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The Thing That Couldn’t Die (1958)

I watched the 1958 Universal International black and white motion picture The Thing That Couldn’t Die on Svengoolie. Jessica has the power to use her divining forked stick to find water, and other items like a watch or wedding ring. This time she finds a buried copper chest, with writing in it, and she knows it is evil and should not be opened. The ranch hand gets the slow witted handyman to break into the box, before an archeologist can get there to examine it, where he finds a disembodied head that telepathically controls his mind.

The Invisible Man Returns (1940)

I watched this 1940 Universal Pictures release of the H.G. Wells story, The Invisible Man Returns on Svengoolie. The horror/science fiction film, the second in The Invisible Man series, was directed by Joe May (was an Austrian film director and film producer and one of the pioneers of German cinema). The movie takes place 9 years after the first finding Sir Geoffrey Radcliffe sentenced to death for killing his brother, which he did not. Dr. Frank Griffin, the brother to the original invisible man, inject him with Duocane (it was Monocane in the first movie) and makes him invisible.

The Invisible Man

I watched the 1933 Universal Pictures film The Invisible Man on Svengoolie. The movie is based on the H.G. Wells (The Island of Doctor Moreau, The War of the Worlds) book by the same name and stars Claude Raines (The Adventures of Robin Hood, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, The Wolf Man, Casablanca, Phantom of the Opera, Battle of the Worlds, Lawrence of Arabia, The Greatest Story Ever Told) as Dr. Jack Griffin who has found the secret of invisibility and given it to himself.

The Black Scorpion (1957)

I watched the 1957 black and white Warner Bros., Sci-Fi/Horror movie, The Black Scorpion on Svengoolie. It was filmed at Estadio Universitario, Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico. The stop-action animation was by King Kong expert Willis O’Brien with the help of Pete Peterson who did most of the hands on animation. Due to the low budget, most of it was created in Peterson’s home garage. The 30 foot long inch worm was an unused prop from the King Kong movie.

Earth vs The Spider (1958)

I watched the 1958 American International Pictures black and white sci-fi/horror movie “Earth vs The Spider” on Svengoolie. Carol’s father didn’t come home and she gets Mike to help her look for him. They find his wrecked truck and thinking he might have crawled into a nearby cave, go to look. What they find is a sticky web, a giant spider and horror. Carol is played by June Kenney (Attack of the Puppet People, The Ladies Man, Bloodlust!), her dad, Mr. Kingman, is played by Ed Kemmer (a fighter pilot in World War II, Buzz Cory in Space Patrol, Giant from the Unknown)

Man-Made Monster (1941)

I watched the 1941 Universal Pictures, science fiction horror movie, Man-Made Monster on Svengoolie. This film is directed by George Waggner (Horror Island, The Wolf Man, 10 episodes of Batman 1966-1968) and produced by Jack Bernhard (Unknown Island, Decoy, Blonde Ice, The Second Face). Dan McCormick played by Lon Chaney Jr. (played The Wolf Man, Dracula, Frankenstein and the Mummy in various movies) is on a bus that wrecks and a power line kills everyone on board but him.

Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954)

I watched the Universal-International 1954 3D monster horror film Creature of the Black Lagoon. It was directed by Jack Arnold and produced by William Alland (This Island Earth, It came From Outer Space, Tarantula!, The Deadly Mantis, The Mole People, The Colossus of New York, The Space Children, and the three Creature from the Black Lagoon films). The geology expedition ends up in the Black Lagoon off a tributary of the Amazon. Here they find more than just rocks.

Jack Arnold (Director)

Born October 14, 1916, in New Haven, Connecticut, Jack Arnold is famous for his 1950’s Sci-Fi, Horror flics. As a child he was and avid reader of science fiction and began his career as an actor on and off Broadway.

The Leech Woman (1960)

I watched, the 1960 black and white Universal International release, The Leech Woman on Svengoolie. An old woman answers an ad by endocrinologist, Dr. Paul Talbot, about aging. She says that she was brought to America 140 years ago as a slave and that if he can fund her trip back to Africa she’ll show him the secret to eternal youth. He agrees and takes his wife, who he wants to make beautiful again, so that he’ll love her again. Things go pretty bad from here. Dr. Talbot is played by Phillip Terry (Mannequin, The Monster and the Girl, Wake Island, Bataan) and his wife June is Coleen Gray (Destination 60,000, The Phantom Planet, Nightmare Alley, Red River, The Killing). Other stars are Grant Williams (The Incredible Shrinking Man, The Monolith Monsters, PT 109, Brain of Blood, Doomsday Machine, also known as Escape from Planet Earth),

Valley of the Dragons (1961)

I watched the Columbia Pictures November 1961 “Valley of the Dragons” (which had no dragons in it) on Svengoolie. The movie is, very loosely, based on the Jules Vernes book “Career of a Comet”. This film uses lots of stock footage from Rodan (Rodan itself), Cat-women of the Moon (the spider), King Dinosaur, and One Million B.C.. The director is Edward Bernds (Three Stooges short subjects, A Bird in the Head, Gasoline Alley, Joy Ride) and