Subj : Friday on TCM, Six Sci-Fi To : ALL From : Dumas Walker Date : Fri Sep 25 2020 16:02:30 Found the following on a newsgroup and thought it might be of interest here. Also, Saturday on MeTV, Svengoolie is showing "Son of Dracula" at 8pm USET. I plan to DVR, and watch, at least some of these. ------------------------- From: Jack Bohn And after that, a two competent movies to leave you in a better mood. "War of the Planets" (1965) "The Cosmic Monster" (1958) "Satellite in the Sky" (1956) "The Green Slime" (1969) "Queen of Outer Space" (1958) "The Wild, Wild Planet" (1965) "Village of the Damned" (1960) "Children of the Damned" (1964) The two with "planet" in the title are from a package of 4 films MGM commis= sioned from an Italian studio. By shooting all four simultaneously on the = same sets, and using the same effects miniatures, each has production value= s greater than its cost. Each of these two does have at least one striking= visual. "Comic Monsters" is a low budget British entry. As the only one of this si= x in b&w, it's going to look particularly dismal. "Satellite in the Sky" (a good place for it, I say) is a bigger budget Brit= ish film. Technicolor and widescreen, with a script strong on dialog and s= tory. However, it lapses in logic in the technical aspects of the rocketsh= ip, the arguments both for and against its carrying an atom bomb to be expl= oded in space, and the emotional journey of one character (well, since it's= an emotional journey, it doesn't have to be logical). At least when thing= s go wrong, the warmonger only briefly shows himself to be a whimpering cow= ard before re-stiffening his upper lip. "Green Slime" is a co-production of MGM and a Japanese studio. It looks so= much like the Italian movies that it suggests even four years later MGM co= nsiders them the acme of space film. "Queen of Outer Space", ah, "Queen of Outer Space", can't blame anyone but= the U.S. for that one. Two Damned good movies at the end, I'm not even sure Children suffers being= seen immediately after Village. -- -Jack * SLMR 2.1a * Man who stands on toilet seat is high on pot. (Confucius) SEEN-BY: 1/107 17/1 .