The Indestructible Man 1956  N/R, 70 min.
Genre: Horror / Thriller
Director: Jack Pollexfen
Cast: Lon Chaney Jr., Max Showalter, Marian Carr, Ross Elliott, Stuart Randall, Robert Shayne, Ken Terrell, Joe Flynn, Roy Engel
This is an entertaining film for horror film lovers and lovers of Lon Chaney Jr. An innocent man (Chaney Jr.) is executed but is brought back, with superhuman powers, to take revenge.
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Kiss Me Deadly 1955  N/R, 105 min.
Genre: Drama / Mystery / Thriller
Director: Robert Aldrich
Cast: Ralph Meeker, Maxine Cooper, Cloris Leachman, Gaby Rodgers, Albert Dekker, Paul Stewart, Wesley Addy, Juano Hernandez, Jack Elam, Nick Dennis, Marian Carr, Jack Lambert, Jerry Zinneman, Percy Helton, Leigh Snowden
In this Mickey Spillane "Mike Hammer" story, Hammer (Ralph Meeker) picks up hitchhiker Christina (Cloris Leachman) and then is forced off the road and abducted by thugs who kill Christina. Hammer escapes and now tries to uncover the facts that led to Christina's murder. After talking to Christina's roommate Gabrielle (Gaby Rodgers) and to gangster Carl Evello (Paul Stewart), matters get very rough as Hammer unravels the mystery that ends with a "box"–described by Hammer's secretary Velda (Maxine Cooper) as the "great Whatsit." It turns out that the box is filled with atomic explosives ready to be unleashed on the world. Great job, especially for it's time.
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Nightmare 1956  N/R, 89 min.
Genre: Mystery
Director: Maxwell Shane
Cast: Edward G. Robinson, Kevin McCarthy, Connie Russell, Virginia Christine, Rhys Williams, Gage Clarke, Barry Atwater, Marian Carr, Billy May
A fine cast, good (jazz) musical score, and creative directing make this re-do of "Fear In The Night" enjoyable. A jazz musician (Kevin McCarthy) dreams he has stabbed a man in a mansion; his cuts and bruises indicate it may be real. His brother-in-law (Robinson), a police detective, tells him to forget it. But, he is determined to find the mansion, and he does. Now Robinson, after hearing that a murder has been committed there, finds out what really happened.
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Ring of Fear 1954 N/R, 92 min.
Genre: Drama / Mystery
Director: James Edward Grant, William A. Wellman
Cast: Clyde Beatty, Mickey Spillane, Pat O'Brien, Sean McClory, Marian Carr, John Bromfield, Pedro Gonzalez Gonzalez, Emmett Lynn, Jack Stang, Kenneth Tobey, Kathy Cline
Clyde Beatty stars as himself as the Clyde Beatty traveling circus is the target of a homicidal maniac. When police have problems solving the case, they call in mystery writer Mickey Spillane (playing himself) in this pop culture film of the era.
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| 1. The Indestructible Man (1956)
2. Kiss Me Deadly (1955)
3. Nightmare (1956)
4. Ring of Fear (1954)
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