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Something I like about World of Giants (WOG) is that the subplot of a potential romance between Bill Winters (Arthur Franz) and Dorothy Brown (Marcia Henderson) is progressing naturally as the series continues, but without making a big deal about it. Any implied tension between the two last week becomes physical this week when, to…
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After emerging from a string of movies in the mid-1950s to late 1960s that earned him the nickname, “Mr. BIG,” Bert I. Gordon branched out a little with the comedy, How to Succeed with Sex (1970), and the crime thriller, The Mad Bomber (1973.) When I read the synopsis for the recent Severin Films blu-ray…
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My hopes of tiny Mel Hunter (Marshall Thompson) riding on the back of a pigeon in flight were dashed in episode seven of World of Giants (WOG), ‘Feathered Foe.’ After riding a zip line from the top of a telephone pole to the roof of the bad guy’s lair, it’s only to release the birds,…
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When it was released in 1984, Terror in the Aisles was ravaged by the critics. Gene Siskel wrote: Scary movie scenes work best when they’re set up by some expository foreplay, which is why this compilation of horrors doesn’t really work. Vincent Canby wrote: Because Terror in the Aisles is composed entirely of climaxes, it…
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With William Alland now producing, Dorothy Brown (Marcia Henderson) is becoming a more important character in World of Giants (WOG). In ‘Chemical Story,’ she gets to travel with Mel (Marshall Thompson) and Bill (Arthur Franz) to Washington D.C. to visit the commissioner. (This begs the question, where do our heroes live? I always assumed the…
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Future recipient of the British Distinguished Flying Cross award, Barry Mahon returned from WWII a war hero and became Errol Flynn’s personal pilot. This led him to a producing gig, including Crossed Swords (1954), starring Flynn and Gina Lollobrigida. Soon, though, he widened his horizons by producing and directing over 70 drive-in movies in the…
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We have a new producer of World of Giants (WOG) with the fifth episode, ‘Gambling Story,’ William Alland. The name should be familiar. He produced many of our favorites from the 1950s: It Came from Outer Space (1953), all three Creature from the Black Lagoon films, This Island Earth (1955), Tarantula (1955), The Mole People…
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In Night of the Walking Dead (1975), director Leon Klimovsky borrows one of the techniques he used in The Werewolf vs. the Vampire Woman (1971), but for only one scene. It’s a type of slow-motion effect that doesn’t look like slow-motion, but like vampires eerily moving in their own unique way. Night of the Walking…
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When a car runs our heroes off the road and their car flips on its side, the briefcase containing Mel (Marshall Thompson) is thrown from the moving vehicle and Bill (Arthur Franz) lies unconscious. As Mel follows protocol in “cases like this,” he attempts to get clear of the accident and find a place of…
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John Gilling directed what, on some days, is my favorite Hammer film: The Plague of the Zombies (1966.) Nearly a decade later, he directed his final film in Spain: Cross of the Devil, or The Devil’s Cross,aka La cruz del diablo (1975.) The subject matter of Cross of the Devil is also zombies, but different…
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