Starring Tim Holt, James Britton, Jack Herman, Ann Pellegrino, Robert Kelly
Directed by Russ Marker
(actor & director credits courtesy IMDB.com)
A newspaper reporter looks into a young man's story that he was shot at by men in Civil War costumes, and while searching for his missing girlfriend, finds clues that suggest time travel.
An independent feature from writer/producer/director Russ Marker, the movie shows its amateurism, but remains an interesting attempt with much of the same feel of more professional 1950s and 1960s sci-fi efforts. Hollywood actor Tim Holt, who plays the film's police detective, gets top billing, but Britton is the lead, and doesn't do too badly as the two-fisted crime reporter. Marker's screenplay contains some interesting ideas, but is rather slow-paced and really gets bogged down when Britton meets the film's villain and has to endure a science lesson on the concepts behind the time machine. Still, it's a novel idea, the actors do well enough, Marker makes good use of his low budget, and the jazzy soundtrack is pleasant to listen to.
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The Monster That Challenged The World (1957)
Starring Tim Holt, Audrey Dalton, Hans Conried, Barbara Darrow, Casey Adams
Directed by Arnold Laven
(actor & director credits courtesy IMDB.com)
A Navy commander spearheads an investigation into the mysterious deaths of divers in California's Salton Sea, and discovers giant radioactive mollusk monsters are to blame.
Not a great movie, but a lot of fun, with horrific and convincing looking monsters, although they don't really resemble mollusks that closely, as a video presentation during the movie makes painfully clear. Presumably giant puppets patterned after the ants in the 1954 classic Them!, the creatures unfortunately don't have much mobility which limits their effectiveness on screen, but they're so scary looking, and with Heinz Roemheld's foreboding music accompanying their attacks, they definitely make a creepy impact. Star Tim Holt was on the downhill side of his career, and looks like he's carrying a bit of weight, but he's a fine enough choice for the picture, and although his scenes with Dalton as a widowed secretary pining for him are a bit clumsy, they came off for me all right.
Directed by Arnold Laven
(actor & director credits courtesy IMDB.com)
A Navy commander spearheads an investigation into the mysterious deaths of divers in California's Salton Sea, and discovers giant radioactive mollusk monsters are to blame.
Not a great movie, but a lot of fun, with horrific and convincing looking monsters, although they don't really resemble mollusks that closely, as a video presentation during the movie makes painfully clear. Presumably giant puppets patterned after the ants in the 1954 classic Them!, the creatures unfortunately don't have much mobility which limits their effectiveness on screen, but they're so scary looking, and with Heinz Roemheld's foreboding music accompanying their attacks, they definitely make a creepy impact. Star Tim Holt was on the downhill side of his career, and looks like he's carrying a bit of weight, but he's a fine enough choice for the picture, and although his scenes with Dalton as a widowed secretary pining for him are a bit clumsy, they came off for me all right.
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