Reviews

It was all said above. This is a rewarding movie to watch with good depth. I'd just like to add that the removal of Arthur Kennedy half way through the film, just as Alan Hale finally makes an entrance, is interesting. It's almost as though Raoul was having a hard time with Mr. Kennedy and had a part written to replace him with the `Skipper's' dad.

The ending is a wee bit of a surprise only because just as it looks like thing may not turn out the way we expect them too, they do. Yes Mr. Walsh did make many memorable westerns (I've seen the majority of them) but it's almost as though he was trying to move into another direction with this picture. Weather audiences appreciated it or not are still to be seen.

Scotty Jensen Racine, WI. USA

It's just too bad I missed this in the Theater (I would have taken my kids). I would pay Hollywood to produce just one of these a year.

It's far too charming and 50's Sci-Fi to go into details so just invest an hour and a half to rediscover how Disney used to make teen movies. Every person I've shown the DVD to has found something to giggle at.

The director spent just the correct amount of time Desensitizing the audience before he cut louse with the "That's just too funny to be Scary" stuff. Special Effects have got the Spiders DOWN. Not like it was in "Lost in Space" where they all looked computerized.

Folks who don't like it (and their will be plenty who think we need another Blood Bath movie where everyone gets horribly maimed and butchered) should start getting upset NOW. It's a gemmy this movie will be shown (uncut) every weekend on TBS and TNT starting about a year from now. Boo Hoo.

It's all been said before, about the relaxing quality and general good nature of these old Comedy-Melodramas. I only enter this as an appeal for SOME studio producer to split the budget of one of those `80 million dollar, Aww – So so; but nobody will remember it next month' movies and make four shorts of this caliber.

Heck, if the theater owners complain about tacking them onto the beginning of a feature film and not being able to cycle the audience in for six showings a day. Stick two of these together with a 10 minute Intermission where they (the theater owners) can sell more of that $10 popcorn should do the trick.

There was an art here, an all American art, that made it fun to go to the movies. Nowadays, as I leave the theater, all I can think about is `was it worth the $15 per person I just spent to see a movie'? Unfortunately, more often than not, it wasn't.

I recently inherited a 16mm print of Border Justice. I'm not much for silent films however; this has got some good action. The special effects during the shoot out in the cannon are superb. The scripting is a little light but, overall, it's a good 10-minute flick.

All right, so Rodger Corman is not associated with the movie (Even the AMC introduction announces it as one of his many films). Perhaps because it's an AIP movie everyone confuses it with his (Corman's) work.

CineBooks gives the best review of this film: `Despite some good special effects, the film is surprisingly bland. Though Bronson is better in this than most of his other films, he still has a hard time expressing more than three or four emotions. Price is a complete disappointment, giving a restrained performance where a more outrageous parody would have been in order'

This was supposed to have been one of the Big Budget movies for AIP. If so, someone pocketed the proceeds. It sure wasn't spent in production. Like I said before, poor Mr. Witney must want to crawl of the theater when this movie is shown.

I've read so many bad reviews about this film that I just had to watch it when the chance arrived. It's got all the indications of being a bad film (Five aliases not withstanding: Space Probe Taurus, Space Monster, First Woman into Space, Flight Beyond the Sun and Voyage into the Sun).

Keep an open mind. Remember that American International Productions and Leonard Katzman made most of these on a shooting schedule of three weeks or less with production costs of under $50,000. (In 1965 it cost Irwin Allen $150K to produce two episodes of 'The Time Tunnel' using BackYard sets in So. Calf).

If you keep the above in mind and watch the actors carefully, it's not a bad film. Sure, by today's standard there's more melodrama than Si-Fi and yes, I didn't like the Model Rocket Ship in the Lobster Aquarium either.

Now just sit back, relax, quite looking for things to call hokie and like I said, 'Listen to the actors, try to put your self into their shoes for 80 minutes'.

The main cast were all good 'B' picture stars with the exception of the film's 'Hero' James B. Brown, (this is the same actor who brought us 'Persuit Pilot Tex' from the movie 'Airforce', also co-stared in 'Wake Island' in additions to many other fine performances) and Ms Francine York (YUM - take a look at the '02 photo of her from the DGA Tribute for George Sidney and you'll see what I mean..)

There are a few scenes that actually have some pucker factor or at the very least, will have you shouting 'Come on! Hurry Up! Get out of there before something jumps out of the shadows and GRABS you!'

All things considered, I liked it and if you do too, then count yourself fortunate. Movies are much more enjoyable if you can appreciate the efforts of all the participants. Not just the blockbusters who spent all the money and won all the awards.

Scotty Jensen