Mystery Submarine 1963  N/R, 92 min.
Genre: Adventure
aka: Decoy
Director: C.M. Pennington-Richards
Cast: Edward Judd, James Robertson Justice, Laurence Payne, Joachim Fuchsberger, Albert Lieven, Arthur O'Sullivan, Robert Flemyng, Richard Carpenter, Robert Brown, Jeremy Hawk
The best part of this film is the good archival submarine shots. While the plot has potential, the story plods along as British sailors capture a Nazi U-boat, man it, and infiltrate a U-boat wolfpack. After discovery, they get away, but the sub is damaged in the process.
|  | |
The Tell-Tale Heart 1960  N/R, 78 min.
Genre: Horror / Thriller
aka: The Hidden Room of 1,000 Horrors
Director: Ernest Morris
Cast: Laurence Payne, Adrienne Corri, Dermot Walsh, Selma Vaz Diaz, John Scott, John Martin, Annette Carell, Yvonne Buckingham, David Lander, Rosemary Rotheray, Suzanne Fuller, Frank Thornton, David Courtney, Elizabeth Paget, Joan Peart
Jealousy over his friend Carl's (Dermot Walsh) relationship with Edgar's (Laurence Payne) girlfriend Betty (Adrienne Corri) leads to Edgar killing Carl and burying him under the floor boards of his house. Later that night, Edgar hears the unmistakable sound of Carl's beating heart in this adaptation of Edgar Allen Poe's tale.
| | |
The Trollenberg Terror 1958  N/R, 84 min.
Genre: Horror / Thriller
aka: The Crawling Eye
Director: Quentin Lawrence
Cast: Forrest Tucker, Laurence Payne, Jennifer Jayne, Janet Munro, Warren Mitchell, Andrew Faulds, Frederick Schiller, Stuart Saunders, Colin Douglas, Derek Sydney
Based on a BBC TV series, this film takes place in a remote mountain area of Switzerland where decapitation of people is occurring. The culprits are tentacled creatures with one eye who are also able to take over people by telepathy. They're hiding in a radioactive cloud in the mountains, and somebody has to do something to save humanity. I'm scared. 2 User Reviews
| User Reviews |
| | Atmospheric and well done. | Mark Davidson 06/27/2009 | | A favorite for decades. It's an English 1950's sci-fi movie. So story, rather than special effects, is the main strength of the picture. One special effect sequence (planes bombing) is poor, but the balance is fairly well done. The story is very good, the characters are intelligent, and the acting is realistic and excellent. The movie starts as a mystery with horror overtones that, with discovery and disclosure of a back story, turns into a sci-fi "reasoning-alien" monster movie. Beautiful Janet Munro becomes telepathically linked to "something" in the Swiss Alps that has a purpose. On 1-10 scale: Story and acting = 7; monster/creature = 6 special effects, for English mid-50s = 5. Overall = 6.5-7 (I like it). Up there with the Quartermass movies. |
| | Anonymous 03/09/2007 | | A strange film, bad special effects and dodgy buildings... Sooner or later I know hollywood will remake it. |
|
| | |
| 1. Mystery Submarine (1963)
aka: Decoy
2. The Tell-Tale Heart (1960)
aka: The Hidden Room of 1,000 Horrors
3. The Trollenberg Terror (1958)
aka: The Crawling Eye
In The News
|
