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The restoration of Devil Girl From Mars is of a high quality. The film its self has cleaned up beautifully. It looks good as new. There are no artefacts from the digitisation process and the greys blend smoothly without any jagged lines. The sound quality is good. The film does not seem to be missing any of it's original footage.
There is a segment with Kim Newman that puts the film in some context, and an audio commentary. Both are fairly standard.
The menu system is cleanly designed and easily usable....
There is a segment with Kim Newman that puts the film in some context, and an audio commentary. Both are fairly standard.
The menu system is cleanly designed and easily usable....
- 1/16/2024
- by Donald Munro
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
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The men of Mars are subjugated. Crunched in the war of the sexes, they are under the thumb, emasculated and impotent. Now the women of Mars need new men who can get it up. Nyah (Patricia Laffan) travels to Earth, specifically 1950s London, to rectify the situation. If she had made it there, Devil Girl From Mars would have carried on to be a bawdy British sex comedy. Hey boy, you're cute, wanna come to Mars, escape bombed out London, rationing and your dad's Ptsd? All you have to do is shag some sexy Martian women. She doesn't make it. Her flying saucer has to make a emergency landing somewhere west of Aberfoyle.
This is where the film begins, a quiet guest house one signpost away from Loch Dhu. It is a somewhat cliched setup for the time, a group of disparate people stuck together in one location grating on each.
This is where the film begins, a quiet guest house one signpost away from Loch Dhu. It is a somewhat cliched setup for the time, a group of disparate people stuck together in one location grating on each.
- 1/16/2024
- by Donald Munro
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
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To celebrate the release of Devil Girl from Mars available on Blu-Ray and DVD on 15th January 2024, we’re giving two lucky winners Blu-Ray copies!
A new restoration of the 1954 British black-and-white science fiction film Devil Girl From Mars, directed by David MacDonald and starring Patricia Laffan, Hugh McDermott, Hazel Court, Peter Reynolds and Adrienne Corri.
One winter evening in a lonely Scottish inn, guests become prisoners when Nyah, a pitiless Martian with a robot minion, lands on earth and traps them within an invisible wall. With Martian males extinct after a battle of the sexes, Nyah aims to capture breeding stock on Earth. As escape attempts falter, the helpless humans must decide which one of them will die to save the others and possibly the world! .
A famously economical film, Devil Girl From Mars was filmed over three weeks with no retakes in order to use up pre-booked studio...
A new restoration of the 1954 British black-and-white science fiction film Devil Girl From Mars, directed by David MacDonald and starring Patricia Laffan, Hugh McDermott, Hazel Court, Peter Reynolds and Adrienne Corri.
One winter evening in a lonely Scottish inn, guests become prisoners when Nyah, a pitiless Martian with a robot minion, lands on earth and traps them within an invisible wall. With Martian males extinct after a battle of the sexes, Nyah aims to capture breeding stock on Earth. As escape attempts falter, the helpless humans must decide which one of them will die to save the others and possibly the world! .
A famously economical film, Devil Girl From Mars was filmed over three weeks with no retakes in order to use up pre-booked studio...
- 1/12/2024
- by Competitions
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
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A new restoration of the 1954 British black-and-white science fiction film Devil Girl From Mars, directed by David MacDonald and starring Patricia Laffan, Hugh McDermott, Hazel Court, Peter Reynolds and Adrienne Corri.
One winter evening in a lonely Scottish inn, guests become prisoners when Nyah, a pitiless Martian with a robot minion, lands on earth and traps them within an invisible wall. With Martian males extinct after a battle of the sexes, Nyah aims to capture breeding stock on Earth. As escape attempts falter, the helpless humans must decide which one of them will die to save the others and possibly the world!
A famously economical film, Devil Girl From Mars was filmed over three weeks with no retakes in order to use up pre-booked studio time when another project finished ahead of schedule.
With a cast including the magnificent Patricia Laffan (Quo Vadis) as Nyah, and genre favourites Adrienne Corri...
One winter evening in a lonely Scottish inn, guests become prisoners when Nyah, a pitiless Martian with a robot minion, lands on earth and traps them within an invisible wall. With Martian males extinct after a battle of the sexes, Nyah aims to capture breeding stock on Earth. As escape attempts falter, the helpless humans must decide which one of them will die to save the others and possibly the world!
A famously economical film, Devil Girl From Mars was filmed over three weeks with no retakes in order to use up pre-booked studio time when another project finished ahead of schedule.
With a cast including the magnificent Patricia Laffan (Quo Vadis) as Nyah, and genre favourites Adrienne Corri...
- 1/4/2024
- by Peter 'Witchfinder' Hopkins
- Horror Asylum
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CineSavant reaches back to a U.K. disc released in 2014, because the subject is (what else) a semi-obscure science fiction effort. Favorite John Neville stars as a scientist opposite newcomer Gabriella Licudi, a beauty who may be an invader from outer space. This is the one with the teardrops that burn; not having seen it since 1966 or so, evaluating a ‘new’ Blu was an imperative. The main takeaway is that it’s awfully small-scale and the fantastic content is almost entirely confined to dialogue. But the performances are exemplary and actress Jean Marsh is terrific.
Unearthly Stranger
Region B Blu-ray
Network-bfi
1963 / B&w / 1:66 / 80 min. / Street Date November 3, 2014 / Available from Amazon / 14.99
Starring: John Neville, Philip Stone, Gabriella Licudi, Patrick Newell, Jean Marsh, Warren Mitchell.
Cinematography: Reg Wyer
Art Director: Harry Pottle
Film Editor: Tom Priestley
Original Music: Edward Williams
Written by Rex Carlton based on an idea by Jeffrey Stone...
Unearthly Stranger
Region B Blu-ray
Network-bfi
1963 / B&w / 1:66 / 80 min. / Street Date November 3, 2014 / Available from Amazon / 14.99
Starring: John Neville, Philip Stone, Gabriella Licudi, Patrick Newell, Jean Marsh, Warren Mitchell.
Cinematography: Reg Wyer
Art Director: Harry Pottle
Film Editor: Tom Priestley
Original Music: Edward Williams
Written by Rex Carlton based on an idea by Jeffrey Stone...
- 12/4/2021
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
Here's a great fan-made video created by Darth Blender that shows us what the classic 80s cartoon series He-Man and the Masters of the Universe would have been like had it been made in the 1940s as a live-action film. This video actually turned out really cool and it's fun to see the films that the creator used to create this trailer. I especially enjoyed the characters from the old films that were used for the He-Man villains. They all worked so perfectly! I included a list of films used to cut this trailer together below the video. If you're a fan of He-Man, you're going to get a kick out of this!
The films uses include:
Birds of Paradise (1932)
The Lost Jungle (1934)
Mad Love (1935)
Flash Gordon (1938)
Alexander Nevsky (1938)
The Wolfman (1941)
Spy Smasher (1942)
The Crimson Ghost (1946)
The Lost Continent (1949)
Captain Z-Ro (1951 - 1956)
The Lost Planet (1953)
Creature from the Black Lagoon...
The films uses include:
Birds of Paradise (1932)
The Lost Jungle (1934)
Mad Love (1935)
Flash Gordon (1938)
Alexander Nevsky (1938)
The Wolfman (1941)
Spy Smasher (1942)
The Crimson Ghost (1946)
The Lost Continent (1949)
Captain Z-Ro (1951 - 1956)
The Lost Planet (1953)
Creature from the Black Lagoon...
- 9/4/2018
- by Joey Paur
- GeekTyrant
By Hank Reineke
Though heavyweights Columbia and Universal produced as many serials as Republic Pictures from 1929-1956, the latter studio is generally best known for its exciting sound-era chapter-plays. Universal and the less widely known Mascot Pictures were in the game the earliest; both studios began releasing their sound serials in 1929. Mascot would only last six years or so. Universal – choosing to concentrate exclusively on the production of feature films – effectively got out of the serial business in 1946. Republic and Columbia hung on to the production of chapter-plays the longest; they released their final serials in 1955 and 1956, respectively.
Republic wasn’t only a serials factory. The studio was in the low budget feature filmmaking business as well, busily churning out a dizzying array of westerns, adventure pictures, and mysteries. They would test the box-office potentials of the horror film market during the 1940s with limited success. As a second-tier “Poverty Row” studio,...
Though heavyweights Columbia and Universal produced as many serials as Republic Pictures from 1929-1956, the latter studio is generally best known for its exciting sound-era chapter-plays. Universal and the less widely known Mascot Pictures were in the game the earliest; both studios began releasing their sound serials in 1929. Mascot would only last six years or so. Universal – choosing to concentrate exclusively on the production of feature films – effectively got out of the serial business in 1946. Republic and Columbia hung on to the production of chapter-plays the longest; they released their final serials in 1955 and 1956, respectively.
Republic wasn’t only a serials factory. The studio was in the low budget feature filmmaking business as well, busily churning out a dizzying array of westerns, adventure pictures, and mysteries. They would test the box-office potentials of the horror film market during the 1940s with limited success. As a second-tier “Poverty Row” studio,...
- 9/4/2017
- by nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro)
- Cinemaretro.com
No, not a blind Sherlock Holmes, but a blind Van Johnson, who directs his butler, his girlfriend Vera Miles and the London police to thwart a crime based on something he overheard in a bar. Henry Hathaway directs a complicated murder mystery that plays like a combo of Rear Window and Wait Until Dark, with a cranky Van Johnson as the central character.
23 Paces to Baker Street
Blu-ray
Kl Studio Classics
1956 / Color / 2:35 widescreen / 103 min. / Street Date February 21, 2017 / available through Kino Lorber / 29.95
Starring: Van Johnson, Vera Miles, Cecil Parker, Patricia Laffan, Maurice Denham, Estelle Winwood, Liam Redmond, Isobel Elsom, Martin Benson, Queenie Leonard.
Cinematography: Milton Krasner
Film Editor: James B. Clark
Original Music: Leigh Harline
Written by Nigel Balchin from the novel Warrant for X by Philip MacDonald
Produced by Henry Ephron
Directed by Henry Hathaway
In the 1950s the murder mystery thriller came of age, as creakier older formulas...
23 Paces to Baker Street
Blu-ray
Kl Studio Classics
1956 / Color / 2:35 widescreen / 103 min. / Street Date February 21, 2017 / available through Kino Lorber / 29.95
Starring: Van Johnson, Vera Miles, Cecil Parker, Patricia Laffan, Maurice Denham, Estelle Winwood, Liam Redmond, Isobel Elsom, Martin Benson, Queenie Leonard.
Cinematography: Milton Krasner
Film Editor: James B. Clark
Original Music: Leigh Harline
Written by Nigel Balchin from the novel Warrant for X by Philip MacDonald
Produced by Henry Ephron
Directed by Henry Hathaway
In the 1950s the murder mystery thriller came of age, as creakier older formulas...
- 3/25/2017
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
How could England have won the war without him? Horatio Smith sneaks about in Nazi Germany, liberating concentration camp inmates right under the noses of the Gestapo. Leslie Howard directed and stars in this wartime escapist spy thriller, as a witty professor too passive to be suspected as the mystery spy.
‘Pimpernel’ Smith
Blu-ray
Olive Films
1941 / B&W / 1:37 flat Academy / 121 min. / Street Date November 15, 2016 / available through the Olive Films website / 29.98
Starring Leslie Howard, Francis L. Sullivan, Mary Morris, Allan Jeayes, Peter Gawthorne, Hugh McDermott, David Tomlinson, Raymond Huntley, Sebastian Cabot, Irene Handl, Ronald Howard, Michael Rennie.
Cinematography Mutz Greenbaum
Camera Operators Guy Green, Jack Hildyard
Film Editor Douglas Myers
Original Music John Greenwood
Written by Anatole de Grunwald, Roland Pertwee, A.G. Macdonell, Wolfgang Wilhelm based on a character by Baroness Emmuska Orczy
Produced by Leslie Howard, Harold Huth
Directed by Leslie Howard
Reviewed by Glenn Erickson
I like movies...
‘Pimpernel’ Smith
Blu-ray
Olive Films
1941 / B&W / 1:37 flat Academy / 121 min. / Street Date November 15, 2016 / available through the Olive Films website / 29.98
Starring Leslie Howard, Francis L. Sullivan, Mary Morris, Allan Jeayes, Peter Gawthorne, Hugh McDermott, David Tomlinson, Raymond Huntley, Sebastian Cabot, Irene Handl, Ronald Howard, Michael Rennie.
Cinematography Mutz Greenbaum
Camera Operators Guy Green, Jack Hildyard
Film Editor Douglas Myers
Original Music John Greenwood
Written by Anatole de Grunwald, Roland Pertwee, A.G. Macdonell, Wolfgang Wilhelm based on a character by Baroness Emmuska Orczy
Produced by Leslie Howard, Harold Huth
Directed by Leslie Howard
Reviewed by Glenn Erickson
I like movies...
- 12/30/2016
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
It's a minor -- very minor -- Terence Fisher Sci-Fi suspenser that reaches the bare genre minimum and nothing more. Love the title and love those great stills, but when it's finished you're going to be saying, 'Now all I need is a good alien invasion movie!' The Earth Dies Screaming Blu-ray Kl Studio Classics 1964 / B&W / 1:66 widescreen / 62 excruciating minutes of horror / Street Date October 4, 2016 / available through Kl Studio Classics / 29.95 Starring Willard Parker, Virginia Field, Dennis Price, Thorley Walters, Vanda Godsell, David Spenser, Anna Palk. Cinematography Arthur Lavis Film Editor Robert Winter Makeup Harold Fletcher Original Music Elisabeth Lutyens Written by Henry Cross (Harry Spalding) Produced by Robert L. Lippert, Jack Parsons Directed by Terence Fisher
Reviewed by Glenn Erickson
So I guess we have to add a third choice for the end of the world: a Bang, a Whimper... and now a Scream. Low-budget science fiction didn't...
Reviewed by Glenn Erickson
So I guess we have to add a third choice for the end of the world: a Bang, a Whimper... and now a Scream. Low-budget science fiction didn't...
- 9/27/2016
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
Zero Dark Thirty | Chasing Ice | A Good Day To Die Hard | Diaz: Don't Clean Up The Blood | Devil Girld From Mars
Zero Dark Thirty
Whether or not this film should have been made is moot. There was always going to be a movie about the hunting and killing of Osama bin Laden: it's just too huge an event to ignore. This one came quickly after it actually happened. Thankfully, it's not too gung-ho. Rather, we get a film that doesn't paint anyone in a particularly good light, and gets the job done efficiently without much in the way of showboating or bragging so we can all move on.
How accurate it is we may never know, but Jessica Chastain is very good as the obsessive CIA operative who has spent the entirety of her short career tracking down Bin Laden. She's great at sussing which clues are worth following and which are dead ends,...
Zero Dark Thirty
Whether or not this film should have been made is moot. There was always going to be a movie about the hunting and killing of Osama bin Laden: it's just too huge an event to ignore. This one came quickly after it actually happened. Thankfully, it's not too gung-ho. Rather, we get a film that doesn't paint anyone in a particularly good light, and gets the job done efficiently without much in the way of showboating or bragging so we can all move on.
How accurate it is we may never know, but Jessica Chastain is very good as the obsessive CIA operative who has spent the entirety of her short career tracking down Bin Laden. She's great at sussing which clues are worth following and which are dead ends,...
- 6/8/2013
- by Phelim O'Neill
- The Guardian - Film News
Thunderbirds creator who made some of the most popular children's TV shows of the 1960s
Gerry Anderson, who has died aged 83 after suffering from Alzheimer's disease, was the main mover behind a number of puppet series commissioned by Lew Grade's Independent Television Corporation. They made the company a fortune from the space age: perhaps the best known was Thunderbirds (1965-66), and among the others were Fireball XL5 (1962-63), Stingray (1964) and Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons (1967-68).
Anderson embarked on Thunderbirds in 1964. For Grade, international sales – particularly into the Us market – were a key concern. So Thunderbirds focused on the Tracy brothers, with first names borrowed from the Us astronauts Scott Carpenter, Virgil Grissom, Alan Shepard, John Glenn and Gordon Cooper. Enormously popular in its time, the series is still being repeated today.
Scott and the others were members of International Rescue, based on a south Pacific island, set up,...
Gerry Anderson, who has died aged 83 after suffering from Alzheimer's disease, was the main mover behind a number of puppet series commissioned by Lew Grade's Independent Television Corporation. They made the company a fortune from the space age: perhaps the best known was Thunderbirds (1965-66), and among the others were Fireball XL5 (1962-63), Stingray (1964) and Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons (1967-68).
Anderson embarked on Thunderbirds in 1964. For Grade, international sales – particularly into the Us market – were a key concern. So Thunderbirds focused on the Tracy brothers, with first names borrowed from the Us astronauts Scott Carpenter, Virgil Grissom, Alan Shepard, John Glenn and Gordon Cooper. Enormously popular in its time, the series is still being repeated today.
Scott and the others were members of International Rescue, based on a south Pacific island, set up,...
- 12/27/2012
- by Nigel Fountain
- The Guardian - Film News
We're pretty late in posting this, but the sheer number of press releases and event announcements submitted to Cinema Retro has ye olde editor-in-chief occasionally finding himself guilty of letting some stories slip through the cracks. This is a press release relating to the new Star Babe Invasion retro comics that we're admittedly hooked on. You gotta love any magazine that has Raquel Welch, Barbara Eden and Bette Page on the cover!
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Star Babes Return!
Goofa Man Productions is all tingly to announce the release of the second issue of 3-D Pete’s Star Babe Invasion Comics!
The book takes an admiring look at those charismatic, curvaceous creatures from the cosmos... Star Babes!
“I don’t know why I tend to focus on Star Babes,” admits the head honcho of Goofa Man Productions, Mike Fisher. “I mean,
they’re voluptuous women in skimpy...
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Star Babes Return!
Goofa Man Productions is all tingly to announce the release of the second issue of 3-D Pete’s Star Babe Invasion Comics!
The book takes an admiring look at those charismatic, curvaceous creatures from the cosmos... Star Babes!
“I don’t know why I tend to focus on Star Babes,” admits the head honcho of Goofa Man Productions, Mike Fisher. “I mean,
they’re voluptuous women in skimpy...
- 12/23/2011
- by nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro)
- Cinemaretro.com
Given man's unwavering fascination with woman, it's no surprise that the female star acts as the anchor to a dominant portion of horror pictures. I mean really, who wants to see a bare chested man tearin ass through the woods screaming at the top of his lungs while a bladed assailant nips at his heels? I don't - I know that much, although I'm certain there are plenty of men who would disagree (and that's okay with me, to each his own!). The simple fact remains however, women bring a unique appeal and certain sensual atmosphere to film that no man ever could. And it's not all about gratuitous T&A.
There's a comforting quality in the hands of the heroine; a fascinating maternal strength that, as a man I cannot genuinely relate to. I can however admire, and in many cases it's nearly impossible to not admire the lone...
There's a comforting quality in the hands of the heroine; a fascinating maternal strength that, as a man I cannot genuinely relate to. I can however admire, and in many cases it's nearly impossible to not admire the lone...
- 10/27/2009
- by no-reply@fangoria.com (Matt Molgaard)
- Fangoria
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