DIRECTOR JACK ARNOLD GROUNDS 'IT CAME FROM OUTER SPACE'

<p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcbbJmjDy07eVm8H2txEwjDzl4LDWwcYQMNatENP38gZr3ZhWKtKsPBpa27MjwdFwEFF2sG7HgH0ug1OZHv4mT0XOA3Q2ypkrEILKBdXuRLIlS0oFuDJ9a-zgBGb1QCIWAL8ziWfIfADzz0roow2XB2Te8-9IQKjhrqUPIj3Fyz0-WrilMsRQ8FaqE2xUA/s2740/Screen%20Shot%202026-01-04%20at%208.29.36%20PM.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1520" data-original-width="2740" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcbbJmjDy07eVm8H2txEwjDzl4LDWwcYQMNatENP38gZr3ZhWKtKsPBpa27MjwdFwEFF2sG7HgH0ug1OZHv4mT0XOA3Q2ypkrEILKBdXuRLIlS0oFuDJ9a-zgBGb1QCIWAL8ziWfIfADzz0roow2XB2Te8-9IQKjhrqUPIj3Fyz0-WrilMsRQ8FaqE2xUA/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202026-01-04%20at%208.29.36%20PM.png"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Barbara Rush in IT CAME FROM OUTER SPACE Year: 1953 Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>The same year as the theatrical WAR OF THE WORLDS, where what resembles a meteorite lands on Earth and turns out being aliens that the entire region witnesses, <i>amateur stargazer</i> Richard Carlson is all alone in what's half a theory: while it's fact that <i>something</i> landed into the desert ground, only HE realizes what's really inside it...</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>And Jack Arnold was beginning a great career as Universal's science-fiction/monster b-movie director, and while the near-future TARANTULA, THE INCREDIBLE SHRINKING MAN and both CREATURE FROM THE BLACK LAGOON features, IT CAME FROM OUTER SPACE is more slow-burn than exciting, and while somewhat short on outright thrills and suspense, the story's told so conventionally and unpretentiously it all seems completely natural, providing Arnold a natural fit for bringing farfetched down to earth...<br></p><p><span></span></p>

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DIRECTOR JACK ARNOLD GROUNDS 'IT CAME FROM OUTER SPACE'

Barbara Rush in IT CAME FROM OUTER SPACE Year: 1953 Rating: ***1/2 The same year as the theatrical WAR OF THE WORLDS, where what resembles a...

COOLLY CRUISING THROUGH DISNEY'S OFFBEAT 'SUPERDAD'

<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBYP83Fo-U-NceaNr2Zi4BT0C8X893O2JpnG1md5GD4WTOloJpTUZtAshCFaC75J72fNASphcF0omddcMxbm_l-1QAeRnyUk14Czx2B54Ub8AGzUN72NRDMavV6L8LXqJXeFXGE8i8npTb/s1600/Screen+Shot+2020-02-02+at+9.05.37+AM.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1054" data-original-width="1600" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBYP83Fo-U-NceaNr2Zi4BT0C8X893O2JpnG1md5GD4WTOloJpTUZtAshCFaC75J72fNASphcF0omddcMxbm_l-1QAeRnyUk14Czx2B54Ub8AGzUN72NRDMavV6L8LXqJXeFXGE8i8npTb/s1600/Screen+Shot+2020-02-02+at+9.05.37+AM.jpeg"></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Kurt Russell kicking back in SUPERDAD Year: 1973</u></td></tr> </tbody></table> A bizarre Disney film called SUPERDAD starring HOGAN’S HEROES star Bob Crane who, at this point, after his show was finished, appeared in more clandestine sex videos than mainstream movies. and so, Disney gave him a chance to upstart a fledgling career... <br> <br> Maybe knowing Crane's backstory, the opening sequence is downright creepy and awkward. Bob Crane’s Charlie McCready doesn’t think his daughter deserves anyone else but Daddy...<br>

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COOLLY CRUISING THROUGH DISNEY'S OFFBEAT 'SUPERDAD'

Kurt Russell kicking back in SUPERDAD Year: 1973 A bizarre Disney film called SUPERDAD starring HOGAN’S HEROES star Bob Crane who, at ...

DOUGLAS SIRK SERVES 'MAGNIFICENT OBSESSION' W/ ROCK HUDSON

<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOuyPyRsaOGFMuWssH5pSW0lcbFsJijFaowXpuqQYfcJpEKB8dfv5NVZ1qzU1zaBFwClwedOjUR6uJxxUASAbgnKDQiCJ81plTSvnS3pCwBy56nJHyUgURqdv0HxSRehQSZYchAt8uRf7k/s1600/58708073_2363459443698322_8993373608986279936_o.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="580" data-original-width="1165" height="198" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOuyPyRsaOGFMuWssH5pSW0lcbFsJijFaowXpuqQYfcJpEKB8dfv5NVZ1qzU1zaBFwClwedOjUR6uJxxUASAbgnKDQiCJ81plTSvnS3pCwBy56nJHyUgURqdv0HxSRehQSZYchAt8uRf7k/s400/58708073_2363459443698322_8993373608986279936_o.jpeg" width="400"></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Rock Hudson you like a Hurricane IV Speedboat YEAR: 1954</u></td></tr> </tbody></table> By far one of the strangest 1950's Technicolor melodramas ever made, MAGNIFICENT OBSESSION put Rock Hudson on the map, and he's the best thing going here...<br> <br> Especially since his character — a rich, spoiled young man who races a futuristic space shuttle-shaped racing boat — seems not only against the vapid premise, but justifiably fights back when he's blamed for — after suffering a horrible accident — being revived by use of a neighbor's defibrillator that winds absent to help said neighbor who, married to a brooding Jane Wyman, is some kind of New Age Messianic figure before Hollywood pushed such a thing...<br>

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DOUGLAS SIRK SERVES 'MAGNIFICENT OBSESSION' W/ ROCK HUDSON

Rock Hudson you like a Hurricane IV Speedboat YEAR: 1954 By far one of the strangest 1950's Technicolor melodramas ever made, MAGNIF...

LATE ACTOR BRADFORD DILLMAN HOWLS IN 'MOON OF THE WOLF'

<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYbp88fh3jTvFdq42X0rBPWZjUfx6kF39LV45mx7eIZR4yMYh8eznw4ff8fZ8APcp8w5vwwJy-IsRu8N0ISjmrFz_-Enxff3e18DL19F9dfrJt1WckmBEFcPhFj2_Y81VC2gwxs7FSbbK2/s1600/26907598_423117534784095_648306667380802768_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="582" data-original-width="873" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYbp88fh3jTvFdq42X0rBPWZjUfx6kF39LV45mx7eIZR4yMYh8eznw4ff8fZ8APcp8w5vwwJy-IsRu8N0ISjmrFz_-Enxff3e18DL19F9dfrJt1WckmBEFcPhFj2_Y81VC2gwxs7FSbbK2/s400/26907598_423117534784095_648306667380802768_n.jpg" width="400"></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Bradford Dillman armed though not yet dangerous YEAR: 1972</u></td></tr> </tbody></table> TV Movies of the Week were perfect, but far from overall perfection. One of the best examples of "pretty good fare" is MOON OF THE WOLF starring David Janseen from THE FUGITIVE series — then, throughout the 70's he was a reining king of the M.O.W. universe, and while this particular werewolf tale never broke any ground in the sub-genre, it's Gothic and semi-spooky just the same...<br> <br> Bradford Dillman has always been a favorite. His based-on-real-life character from COMPULSION downright steals the show from heavyhitter Orson Welles and the more sympathetic of two killers based on Leopold and Loeb, Dean Stockwell, making Dillman's Artie Strauss the alpha male bully who takes charge. Soon enough that particular Richard Fleischer classic will be covered but for this tribute, MOON will do just fine...<br>

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LATE ACTOR BRADFORD DILLMAN HOWLS IN 'MOON OF THE WOLF'

Bradford Dillman armed though not yet dangerous YEAR: 1972 TV Movies of the Week were perfect, but far from overall perfection. One of t...