Super criminals are planning to infiltrate Earth with mass nuclear destruction! Only Starman can defend civilization by thwarting evil! Starring Ken Utsui, Sachihiro Ohsawa, and Junko Ikeuchi. This movie is basically two Japanese movies with their popular Starman superhero of the 1960s edited together. Japanese sci-fi is always fascinating because of the interesting technology that is employed and showcased in their films. It seems to belie the material that maintains the Germans had advanced electrical devices. This is a hilariously dumb movie, none-the-less. Ken Utsui was the heartthrob of Japanese girls in the 1960s, similar to Adam West as Batman in the USA.
A masked hero called "The Eagle" with his mask, black cape, white horse, and whip, leads California ranchers in a struggle against Russian Cossacks who are plotting to take over California and turn it into a Russian colony. Starring Robert Livingston, Kay Hughes, and Guinn 'Big Boy' Williams. The hero here, The Eagle, is a cross between Zorro and Indiana Jones. Keeping Russians out of California was his mission.
After a boat is discovered with two bodies on it, the story of Jeffrey and Sarah, a brother and sister living in Greece, unfolds. Sarah has just become engaged to nice guy Nikos. Erratic playboy Jeffrey owes a debt to Angelo, a mobster who borrowed money from the syndicate to loan Jeff, but if Jeff is disinherited in his late father's newest will, he won't be able to pay Angelo and Angelo won't be able to pay back the syndicate. Suddenly, people who had contact with the latest will are dying, but just who is really responsible? The wily local police inspector has his suspicions. Starring George Hamilton, Luciana Paluzzi, and Cameron Mitchell. One of those 70s action movies made in Greece, except the Greeks Don’t Want No Freaks. Any movie with Luciana Paluzzi (Thunderball) must be good.
Security agent Larry Martin, who can fly with an experimental rocket suit, investigates clandestine visits to earth by a Martian spaceship. Meanwhile, villainous Martians conspire with a traitorous atomic scientist to blast earth out of its orbit and replace it with Mars! Can Larry and his cohort Bob Wilson stop the Martians before they complete their dastardly project? Not a zombie in sight. Starring Judd Holdren, Aline Towne, Wilson Wood, and Leonard Nimoy. Yes, Spock fans, Leonard Nimoy began his film career as an alien in this film.
Having witnessed the brutal murder of his father, the horrific sexual assault of his mother, and the abduction of his innocent young sister by McClain's ruthless gang of cut-throats, Tom, the lucky fifteen-year-old survivor, swears revenge. Hell-bent on making them pay in blood, Tom embarks on a life-or-death quest to avenge his family, relentlessly pursuing the leader and his jackals in the unforgiving desert. As Tom crosses paths with Isaac, a compassionate prospector who has reasons to see McClain and his bandits suffer, he sets in motion his deadly campaign, methodically picking the perpetrators off with his ingenious traps. Is one ever too young for vengeance? Starring Lee Van Cleef, Jim Brown, Leif Garret and John Marley. One of Jim Brown’s last movies.
Jungle Jim is assigned to relocate some natives on an island off the coast of Africa so the Americans can stage a nuclear test there. Problem is, some of them refuse to leave and there are also enemy agents interfering. After overcoming these problems, the test goes ahead. Starring Johnny Weissmuller, Angela Stevens, and Lester Matthews. Jungle Jim was basically Tarzan in a Safari suit. Good Saturday Matinee stuff!
An evil genius of unknown identity, calling himself “Dr. Vulcan” plots to conquer the world. He needs to first eliminate, one by one, the members of the Science Associates, an organization of America's greatest scientists. Using the flying jacket and helmet and other inventions provided by Dr. Millard, and aided by magazine reporter and photographer Glenda Thomas Jeff King, as Rocket Man, battles Vulcan and his henchmen through a dozen action-packed serial chapters. Eventually, Vulcan steals Millard's most dangerous invention, a Sonic Decimator, and uses it to flood and then destroy both New York City and the rest of Manhattan Island. Starring Tristram Coffin, Mae Clarke, Don Haggerty, House Peters, Jr., James Craven, and I. Stanford Jolley. What next—invaders from the Moon? The first of all the great Rocket Men serials! Iron Man, look out!
The evil Queen Tenefi, who's usurped the throne of Memphis, demands that a steady supply of young women be sacrificed to the God of Fire inside the Mountain of Thunder. Maciste, the son of Hercules, intervenes and saves from this sacrifice a village's women including the beautiful Antea. Maciste then becomes involved in an effort to restore to the throne of Memphis its rightful ruler, Prince Iram. To accomplish this task Maciste travels to Memphis but is betrayed by the silk merchant, Omnes. The Queen's soldiers capture Maciste and he's forced to undergo a Trial of Strength in which two teams of horses try to pull him apart. Impressed by his beauty and strength, the Queen calls an end to the Trial and then touches Maciste with her magic scepter which erases his memories and places him under her power. A female oracle then gives Antea a dart which, when fired into Maciste, will restore him to his senses. Starring Kirk Morris, Cathia Caro, and Ljubica Otasevic. Some real muscle power here!
Teenaged Mowgli, who was raised by wolves, appears in a village in India and is adopted by Messua. Mowgli learns human language and some human ways quickly, though keeping jungle ideas. Influential Merchant Buldeo is bigoted against 'beasts' including Mowgli; not so Buldeo's pretty daughter, whom Mowgli takes on a jungle tour where they find a treasure in a lost city, setting the evil of human greed in motion. A great, color movie based on Rudyard Kipling’s book. Starring Sabu, Joseph Calleia, and John Qualen.
A movie about the French Revolution, Robespierre, a powerful figure in the revolution and the subsequent Reign of Terror, is desperately looking for his black book, a death list of those marked by him for the guillotine and a key to help him eventually emerge as the country's dictator. He hopes his agents will recover it, but, if it falls in to the wrong hands, it would mean his political ruin and death. Starring Robert Cummings, Arlene Dahl, Richard Basehart, and Richard Hart. Where was George Washington and Benjamin Franklin when they were needed? Richard Basehart was the star of VOYAGE TO THE BOTTOM OF THE SEA television series. Was Hollywood Squares in on this movie?
In the Asian province of Seemang where the Bay of Bengal meets the jungle, Chandler Elliott (John St. Polis) owns a large and prosperous rubber plantation. His attractive daughter, Dorothy (Charlotte Henry), is engaged to neighboring planter Tom Banning (William Bakewell) but troubles are brewing for both plantations. When a load of rubber is put on a riverboat to be taken to port, the boat is attacked by river pirates and the crew is killed and the shipment stolen. Jim Murphy (LeRoy Mason). Elliott's plantation manager, is plotting with others to force Elliott to to sell his plantation. Adventurer Frank Hardy (Frank Buck) is determined to find out who is behind the plot. A great Frank Buck, animal collector, movie!
This great documentary covers the famous and successful expedition of reaching the summit of Mount Everest on the Nepal-Tibet border by Tenzing Norgay and Edmund Hillary. With Meredith Edwards, John Hunt, George Band, Tenzing Norgay and Edmund Hillary. A stunning early mountaineering movie about Mount Everest, Nepal and the Himalayas. Watch this one while you are in Kathmandu!
A disparate group are trapped on a remote island by a hurricane. On the island, a doctor works to make humans twice as small as we already are. This, apparently, will help prevent over population. Unfortunately, his experiments have also created some giant shrews. As the shrews run out of smaller animals to eat, they move in on the people in the house. Starring James Best, Ingrid Goude (Miss Sweden 1956), and Ken Curtis. A classic Sci-Fi horror movie filmed in Texas. Are those dogs dressed up as giant shrews?
In this hour-long Clutch Cargo compilation of episodes, Clutch begins by racing an airplane against a man called the ace. Then in The Race Car Mystery, Clutch's friend has his car sabotaged in a race. When Clutch shows up, the same thing happens to him. Finally, the whole Clutch Cargo crew tackle The Elephant Nappers. Yep, its Clutch Cargo with his pals Spinner and Paddlefoot. They tried to sue the makers of Jonny Quest, but it failed.
While Clutch is at an in-store signing for his new book he gets a telegraph telling him he must go to South America to find a lost friend. Yep, its Clutch Cargo with his pals Spinner and Paddlefoot. They tried to sue the makers of Jonny Quest, but it failed. Next it is Twaddle in Africa, where Clutch’s Niece Nica introduces Clutch Cargo's adventure—Twaddle in Africa. The final episode is Water Wizards, in which Clutch and Spinner enter the boat races at the regatta and a man called Spider Black tries to sabotage them. Yep, its Clutch Cargo with his pals Spinner and Paddlefoot. They tried to sue the makers of Jonny Quest, but it failed.
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.
Detective Lt. Bill Bannister has the assignment to run down an unknown gang of terrorists spreading a net of crime over the city. Aiding him is Detective Tim Nolan, news photographer Vicki Logan and reporter Happy Haskins. Bill finds that the gang's leader is a mysterious Professor Mortis and the gang is made up of known criminals officially listed in the police records as dead. Each has become of member of Mortis' "League of Murdered Men" after seemingly committing suicide by hanging while on death row. Bill eventually, after surviving a plane crash, being dynamited, dropped down a well and other nuisances, tracks the gang to two hideouts; a subterranean cell beneath the city's subways and a suburban mystery house. Starring Kent Taylor, Irene Hervey, and Ralph Morgan. When folks say “Gang Busters”, they mean it!
In the year 2019, two mercenaries help wandering caravans fight off an evil and aimless band of white-clad bikers after the nuclear holocaust. Starring Giancarlo Prete, Fred Williamson, and George Eastman. Yes, this is one of those Italian Mad Max-Road Warrior movies of the early 1980s. This one has Karate veteran Fred Williamson and Spaghetti Western veteran George Eastman. Umm, I think we are out of gas now…
