I think that it was my getting into television; Decoy represented a big turn in my life. Everybody did B movies, but at least they were movies, so it was okay.
Now, without TV, nobody would be working. It was a small part, but it had so much to say that you understood why Tuesday Weld killed her mother. I worked hard to make that understood not a surface one, but tried to give you the lady above and beyond what you would see in a short time. The bewitchingly beautiful Audrey Dalton was born in Dublin, Ireland who maintains the most delicately embroidered lilt of Gaelic tones became an American actress of film in the heyday of Hollywood and the Golden Age of television.
Knowing from early on that she wanted to be an actress while studying at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts was discovered by a Paramount Studio executive in London, thus beginning her notable career starring in classic drama, comedy, film noir, science fiction, campy cult classic horror and dramatic television hits!
Barbara Rush, Possesses a transcendent gracefulness. She moves with a poise like a dancer, a beautiful gazelle stirring in the gentle quiet spaces like silent woods. When I see Barbara Rush, I see beauty personified by elegance and decency. Barbara Rush will always remain in my eyes, one of the most gentle of souls on the screen, no matter what role she is inhabiting. She was born in Denver, Colorado in and began at University of California. Then she joined the University Players, taking acting classes at the Pasadena Playhouse.
Paramount scooped Barbara up and signed her to a contract in Co-starring David Opatoshu and Eduard Franz. Before joining the Goldbergs she met the strikingly handsome actor Jeffrey Hunter who eventually became a hot commodity over at 20th Century Fox. Barbara Rush and Jeffrey Hunter fell in love and were married in December of Their son Christopher was born in Her roles ran the gamut from disenchanted wives, scheming other women or pretty socialites Though Barbara Rush is capable of a range of acting, the one great role of a lifetime never seemed to surface for her, though what ever she appeared in was elevated to a higher level because of her presence.
She also co-starred in tv movies. Barbara Rush also turned to work on the stage. Barbara Rush still possesses that transcendent beauty, poise and grace.
She will always be someone special someone memorable. I loved the chiffon dress. It was too weird that these people that came from other space were too frightening to look at, so they took the form of regular humans. They were just trying to fix their ship and get it together. Or was there ever a script for one that you turned down that you regret now? That was all just orders from the studio. The science fiction film I admired the most was the picture E. It was clearly ahead of its time, beautifully crafted and though-provoking.
She was just the most wonderful person to work with. She was so funny. There was a scene where she had to run after me in the forest in the rain. You would have been extraordinary in either television program! Did you ever receive a script or were you ever interested in appearing on either of those shows?
They never got in touch with me about anything. I would have loved to work for Hitchcock — I liked his films. Perhaps this is because you are such a consummate actress and the contrast of your gentility works well with the darker subject matter.
Did you enjoy venturing into these uncanny story lines? We more or less grew up together, in Santa Barbara. We were shooting — I think in New Orleans or Mississippi, somewhere in the south — on location, so it was very hot. Poor Brad who had to walk around in those mittens. Attended and graduated from the University of California, Santa Barbara Appears in No Down Payment with ex-husband Jeffrey Hunter, they both portraying married characters, but not married to each other.
Science fiction is a genre of speculative fiction dealing with imaginative concepts such as futuristic science and technology , space travel , time travel , faster than light travel , parallel universes and extraterrestrial life. This event always promises to be an epic endeavor as there are so many interesting themes and subjects to cover.
I am excited to be participating once again with these fabulous hosts who make it possible for all of us to contribute to a wealth of classic film history goodies to devour. You cast of exciting unknown readers… This has become a real project for me, a work in progress that will unfold over the next several weeks. For the purpose of The Classic Movie History Project Blogathon , I offer an overview that will be a lead in for the entire decade of s science fiction cinema conquering it year by year in separate articles.
As I started delving into this project, it began to grow larger and larger as if Jack Arnold and Bert I. In order to review an entire genre of such an influential decade and do the treatment it so rightly deserves, I realized that I needed to spread it out as a series. Re-visiting these beloved movies that inspired my childhood with wonder and sometimes tapped into my own authentic fears, I fell in love all over again.
Well written and adapted as visual narratives and surreal stories by beloved visionaries who set out to reach inward and outward through all of us dreamers and thinkers.
There are also those lovable S ci-fi films that are charming and wonderfully kitsch. And some… are just downright so, so, soooo awful their… awesome!
You could spend all day in a musty theater festooned with captivating promotional lobby cards and colorful posters. A box of Milk Duds in hand and the faint wiff of air conditioner freon at your back.
Well… sure some were B movies that have now sustained that Cult film charm and cheesiness, and some… are just downright pitiful, laughable guilty pleasures … and a bunch even came with really neat 3D glasses! I need to get out more…. As early as there was the German expressionist film dealing with the arrival of a menacing alien visitor from the planet Algol giveing actor Emil Jannings a machine that awards him unlimited powers.
Stories filled with an imagination that had no boundaries. Science Fiction cinema flirted blatantly with ideas and images of a world that reached beyond the known, and contemplated aloud, fantastic stories as early as the silent era. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde , re-envisioned time and time again. Barrymore so fluently moved through the silent stage, reveals that we all just might be harboring in our sub-conscious hidden dark and primal desires.
Unleashed by a concoction, a seduction of science creates a fiend! Hyde It features really cool electronic chambers and more! Aubrey Smith. The first influential science fiction film by Fritz Lang created a dystopian societ in Metropolis Charles Laughton is superb as H.
Science has never been more evil! Island of Lost Souls Then there was the adaptation of H. Progress is not living. It should only be the preparation for living. The electrical secrets of heaven, the lighting, the elaborate sets designed by genius Kenneth Strickfaden with his lights throbbing gizmos flashing and zapping, the creepy atmosphere of murky tones.
The consummate Universal monster movie with iconic scenes introducing a new face, Boris Karloff who would become the great father of terror stories …. Colin Clive becomes hysterical as he has creates life from death, but that life would become a whole new ethical, moral and imposing dilemma for Dr. And the laboratory as gorgeous set pieces would become a staple of the science fiction realm.
The splitting of the atom, ushering in the atomic age and the collective anxiety most definitely was the catalyst for the many of the movie fantasy stories known as the s Sci-Fi film. By that I mean that science fiction movies deal with scientific possibilities and technologies that do not exist yet but that might exist someday.
Science fiction is the realm of the not-yet. Then you got the next phase which is The Cold War again which is to do with paranoia. Movies started to dip into that. It was not just fear of being beaten up by the local bully. And these movies were all metaphors for those fears. About the end of the world, issues that were always going on about how many bombs were being built.
The Cold War was always in the media. Reflecting the growing internal struggles within American society and the developing mistrust about Soviet aggression and anyone and anything perceived as subversive. The phenomena of sightings of UFOs would continue throughout the s, though agencies were fully prepared to explain away the reports. Yet the public had a hunger to and fascination with the possibility of extra-terrestrials. Destination Moon did attempt to accurately portray a trip to the moon given the technology and knowledge that was stuck in Then we shot past the moon in cinema and went straight to the red planet with Flight to Mars !
Themes and metaphors that emerged from anxiety about the atom bomb , radiation fallout , the advent of modernity , the space race and the wanderlust to conquer outer space , interplanetary warfare , military vs.
Of course, the Druid angle is just a convenient way of getting around the inevitable problem in all lost tribe and jungle movies: the language barrier. In reality, of course, the Druids would have spoken nothing like intelligible English. We later meet these Stone Age brutes: bearded, unwashed barbarians swinging clubs and wielding spears. Who are they? Where did they come from? The movie answers none of this. Neither does it answer why there are mammoths and dinosaurs on the island. The dialogue is marvellously bad.
The men speak only in macho one-liners and intensely bad puns. And then, just to add some extra tension to the story, she allows them to live, but forbids them to have anything to do with the girls, despite the fact that the women themselves have repeatedly brought up the inconvenient fact that there are NO MEN on the island and saving the surviving Druids will be of little consequence of they do not somehow find some men to reproduce with.
Sandra, apparently, has not given this much thought. I could go on, but you get the gist. They also take care to point with their feet when lounging on logs, and keeping one foot in front of the other when posing for the camera.
And fortunately, the prehistoric island also seems to have a fabulous, hair dresser. Not even when making war do these women seem to lose their glamorous hairdos.
To their credit, some of them are decent actresses. Usually, the men who are infallibly American doofuses are captured as breeding stock by the tribe, who is ruled by a ruthless matriarch. But after the men have slapped around some of the dames and then forced themselves on them, they also infallibly see the folly of following a female leader, and realise that women are not created to govern and rule, but rather to love empty-headed American machos, bear children and make dinner.
Here, the female authority is mostly treated with respect, although there is a brief moment when Sandra wishes to surrender the leadership of the tribe to Steve, but for reasons you may find out yourself by watching the film, this transfer of power never comes into fruition.
The problem with this film is perhaps that while it refrains from the most egregious misogyny and anti-feminism that is often the moral conclusion in these kind of movies, it fails to replace these with any other moral conclusion, leaving the viewer somewhat disappointed at the end.
Untamed Women opened in September to little fanfare, and I have found no contemporary reviews. Its reputation has not improved massively over the years, as it has not even got a page at Rotten Tomatoes, its 3.
You can, however, find it on DVD. In this case Mikel Conrad brings back a medallion which is verified by an archaeologist to date back to the time of the Druids. What, asks Warren, is the point of this? Whom are the filmmakers trying to convince?
Whether the doctor or archaeologist in the frame story believe Conrad or not is of no consequence to the movie. Why bother with all the convincers? The indication is accurate.
However, of the movies frequently named as a candidate for the title of the worst movie ever made, Untamed Women is among those that come closest. More than anything, they seem like a group of pageant contestants on holiday.
And while the leather mini skirts may have raised a few heartbeats in the fifties, they ar quite modest, even for the time. Remember, this was the era in which the bikini shock waves were felt around the world, and movie stars would increasingly be photographed in the tiny two-piece bathing suit.
There are, to be sure, some goofy lines in the script […]. Yet I think Sayre was pretty creative overall in his take on the Amazon-tribe trope. Mainly because he never shuts up. The plot is choppy, the pacing off and really there is not much to see with most of it being random stock footage spliced together.
Actually, the above pretty much sums up my feelings on Untamed Women. After sleeping on it, I must admit that the film — although not particularly enjoyable — was at least possible to sit through without falling asleep, and did occasionally have the feel that someone at least tried making this a film worth watching. The merging of stock shots and live-action footage did take some planning and creative work, they did actually manage to get a B bomber and scuttle it, and there is at least one funny joke in the movie.
But it is badly written, badly acted and extremely sluggish. I think the problem with the movie is that it tried to keep a sense of realism when no such thing was called for, which just makes it rather dull. There is not much biographical information available either online or in my movie library about lead actor Mikel Conrad , other than the fact that he was born in Ohio in and died in Los Angeles in Today, the film is better known for its trumped-up PR campaign, in which Conrad claimed that the film contained actual footage of a flying saucer, filmed by himself.
Before The Flying Saucer Conrad had been an anonymous stock player at Columbia and Universal, until Universal somewhat unexpectedly placed him in the lead of the B-movie Arctic Manhunt in Untamed Women was his only other leading role, and the last movie he made before an uncredited walk-on in the US version of Gojira. Conrad played all his three lead roles with a sort of gruff boorishness: the cynical loner who, when pushed, turns out to have a heart beneath the ragged exterior.
Morgan Jones who plays Andy was a bit-part and supporting actor who appeared in a good two dozen films and over TV eposides in his career. He had a small role as a spaceship crewman in Forbidden Planet , but played the second lead in the Roger Corman -directed Not of This Earth The same year he had a small supporting role in The Giant Claw.
Mark Lowell , who plays Ed, with the troubled maternal relation, was another bit-part actor, who also occasionally worked as a dialogue supervisor and writer. Sandra, the high priestess of the Druids, is played by Doris Merrick , a decade or two older than the rest of the girls. Still, she outlived many of her younger co-stars. She passed away in November , at the respectable age of years. Her first big movie was the James Cagney wartime propaganda movie Yankee Doodle Dandy , in which she appeared as a dancer.
The Yuma Sun caught up with Merrick shortly before her death, and in December published an interview with her apparently unaware of her passing the month before , in which they report she has a poster of her and some of the rest of the cast, including Cagney , hanging on her wall. In April she even appeared in the US army weekly Yank as a pinup girl. Heather Angel is a British actress who started out on stage at the Old Vic theatre but left for Hollywood and became known for the Bulldog Drummond series.
Heather Angel possessed a sublime beauty and truly deserved to be leading lady rather than relegated to supporting roles and guilty but pleasurable B movie status. The L. Her performances in Berkeley Square and The Mystery of Edwin Drood were critically acclaimed… More gruesome than the story-lines involving her roles in Edwin Drood, Hound of the Baskervillles or Lifeboat put together is the fact that she witnessed her husband, stage and film directer Robert B.
The Hound of the Baskervilles The remaining heir Sir Henry is now threatened by the curse. Mystery of Edwin Drood Mystery of Edwin Drood played by David Manners is a dark and nightmarish Gothic tale of mad obsession, drug addiction and heartless murder! The opium chasing, choir master John Jasper Claude Rains becomes driven to mad fixation over Rosa, who is quite aware of his intense gaze, she becomes frightened and repulsed by him.
When Edwin vanishes, naturally Neville is the one suspected in his mysterious disappearance. Appearing in several silent films, she eventually co-starred as Duchess Josiana with Conrad Veidt as the tragic Gwynplaine, in another off-beat artistic masterpiece based on the Victor Hugo story The Man Who Laughs
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