Starring Sonny Tufts, Mary Munday, Tom Monroe, Rosalind Hayes, Don Blackman
Directed by Tom Gries
(actor & director credits courtesy IMDB.com)
A woman in search of gold her ancestor hid in the region of Haiti hires a former naval engineer to help her find it, and they embark on a dangerous journey.
Most notable for future sci-fi filmmaker Bert I. Gordon's involvement as cinematographer and supervising editor, this is a low budget and pretty amateur effort compiling lots of stock footage around the limited cast. Tufts, although a bit old and out of shape to play the leading man, at least gives us an anchor for the story, narrating most of it, although the cliche-filled script doesn't do him any favors. Munday is attractive, but not particularly a good actress, and several scenes padded with the stock footage run much too long. However, the film's most abject failure is its haphazard editing, which becomes rather comical during the climactic scenes. Although the music is credited to Domingo Rodrigues, much of the main title and later sections are obviously taken from Elmer Bernstein's score for Cat-Women Of The Moon.
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Friday, July 15, 2016
Cat-Women Of The Moon (1953)
Starring Sonny Tufts, Victor Jory, Marie Windsor, Bill Phipps, Douglas Fowley
Directed by Arthur Hilton
(actor & director credits courtesy IMDB.com)
The crew of a new space rocket journey from the Earth to the moon, where they encounter a race of beautiful women, who hold a strange power over their female navigator.
One of the first films to add some sex appeal to science fiction, it's here in spades with the slinky cat-women of this picture who lure the film's men into a tempting trap, although Jory, surprisingly with a bigger role than top-billed Tufts, doesn't trust them. There's more than a few sexist situations in the film, notably a scene in which Windsor is more concerned with brushing her hair while her male companions set to their duties aboard ship, but these seem pretty innocent compared to the innuendoes of present day productions. Fans of 1950s sci-fi will appreciate the giant spider creatures and detailed matte paintings, and the movie's status as one of the few science fiction pictures of the era to be filmed in 3-D, although other than a couple of meteors, not too much is thrown at the audience.
Directed by Arthur Hilton
(actor & director credits courtesy IMDB.com)
The crew of a new space rocket journey from the Earth to the moon, where they encounter a race of beautiful women, who hold a strange power over their female navigator.
One of the first films to add some sex appeal to science fiction, it's here in spades with the slinky cat-women of this picture who lure the film's men into a tempting trap, although Jory, surprisingly with a bigger role than top-billed Tufts, doesn't trust them. There's more than a few sexist situations in the film, notably a scene in which Windsor is more concerned with brushing her hair while her male companions set to their duties aboard ship, but these seem pretty innocent compared to the innuendoes of present day productions. Fans of 1950s sci-fi will appreciate the giant spider creatures and detailed matte paintings, and the movie's status as one of the few science fiction pictures of the era to be filmed in 3-D, although other than a couple of meteors, not too much is thrown at the audience.
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