Monster on the Campus (1958) was a black and white, science fiction, horror film, released by Universal Pictures on a low budget. It was also known as Monster in the Night, and Stranger on the Campus. This film was the last of Universal’s science fiction monster films released before Island of Terror (1966).
The film was directed by Jack Arnold (Creature from the Black Lagoon and The Incredible Shrinking Man) and from a script by David Duncan (The Time Machine).
Professor Donald Blake (Arthur Franz) has a collection of facial reconstructions depicting the ascent of man from the early hominids to modern man (or woman in this case, actress Joanna Moore). One of them is that of Piltdown Man, whose “discovery” in 1912 was exposed as a hoax in 1953, five years before the movie was released.
Cast
Arthur Franz … Prof. Donald Blake
Joanna Moore … Madeline Howard
Judson Pratt … Lieutenant Mike Stevens
Nancy Walters … Sylvia Lockwood
Troy Donahue … Jimmy Flanders
Phil Harvey … Sergeant Powell
Helen Westcott … Nurse Molly Riordan
Alexander Lockwood … Professor Gilbert Howard
Whit Bissell … Dr. Oliver Cole
Ross Elliott … Sergeant Eddie Daniels
I Was a Teenage Frankenstein is a film starring Whit Bissell, Phyllis Coates and Gary Conway released by American International Pictures (AIP) in November 1957. It is the sequel or, rather, follow-up to AIP’s box-office hit I Was a Teenage Werewolf released less than five months earlier. It was filmed in black and white, with the ending in color for a vivid effect.
Tagline: Body of a boy! Mind of a monster! Soul of an unearthly thing!
American International Pictures released this film to many drive-in theaters on a double bill with Blood of Dracula (1957) with the tag line: “Warning! Can You Take It? Fiendish! Frenzied! Frightening! It Will Haunt You For Days Afterwards!”
Target Earth is a 1954 science fiction film. It was directed by Sherman A. Rose and stars Richard Denning, Kathleen Crowley, Virginia Grey, and Whit Bissell. The film focuses on a deserted Chicago cityscape and a small group of people who have been overlooked during a mass evacuation due to an invasion of robot like beings from the planet Venus. The movie was based on the 1953 short story “Deadly City” by Paul W. Fairman.
Only one robot costume was constructed for this film and it was used for all robot scenes. This is why you never see more than one member of the “robot army” in a shot.
Although the production crew had no permits, the scenes showing the deserted city were filmed in downtown Los Angeles on Sunday mornings when the streets would be vacant.
The killer, (played by Robert Roark) got his part because his father, a doctor in LA would invest in the film if his son was given a part. After this part he went on to play in many movies and became a producer.
