Welcome
to the final tribute to the wonderful ladies who appeared in the
classic sci-fi films of the 1950s. It’s been a long time coming for
this installment, so let’s start off with…….
Earth's
second mission to Mars is sent to discover the fate of the first
mission. A sole survivor of that mission is found, the expedition's
former commander who claims to an unbelieving audience that his crew
were killed by a hostile Martian life form. On the way back to earth,
that life form stowaways away aboard the ship and begins hunting down
and
killing the crew.
Shirley
Patterson as Ann Anderson who
also appeared in World Without End (1956) and The Land Unknown (1957).
Ann
Doran as Mary Royce, the ship’s doctor
And…followed
by;
Aliens
arrive on Earth to possess the bodies of humans. One such victim is a
young man, whose new wife, Marge soon realizes something is wrong
with him. In fact, the man she married isn't a man at all, but an
alien replacement as are most of the men in her small town!!
Gloria
Talbott who also
appeared in, The Cyclops (1957), Daughter of Dr
Jekyll, and The Leech Woman (1960)
Read on for more.......
Animals
have been sent up into orbit to test the effects of exposure to space
radiation. One of the rockets has malfunctioned and is lost from the
scientists' radar screens. Soon, strange reports appear concerning
strange occurrences in Central Africa, possibly involving irradiated
test wasps. A scientific expedition is sent to Africa to
investigate…….
Barbara
Turner appears as Lorna Lorentz who together with her father, Dr.
Lorentz perform an autopsy on a native and determine that he died of
paralysis of the nerve centers caused by an injection of a massive
amount of venom. Although advised to remain at the hospital, she insists
on joining the expedition to………. Green Hell in
equatorial Africa.
Extraterrestrials
revive the body of a dead astronaut to use as a breeding vessel for
an alien invasion force.
Angela
Greene appears as Dr. Julie Benson, dead astronaut,
Corcoran's fiancee.
Georgianna
Carter appears as Donna Bixb, one of two technicians from a nearby
space agency tracking station, who located the crashed ship and
recovered astronaut Corcoran's body.
In
a 19th century town in the American Southwest, an adolescent observes
a meteorite crash in the desert and heads out to explore the crash
site. Upon arriving at the site, he is exposed to mysterious rays
emanating from the meteorite and as a result begins to rapidly age
and turns into a hairy and aggressive man-monster. His devoted mother
tries to protect him from the law which is hunting him for terrorizing
the community.
One
of the first horror film scream queens, Anne Gwynne plays the part of
Ruth.
Gloria
Castillo who we also saw in Invasion of the Saucer Men (1957)
plays Kathy North.
A
deep space probe returns to Earth infected with a deadly fungus that
turns blood into caustic rust. The fungus threatens to grow and
spread, devouring everyone in its path. Two G-men are assigned the
task of finding the carrier and injecting her with the antidote.
Lyn
Thomas plays Laura Greeling who is unwittingly spreading the alien
fungi. She is being blackmailed by scientist Paul Frees over an unwed
child she had to him and who he is preventing her from seeing.
Prof.
Erling and his financial backer Victor build a prototype time machine
to retrieve objects from the past such as a statuette dated to 5200
AD! When 20th-century objects are placed in the machine they appear
to be traded for objects from the future! What happens when a woman
from the future is accidentally retrieved and attempts to bring one
of the machine’s operators back to the future with her? For what
purpose?
Joyce
Holden plays Claire Erling, Prof. Howard's Erling’s daughter
and Victor's fiance.
Salome
Jens plays Future Woman / Nurse
The
husband of an unhappily married rich socialite returns to her after
having left her only because he now needs money. Meanwhile,
philandering hubby, Harry happily continues his affair with another
woman aptly maned, Honey Parker. After an explosive confrontation at
a bar, his wife, Nancy drives off until she encounters a large
spherical object on the road. The object’s sole occupant is an
enormous alien……
Despite
rumors of UFOs in the area, will anyone believe Nancy?
What
will be consequences of Nancy’s close encounter?
Allison
Hayes plays socialite Nancy Fowler Archer.
Yvette
Vickers plays the role of ‘other woman’ Honey Parker
Teenagers
fights to save their town and its inhabitants from being dissolved
and devoured by an ever growing blob-like monster that crashes to
Earth from outer space inside a meteorite.
Aneta
Corsaut plays Jane Martin, girlfriend of teenager Steve Andrews
(Steve McQueen).
Genius
Jeremy Spensser is killed in an accident just after winning the Nobel
Peace Prize. His brain is transplanted by his scientist father into
the body of an enormous cyborg, so that it can continue to serve
mankind. Jeremy's personality begins to change and he soon loses
those features that make him human.
Mala
Powers plays Anne Spensser, Jeremy’s wife. Jeremy discovers that
his own brother has fallen in love with Anne.
Scientist
Andre Delambre is transformed into a human-fly hybrid after a common
house fly enters unseen into a matter transference machine he is
experimenting with.
Patricia
Owens plays Andre’s wife, Helene. In a desperate bid to set things
right he turns to Helene for help.
A
narcotics deal goes badly and a drug dealing suspect named Misaki
disappears leaving only his clothes. The Tokyo police question his
girlfriend, singer Chikako Arai but she informs them that she doesn't
know where he is. Later, a young scientist named Masada claims that
H-Bomb tests in the Pacific have created radioactive creatures
(H-Men) who ooze like slime and dissolve anyone they touch. His
claims are based on a similar case of people disappearing and leaving
just their clothes on an abandoned ship that was found by a group of
fishermen who declared that three members of their crew were
dissolved by a living liquid that was created when the crew of the
ship passed through a radioactive cloud. The questions remain: How
to find the criminal gang? How to destroy the H-men before they
destroy the population of Tokyo?
Yumi Shirakawa plays the role of Chikako Arai, singer in the nightclub
Scientists
from England’s Atomic Energy Commission investigate reports of dead
fish washing up on the Cornwall coast. They find that the fish are
radioactive and that locals have radiation burns. High levels of
radiation have been detected in the water, plants and skies. Not only
that, but an irradiated paleosaurus has emerged from the ocean depths
and a way must be found to prevent it from destroying everything in
its path as it heads towards London.
Leigh
Madison plays Jean Treventhan, daughter of fisherman Tom who has
disappeared but is later discovered badly burned and is now dead,
apparently having been attacked by something from the sea.
A
mysterious missile hurtles through space, nearing Earth. A rocket is
fired at it, but only succeeds in diverting the missile into the
Earth’s atmosphere, where it continues on a path of destruction.
Its inexorable progress towards NYC seems to be unstoppable! Earth’s
only hope may lie in the hands of a scientist and his fiance who have
been working on a hydrogen warhead that may be able to hit the
missile and save the Earth.
Ellen
Parker plays Joan Wood, Dr David Loring’s fiance.
A
seemingly unimposing but quite mad doll-maker named Mr. Franz shrinks
people into puppet dolls in the back room of his doll factory. He
turns the people he likes into living dolls to keep him company and
fight his own loneliness. It is now up to his new secretary Sally and
her boyfriend Bob to try and thwart Franz before it is too late for
the ‘Puppet People!’
June
Kenney plays Sally Reynolds, Franz’s new secretary.
Laurie
Mitchell plays Georgia Lane (puppet person).
A
group of children seem to be receiving increasingly powerful
telepathic communications from an unseen alien source. They are drawn
to an isolated cave near the beach where an alien presence in the
form of a huge and ever-growing brain has hidden itself not far from
a rocket test site. The children then begin doing the alien’s
bidding involving the launching of a rocket at the test site…..
Peggy
Webber plays the part of Anne Brewster, wife of Dave Brewster. She is
apprehensive about her family’s move from San Francisco to her
husband’s new place of work: a military base where Dave has been
transferred to work on The Thunderer--a six stage intercontinental
missile at the Eagle Point Missile Project.
In
a small, rural English village, Dr. Laird and his assistants, Gil
Graham and Michele Dupont are conducting experiments involving
ultra-intense magnetic fields. The equipment seems to be affecting
distant objects, and to be drawing extra power from some unknown
source. The results are the rearrangement of molecules to make solid
metal brittle or stiff metal pliable!
After
deadly things start happening in Bryerly Woods, a strange man known
as Mr Smith from "a long way off" appears and is very
concerned about Dr Laird’s pulling down disaster from the skies. Mr
Smith helps them in solving a series of attacks in the public park
but worse is yet to come with the appearance of giant insects that
have mutated as a result of Laird’s experiments.
Gaby
André plays the role of Michele Dupont
A
series of decapitations on a Swiss mountainside seem to be connected
to a mysterious radioactive cloud at the base of the Trollenberg
mountain which is inhabited by alien creatures that are in
telepathic communication with people.
Jennifer
Jayne plays Sarah Pilgrim.
Janet
Munro plays Sarah’s sister, Anne Pilgrim who is in telepathic
communication with alien beings.
A
mad scientist feeds captured women to a flesh-eating tree in return
for a serum that can bring the dead back to life.
Vera
Day plays the part of Sally Norton, hula dancer at a carnival.
Joyce
Gregg plays Mrs. Santor, Dr Moran's housekeepe and former lover.
Joy
Webster plays Judy, yet another victim of the 7 foot plant.
Marpessa
Dawn plays the Native Girl who is the first victim fed to the
woman-eater plant.
Delivery
trucks are robbed and destroyed south of the border and Joyce Manning
suspects that her brother is responsible. Lt. Col. Glenn Manning has
grown to gigantic proportions as a result of overexposure to
radiation. His mind and sanity has also been adversely affected.
Eventually the army captures Manning but he cannot be restrained and
manages to escape with dire consequences for Los Angeles.
Sally
Fraser as Joyce Manning
What
happens when a mysterious alien force declares war against planet
Earth while the United Nations disregards warnings to halt its
attempts at assembling the first satellite in space?
Once
again we have, Susan Cabot who plays researcher, Sybil Carrington.
Two
brothers, Scott and Tony Nelson are both scientists who develop an
amplifier which enables a person to enter a 4th dimensional state,
allowing him to pass through any object. Scott decides to experiment
on himself with the result that each time he passes through
something, he ages rapidly. He then embarks on a killing spree,
sucking out the life energies of his victims and restoring his youth
in the process.
Lee
Meriwether plays Linda Davis, Scott's girlfriend who along with Tony
try to put a stop to Scott’s murderous rampage
Alien
invaders from the planet Netal capture the moon and invade the Earth
with flying saucers and laser weapons. All eyes turn to the most
powerful nations on Earth as they unite in a coalition to come up
with a plan to defeat the aliens and save Earth.
Kyôko
Anzai plays the role of Etsuko Shiraishi who is at first taken
hostage by the Iranian delegate, Dr Ahmed and then temporarily
captured by the Natal alien invaders.
In
the ‘future’ year of 1968, more than eight ships and seven
submarines have vanished mysteriously near the Arctic Circle.The
submarine Tigershark is sent out to investigate and remove the cause
of their disappearance. What the crew do encounter proves to be far
more than they could have expected and may very well be beyond their
newest powerful technology.
Joi
Lansing plays Julie.
Jean
Moorhead plays Helen Milburn
Navy
test pilot Lieut. Dan Prescott, in experimental rocket plane Y-13
becomes the first pilot to leave Earth's atmosphere after disobeying
orders. Unable to turn, he ejects but is covered with some kind of
metallic meteor dust. The pilot compartment lands but there is no
sign of Prescott. It isn’t long before cattle and then people are
discovered with their throats cut. It seems that there is something
with a craving for blood prowling the countryside!
Marla
Landi plays Tia Francesca, Prescott’s girlfriend.
Dr.
Karol Noymann is killed in an explosion and aliens inhabit his corpse
using it to communicate with his former colleague, scientist Adam
Penner. They reveal to him that they have been on the moon for twenty
thousand years, undetected due to their invisibility. They have
decided to wipe out humanity by making zombies from their corpses
unless all the nations of earth surrender immediately. In order to
survive, Dr. Penner, his daughter Phyllis, Dr. John Lamont and Maj.
Bruce Jay hide out in an impregnable bunker / laboratory where they
try to determine the aliens' weakness. Meanwhile, they are attacked
from outside by the alien-occupied bodies of deceased humans.
Jean
Byron plays the role of Phyllis Penner, Dr Adam Penner’s daughter.
An
American correspondent in Japan is assigned to interview a maverick
Japanese scientist working on bizarre experiments in his mountain
laboratory. The scientist uses the reporter in his next experiment by
injecting him with a serum that transforms him into a hideous,
two-headed monster.
Terri
Zimmern plays Tara, assistant to Dr Suzuki and used as a distraction
to Larry the reporter as he undergoes the scientist’s
experimentation process.
A
giant lizard emergers from the desert to terrorize a rural Texas
community while a heroic teenager, Chase Winstead, the leader of a
local hot rod group assists the local sheriff in an attempt to
destroy the creature.
Lisa
Simone plays Chase’s girlfriend, Lisa
An
alien teenager, Derek abandons his crew to search for a new life on
Earth. Their mission is to eradicate human life in order to farm
Earth with giant lobster-like livestock called Gargons. One of
Derek’s crewmates is sent to kill him to protect their mission to
Earth.
Dawn
Bender plays Betty Morgan who sets about helping Derek.
Sonia
Torgeson plays 'man-eater', Alice Woodward.
A
herd of reindeer are mysteriously found dead following a meteor crash
in a remote part of Sweden. Soldiers and a geologist are called out
to investigate only to discover that the meteor is actually a
spaceship guarded by a hideous gigantic monster.
Barbara
Wilson plays Diane Wilson niece of famous geologist, Dr. Vance
Wilson. She stows away on a plane and joins the expedition to
investigate the mysterious goings-on.
Charles
Girard, a rogue scientist working on Blood Island, conducts
experiments (Dr Moreau-style) designed to transform a panther into a human being.
Complications arise when sailor William Fitzgerald is shipwrecked on
the island and he and Girard’s wife fall in love.
Greta
Thyssen plays Girard’s wife, Frances Girard
Lilia
Duran plays the role of Selene, a young servant girl.
Chief
Warrant Officer Sam Jacobs, Dr. Iris Ryan, Professor Theodore Gettell
and Col. Tom O'Bannion are astronauts aboard the spaceship MR-1, the
first mission to Mars. Shortly after landing on Mars, the intrepid
explorers are attacked by monstrous intelligent alien life forms.
Upon their departure from the red planet, the humans are given an
ominous warning intended for all mankind.
Naura
Hayden plays Dr. Iris "Irish" Ryan who relates the story of
what happened on the planet Mars.
A
large mysterious sphere lands in a California canyon. Its occupant
has a message of peace and nuclear disarmament for the world. The
scientific and military communities proceed to investigate while
unsettling conflicts arise from this visitation.
Angela
Greene plays Kathy Grant, a widow whose fighter pilot husband died in
the Korean War. She now runs a tourist lodge near the canyon.
Dr.
Gilbert McKenna is a research scientist who is exposed to dangerous
radiation during a visit to an atomic power plant. The radiation
causes McKenna to mutate into a strange and murderous inhuman monster
when he’s exposed to the rays of the sun.
Patricia
Manning plays Ann Russell, McKenna’s loyal girlfriend.
Nan
Peterson plays Trudy Osborne who seems to bring out the inner hideous
demon within McKenna.
Boat
Captain Thorne Sherman and his sidekick, "Rook" Griswold
arrive on a remote island to deliver supplies to a scientist, his
daughter and his aides. However, they all become trapped by a
hurricane. Sherman soon discovers that the scientist, Milo Craigis
has been working on the creation of giant flesh-eating shrews as part
of his research into making humans smaller as a way of preventing
over-population. As the out of control shrews eventually run out of
smaller animals to eat, they set their sights on the hapless humans
taking refuge in Craigis’s house.
Ingrid
Goude plays Ann Craigis, daughter of Milo Craigis.
Dr.
Warren Chapin has discovered that the spine-chilling sensation that
people get when scared is due to a parasite that he gives the name of
the "tingler" to. It turns out that in extreme
circumstances, prolonged fear can cause the creature to feed on its
host and grow when the host is scared. Soon, a point is reached
whereby damage is caused to the person's spine and even death can
result if the victim can't scream. A deaf-mute woman soon falls
victim to the parasite Tingler and now it is on the loose!
Judith
Evelyn plays Mrs. Martha Ryerson Higgins who is deaf and mute and
wife of movie theater owner, Oliver Higgins.
Patricia
Cutts plays Isabel Stevens Chapin who is in a dysfunctional marriage
with Warren.
Pamela
Lincoln plays Lucy Stevens, sister of Isabel Stevens Chapin.
A
coal miner is trapped by a cave-in. When he eventually makes his way
back to the surface, he discovers that apparently all of the human
race has been wiped out by nuclear poison. Later, he and two others
appear to be the remaining remnants of humanity. They must now choose
to learn from their civilization’s past mistakes or simply relapse
back into the old ways of division, hatred and prejudice.
Inger
Stevens plays Sarah Crandall, Ralph Burton’s fellow survivor with
whom she forms a problematic relationship.
Scientist,
Dr. Abel invents a serum that keeps a dog's head alive after its body
dies. When the scientist dies of a heart attack, his assistant the
sinister, Dr. Ood cuts off his head and, using the newly developed
serum, keeps the doctor's head alive. He then forces Dr. Abel (or his
head at least) to help him on an experiment to give his hunchbacked
nurse assistant a new body - the body of a stripper!
Karin
Kernke plays Irene Sander
Christiane
Maybach plays Stella (Lilly)
Janice
Starlin’s cosmetics firm is facing a recent drop in sales which
apparently began when she stopped being the 'face' of the company’s
cosmetic products. Due to her approaching middle age and feeling that
she had lost much of her youthful beauty, Janice stopped doing ads.
Coincidentally, a maverick scientist, Eric Zinthrop, has developed a
new drug derived from wasp enzymes and this seems to hold out a
life-line for Janice and her company. Ah, but what of the
consequences!
Susan
Cabot plays Janice Starlin, founder and owner of a large cosmetics
company.
Barboura
Morris plays Mary Dennison, secretary / personal assistant who with
Bill Lane and Arthur Cooper are skeptical of Dr. Zinthrop' intentions
and conspire to expose him and hopefully save Janice from whatever
might befall her.
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