Sixties City - Science Fiction Films of The Sixties

City Under The Sea
( City In The Sea )
( War Gods Of The Deep )

One of the descendants of the scientist in the original Fly movie tries to perfect the teleport machine. The wife of one of his sons, freshly escaped from a lunatic asylum, discovers the human results of the failed experiments. Police looking for her nearly discover the secret laboratory and the family decide to try and escape using the teleport machine. Whoops!

Agent 505
( Agent 505 - Todesfalle Beirut )

Rapid Film / Metheus Films / Compagnie Lyonnaise De Cinema

Manfred R. Koehler

Frederic Stafford, Chris Howland, Harald Leipnitz, Genevieve Cluny
Gisella Arden, Pierre Richard

A James Bond -type super-spy thriller in which an evil villain plans to destroy Beirut but is thwarted by secret agents played by Stafford and Howland. The musical score is by Ennio Morricone.

Also see my James Bond Film pages

Gigantes Planetarios
( Gigantes Interplanetarios )

Estudios America / Producciones Corsa

Alfred B. Crevenna

Guillermo Murray, Adriana Roel, Rogelio Guerra, Jose Angel Espinosa Ferrusquilla
Jose Calvez, Jacqueline Fellay, Evita Munoz, Irma Lozano
Nathaniel Leon Frankenstein, Carlos Nieto, Lorena Velasquez ( pictured )

A children's sci-fi picture in which the heroes are a young scientist and a professor's assistant who are in love. The professor for whom the assistant works has constructed a spaceship and it is this which takes the lovers Daniel and Silvia, together with a boxer and his manager ( ???? ) to the planet of eternal night in the galaxy of Rumania. The alien inhabitants are underground dwellers who shun the planet's blinding surface light and who are ruled by a madman whose intention is to destroy the Earth with a 'death ray' of some sort. The four travellers manage to turn the ray on its constructor and give control of the planet back to the inhabitants. The lovers return to Earth leaving behind their companions who have succumbed to the charms of some alien crumpet. This and its follow-up film were released in 1966.

The Heat Of A Thousand Suns

Argos

Animation: Pierre Kast
Editor: Chris Marker
Illustration and designs by Eduard Luis

An animated French science fiction film set in the far future where a young man, bored by his surroundings, blasts off into space with only his cat and some robots for company.
On a distant planet he discovers a serene, tranquil culture and falls in love with a girl.
The story follows his problems adjusting to their sociological standards and customs
where family units are comprised of sexual groups of eight people.

El Planeta De Las Mujeres Invasoras

Estudios America / Producciones Corsa

Alfred B. Crevenna

Guillermo Murray, Adriana Roel, Rogelio Guerra, Jose Angel Espinosa Ferrusquilla
Lorena Velazquez, Elizabeth Campbell, Maura Monti

This was made as a follow-up to 'Gigantes Planetarios' with the same four leading characters, despite the fact that two of them were left behind in its predecessor. They find themselves on the planet Sibila which is controlled by the twins Alburnia and Adastrea who are, respectively, good and evil. The twins plan to conquer Earth but the Sibilans cannot live in Earth's atmosphere so they need to carry out experiments on human lungs in order to find a way to 'convert' their invasion forces. The young couple thwart the twins' attempts to kidnap young children for experimentation and end up killing both of them off before returning to Earth.

El Rayo Disintegrador
( Aventuras De Quinque y Arturo El Robot )

Petruka Films

Pascual Cervera

Peter Solis, Maria Jesus Balenciaga, Joaquin Nieto, Sergio Mendizabal
Jose Luis Coll, Maria Hevia

A group of criminals steal a secret disintegrator ray and are tracked down and dealt with by a ten year-old boy and a rusty robot called Arturo.

The Face Of Fu Manchu

Hallam

Don Sharp

Christopher Lee, Tsai Chin, Nigel Green, Howard Marion-Crawford
James Robertson Justice, Walter Rilla, Karin Dor

'The world has not heard the last of Fu Manchu' - apparently not, as he pops up again here with more wicked schemes for achieving world domination. This time he is collecting rare poisonous flowers from Tibet to produce a lethal gas which he tests on an English village.

Willy McBean and His Magic Machine

Videocraft International / Dentsu Motion Picture Company
Magna Pictures

Arthur Rankin Jr.

Voices: Larry Mann, Billie Richards, Alfie Scopp, Paul Kligman
Bernard Cowan, Paul Soles

Animated feature using 'AniMagic' in which Professor Rasputin von Rotten invents a time machine and intends using it to claim the credit for history's greatest events. His pet monkey reveals the plot to Willy McBean and the pair of them embark on an adventure to foil the evil Professor's plans.

The Faceless Monsters
( Amanti d'Oltretomba )
( Nightmare Castle )

Produzione Cinematografica Emmeci

Allan Grunewald

Barbara Steele, Paul Miller, Helga Line, Lawrence Clift, John McDouglas, Rik Battaglia

A sci-fi horror film which was cut to bits ( from 105 mins to 73 mins ) by the distributors to remove the more gory bits. It opens with a pair of lovers being disfigured - one with acid and the other with a red-hot iron. The story features a Victorian scientist involved in experiments with the electrical regeneration of blood. In order to finance his research he kills his wife in the hope of gaining from her will but finds that her sister inherits all her wealth and property. On trying the same trick on her he finds an opponent more capable than he had bargained for and who is out to get revenge for her sister's death.

Fantomas Strikes Back
( Fantomas Se Dechaine )

SNEG / PAC / Victory

Andre Hunebelle

Jean Marais, Louis de Funes, Mylene Demongeot, Jacques Dynam
Robert Dalban, Albert Dagnat

Fantomas is another character involved in a 'series' of films. He is a super-criminal who, this time round, kidnaps a group of scientists and forces them to develop a ray for controlling minds in his secret volcano-based laboratory. He is eventually cornered but makes his escape in a flying car.
This, the second film, is the only one of the Fantomas trilogy which has notable sci-fi content.
The other two films are 'Fantomas' ( 1964 ) and 'Fantomas Against Scotland Yard' ( 1966 ).
The image shown is actually from the first film in the series.

The Green Planet

SOFAC

Art: Piotr Kamler
Story: Jacques Sternberg

A science fiction short in which the visuals are apparently achieved by sprinkling fine sand onto a green-coloured background. The accompanying commentary describes the activities of the star-shaped inhabitants of Actur. Their chief industry is the manufacture of time - time to fill, time to gain, time to lose, and although tone deaf, they love music. It becomes increasingly obvious that the absurd creatures being described aren't Acturans at all, but a race slightly closer to home.

Hercules Against The Moon Men
( Maciste E La Regina Di Samar )

Nike Cinematografica / Comptoir Francais Du Film

Giacomo Gentilomo

Sergio Ciani, Jany Clair, Anna-Maria Polani, Nando Tamberlani
Jean-Pierre Honore, Delia D'Alberti

The hero Maciste is engaged by the people of Samar to help rid them of their evil queen and her
army of rock-like moon men who enforce her wishes.

The Hyperboloid Of Engineer Garin
( Giperboloid Ingenera Garina )
( Engineer Garin's Death Ray )

Based on a novel by Alexei Tolstoy

Gorki

Alexander Gintsburg

Yevgeny Yevstigneev, Vsevolod Safonov, Mikhail Astangov, Natalya Klimova

Yet another mad scientist who wants to destroy the world with a 'death ray'

The Lost Face
( Ztracena Tvar )

Svabik-Prochazka

Pavel Hobl

Vlastimil Brodsky, Fred Demare, Jana Brezkova, Frantisek Filipovsky, Marie Vasova
Martin Rurek, Nina Popelikova, Jiri Vala, Zdenka Prochazkova

A face-changing medical science-fiction story in which a doctor, who can't achieve recognition or money for his talents, gains employment with the gangster element involving changing the faces of both victims and criminals as well as his own.

Our Man Flint

20th Century Fox

Daniel Mann

James Coburn, Lee J. Cobb, Gila Golan, Edward Mulhare, Benson Fong
Shelby Grant, Rhys Williams, Russ Conway

The first of two James Bond spoofs starring James Coburn sees super secret agent Flint spoiling the world domination plans of three evil scientists and their weather control program. More girls than Bond, more fancy gadgets, but somehow lacking in depth.

Also see my James Bond Film pages

Pinocchio In Outer Space

Swallow / Belvision

Ray Goosens

Voices: Arnold Stang, Conrad Jameson, Minerva Pious

An animated feature in which the wooden puppet heads into space with his pal Nurtle the turtle. They land on Mars and come up against Astro, the flying Martian whale, who fancies his chances of conquering Earth but Pinnochio and Nurtle manage to ground him and his plans.

The Silencers

Based on the books by Donald Hamilton

Meadway-Claude / Columbia

Phil Karlson

Dean Martin, Beverly Adams, Stella Stevens, Daliah Lavi, Cyd Charisse, Victor Buono
James Gregory, Robert Webber

The first of four 'Matt Helm' James Bond spoofs starring Dean Martin as the playboy secret agent.
In this first adventure Helm and his gorgeous girls foil a plot to reprogram an atomic missile and
cause it to land in the New Mexico testing ground.

Also see my James Bond Film pages

Thunderball

Based on the novel by Ian Fleming

Kevin McClory / United Artists

Terence Young

Sean Connery, Claudine Auger, Luciana Paluzzi, Martine Beswick, Lois Maxwell, Bernard Lee
Adolfo Celi, Rik Van Nutter, Guy Doleman, Molly Peters, Desmond Llewelyn, Roland Culver
Earl Cameron, Paul Stassino, Rose Alba, Philip Locke, George Pravda, Michael Brennan
Leonard Sachs, Edward Underdown, Reginald Beckwith

Bond in the Bahamas investigating the disappearance of a U.S. plane which has disappeared with two atomic bombs on board. He comes across the involvement of SPECTRE, this time in the form of Emilio Largo and his beautiful but unsuspecting ward, Domino ( Claudine Auger ). SPECTRE have arranged for the plane to crash in the shallow water of the keys and plan to use Largo's fantastic boat, the Disco Volante, to remove the two bombs which are then to be used for blackmail. 007 manages to thwart them again, leading a team of Felix Leiter's crack CIA operatives in a spectacular underwater battle before ultimately finishing off Largo personally in a fight aboard his out-of-control craft.

Also see my James Bond Film pages

Who Killed Jessie?
( Kdo Chce Zabit Jessu? )
( Who Wants To Kill Jessie? )

Czechoslovensky Film

Vaclav Vorlicek

Jiri Sovak, Dana Medricka, Olga Shoberova ( Olinka Berova )
Karel Effa, Juraj Visny

A comedy sci-fi in which a woman scientist invents a dream manipulation machine. This allows her to view people's dreams on a screen and change the imagery so that nightmares become peaceful dreams. She decides to try it out on her husband and finds that he is having dreams about a gorgeous comic-strip character called Jessie and two villainous characters who are out to get her. The machine malfunctions and somehow brings the dream characters to life right in the couple's bedroom.

Spy In Your Eye
( Berlino Appuntamento Per La Spie )

Italian International Film / Publi Italia

Vittorio Sala

Brett Halsey, Paula Krauss, Dana Andrews, Gastone Moschin, Tania Beryl
Alessandro Sperli, Mario Valdemarin, Tino Bianchi, Renato Baldini

An American spy has a miniature TV camera implanted in his eye while undergoing an operation to cure his blindness. With knowledge gained from this the Russians kidnap the daughter of a dead scientist who they believe knows the secret formula that he was working on. The camera is eventually discovered and is used to send false information back to the Russians. Oh - in case you were wondering, the girl was rescued and the secret formula was found tattooed on her scalp under her hair.

The Spy With My Face

MGM / Arena

John Newland

Robert Vaughn, David McCallum, Leo G. Carroll, Senta Berger, Michael Evans
Sharon Farrell

Napoleon Solo is captured by THRUSH who replace him with a perfect double in a bid to infiltrate the U.N.C.L.E. organisation. Illya Kuryakin becomes suspicious at his partner's unusual behaviour and starts to put two and two together. In the meantime, Solo must escape and try to stop his double before he succeeds in his plan.

Also see my Man From Uncle pages

An alien, Mr. Medra, abducts Earth girls who answer his adverts in 'Bikini Girl' magazine and transports them to Jupiter's Ganymede moon for the purpose of experimental genetics.
Why do they always pick on us?

A secret agent travels across the galaxy to try and discover what happened to his predecessor. He finds himself on a planet that is being ruled by ALPHA 60, a '1984 Big Brother' computer. He eventually destroys it by reading it poetry.

The evil doctor invents and manufactures life-like girl robots who are programmed to make themselves desirable to wealthy men.

What do you mean, why??

The captain of an American destroyer that is pursuing a Russian submarine through Arctic waters accidentally fires an atomic weapon. Yeah, sure, he thought the button was a cigar lighter . . .

A weather station in the Himalayas is destroyed during an unseasonal melting of Earth's ice caps. Two men from Gamma I are sent to investigate accompanied by a Sherpa guide and a girl worried about her fiance. They are captured by aliens, the giant blue Aytia, who just happen to let slip their plan to turn the planet into a huge ice plain so that their pals from a doomed planet in another solar system can move in. Why don't we just grant them political asylum and give them all houses and satellite T.V.? Anyway, having discovered that the aliens' main base is on Callisto, one of Jupiter's moons, our little band escapes and our two heroes, Jackson and Pulasky, are sent into space on a mission to slap the back of the aliens' legs and tell them to stop it before we all freeze to death. Earth is saved again - we're on a roll . . .

A bumbling sergeant in the U.S.Army takes a trip into space with a chimp where he undergoes a strange change of personality.

Fightin' and feudin' among the pioneer passengers aboard an interstellar colonisation ship, in the odd few moments when they are not talking.

The year is 2020. Marcia watches from a ship in orbit around Venus as the crew and robot on the surface get attacked by prehistoric monsters. A volcanic eruption chews up the planet allowing them to escape. They somehow come to the conclusion that the monsters were really Venusians who became mutants after they destroyed their planet with atomic warfare. Still with me�..? I would have thought that Faith would have had enough of mutants after 'This Island Earth'.
It's a lousy job, but someone has to do it.

A madman plans to sabotage a NASA lunar project and U.S. government agent Harry Sennet is sent undercover to thwart his intentions. Just about qualifies as sci-fi.

Also see my James Bond Film pages

An atomic war on Mars destroys nearly all the women (seems a bit selective ) so the Martian men, led by Princess Marcuzan, feel the need to steal ours. On their way to Earth, they damage a space capsule and its android pilot who returns to go on the rampage. In the meantime, during the ensuing confusion, the Martians decide that beach parties are a good hunting ground for breeding stock. Can't argue with that . . .

An Antarctic expedition discovers some strange new trees and takes them back to a South Seas navy base where they turn out to be nocturnal acid-secreting alien creatures.

The comings and goings of a gang from the outlaw planetoid Delphos in 2015 A.D. The lucky lawbreakers get to man - ( alien? ) - handle Lisa Gastoni.

Returning from the moon, a group of astronauts are affrected by an exotic fungus that produces LSD-like effects until it is offed by some unlikely-sounding artificial sub-zero particles.

An unusual nuclear war 'scare' film made for TV by the BBC in the form of a documentary showing the effects of a nuclear strike on a town in Kent was considered too horrifying for television. It was allowed to be shown at The National Film Theatre in February 1966 and was subsequently only released to selected cinemas as it was thought the viewing population might take it too seriously, like the 'War Of The Worlds' radio programme. Gruesome.

It is the 21st century. Aliens made of a form of light invade the solar system and base themselves on Mars. From there, they attack Earth spacestations, destroying the minds of the crews. Who you gonna call?

An eccentric recluse discovers a meteorite, the radiation from which gives him strange powers.

A missile fired at the Earth's core ( are they mad? ) sets off a string of increasingly violent earthquakes. The 'cure' is effected by exploding a nuclear bomb inside a volcano which ultimately blows a chunk of Earth into orbit to create a new moon.

The spaceships Argos and Galliot are sent to investigate the planet Aura where the crews suddenly start killing each other off for no apparent reason. Incorporeal aliens, whose sun has died, take over the dead bodies and use them to search for a new home. Earth looks nice�

At a top secret biological research station in the desert, a scientist turns traitor and steals a lethal virus to be used by a mad millionaire.

The 21st century 'Big Hunt Ministry', in order to find an outlet for mankind's more violent tendencies, trains groups of 'hunters' and 'victims' to fight each other in legal duels to the death. Ten 'kills' wins a fabulous prize.

A teenage 'genius' invents GOOP by accident - a substance which promotes rapid growth in living things when eaten. Some delinquents steal the substance and eat it for a 'dare', causing them to become 30ft tall and able to take over the town.

Also see my Sixties Pop Movies pages

Yep, it sounds like it and it is! Four astronauts crash-land on Mars. Steve, Charlie, Doc and�you guessed it�Dorothy. They discover a golden road which leads to the ruins of a Martian City where the 'Wizard' ( the collective mind of the last Martians ) refuses to allow the four of them to leave until they sort out a little problem for 'him'� Slightly less memorable than the original.

A returning astronaut crash-lands in a field and, mutilated by radiation, starts to rampage through the neighbourhood. As he is cornered, he disappears and the 'real' astronaut is discovered half a planet away in the Pacific Ocean none the worse for wear.

Richard Kiel can't seem to keep away from anything to do with 'Jaws'. An alien agent is sent here from a galaxy far, far away with the objective of conquering the planet by duplicating humans in a pottery-like material which, fortunately for us, can be shattered like crockery. He comes across a beautiful blind girl who worms her way into his affections and distracts him from his purpose enough for the forces of Earth to ultimately defeat him and his animated wedgewood army.

in exactly the same place. She believes him to be the reincarnation of an ancient lover and tries to persuade him to use the flame.

Also see my Hammer Film pages

Alien creatures that look like giant eyes try to take over the world but are thwarted
by the ideas of some teenagers.

The Doctor and his friends land on the radiation-affected planet Skaro and help the hippie-like, peaceful blue-skinned Thals to stop their robotic, warlike slavemasters, the Daleks, from wiping them out.

	City Under The Sea ( City In The Sea ) ( War Gods Of The Deep ) Bruton / AIP Jacques Tourneur David Tomlinson, Vincent Price, Tab Hunter, Susan Hart, Henry Oscar John LeMesurier The leader of a band of Victorian smugglers who have acquired immortality from the atmosphere of the underground city, Lyonesse, in which they took refuge many years previously, kidnaps an American heiress who resembles his dead wife. Our heroes track her down, fighting off the smugglers and the strange original inhabitants, the amphibious gill-men, to effect her rescue just in time before the city is destroyed by an underwater volcano.
	The Curse Of The Fly Lippert Films Ltd. / Shepperton Studios Don Sharp Carole Gray, Brian Donlevy, Yvette Rees, George Baker, Jeremy Wilkins Bert Kwouk One of the descendants of the scientist in the original Fly movie tries to perfect the teleport machine. The wife of one of his sons, freshly escaped from a lunatic asylum, discovers the human results of the failed experiments. Police looking for her nearly discover the secret laboratory and the family decide to try and escape using the teleport machine. Whoops!
	Agent 505 ( Agent 505 - Todesfalle Beirut ) Rapid Film / Metheus Films / Compagnie Lyonnaise De Cinema Manfred R. Koehler Frederic Stafford, Chris Howland, Harald Leipnitz, Genevieve Cluny Gisella Arden, Pierre Richard A James Bond -type super-spy thriller in which an evil villain plans to destroy Beirut but is thwarted by secret agents played by Stafford and Howland. The musical score is by Ennio Morricone. Also see my James Bond Film pages
Lorena Velasquez	Gigantes Planetarios ( Gigantes Interplanetarios ) Estudios America / Producciones Corsa Alfred B. Crevenna Guillermo Murray, Adriana Roel, Rogelio Guerra, Jose Angel Espinosa Ferrusquilla Jose Calvez, Jacqueline Fellay, Evita Munoz, Irma Lozano Nathaniel Leon Frankenstein, Carlos Nieto, Lorena Velasquez ( pictured ) A children's sci-fi picture in which the heroes are a young scientist and a professor's assistant who are in love. The professor for whom the assistant works has constructed a spaceship and it is this which takes the lovers Daniel and Silvia, together with a boxer and his manager ( ???? ) to the planet of eternal night in the galaxy of Rumania. The alien inhabitants are underground dwellers who shun the planet's blinding surface light and who are ruled by a madman whose intention is to destroy the Earth with a 'death ray' of some sort. The four travellers manage to turn the ray on its constructor and give control of the planet back to the inhabitants. The lovers return to Earth leaving behind their companions who have succumbed to the charms of some alien crumpet. This and its follow-up film were released in 1966.
	The Heat Of A Thousand Suns Argos Animation: Pierre Kast Editor: Chris Marker Illustration and designs by Eduard Luis An animated French science fiction film set in the far future where a young man, bored by his surroundings, blasts off into space with only his cat and some robots for company. On a distant planet he discovers a serene, tranquil culture and falls in love with a girl. The story follows his problems adjusting to their sociological standards and customs where family units are comprised of sexual groups of eight people.
	El Planeta De Las Mujeres Invasoras Estudios America / Producciones Corsa Alfred B. Crevenna Guillermo Murray, Adriana Roel, Rogelio Guerra, Jose Angel Espinosa Ferrusquilla Lorena Velazquez, Elizabeth Campbell, Maura Monti This was made as a follow-up to 'Gigantes Planetarios' with the same four leading characters, despite the fact that two of them were left behind in its predecessor. They find themselves on the planet Sibila which is controlled by the twins Alburnia and Adastrea who are, respectively, good and evil. The twins plan to conquer Earth but the Sibilans cannot live in Earth's atmosphere so they need to carry out experiments on human lungs in order to find a way to 'convert' their invasion forces. The young couple thwart the twins' attempts to kidnap young children for experimentation and end up killing both of them off before returning to Earth.
	El Rayo Disintegrador ( Aventuras De Quinque y Arturo El Robot ) Petruka Films Pascual Cervera Peter Solis, Maria Jesus Balenciaga, Joaquin Nieto, Sergio Mendizabal Jose Luis Coll, Maria Hevia A group of criminals steal a secret disintegrator ray and are tracked down and dealt with by a ten year-old boy and a rusty robot called Arturo.
	The Face Of Fu Manchu Hallam Don Sharp Christopher Lee, Tsai Chin, Nigel Green, Howard Marion-Crawford James Robertson Justice, Walter Rilla, Karin Dor 'The world has not heard the last of Fu Manchu' - apparently not, as he pops up again here with more wicked schemes for achieving world domination. This time he is collecting rare poisonous flowers from Tibet to produce a lethal gas which he tests on an English village.
	Willy McBean and His Magic Machine Videocraft International / Dentsu Motion Picture Company Magna Pictures Arthur Rankin Jr. Voices: Larry Mann, Billie Richards, Alfie Scopp, Paul Kligman Bernard Cowan, Paul Soles Animated feature using 'AniMagic' in which Professor Rasputin von Rotten invents a time machine and intends using it to claim the credit for history's greatest events. His pet monkey reveals the plot to Willy McBean and the pair of them embark on an adventure to foil the evil Professor's plans.
	The Faceless Monsters ( Amanti d'Oltretomba ) ( Nightmare Castle ) Produzione Cinematografica Emmeci Allan Grunewald Barbara Steele, Paul Miller, Helga Line, Lawrence Clift, John McDouglas, Rik Battaglia A sci-fi horror film which was cut to bits ( from 105 mins to 73 mins ) by the distributors to remove the more gory bits. It opens with a pair of lovers being disfigured - one with acid and the other with a red-hot iron. The story features a Victorian scientist involved in experiments with the electrical regeneration of blood. In order to finance his research he kills his wife in the hope of gaining from her will but finds that her sister inherits all her wealth and property. On trying the same trick on her he finds an opponent more capable than he had bargained for and who is out to get revenge for her sister's death.
	Fantomas Strikes Back ( Fantomas Se Dechaine ) SNEG / PAC / Victory Andre Hunebelle Jean Marais, Louis de Funes, Mylene Demongeot, Jacques Dynam Robert Dalban, Albert Dagnat Fantomas is another character involved in a 'series' of films. He is a super-criminal who, this time round, kidnaps a group of scientists and forces them to develop a ray for controlling minds in his secret volcano-based laboratory. He is eventually cornered but makes his escape in a flying car. This, the second film, is the only one of the Fantomas trilogy which has notable sci-fi content. The other two films are 'Fantomas' ( 1964 ) and 'Fantomas Against Scotland Yard' ( 1966 ). The image shown is actually from the first film in the series.
	The Green Planet SOFAC Art: Piotr Kamler Story: Jacques Sternberg A science fiction short in which the visuals are apparently achieved by sprinkling fine sand onto a green-coloured background. The accompanying commentary describes the activities of the star-shaped inhabitants of Actur. Their chief industry is the manufacture of time - time to fill, time to gain, time to lose, and although tone deaf, they love music. It becomes increasingly obvious that the absurd creatures being described aren't Acturans at all, but a race slightly closer to home.
	Hercules Against The Moon Men ( Maciste E La Regina Di Samar ) Nike Cinematografica / Comptoir Francais Du Film Giacomo Gentilomo Sergio Ciani, Jany Clair, Anna-Maria Polani, Nando Tamberlani Jean-Pierre Honore, Delia D'Alberti The hero Maciste is engaged by the people of Samar to help rid them of their evil queen and her army of rock-like moon men who enforce her wishes.
	The Hyperboloid Of Engineer Garin ( Giperboloid Ingenera Garina ) ( Engineer Garin's Death Ray ) Based on a novel by Alexei Tolstoy Gorki Alexander Gintsburg Yevgeny Yevstigneev, Vsevolod Safonov, Mikhail Astangov, Natalya Klimova Yet another mad scientist who wants to destroy the world with a 'death ray'
	The Lost Face ( Ztracena Tvar ) Svabik-Prochazka Pavel Hobl Vlastimil Brodsky, Fred Demare, Jana Brezkova, Frantisek Filipovsky, Marie Vasova Martin Rurek, Nina Popelikova, Jiri Vala, Zdenka Prochazkova A face-changing medical science-fiction story in which a doctor, who can't achieve recognition or money for his talents, gains employment with the gangster element involving changing the faces of both victims and criminals as well as his own.
	Our Man Flint 20th Century Fox Daniel Mann James Coburn, Lee J. Cobb, Gila Golan, Edward Mulhare, Benson Fong Shelby Grant, Rhys Williams, Russ Conway The first of two James Bond spoofs starring James Coburn sees super secret agent Flint spoiling the world domination plans of three evil scientists and their weather control program. More girls than Bond, more fancy gadgets, but somehow lacking in depth. Also see my James Bond Film pages
	Pinocchio In Outer Space Swallow / Belvision Ray Goosens Voices: Arnold Stang, Conrad Jameson, Minerva Pious An animated feature in which the wooden puppet heads into space with his pal Nurtle the turtle. They land on Mars and come up against Astro, the flying Martian whale, who fancies his chances of conquering Earth but Pinnochio and Nurtle manage to ground him and his plans.
	The Silencers Based on the books by Donald Hamilton Meadway-Claude / Columbia Phil Karlson Dean Martin, Beverly Adams, Stella Stevens, Daliah Lavi, Cyd Charisse, Victor Buono James Gregory, Robert Webber The first of four 'Matt Helm' James Bond spoofs starring Dean Martin as the playboy secret agent. In this first adventure Helm and his gorgeous girls foil a plot to reprogram an atomic missile and cause it to land in the New Mexico testing ground. Also see my James Bond Film pages
	Thunderball Based on the novel by Ian Fleming Kevin McClory / United Artists Terence Young Sean Connery, Claudine Auger, Luciana Paluzzi, Martine Beswick, Lois Maxwell, Bernard Lee Adolfo Celi, Rik Van Nutter, Guy Doleman, Molly Peters, Desmond Llewelyn, Roland Culver Earl Cameron, Paul Stassino, Rose Alba, Philip Locke, George Pravda, Michael Brennan Leonard Sachs, Edward Underdown, Reginald Beckwith Bond in the Bahamas investigating the disappearance of a U.S. plane which has disappeared with two atomic bombs on board. He comes across the involvement of SPECTRE, this time in the form of Emilio Largo and his beautiful but unsuspecting ward, Domino ( Claudine Auger ). SPECTRE have arranged for the plane to crash in the shallow water of the keys and plan to use Largo's fantastic boat, the Disco Volante, to remove the two bombs which are then to be used for blackmail. 007 manages to thwart them again, leading a team of Felix Leiter's crack CIA operatives in a spectacular underwater battle before ultimately finishing off Largo personally in a fight aboard his out-of-control craft. Also see my James Bond Film pages
	Who Killed Jessie? ( Kdo Chce Zabit Jessu? ) ( Who Wants To Kill Jessie? ) Czechoslovensky Film Vaclav Vorlicek Jiri Sovak, Dana Medricka, Olga Shoberova ( Olinka Berova ) Karel Effa, Juraj Visny A comedy sci-fi in which a woman scientist invents a dream manipulation machine. This allows her to view people's dreams on a screen and change the imagery so that nightmares become peaceful dreams. She decides to try it out on her husband and finds that he is having dreams about a gorgeous comic-strip character called Jessie and two villainous characters who are out to get her. The machine malfunctions and somehow brings the dream characters to life right in the couple's bedroom.
	Spy In Your Eye ( Berlino Appuntamento Per La Spie ) Italian International Film / Publi Italia Vittorio Sala Brett Halsey, Paula Krauss, Dana Andrews, Gastone Moschin, Tania Beryl Alessandro Sperli, Mario Valdemarin, Tino Bianchi, Renato Baldini An American spy has a miniature TV camera implanted in his eye while undergoing an operation to cure his blindness. With knowledge gained from this the Russians kidnap the daughter of a dead scientist who they believe knows the secret formula that he was working on. The camera is eventually discovered and is used to send false information back to the Russians. Oh - in case you were wondering, the girl was rescued and the secret formula was found tattooed on her scalp under her hair.
	To Trap A Spy MGM / Arena Don Medford Robert Vaughn, David McCallum, Leo G. Carroll, Luciana Paluzzi, Patricia Crowley Fritz Weaver, William Marshall, Will Kuluva, Victoria Shaw U.N.C.L.E. learns that industrialist and enemy agent Andrew Vulcan is planning to assassinate Premier Ashumen, a visiting African leader, during a tour of one of Vulcan's factories. Solo persuades Elaine May Donaldson, one of Vulcan's old girlfriends, to infiltrate the company via Vulcan's affections and help to thwart the plot. Also see my Man From Uncle pages
	The Spy With My Face MGM / Arena John Newland Robert Vaughn, David McCallum, Leo G. Carroll, Senta Berger, Michael Evans Sharon Farrell Napoleon Solo is captured by THRUSH who replace him with a perfect double in a bid to infiltrate the U.N.C.L.E. organisation. Illya Kuryakin becomes suspicious at his partner's unusual behaviour and starts to put two and two together. In the meantime, Solo must escape and try to stop his double before he succeeds in his plan. Also see my Man From Uncle pages
	The Night Caller ( Blood Beast From Outer Space ) ( Night Caller From Space ) New Art / Armitage John Gilling John Saxon, Maurice Denham, Patricia Haines, Alfred Burke, John Carson Jack Watson, Warren Mitchell An alien, Mr. Medra, abducts Earth girls who answer his adverts in 'Bikini Girl' magazine and transports them to Jupiter's Ganymede moon for the purpose of experimental genetics. Why do they always pick on us?
	Alphaville Chaumiane / Filmstudio Jean-Luc Godard Eddie Constantine, Anna Karina, Akim Tamiroff, Howard Vernon, Laszlo Szabo A secret agent travels across the galaxy to try and discover what happened to his predecessor. He finds himself on a planet that is being ruled by ALPHA 60, a '1984 Big Brother' computer. He eventually destroys it by reading it poetry.
	Dr. Goldfoot And The Bikini Machine AIP Norman Taurog Vincent Price, Fred Clark, Frankie Avalon, Dwayne Hickman, Susan Hart Jack Mullaney The evil doctor invents and manufactures life-like girl robots who are programmed to make themselves desirable to wealthy men. What do you mean, why??
	The Bedford Incident Columbia / Bedford Productions James B.Harris Richard Widmark, Sidney Poitier, James MacArthur, Eric Portman Donald Sutherland, Martin Balsam The captain of an American destroyer that is pursuing a Russian submarine through Arctic waters accidentally fires an atomic weapon. Yeah, sure, he thought the button was a cigar lighter . . .
	The Devil Men From Space ( The Snow Devils ) Mercury Film International Antonio Margheriti Ombretta Colli, Renato Baldini, Wilbert Bradley, Halina Zalewska Enzo Fiermonte, Freddy Unger, Isarco Ravaioli, Pietro Martellanza Giacomo Rossi-Stuart A weather station in the Himalayas is destroyed during an unseasonal melting of Earth's ice caps. Two men from Gamma I are sent to investigate accompanied by a Sherpa guide and a girl worried about her fiance. They are captured by aliens, the giant blue Aytia, who just happen to let slip their plan to turn the planet into a huge ice plain so that their pals from a doomed planet in another solar system can move in. Why don't we just grant them political asylum and give them all houses and satellite T.V.? Anyway, having discovered that the aliens' main base is on Callisto, one of Jupiter's moons, our little band escapes and our two heroes, Jackson and Pulasky, are sent into space on a mission to slap the back of the aliens' legs and tell them to stop it before we all freeze to death. Earth is saved again - we're on a roll . . .
	Sergeant Deadhead AIP Norman Taurog Eve Arden, John Ashley, Frankie Avalon, Jerry Brutsche, Pat Buttram Patti Chandler, Fred Clark, Jo Collins, Sallie Dornan, Edward Faulkner Reginald Gardiner, Gale Gordon, Sue Hamilton, Bob Harvey, Luree Holmes Mary Hughes, Buster Keaton, Harvey Lembeck, Donna Loren, Andy Macchia John Romano, Cesar Romero, Salli Sachse, Bobbi Shaw, Romo Vincent Deborah Walley, Tod Windsor A bumbling sergeant in the U.S.Army takes a trip into space with a chimp where he undergoes a strange change of personality.
	Spaceflight IC-1 Lippert Films Ltd. Bernard Knowles Bill Williams, Kathleen Breck, John Cairney, Donald Churchill, Tony Doonan Margo Mayne Fightin' and feudin' among the pioneer passengers aboard an interstellar colonisation ship, in the odd few moments when they are not talking.
	Voyage To A Prehistoric Planet ( Storm Planet ) AIP-TV / Filmgroup Curtis Harrington and Pavel Klushantsev Basil Rathbone, Faith Domergue, Vladimir Yemelyanov, Georgi Zhzhyonov Georgi Tejkh The year is 2020. Marcia watches from a ship in orbit around Venus as the crew and robot on the surface get attacked by prehistoric monsters. A volcanic eruption chews up the planet allowing them to escape. They somehow come to the conclusion that the monsters were really Venusians who became mutants after they destroyed their planet with atomic warfare. Still with me�..? I would have thought that Faith would have had enough of mutants after 'This Island Earth'. It's a lousy job, but someone has to do it.
	Lightning Bolt ( Operacion Goldman ) Sette Film SpA / Lacazar Films / BGA / Seven Film Balcazar Producciones Cinematograficas Antonio Margheriti Anthony Eisley, Wandisa Guida, Folco Lulli, Jose-Maria Caffarel, Diana Lorys Renato Montalbano, Oreste Palella, Luisa Rivelli, Francisco Sanz A madman plans to sabotage a NASA lunar project and U.S. government agent Harry Sennet is sent undercover to thwart his intentions. Just about qualifies as sci-fi. Also see my James Bond Film pages
	Frankenstein Meets The Space Monster ( Duel Of The Space Monsters ) Vernon-Seneca Films Robert Gaffney Marilyn Harold, Lou Cutell, Robert Reilly, James Karen, Nancy Marshall David Kernan, Susan Stephens, Bruce Glover as The Monster An atomic war on Mars destroys nearly all the women (seems a bit selective ) so the Martian men, led by Princess Marcuzan, feel the need to steal ours. On their way to Earth, they damage a space capsule and its android pilot who returns to go on the rampage. In the meantime, during the ensuing confusion, the Martians decide that beach parties are a good hunting ground for breeding stock. Can't argue with that . . .
	The Navy vs The Night Monsters Standard Club of California Productions / Realart Pictures Corporation Michael A. Hoey Anthony Eisley, Mamie Van Doren, Phillip Terry, Walter Sande, Bobby Van Billy Gray, Kay Elhardt, Pamela Mason, Russ Bender, Taggart Casey, Biff Elliot David Brandon, Edward Faulkner, William Meigs, Garrett Myles, Paul Rhone Mike Sargent, Del 'Sonny' West An Antarctic expedition discovers some strange new trees and takes them back to a South Seas navy base where they turn out to be nocturnal acid-secreting alien creatures.
	Wild Wild Planet ( The Galaxy Criminals ) MGM Antonio Margheriti Tony Russell, Lisa Gastoni, Massimo Serato, Franco Nero, Vittorio Bonos Margherita Holowitz The comings and goings of a gang from the outlaw planetoid Delphos in 2015 A.D. The lucky lawbreakers get to man - ( alien? ) - handle Lisa Gastoni.
	Mutiny In Outer Space Hugo Grimaldi Film Productions Hugo Grimaldi William Leslie, Dolores Faith, Richard Garland, James Dobson, Pamela Curran Francine York Returning from the moon, a group of astronauts are affrected by an exotic fungus that produces LSD-like effects until it is offed by some unlikely-sounding artificial sub-zero particles.
	The War Game BBC Peter Watkins An unusual nuclear war 'scare' film made for TV by the BBC in the form of a documentary showing the effects of a nuclear strike on a town in Kent was considered too horrifying for television. It was allowed to be shown at The National Film Theatre in February 1966 and was subsequently only released to selected cinemas as it was thought the viewing population might take it too seriously, like the 'War Of The Worlds' radio programme. Gruesome.
	War Of The Planets ( The Deadly Diaphanoids ) MGM Antonio Margheriti Lisa Gastoni, Tony Russell, Massimo Serato, Franco Nero, Michel Lemoine Carlo Giustini It is the 21st century. Aliens made of a form of light invade the solar system and base themselves on Mars. From there, they attack Earth spacestations, destroying the minds of the crews. Who you gonna call?
	Die, Monster, Die! ( Monster Of Terror ) From H.P.Lovecraft's 'Colour Out Of Space' AIP / Alta Vista Film Productions Daniel Haller Boris Karloff, Suzan Farmer, Nick Adams, Freda Jackson, Patrick Magee Paul Farrell An eccentric recluse discovers a meteorite, the radiation from which gives him strange powers.
	Crack In The World Paramount / Security Andrew Marton Dana Andrews, Janette Scott, Kieron Moore, Alexander Knox, Peter Damon Gary Lasdun A missile fired at the Earth's core ( are they mad? ) sets off a string of increasingly violent earthquakes. The 'cure' is effected by exploding a nuclear bomb inside a volcano which ultimately blows a chunk of Earth into orbit to create a new moon.
	Planet Of The Vampires ( The Haunted Planet ) ( Terrore Nello Spazio ) Castilla Cooperativa Cinematografica / Italian International Film Mario Brava Barry Sullivan, Norma Bengell, Angel Aranda, Evi Maranda, Stelio Candelli The spaceships Argos and Galliot are sent to investigate the planet Aura where the crews suddenly start killing each other off for no apparent reason. Incorporeal aliens, whose sun has died, take over the dead bodies and use them to search for a new home. Earth looks nice�
	The Satan Bug From the novel by Alistair MacLean United Artists / Mirisch / Kappa John Sturges George Maharis, Richard Basehart, Anne Francis, Dana Andrews, Edward Asner At a top secret biological research station in the desert, a scientist turns traitor and steals a lethal virus to be used by a mad millionaire.
	Tenth Victim Avco / CC Champion / Concordia Elio Petri Ursula Andress, Marcello Mastroianni, Elsa Martinelli, Massimo Serato The 21st century 'Big Hunt Ministry', in order to find an outlet for mankind's more violent tendencies, trains groups of 'hunters' and 'victims' to fight each other in legal duels to the death. Ten 'kills' wins a fabulous prize.
	Village Of The Giants Based on the H.G.Wells story 'Food Of The Gods' Berkeley Productions / Embassy Pictures Corporation / Joseph E.Levine Bert I.Gordon Tommy Kirk, Johnny Crawford, Beau Bridges, Ron Howard, Joy Harmon Bob Random, Vicki London, Freddy Cannon, Toni Basil A teenage 'genius' invents GOOP by accident - a substance which promotes rapid growth in living things when eaten. Some delinquents steal the substance and eat it for a 'dare', causing them to become 30ft tall and able to take over the town. Also see my Sixties Pop Movies pages
	The Wizard Of Mars ( Journey Into The Unknown ) ( Alien Massacre ) ( Horrors Of The Red Planet ) American General Pictures / Karston-Hewitt Organisation David L. Hewitt John Carradine, Roger Gentry, Vic McGee, Jerry Rannow, Eve Bernhardt Yep, it sounds like it and it is! Four astronauts crash-land on Mars. Steve, Charlie, Doc and�you guessed it�Dorothy. They discover a golden road which leads to the ruins of a Martian City where the 'Wizard' ( the collective mind of the last Martians ) refuses to allow the four of them to leave until they sort out a little problem for 'him'� Slightly less memorable than the original.
	Sins Of The Fleshapoids Mike Kuchar Bob Cowan, Donna Kerness, George Kuchar, Julius Middleman Maren Thomas, Gina Zuckerman The storyline to this one has escaped me so far. According to the comment in the IMDb the main point of the movie is to show large-chested ladies fondling jewels like Christmas tree ornaments while a space jockey hangs around a rather dilapidated-looking palace. There are, apparently, lots of wafting breezes and some sort of climactic 'birth' scene. I can hardly wait . . .
	Monster A-Go-Go ( Terror At Halfday ) B.I.&L Bill Rebane Phil Morton, June Travis, George Perry, Lois Brooks, Rork Stevens Peter Thompson, Robert Simons, Barry Hopkins, Stu Taylor, Lorri Perry Del Clark, Art Scott, Leonard Gelstein, Aviva Crane, Dean Tompis A returning astronaut crash-lands in a field and, mutilated by radiation, starts to rampage through the neighbourhood. As he is cornered, he disappears and the 'real' astronaut is discovered half a planet away in the Pacific Ocean none the worse for wear.
	The Human Duplicators ( Jaws Of The Alien ) ( Space Agent K1 ) Woolner / Independenti Regionali Hugo Grimaldi George Nader, Dolores Faith, Richard Kiel, George Macready, Hugh Beaumont Barbara Nichols, John Indrisano, Margot Teele, Alean 'Bambi' Hamilton Ted Durant, Richard Arlen, Larry Barton, John Dasten, Andrew Johnson Tommy Leonetti, Lori Lyons, Walter Maslow, Benito Prezie, Mel Ruick Kim Satana, Lonnie Sattin, Richard Schuyler, William White Richard Kiel can't seem to keep away from anything to do with 'Jaws'. An alien agent is sent here from a galaxy far, far away with the objective of conquering the planet by duplicating humans in a pottery-like material which, fortunately for us, can be shattered like crockery. He comes across a beautiful blind girl who worms her way into his affections and distracts him from his purpose enough for the forces of Earth to ultimately defeat him and his animated wedgewood army.
	She Based on the book by Henry Rider Haggard ABP / Hammer Robert Day Peter Cushing, Ursula Andress, Christopher Lee, John Richardson Rosenda Monteros, Bernard Cribbins An explorer tracks down a forgotten race in the African mountains ruled over by Ayesha, a centuries old queen who has attained immortality through bathing in the flames of meteorites which periodically strike in exactly the same place. She believes him to be the reincarnation of an ancient lover and tries to persuade him to use the flame. Also see my Hammer Film pages
	The Eye Creatures Azalea Pictures Larry Buchanan John Ashley, Cynthia Hull, Warren Hammack, Chet Davis, Bill Peck Ethan Allen, Bob Brown Alien creatures that look like giant eyes try to take over the world but are thwarted by the ideas of some teenagers.
	Dr.Who And The Daleks British Lion / Regal / Aaru Gordon Flemyng Peter Cushing, Roy Castle, Jennie Linden, Roberta Tovey, Barrie Ingham Geoffrey Toone The Doctor and his friends land on the radiation-affected planet Skaro and help the hippie-like, peaceful blue-skinned Thals to stop their robotic, warlike slavemasters, the Daleks, from wiping them out.