In this first of three episodes, Clutch gets a mysterious telegram telling him to go to the Galapagos Islands. Next the gang is off another adventure called The Dragon Fly. One of Clutch's old friends is being tormented by a giant dragonfly, or so he thinks. In the third episode, called Dynamite Fury, the crew check out dangerous explosions around the building of a dam. Yep, its Clutch Cargo with his pals Spinner and Paddlefoot. They tried to sue the makers of Jonny Quest, but it failed.
A quartet of international crooks (Peterson, O'Hara, Ross and Ravello) are stranded in Italy whilst their steamer is being repaired. With them are an English couple, the Dannreuthers. The six are headed for Africa, presumably to sell vacuum cleaners but all is not as it seems. They are joined by others who apparently have similar designs. Starring Humphrey Bogart, Jennifer Jones, Peter Lorre, and Gina Lollobrigida. A great 50s spy spoof!
This television movie is the combination of a number of Flash Gordon TV shows, made in West Germany, from the early 1950s. Diverging from the storyline of the comics, the series has Flash, Dale Arden and Dr. Zarkov in the year 3203. As agents of the Galactic Bureau of Investigation, the team travels the galaxy in their ship the Sky Flash, battling cosmic villains under the order of Commander Paul Richards. In this movie, Dr. Zarkoff's request to test his new anti-gravitation device on a remote planet is denied because of the mysterious deaths of a recent scientific expedition. Can Flash Gordon solve this mystery? Starring Steve Holland, Irene Chaplin, and Joseph Nash. Before the Millennium Falcon there was the Sky Flash! No, this is not the Flesh Gordon movie.
Tarzan deals with the villainous Schroeder, who is illegally collecting animals for zoos, only to be menaced by Schroeder's hunter brother Sikes, out for revenge, who teams up with greedy trader Lapin in a hunt for human game…Tarzan himself. This was a television movie starring Gordon Scott, Eve Brent and Rickie Sorenson. Looks like its Tarzan meets the Most Dangerous Game—humans! What next, Ron Ely as Tarzan?
The story of Hadji Murad, a 19th-century Chechen chieftain who led his warriors in a fight against the invading forces of the Russian Czar. Starring Steve Reeves, Giorgia Moll, and Scilla Gabel. Taken from the Tolstoy novel, this is a rare movie on the subject of the Ottoman Turks fighting against the Russian Christians. Steve Reeves, known for his Hercules movies, stars as Hadji Murad.
A story of a range-war in the Texas Panhandle in which the 'bad' brother villain fights for what is right… and commits murder in its name, and the 'good' brother hero sanctions wholesale cattle rusting and, reluctantly in the end, comes to the realization that maybe he isn't doing the right thing. Starring Robert Preston, Robert Sterling, and Chill Wills. Yes, that is Robert Preston from The Music Man and 76 Trombones Led the Big Parade. He is pretty fast with a six-gun.
Gangster Alexander Ward, his girl friend, Gypsy Boulet, and two henchmen come to Deadwood, South Dakota with the idea of stealing some gold bars. They enlist the aid of a local ski instructor, Gil Jackson, and plan to use him as a guide out of the territory after the robbery. However, a blizzard forces them to take refuge in Jackson's cabin, where Gypsy lowers the inside temperature by giving the cold shoulder to Ward, her former sweetie until she saw Jackson. Ward plans to kill Jackson after they have no further use of him, so he doesn’t care. But they had used an explosion in a cave to serve as a distraction during the heist, and this explosion had irritated a giant spider that lived there and, sure enough, all hands have to seek refuge in the cave from the fury of the storm. Starring Michael Forest, Sheila Noonan, and Frank Wolff. Those Hobbits battled giant spiders. Well, one shouldn’t hide in caves like that, mainly because bigfoot is probably there…
En route to Thebes for an important diplomatic mission, Hercules drinks from a magic spring and loses his memory. He spends most of the movie in the pleasure gardens of Queen Omphale of Lydia. While young Ulysses tries to help him regain his memory, political tensions escalate in Thebes, and Hercules' new wife Iole finds herself in mortal danger. Starring Steve Reeves, Sylva Koscina, and Gabriele Antonini. Lots of muscle men, scantily-clad women, fighting, tiger assaults and more in this early Hercules movie!
Chief Sitting Bull of the Sioux tribe is forced by the Indian-hating General Custer to react with violence, resulting in the famous Last Stand at Little Bighorn. Parrish, a friend to the Sioux, tries to prevent the bloodshed, but is court-martialed for "collaborating" with the enemy. Sitting Bull, however, manages to intercede with President Grant on Parrish's behalf. Starring Dale Robertson, Mary Murphy, and J. Carrol Naish. A pretty good Western with the Man From Uncles’s Dr. Waverly!
Having to leave Melbourne in a hurry to avoid various marriage proposals, two song-and-dance men sign on for work as divers. This takes them to an idyllic island on the way to Bali where they vie with each other for the favours of Princess Lala. The hazardous dive produces a chest of priceless jewels which arouses the less romantic interest of some shady locals. Starring Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, Dorothy Lamour. The last of the great Bob Hope-Bing Crosby comedies and the only one in color! We all want to go to the magical Hindu world of Bali, the last of the great Cham civilization!
Dr. Jeremiah Morley becomes convinced that the world is headed to an inevitable worldwide nuclear war. He organizes an expedition made up of a team of expert scientists and an atomic-powered rock-boring vehicle called a "cyclotram" to find a subterranean environment where holocaust survivors could live indefinitely. When funding falls through, independently rich adventurer Wright Thompson underwrites the project under the condition that he be allowed to go. As the group goes deeper beneath the Earth's crust, personalities clash, tempers flare, and the dangerous journey claims the lives of several expedition members. Then they come upon an enormous underground expanse with its own ocean and phosphorescent light. Starring Bruce Kellogg, Otto Waldis, and Jim Bannon. Look out Hollow Earth, here we come! The movie that started the Hollow Earth craze!
Eccentric millionaire Fredrick Loren and his 4th wife, Annabelle, have invited five people to the house on Haunted Hill for a "haunted House" party. Whoever will stay in the house for one night will earn ten thousand dollars each. As the night progresses, all the guests are trapped inside the house with ghosts, murderers, and other terrors. Starring Vincent Price, Carol Ohmart, and Richard Long. A great haunted house movie with Vincent Price that is a lot of fun!
A rare color episode of the Lone Ranger television series. Starring Clayton Moore and Jay Silverheels, treat yourself to a brief adventure with the man who hands out silver bullets.
Terry and the Pirates returned in this early 50s retro-television series. Here is the pilot! The Dragon Lady is always a killer! Indiana Jones look out!
Mystery writer Cornelia Van Gorder has rented a country house called "The Oaks", which not long ago had been the scene of some murders committed by a strange and violent criminal known as "The Bat". Meanwhile, the house's owner, bank president John Fleming, has recently embezzled one million dollars in securities, and has hidden the proceeds in the house, but he is killed before he can retrieve the money. Thus the lonely country house soon becomes the site of many mysterious and dangerous activities. Starring Vincent Price, Agnes Moorehead, and Gavin Gordon. A great 50s haunted house movie!
Set in Earth's distant future, this serial tracks the adventures of a group of fighters for truth and justice, known as The Video Rangers. They are led by Captain Video (no first name ever was mentioned). The Video Rangers operated from a secret base on a mountaintop whose location was unspecified. The Captain received his orders from “The Commissioner of Public Safety” (surname Carey), whose responsibilities took in the entire solar system as well as human colonies on planets around other stars. A great early 50s serial with a cool secret base for the Video Rangers, this was tremendously popular in the early 50s, the start of a new future and the race into space!
A couple of teenagers are reported missing in a small Texas town, and it is thought they eloped. Sheriff Jeff turns to his friend Clarence Winstead, a garage mechanic and leader of a hot-rod gang, for help. After a series of tragic motor accidents, it becomes apparent that a giant Gila monster is roaming the area depleting the town of its citizens and visitors, including two hot-rodding teens, and planning to attend the BIG record-hop party. Starring Don Sullivan, Fred Graham, and Lisa Simone. First there was a giant tarantula and now this! What next, a giant blob?
Mesa of Lost Women-1953. A mad scientist named Arana is creating giant spiders and dwarfs in his lab on Zarpa Mesa in Mexico. He wants to create a master race of superwomen by injecting his female subjects with spider venom. Starring Jackie Coogan, Allan Nixon, and Richard Travis. One of those “so bad, its good” Mexican monster movies. Stay away from this mesa!
