65% (2) This Island Earth 86 min, Passed, [Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi] [Joseph M. Newman] [15 Jun 1955]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 59%, Rotten Tomatoes: 71%, External Reviews
Awards: 1 win & 1 nomination.
Actors: Faith Domergue, Jeff Morrow, Lance Fuller, Rex Reason
Writer: Raymond F. Jones (story "The Alien Machine"), Franklin Coen (screenplay), George Callahan (screenplay)
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Plot: The electronic engineer Dr. Cal Meacham is a prominent scientist that is studying industrial application of nuclear energy and also a great pilot. One day, he receives a different condenser and soon his assistant Joe Wilson receives a manual instruction and several components of a sophisticated machine. Carl and Joe build a communication apparatus and a man called Exeter contacts Carl. He tells that Carl has passed the test assembling the Interocitor and invites him to join his research. The intrigued Carl decides to travel to meet Exeter that sends an unmanned airplane to bring him to an isolated facility in Georgia. He is welcomed by Dr. Ruth Adams but she mysteriously does not recall their love affair in the past. They team-up with Dr. Steve Carlson and they note that the other scientists in the facility have been transformed, having a weird behavior. They decide to flee in a car, but they are attacked by rays and Steve dies. Carl and Ruth also witness the facility blowing-up and they escape in an airplane. However they are pulled up into a flying saucer and realize that Exeter is an alien. Whal is the objective of the aliens?
Rotten Tomatoes: For reasons that defy logic, the excellent This Island Earth was held up for ridicule as an allegedly bad movie in the film version of TV's Mystery Science Theater. If not the best science-fiction film of the 1950s, Earth is certainly one of the most intelligent and elaborate. The story begins when the image of Exeter (Jeff Morrow), a huge-domed scientific genius from the planet Metaluna, appears on an experimental 3D television screen. Exeter invites several noted scientists from around the world to work on a top-secret project at Exeter's earthly mansion. Among those accepting the invitation are Cal Meacham (Rex Reason) and his ex-fiancee Ruth Adams (Faith Domergue). Soon, Cal and Ruth learn Exeter's true motives; to use the Earth's atomic knowhow in building a defense shield to protect Metaluna against the enemy planet Zahgon. Eventually, Exeter boards his high-tech flying saucer and whisks Cal and Ruth off to his dying planet, where, among other perils, they are menaced by a hideous mutant. Based on a novel by Raymond F. Jones, This Island Earth is one of those rare 1950s speculative films that holds up as well today as it did when first released, despite the comparative quaintness of the special effects and high-tech paraphernalia. Incidentally, the climactic Metalunan scenes were directed by Universal's resident sci-fi specialist, Jack Arnold.
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61% (2) It Came from Beneath the Sea 79 min, Not Rated, [Horror, Sci-Fi] [Robert Gordon] [01 Jul 1955]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 60%, Rotten Tomatoes: 63%, External Reviews
Actors: Donald Curtis, Faith Domergue, Ian Keith, Kenneth Tobey
Writer: George Worthing Yates (screenplay), Harold Jacob Smith (screenplay), George Worthing Yates (story)
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Plot: After an encounter at sea with an unknown underwater creature, a naval commander works with two scientists to identify it. The creature they are dealing with is a giant, radioactive octopus that has left its normal feeding grounds in search of new sources of replenishment. As the creature attacks San Francisco, the Navy tries to trap it at the Golden Gate Bridge but it manages to enter the Bay area leading to a final confrontation with a submarine.
Rotten Tomatoes: It Came From Beneath the Sea was the first of several fruitful collaborations between producer Charles H. Schneer and special-effects wizard Ray Harryhausen. "It" is a giant, six-tentacled octopus, which is galvanized into action by an H-bomb test. Worse still, the monster is highly radioactive, rendering useless the normal means of defense against it. Scientists Donald Curtis and Faith Domergue team with atomic-submarine commander Kenneth Tobey to halt the creature's progress before it begins to attack major coastal cities. Alas, the monster manages to reach San Francisco, wreaking havoc on the Golden Gate Bridge, the Ferry Building, and Market Street before Tobey figures out a way to destroy it. The stop-motion animation utilized by Harryhausen in It Came From Beneath Sea is convincingly frightening, but before long he'd top this achievement with such superb projects as Earth vs. Flying Saucers and Seventh Voyage of Sinbad. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
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68% (1) Where Danger Lives 82 min, Not Rated, [Crime, Film-Noir, Thriller] [John Farrow] [08 Jul 1950]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 68%, External Reviews
Actors: Claude Rains, Faith Domergue, Maureen O'Sullivan, Robert Mitchum
Writer: Charles Bennett (screenplay), Leo Rosten (story)
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Plot: One night at the hospital, young doctor Jeff Cameron meets Margo, who's brought in after a suicide attempt. He quickly falls for her and they become romantically involved, but it turns out that Margo is married. At a confrontation, Margo's husband is killed and Jeff and Margo flee. Heading for Mexico, they try to outrun the law.
Rotten Tomatoes: A disturbed woman allows her doctor to believe he has killed her husband (she was actually the culprit) and they go on the run together.
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63% (1) Vendetta 83 min, [Crime, Drama] [Mel Ferrer, Stuart Heisler, Max Ophüls, Preston Sturges, Paul Weatherwax] [21 Mar 1952]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 63%, External Reviews
Actors: Donald Buka, Faith Domergue, George Dolenz, Joseph Calleia
Writer: W.R. Burnett, Prosper Mérimée (novel), Peter O'Crotty (adaptation)
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Plot: The daughter of a slain man pushes her brother toward vengeance in 19th-century Corsica.
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55% (1) The Great Sioux Uprising 80 min, APPROVED, [Western] [Lloyd Bacon] [17 Jul 1953]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 55%, External Reviews
Actors: Faith Domergue, Jeff Chandler, Lyle Bettger, Peter Whitney
Writer: Melvin Levy (screenplay), J. Robert Bren (screenplay), Gladys Atwater (screenplay), Frank Gill Jr. (additional dialogue), J. Robert Bren (story), Gladys Atwater (story)
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Plot: During the Civil War, Southern agitators and a crooked horse dealer endanger the peace between the Union and the Wyoming Sioux.
Rotten Tomatoes: In this western, a surgeon goes out West and becomes an equine veterinarian after he suffers a debilitating injury. He winds up in Laramie Junction where he hopes to settle down and enjoy the peace and quiet. Unfortunately, the town is also the home of a shady horse trader who pretends to be an upstanding rancher, but is actually a rustler who steals his stock from the neighboring Sioux and sells them to the army. The other ranchers distrust and despise him for his sleazy buying tactics. Soon the Sioux catch on and begin fighting back. The newly arrived vet makes a deal with the Sioux chief to help calm the situation. Instead of having the ranchers sell through the rustler, he makes it so they can sell their stock directly to the army. The rustler retaliates by framing the doc and almost succeeds in getting the Indians and the ranchers alike to turn against the good doctor. When the army gets involved, an all-out war almost occurs, until the doctor clears his name in the nick of time, stops the war, and gets the rustler arrested.
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36% (1) Voyage to the Prehistoric Planet 74 min, Unrated, [Adventure, Sci-Fi] [Curtis Harrington, Pavel Klushantsev] [01 Aug 1965]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 36%, External Reviews
Actors: Basil Rathbone, Christopher Brand, Faith Domergue, Marc Shannon
Writer: Curtis Harrington
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Plot: In 2020, after the colonization of the moon, the spaceships Vega, Sirius and Capella are launched from Lunar Station 7. They are to explore Venus under the command of Professor Hartman, but an asteroid collides and explodes Capella. The leader ship Vega stays orbiting and sends the astronauts Kern and Sherman with the robot John to the surface of Venus, but they have problems with communication with Dr. Marsha Evans in Vega. The Sirius lands in Venus and Commander Brendan Lockhart, Andre Ferneau and Hans Walter explore the planet and are attacked by prehistoric animals. They use a vehicle to seek Kern and Sherman while collecting samples from the planet. Meanwhile John helps the two cosmonauts to survive in the hostile land.
Rotten Tomatoes: In this sci-fi film, an ambitious spaceship crew sets off on a quest to be the first people to travel to Venus, experiencing numerous adventures and problems along the way.
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