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Bud Brewster Galactic Fleet Admiral (site admin)
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Posted: Tue Apr 07, 2015 9:35 pm Post subject: The Unknown Terror (1957) |
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Mala Powers ("The Colossus of New York") in a negligee is the main attraction of this otherwise undistinguished story.
In the 1950s Hollywood was determined not to overlook a single field of scientific research to use in its sci-fi films.
Case in point: scientist Gerald Milton is conducting research into exotic forms of fungus on his lonely Caribbean island (fungus?). He injects the fungus into people and then imprisons them in a cavern called the Cave of Death. The victims plod around in the cave with lumpy white faces.
May Wynn as a native girl is a minor distraction.
Directed by Charles Marquis Warren. _________________ ____________
Is there no man on Earth who has the wisdom and innocence of a child?
~ The Space Children (1958)
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Bud Brewster Galactic Fleet Admiral (site admin)
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Oddly enough, I couldn't find a trailer, but I did find the full movie. Enjoy it.
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Is there no man on Earth who has the wisdom and innocence of a child?
~ The Space Children (1958)
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Rick Space Ranger
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This was one of the movies which a local station seemed to keep on tap to fill in the schedule as needed. Guess they had a print under the news desk...just in case.
As a result, I saw this one too many times. Three, four, five, six times...I don't know. I never cared much for it, especially after it showed up over and over. Why couldn't we get something else? We always got THE UNKNOWN TERROR on Channel 3 and FIRE MAIDENS OF OUTER SPACE on Channel 11. Over and over. But did we ever see CREATURE WITH THE ATOM BRAIN or THEM! or THE MAN WITHOUT A BODY? Nope, never. Not at least till I was an adult, and I wanted to see them when I was a kid. Dammit.
Anyway, I watched THE UNKNOWN TERROR again a few years back and it's really not that bad. Some interesting turns to the story, some decent actors. But the soap suds still kill the thing dead in its tracks and instantly turn a halfway respectable monster flick into a laughfest. Too bad. _________________ Man need not kneel before the angels,
Nor lie in death forever,
But for the weakness of his feeble will. |
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Bud Brewster Galactic Fleet Admiral (site admin)
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I found a nice clip from this movie. Enjoy it!
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The Unknown Terror (1957) Spelunking in the Cave of Death
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Is there no man on Earth who has the wisdom and innocence of a child?
~ The Space Children (1958) |
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