankie Avalon, Jerry
Brutsche, Pat Buttram, Patti Chandler
A bumbling
sergeant in the U.S.Army takes a trip into space with a chimp where
he undergoes a strange change of personality.
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Lightning
Bolt Anthony Eisley,
Wandisa Guida, Folco Lulli, Jose-Maria Caffarel, Diana Lorys
A madman
plans to sabotage a NASA lunar project and U.S. government agent Harry
Sennet is sent undercover to thwart his intentions. Just about qualifies
as sci-fi.
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Frankenstein
Meets The Space Monster Marilyn Harold,
Lou Cutell, Robert Reilly, James Karen, Nancy Marshall, David Kernan
An atomic
war on Mars destroys nearly all the women (seems a bit selective) so
the Martian men, led by Princess Marcuzan, feel the need to steal ours.
On their way to Earth, they damage a space capsule and its android pilot
who returns to go on the rampage. In the meantime, during the ensuing
confusion, the Martians decide that beach parties are a good hunting
ground for breeding stock. Can't argue with that . . .
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Voyage
To The Prehistoric Planet Basil Rathbone, Faith Domergue, Vladimir Yemelyanov, Georgi Zhzhyonov, Georgi Tejkh
The year
is 2020. Marcia watches from a ship in orbit around Venus as the crew
and robot on the surface get attacked by prehistoric monsters. A volcanic
eruption chews up the planet allowing them to escape. They somehow come
to the conclusion that the monsters were really Venusians who became
mutants after they destroyed their planet with atomic warfare. Still
with me…..? I would have thought that Faith would have had enough of
mutants after 'This Island Earth'. It's a lousy job, but someone has
to do it.
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The Navy
vs The Night Monsters Anthony Eisley,
Mamie Van Doren, Phillip Terry, Walter Sande, Bobby Van, Billy Gray
An Antarctic
expedition discovers some strange new trees and takes them back to a
South Seas navy base where they turn out to be nocturnal acid-secreting
alien creatures.
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The War
Game
Narration
by Peter Graham with Michael Aspel reading quotations
An unusual nuclear war 'scare' film made for TV by the BBC in the form of a documentary showing the effects of a nuclear strike on a town in Kent was considered too horrifying for television. It was allowed to be shown at The National Film Theatre in February 1966 and was subsequently only released to selected cinemas as it was thought the viewing population might take it too seriously, like the 'War Of The Worlds' radio programme. Gruesome. |
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Wild Wild
Planet Tony Russell,
Lisa Gastoni, Massimo Serato, Franco Nero, Vittorio Bonos |
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War Of
The Planets Lisa Gastoni
(Jane Fate), Tony Russell, Massimo Serato, Franco Nero, Michel Lemoine
The film
is the second of four 'Gamma One' science fiction films originally contracted
by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer for TV but were released in cinemas instead.
It is the 21st century. Aliens made of a form of light invade the solar
system and base themselves on Mars. From there, they attack Earth spacestations,
destroying the minds of the crews. Who you gonna call?
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Planet
On The Prowl
(Mission Wandering Planet) (War Between The Planets) (Il Pianeta Errante) Mercury Film International / MGM Antonio Margheriti (Anthony M. Dawson) Jack Stuart (Giacomo Rossi Stuart), Amber Collins (Ombretta Colli), Enzo Fiermonte Halina Zalewska, Peter Martel, Freddy Unger, Franco Ressell The film is the third of four 'Gamma One' science fiction films originally contracted by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer for TV but were released in cinemas instead. Scientists and astronauts try to prevent a collision between Earth and a planet that is heading for it. You Tube trailer |
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Planet
Of The Vampires Barry Sullivan, Norma Bengell, Angel Aranda, Evi Maranda, Stelio Candelli
The spaceships
Argos and Galliot are sent to investigate the planet Aura where the
crews suddenly start killing each other off for no apparent reason.
Incorporeal aliens, whose sun has died, take over the dead bodies and
use them to search for a new home.
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Snow
Devils
(La Morte Viene dal Pianeta Aytin) (The Devil Men From Space) Mercury Film International / MGM Antonio Margheriti (Anthony M. Dawson) Jack Stuart
(Giacomo Rossi Stuart), Amber Collins (Ombretta Colli), Enzo Fiermonte
Halina Zalewska, Freddy Unger, Renato Baldini, Franco Nero The film is the last of four 'Gamma One' science fiction films originally contracted by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer for TV but were released in cinemas instead. A weather station in the Himalayas is destroyed and Gamma I commander Rod Jackson and his partner, Frank Pulasky are sent to investigate. They are captured by a race of hairy blue-bodied giants who plan to create a vast ice plain so their race can leave their doomed solar system and conquer the Earth. |
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Sins Of
The Fleshapoids Bob Cowan,
Donna Kerness, George Kuchar, Julius Middleman, Maren Thomas |
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Die,
Monster, Die! Boris Karloff, Suzan Farmer, Nick Adams, Freda Jackson, Patrick Magee, Paul Farrell
An eccentric
recluse discovers a meteorite, the radiation from which gives him strange
powers.
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The Tenth
Victim Ursula Andress, Marcello Mastroianni, Elsa Martinelli, Massimo Serato
The 21st
century 'Big Hunt Ministry', in order to find an outlet for mankind's
more violent tendencies, trains groups of 'hunters' and 'victims' to
fight each other in legal duels to the death. Ten 'kills' wins a fabulous
prize.
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Crack
In The World Dana Andrews, Janette Scott, Kieron Moore, Alexander Knox, Peter Damon, Gary Lasdun
A missile
fired at the Earth's core (are they mad?) sets off a string of increasingly
violent earthquakes. The 'cure' is effected by exploding a nuclear bomb
inside a volcano which ultimately blows a chunk of Earth into orbit
to create a new moon.
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The Satan
Bug George Maharis, Richard Basehart, Anne Francis, Dana Andrews, Edward Asner
At a top
secret biological research station in the desert, a scientist turns
traitor and steals a lethal virus to be used by a mad millionaire.
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Village
Of The Giants Tommy Kirk,
Johnny Crawford, Beau Bridges, Ron Howard, Joy Harmon, Bob Random
A teenage
'genius' invents GOOP by accident - a substance which promotes rapid
growth in living things when eaten. Some delinquents steal the substance
and eat it for a 'dare', causing them to become 30ft tall and able to
take over the town.
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The Wizard
Of Mars John Carradine, Roger Gentry, Vic McGee, Jerry Rannow, Eve Bernhardt
Yep, it
sounds like it and it is! Four astronauts crash-land on Mars. Steve,
Charlie, Doc and…you guessed it…Dorothy. They discover a golden road
which leads to the ruins of a Martian City where the 'Wizard' (the collective
mind of the last Martians) refuses to allow the four of them to leave
until they sort out a little problem for 'him'… Slightly less memorable
than the original.
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Monster
A-Go-Go Phil Morton,
June Travis, George Perry, Lois Brooks, Rork Stevens, Peter Thompson
A returning
astronaut crash-lands in a field and, mutilated by radiation, starts
to rampage through the neighbourhood. As he is cornered, he disappears
and the 'real' astronaut is discovered half a planet away in the Pacific
Ocean none the worse for wear.
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She Peter Cushing,
Ursula Andress, Christopher Lee, John Richardson, Rosenda Monteros An explorer tracks down a forgotten race in the African mountains ruled over by Ayesha, a centuries old queen who has attained immortality through bathing in the flames of meteorites which periodically strike in exactly the same place. She believes him to be the reincarnation of an ancient lover and tries to persuade him to use the flame. |
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The Eye
Creatures John Ashley, Cynthia Hull, Warren Hammack, Chet Davis, Bill Peck, Ethan Allen, Bob Brown
Alien creatures
that look like giant eyes try to take over the world but are thwarted
by the ideas of some teenagers. You
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Dr. Who
And The Daleks Peter Cushing, Roy Castle, Jennie Linden, Roberta Tovey, Barrie Ingham, Geoffrey Toone
The Doctor
and his friends land on the radiation-affected planet Skaro and help
the hippie-like, peaceful blue-skinned Thals to stop their robotic,
warlike slavemasters, the Daleks, from wiping them out.
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Space
Probe Taurus (Space Monster) American International Pictures (AIP) Leonard Katzman Francine York, James Brown, Baynes Barron, Russ Bender, John Willis, Bob Legionaire James Macklin, Phyllis Selznick, John Lomma, Jimmy Bracon The space probe, Hope One, has a mission to seek an earth-like planet. On its journey the crew of four encounter an alien craft that initially appears to be deserted until a lone, big-brained alien appears and attacks. They survive, but a swarm of meteorites then sends them millions of miles off course into a sea of monsters on an uncharted world. |
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