Horror Science Fiction Fantasy

episode, giving a very lengthy and de­

EDITORIAL STUFF, OR tailed plot summary along with a review
and rating, however due to the little
THE HOLY Wk IT FkOiTi time we had, the final version is much
vriefer than we desired.
CASTLE CINEFANTASTIQUE Dave Ludwig has been much at work
This issue is being for this issue as can readily be seen by
mailed out after the 25th his covers and interior art portfolio,
World Science Fiction Con­ of James Bond, and the problems with
vention (September 6th) al­ that could easily fill up reams in the
though if you happen to be retelling. The disasters were so uncanny
at the convention you can and suspicious that it were as if Sean
pick it up August 31st, al­ Connery himself were trying to stop its
though little good it does publication to preserve his image while
to tell you that now. Our at the same time SI-iERSH were vying to
sixth number is also ready lay their hands on it for blackmail pur­
(both issues were prepared poses. If you haven’t looked yet, the
at the same time) and is portfolio uncovers for the first time
being mailed out with this anywhere incedents in Bond’s career that
number. According to edi­ IU—6, Britain’s intelligence office, has
torial plans at present, been trying to hush up. It is rumored
issues #7 and #8 will be that British agents may appear at the
produced on schedule (we convention in an attempt to buy up all.
plan to do this for a existing copies of thisr.. magazi.no. That
change) and #9, which is makes it doubly valuable, so why not buy
scheduled to be our second another copy?
bi-monthly ’ likb Speaking of art, our #6 features a
you now hold in your hands cover by one of our new artists, David
will probably be very late Beardsley who tells me that art has been
(Expect it after issue a long tradition in his family. In any
#12). For those of you un­ case the red and blue cover of Ursula
fortunates out there who Andress is one of the cards (the Queen)
are not attending the con­ he has designed for a deck of Casino Roy-
vention, a full report of ale playing cards; Orsen Welles is to be
all goings on will be pre­ the King, David Niven the Jack, and Woody
sented in CF #7. Allen the Joker. I told him they wouldn’t
This issue was long be much use as playing cards if they are
and ponderous in prepara­ three times as long as they are wide,
tion and (due to evil lurk­ but he just said they take after the
ing forces at work beyond film. Well, what else would you expect
out control) is a bit top of Casino Royale playing cards?
heavy with new film and A word to the wise. If you haven’t
television material. Let sent in your 60^ for the next fourris41
me assure you this is not sues of Cinefantastique do so, and to
to be our policy. Cinefan­ the first person who tells me ..what is
tastique is a newsletter of film news written on James Bond’s hand on page 62
and reviews, and these bi-monthly issues goes two 5x7 color photographs from
are intended to provide what lies beyond "Star Trek.” Ky autocratic dicision is
the province of our newsletter, older final and the winner will be ' announ-'1
film coverage, articles, art and fiction. ced in Cinefantastique #7 •
We had intended to u s e John Brunas’ ar­
ticle ”Th e Inner Sanctum at Universal” m-i*S FAN PUT-ON
but it was withdrawn at the last moment
and replaced with our coverage of ’’Star If you are not a fanzine publisher,
Trek.” I would here like to thank Hiss and even if you are, you might not be a-
Margaret Clark of Desilu Productions who ware of IIGII ’ s new policy towards fans
provided much information and many pho­ and fanzines. The time was when fans and
tographs for the checklist, and Kay An­ fanzines were a vociferous but unheedec.
derson, who put up with long distance minority whose tastes, at least in sci­
phone calls and much editorial prodding ence fiction and fantasy in films, were
to complete it on time. Our original i- considered too rich by the studios for
dea was to devote a whole column to each (continued on page 79)
 Science Fiction ' Fantasy

CONTENTS

. EDITORIAL . 46
CIWANTASTIQUE #5- Jtily 30,
1967/ Cinefantastique is a non- " THE SPECIAL EFFECTS OF FANTASTIC VOYAGE
1 profit, international, newsletr From the program notes -,pC ^he' ■ Grauman’ s
ter of film news and reviews , Chinese Theatre premier ...........;. J... 48
• • '. " .v., ' * "■ ' V

published bi-weekly at 7470 Di-

versey, Elmwood Park, Illinois,* THE SCIENCE FANTASY FUli REVISITED
60635• Copyright @ 1967 by F» , ...Ton Reamy revisits the "Space Opera” ..... 51
S. Clarke. Available at T>er
■ copy. __ THE WE GF WE IS v^
Publisher and Supervising-Editor* ,G^ne Rodderiberry 'ogives a producer’s (
u F* S, Clarke ; sight into his labor ,of love . • • <♦ • <.. 57
,. <,Editor •• Vern Benhett
/ Art.-^lit^ • • J? * •^'■‘Dave Ludwig ’’STAR W IND® 19^6 *• W;\ .
’■ Rs^efy .Bditprs ♦ Ted Isaacs Co-compiled fey KayAndersop >. 58
. -and Robert L. Jerome.
£ ■, Hdli^obd,';' &rrp&j^hdent\ Larry. "star trek"w • ■
'^yrd« .English ,Correspondent, Al- . \ What’-# in ptore ,f<r wet Reason • *•••>;. 6?

= ■ \J;ea^eiatidep'ii^ Jeanr*Merne.>
£; Boi^pp* /•'■; Gitagpjy Zat^^ milestone an.
ipdndpnt^ Coiferibu-i:; ■.:' ■ • the history - of the horror - film .. ..'68
tors: Kay ‘AndOrSoUf'' 1-iargaret
Clarke',, Ned Bill Warden ;E0v»^ . /■
and' Gregory. Zatirka* ■■ >■• f ■’ r Letter# t --. .....* . -.. . 70

"Horror has its place' in the OH OHSEVEN../’. !' j

film, as in-every other art, and,. ,Dave* Eudwlg 1 s a r t ^portfolio offers an ai
is •an 'integral part of some ■ of . musing .-^insight onto the ” adventures of
the, very greatest It was des James Solid 73
cribed...as good coinage in the .
currency ofl the arts. Like ... CURRENT FplI.REVIEWS •- •/
all coinage, it can be debased— Frankenstein Created Woman by Ted Isaacs 78
there is no need to hunt for ex­ • , The Bubble by Robert L.. Jerome:. .,. 80
amples. But even the commercial . ’ Daleks Invasion Earth 215.0 A*g.
Horror Film itself, abused and '; byAlan Dodd .. I- 1.7,.. s .. • •...- .. 82
degraded though it often may ba,, ., Wild, .'Wild Planet W Robert L. Jerome .. 83
is a thriving ■ country in the by Alan Dodd , •.. •.. .. 84
world of film,- ■ and: at its bbstT " You' Ohly Live Twice by Robert L, Jerome .. 86
made with integrity, artistry,. .,
enthusiasm a nd cinematic skill,
is ■Worthy of eonsideration.-.and _ Title: and infoimiation on eVery film now
•respect.’’ . Ivan Butler frpm his ,s ; in'release, or' production co-oompiled by
book The Horror - Film, . ; ' Bill Warren ♦. ..,. ♦,............ ......... 88

COWING W CINEFANTASTIQUE ,
Projects in preparation .. ... 92
 Director Richard Fleischer has said
”’Fantastic Voyage1 is the kind of story
motion pictures were invented for be­
cause it is the sort of thing that can­
not be done in any other medium.”
A full two years in the making, this
20th Century-Fox Cinemascope-DeLuxe Col­
or attraction consumed more time, effort
and money for experiments and tests than
has ever been expended for any film. The
incredible advendute which it relates
becomes completely plausible because the
production is so painstakingly exact in
its recreation of the inner body.
CONTINUED
CIKEFANTASTIQUE 48
 From the outset, Producer Saul David which marine and geodetic research in­
was fascinated with the original treat­ stitutions might well consider an ideal
ment of Fantastic Voyage, authored by vehicle.
Otto Element and Jay Lewis Bixby. Once In addition to the inner-body . sets,
the story had been adapted fro the screen the principal realistic set was the 100’
by writer David Duncan, Producer David x300 ’ Combined Miniature Deterrent
sought out Scenarist Harry Kleiner to Forces Headquarters. From the huge cen­
write the final screenplay. tral Miniaturization Chamber stemmed
Kleiner took an intensive 18-hour-a- conference rooms, computer rooms, three
day three week course at the UCLA way television . communication ’s center,
School of Medicine, during which he com­ sterilization chamber, surgery and hos­
pleted a scientific reference script al­ pital rooms.
most 300 pages in length. This proved an More than $300,000 worth od special
invaluable guide to both Producer David scientific, hospital, electrical, radar,
and Director Fleischer as well as Unit television and. other equipment was rent­
Art Director Dale Hennesy, aiding them ed. Other equipment, too expensive to
in bringing a Fantastic Voyage to the either rent or purchase, was built into
screen with the utmost fidelity to me­ the set, which featured a 40-foot circu­
dical and anatomical research. lar, subterranean - lighted glass floor
In addition to with center hydraul­
Kleiner’s studies at ic lift. The costli­
UCLA, Hennesy, toge­ est single invention
ther with several in motion picture
medical artists, was history was the de-
weeks there making velopement of th^
exact drawings of three-way live TV
anatomical sections system seen in the
of body interiors. film. It involved u-
The 450 paintings sing four of the la­
which they completed test English Marconi
served as the basis earner*3 a^d 12 sets.
for the creation of I jo faking of any
the film’s sets. kind was involved—
Cinematographer che screens are ac­
Ernest Laszlo has tual live TV. This
called Fantastic Vo- discovery is already
yag£ the most com­ proving o f benefit
plex film of his di­ to t h e government,
stinguished career. scientific and in­
The innerbody sets, Proteus and crew in ’’The Depthless Tunnel” dustrial organiza­
basicly c o 1o rless tions . Another . of
and translucent, were painted by Laszlo the film’s inventions attracting consi­
xri.th colored lights, derable attention was the precision
’’For me it was an exceptionally cre­ handling machines, which physicians visit
ative job,” Laszlo commented, ’’for this ing sets marvelled at as being a poten­
is the first time that two thirds of a tial life-saving asset in operating­
motion picture has been colored wholly rooms.
with light. Statistics alone cannot describe the
Also contributing their talents to magnitude of the inner-body sets, nor
this extraordinary motion picture were c n adjectives do justice to their eerie
Art Director Jack Martin Smith, Set Dec­ beauty. Fantastic Voyage boasts five-
orators Walter M. Scott and Stuart Reiss major inner-body sets:
and Creative Research Consultant Harper THE DEPTHLESS TUNNEL (CAPILLARY)---- a
Goff. Goff designed the "nuclear powered” 100x50 foot tube made of specially in­
submarine PROTEUS equipped inside with a vented and welded combinations of flexi­
portable lasar beam and every known ble resin and fibergalss with hand-
scientific gadget, many of which have painted scenic effects to simulate the
not yet been publicized. The PROTEUS cellular walls of the capillary. The
driven by two hydraulic jet -propulsion tube was made, as were all the inner-
pods, was designed as an advanced form body sets, large enough to hold the 42x
of undersea oceanic research vessel (continued on next page)
22 foot PROTEUS submarine in which the brain; the quadrant at the base of the
scientists make their strange journey. brain and the cerebral lights. Three
Scenic baking creates the illusion of weeks were spent in preparing the mater­
infinite depth. ials for u s e in the construction of the
THE HURRICANE CHAMBER (LUNG) —real­ brain set: fibreglass, acetate plastic,
istic. to the point of including sharp, cellulose acetate forms, textured loose
craggy, rock-like gray formations repre­ glass, fibre matts dressed with bridge-
senting the smog, dirt and smike inhal­ over, a material used by the Navy in
ed. The Alveolus—one of the billions of mothballing the fleet. It then took 32
baloon-like sacks which make up t h e lung men seven days to accomplish the actual
is constructed of flexible resin and construction.
fibreglass treated with a specially cre­ In addition to the five main inner-
ated mixture. It was sculpted by artict body sets, also built were the eye (two
Jim Casey. sections 1? feet long, 5 feet high); the
THE CENTRAL CAVERN (HEART) —also pulmonary artery (40 feet long, 8 feet-
sculpted by Casey, it is carved out of a in diameter, feet high); and various
solid piece of styrofoam 15 feet long, 5 other portions of the blood system, the
feet high and 7 feet wide. All the mus­ pleural cavity, and the lymph nodes.
cles and lacy orac­ Craftsmen of t h e
les and valves are prop shop created
scientificly correct over 17,000 red blood
They are made of rub­ ccrpuscles and 10,000
ber and hooked up to white corpuscles for
move like Hiving tis­ use in the whirlpool
sue . The whole heart in the artery. Each
is finished with la­ corpuscle was three-
tex, giving it a li­ quarters of an inch
ving appearance. It in diameter. They
served as the model made aproximately
for the final set 2 0, 0 0 0 antibodies
created by art di­ and made them twice,
rector, Dale Hennesy because the gelatin­
which is 130 feet ous substance which
wide and 30 feet the first batch was
high. In reality, a made of melted under
human heart is no the hot studio lites
bigger than a cof­ despite the fact
fee mug. that they were kept
THE ECHO CHAMBER iced in between the
(MIDDLE AND INNER take s.
EAR) - The Cochlear For each set, spe­
Duct, the cavity of cial materials had
the inner ear, re­ The Brain, a cobweb effect of spun fibreglass to be' discovered.
sembling a snail a- For instance spe­
bout lj inches. The set representing it cial tenitebutryrate tubing, two inches-
is sventy feet wide, thirty feet high, in diameter and twenty feet long was us­
and one hundred feet deep. Built separ- ed for the auditory hairs i n which Ra­
ately, and with equally enormous propor­ quel Welch becomes entrapped, triggering
tions were the Columnar Cells of Hensen the antibodies into action. In addition
and Organ of Corti within the inner ear. every set had hanging units which moved
THE BRAIN--------- is a Set roughly five expanded and for which self-gluing poly­
million times the size of the real human ester resin acted as a catalyst welding
brain. The cobweb effect of rope-like- the units. An executive of a plastics-
bridge is of spun fibreglass, handspray- company visited the set and remarked in
ed with geometric precision. When volun­ awe to Dale Hennesy, the art director:
teer consultant Dr. Charles Bridgeman vi­ ”1 have a whole laboratory full of sci­
sited the set, he was able to distin­ entists and every one telling me that
guish the various dendrites ('cell struc­ the things you’ve done just can’t be
tures which send out and receive brain done.”
impulses); the cranial fjord in which A tribute indeed to the most fan­
the submarine enters the brain; the dark tastic picture ever to come to the mo­
areas representing the imjured area of t h e tion picture screen.

50 CINEFANTASTIQUE
 REAMY REVISITS THE "SPACE OPERA'

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vices of Tom Reamy, who has seen fit to
transfer it from his own publication,
TRUMPET, into my hands. In future issues
Tom’s interesting and often humorous ob­
servations on varied and numerous films
will be edited into (we hope) coherent
groups. Tom will revisit "The Nudie",
"THe Spear and Sandal Epics", "The Mon­
ster Film", et al. Stick around. And
while you’re waiting do yourself a ser­
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ROCKETSHIP XM Lippert. 6/50. 77 min. Written, produced, and directed by Kurt

Neumann. Photography by Karl Struss. Ed­
ited by Harry Gerstad. Special effects by
Don Stewart. Music composed by Ferde Grof

Floyd Graham ............................. Lloyd BRidges

Dr. Lisa Van Horn......................... Osa Lassen
Dr. Clark Ekstrom......................... John Emery
Harry Chamberlain ................... Hugh O’Brien
Major William Corrigan ... Noah Beery Jr.
Dr. Fleming ............................... Morris Ankrum

Rocketship XIa unfortunately was in

direct competition with' Destination. LOon
at its release. It was, of course, made
as such and as a result got lost in the
shuffle. . >It is not as flashy nor spec­
tacular a film as Destination Moon but
it has qualities of its own. It is real­
ly a surprisingly good film to be a self
confessed imitation of an excellent one.
CONTINUED

CINEFANTASTIQUE 51
 The takeoff of the RXM—Rocketship
Expedition Moon—has been seen in count­ Two members of the crew are killed
less films- 'since. It’s a very good se­ in the attack and a third wounded. He is
quence, that is, the parts done espe­ rescued by the other two and the ship
cially for the film. The several shots departs safely. But all is not well; the
of the White Sands V-2 are out of place ship runs out of fuel before it reaches
and do not match the studio designed Earth. The new fuel mixture is radioed
ship. One shot is especially exciting: just before the ship crashes.
the camera is high above the launching "Then the expedition - can be cons­
pad and the 'ship rises toward it. It idered a failure," says a newsman.
doesn’t look at all like a miniature. "No," replies Dr. Fleming. "The ex­
The RXM meets the cliche meteor pedition is not a failure. Tomorrow we
shower but, remember, it wasn’t a cliche begin construction of RXM II."
in 1950. It had never been done before— There are, naturally, faults in the
to my knowledge. The meteors look a lit­ film other than those already mentioned.
tle like stacked cannon'balls and they The excessively long period of unconscio­
persist in making an impossible express usness on the part of the crew doesn’t
train noise. But that happens in every ring true. The thunderstorm which
film. Seen today, it is an orgy of cli­ greets the landing is quite uncharacter­
ches but a cliche is not a cliche the istic of Mars. The noral of "There but
first time. for the grace of God goes Earth" is too
The actors are uniformly good. Noah obvious though hot excessively so. The
Beery’s constant recitation of the 1950 love affair that developss between Miss
edition of ’’Texas Brags” begins to wear Massen ahd Mr. Bridges as the ship plum­
very rapidly and the other characters mets to Earth is a little pat but it’s
occasionally let go with a clunker but, there for a purpose: Science is a cold
on the whole, the dialogue is not bad. and cruel thing when not tempered with
The RXM’s engines go dead before es­ humanity.
cape velocity has been reached and the Rocketship XM is an honest, serious
ship goes into orbit. No mechanical dif­ film- with something to say. It is even
ficulty can be found. The fuel mixture better in some ways than the cold and a-
becomes suspect and a new one is calcu­ ustere Destination Moon. It's successes
lated. The authenticity of all this e- far outweigh its failures and its second
ludes me but it at least sounds real. class citizenship is undeserved.
The new mixture gives the ship such a
sudden burst of speed, the crew blacks
out. Vihen they arrive—days later accor­
ding to the beards of the men—the ship
is near Mars.
They are appropriately excited and
the landing is uneventful. They set out
on Mars, and the authenticity ds a matter
of taste. I like it. The Martian land­
scape is evidently the Mojave Desert but
with the pink tint to give it an air of
unfamiliarity, it is far more suitable
than a set.
They discover- numerous dome-shaped
ruins but, unfortunately, they are too
radioactive to go near. That night they
are attacked- by the degenerate descend­
ants of the atomicly destroyed Martian
civilization. The Mhrtians are strictly
like us but severely radiation burned.
The attack is one of the best such
scenes ever filmed. It is handled with ROBINSON CRUSOE ON MARS. A Paramount Re­
taste and discretion. There are no at­ lease. Produced: Aubrey Schenck. Direct­
tempts at artificial horror; there is ed: Byron Haskin. Photography: Winston
enough in the situation itself. One par­ C. Hoch. Art Direction: Hal Pereira, Ar­
ticular shot af the Martians racing a- thurs Lonergan. Makeup: Wally Westmore
long the edge of a cliff silouetted a- Bud Bashaw. Film Editor: Terry Morse,
gainst the sky is fantastically dramatic. Screenplay: lb Melchoir, John C. Higgins

52 CINEFANTASTIQUE
 Commander Christopher Draper USN .♦ the landscape with no apparent source of
. Paul Mantee fuel. There is indeed a great deal of
' Friday Victor Lundin pyrotechnics for a planet whose atmos­
Colonel Dan McReady USAF . Adam West phere is so lacking in oxygen. An explan­
Mona the Monkey Itself ation is given later but it is somewhat
Robinson Crusoe On liars, despite the inadequate.
silly title, is undoubtedly the best A- Draper’s first concerns are shelter,
merican science - fiction film since For­ food, water, and air. It is somewhat to
bidden Planet. As a whole it i s better Draper’s discredit that each is discov­
than any foreign s-f film although the ered by chance and not by logic. He
Japanese Battle In Outer Space, which falls into a ravine a n'd finds an ideal,
had similar alien spaceships, out did it cave for shelter; he follows Mona, the
in that department. The alien ships in test-monkey who also survived the crash,
RC ON Mars are more imaginatively con­ because he suspects she is getting water
ceived ---- they flit about like humming somewhere but he loses her and finds the
birds - but are always photographed from water by falling through a hole; the
exactly the same angle. Whether they are food is a bonus in the form of a water­
going forward, backward, up, down, side- plant with edible pods . He discovers
ways or hovering we always see them from that certain yellow rocks will burn much
a three-quarter front view, which gives like coal but how they burn without .oxy­
them an unconvincing cartooned quality. gen doesn’t cross his • mine until
But this is minor. The overall dram­ he passes out and is re­
atic excellence of the film overshadows vived by falling
any singular inadequacy of the special near some of the
effects which are., for the most part, burning rocks
excellent. From the first shot of the which he uses to
two-man Mars ship barreling through heat his cave. He
space to t h e last of Draper and Friday has afterthoughts
standing on a cliff overlooking the mel­ on the matter but .
ting polar ice cap, interest never lags only by acci­
and wonders never cease. dent does he
The Mars ship is only supposed to discover
orbit the planet and return to earth but the rocks
an encounter with a meteor forces the con­
ship lower into the gravitational pull tain
of Mars which is has insufficient
fuel to overcome. The pilots eject
—though I’m not sure why they were
in such a hurry aS the ship goes into
orbit. Both ejection capsules crack-up
on landing but Draper is unhurt while
the other pilot is killed.
Draper lands in a volcanic area in
which vast fire -storms rage
$ and here only a bit of fantasy
creeps into the picture. Giant
'.fireballs float over

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release their • oxygon, ’Just; cx^ctly^Thy gether by remote control producing ef­
tho script--’rr iter ‘hsd dcpendol onr.coin* fective handcuffs in case of an upris­
didsmc*-rather “ than stxmo- ing. Friday has supposedly had them on
—hat for over fifty years (though the differ­
Draper is able to breathe the Mar­ ence in planetary years is ignored) and
tian atmosphere for approximately fifteen Lundin wears them as if they were a part
minutes before he must take an oxygen of his body. He clangs them together for
booster. This gives him considerable attention and never fidgets with them
freedom in his movements. The film as actors are prone to do with unfamili­
dwells for considerable length on his ar bits of costuming.
attempts to allay boredom and make his The aliens begin blasting the land­
life more comfortable. This could have scape apparently willing to go to great
been deadly dull but instead it is fas­ lengths to destroy one escaped slave.
cinating. He builds tanks to grow the Draper and Friday manage to escape
water plants and even builds a swimming through vast underground crevasses as
pool. He spends a good deal of his time their cave is demolished. These fissures
exploring—while playing a home-made opened in a distant epoch causing the
bagpipe. crust to sag forming the "Canals'1. They
The idyllic, though lonely existence are forced to return to the surface when
is soon violently interrupted by the ar­ they encounter a highly volcanic region
rival of an alien mining ship, for which and emerge in sight of the polar icecap.
Draper discovers, slaves are used. This Draper has managed to file the bracelets
may seem a little incongruous for a cul­ off Friday’s wrists and the aliens seem
ture as obviously superior, technically, to have gone.
as this one is, to use human slaves, They reach the icecap-just as a me­
much in the Egyptian manner rather than teor crashes into it starting it to
machines which need no guarding and melt. Then a ship from Earth arrives to
would certainly produce greater results. rescue them. Apparently Friday is going
But this again is minor. to be allowed to live and return to
Draper aids one of the slaves to es­ Earth. This is a little unusual in it­
cape and finds a cure for his last prob­ self. The alien of the different in sci­
lem: lonliness. But the aliens return in ence-fiction films invaribly dies or
two months and are able to trace the returns to whence it came. It never
slave (whom Draper has predictably named mingles with humanity long enough to im­
Friday) by massive metal bracelets he part any "forbidden" knowledge.
wears on each wrist. These bracelets are The film is completely shot in Death
one of the film’s more imaginative Valley (with the exception of a few
touches. They can be caused to clamp to- sound stage sequences such as the inter­
ior of Draper’s cave and the swimming
pool grotto). Oddly enough the Death
Valley location shots are far more con­
vincing than the sets. Virtually every
frame is a matte shot and they are su­
perb. The sky varies from yellow at mid­
day to red.in the late evening and early
morning. Above the thin atmosphere is
the black of space with the stars quite
visable. The shots are terrific.
The best set in an extreme long shot
of the swimming pool grotto. It’s an
extreme long shot because Draper is
scampering around with no clothes on.
Some of the sets have a slight artifici­
al look but not enough to detract.
* The machines and ship interiors have
a look of desperate reality and they
possibly are. Draper’s chief gadget is a
video tape recorder which is an all pur­
pose communications and amusement de­
Hona, the wolly monkey, Draper (Paul Dan- vice. He photographs the alien ships
tee), and Friday (Victor Lundin). with it and dictates his log on it. It
also comes equipped with survival tapes.

5^' CIFTFAFT/lSTIQUE
 Paul Mantee is superb as Draper. He Lt. Michael................................... Dave Willock
is ruggedly handsome and highly talented Motiya................................................... Lisa Davis
in the acting department. The highest Lt. Harry Turner...................... Patrick Waltz
possible praise for Vic Lundin is that Odeena..........................................Marilyn Buferd
he keeps the character of Friday from Charles Beaumont has written a tongue-
being ridiculous—no mean accomplish­ in-cheek spoof of filmed space opera;
ment. Adam West isn't around long enough the only trouble is the director didn't
to make much of an impression but there recognize it for what it was and has
is no complaint with the little there turned out exactly what Beaumont was
is. spoofing. But for the obvious comic dia­
Mona, the monkey, threatens to steal logue, which the director could not fail
the show, but never quite makes it. to interpret correctly, Beaumont's ab­
Despite all the painstaking attempts surd situations have been transposed to
at technical and scientific accuracy the screen with deadly seriousness.
spaceships and meteors still make an ear Beaumont has peopled his script with
splitting roar as they barrel through stereotypes in their purest form. The
the vacuum of space. But, by this time, four spacemen consist of the Captain, so
we would probably think it strange if stoic his joints creak; the wise, faith­
there was no sound. ful old professor; the slightly funny
Even with these inconsistencies with looking comic relief and the self-styled
scientific fact, this latter-day Crusoe, romeo. No, the Captain’s name isn't Tom
with his Alien Friday and space-age pro­ Corbett.
blems, set against the desolate but imp­ In 1985 a U.S. rocket en route to
ressive background, makes an interesting film.. one of the space stations orbiting the
Earth is thrown off course when the
space station is destroyed by an energy
beam. The rocket crashes on Venus and
upon looking at the proverbial dial, the
Captian proclaims the use of space suits
unnecessary. The dial tells him the com­
position of the atmosphere but, of
course, the possible presence of alien
bacteria fails to occur to the Captain.
Beaumont is poking fun at similar scenes
in dozens of other films but it is acted
solemnly and emerges as inane as ever.
Outside, the voyagers wander through
some pretty artificial looking scenery
but, as I’ve mentioned before, just how
do you go about creating an alien land­
scape which doesn’t look artificial?
They become more and more jittery as
things fly over emitting Spike Jones
Zsa Zsa Gabor (center) in a scene'typ­ sound effects. The Professor contends
ifying the dramatic tenure of Queen of they are electronic devices rather than
Outer Space. animal life.
"But," queries the Captain, "an
electronic device would indicate hu­
QUEEN OF OUTER SPACE. An Allied Artists mans."
Release;. Producer: Ben Schwalb. Direc­ "Intelligence, yes," replies the
tor: Edward Bernds. Screenplay: Charles Professor, "but not neccessarily human.
Beaumont. Story: Ben Hecht. Photography: Who knows what form it would take."
William Whitley. Film Editor: William The form it takes is Zsa Zsa Gabor,
Beaudine Jr. Set Decoration: Joseph the only Venusian in history with a Hun­
Makeup: Emile LaVigne. Music: Marlin garian accent and Beaumont's most splen­
Skiles. 80 minutes. Released September did jape in the film—if he in any way
1958. influenced the casting. Nobody but the
Tallah................................... Zsa Zsa Gabor intrepid director -could take seriously
Captain Neil Patterson..Eric Fleming Zsa Zsa undulating around pointing a zap
Yllana...............................Laurie Mitchell gun---- not even Zsa Zsa.
Professor Konrad.................... Paul Birch Upon making camp the first night,

CIWANTASTIC 55
Romeo (.Lt, Turner; draws tne first watcn. . cernoiy rauiacion ourueu aim unat's
"If any of those little green men she hates men; not for nobel or idealis­
come around, I’ll faint. The sound of my tic reasons but purely from female van­
body falling will wake you up." ity.
What turns up is not little green The men, with the help of Zsa Zsa
men but the chorus line from Minsky’s. and the beautiful girls that have latch­
Even the costumes are stereotypes—those ed on to each of them—except the pro­
brief affairs with the short skirt and fessor, of course, though in the form of
long sleeves invariably made of satin. Paul Birch, he isn't all that old------ es­
The Amazons march the spacemen before cape and make for the Beta disintegrator
the queen and her council all of whom to destroy it. They are recaptured and
wear masks supposedly because they are forced ..to •‘watch... as the • queen blasts
too beautiful for the rank and file to Earth to cinders after which they will
behold. When Lt. Turner remarks on the be executed. But the disintegrator has
lack of men, the Professor replies, been sabotaged by Zsa Zsa's henchwomen
"Perhaps this is a civilization that ex­ and it blows up killing the queen. Zsa
ists without sex." "You call that civi­ Zsa is made the nevi queen and as the
lization?" When queried about their a- Earthmen are preparing to leave in their
bility to speak English, the queen re­ patched up rocket, contact is made with
plies, "We have monitored your electro­ Earth. Earth orders them to stay on Ven­
nic waves for years." Beaumont misses us and not attempt the flight in the
none of the cliches. possibly unsafe rocket. A relief ship
Later, when clandestinly questioned will arrive but it will probably take at
by Zsa Zsa, who is the leader of the un­ least a year. And as each goes into a
derground bent upon overthrowing the clinch with his favorite Venusian, the
cruel queen, they learn that ten years voice stoicly continues, "I know you men
previously a terrific war took place are anxious to return home. You must
with the planet Mordo. Venusian civili­ bear your privations and hardships
zation was practically destroyed and the bravely."
remnants gathered in this one city aban­ The film is full of faults but it is
doning the others. A revolution took comforting to know they are intentional
place led by a masked woman who over­ faults. The banishment of the men is
threw the men and banished them to one nonsense, of course. Supression, yes,
of the Venusian moons. She held the men but complete banishment would not only
responsible for the war and was going to doom the population in a generation but
have peace from now on no matter who she could hardly find enough supporters a-
had to kill. The Captain wonders how the mong the women to accomplish it. That an
women were able to wrest control from interplanetary war severe enough to al­
the men. "They didn't take us seriously" most deplete a planet would go unnoticed
replies Zsa Zsa. She then tells them by Earth observatories is unlikely.
that the Queen thinks Earth is planning It also borrows heavily from other
to invade Venus and is planning to de­ films. The rocket is f?*om World Without
stroy it utterly with her Beta disinte­ End as is the giant rubber spider. The
grator with which she destroyed the men all wear costumes from Forbidden
space station. Planet and even a couple of the girls
It has not gone unnoticed that the wear some of the costumes worn by Anne
queen could hardly keep her eyes off the Francis. The guns are also from Forbid­
Captain so a plan is devised to sway her den Planet though they produce different
from her nefarious schemes. "You know," results. Bits of Forbidden Planet have
muses the Professor, "it's ironic that shown up as often as the dinosaurs from
the fate of the Earth may depend on Pat­ One Million B. 0. Even George Pal used
terson's sex appeal." It’s a tiny straw them in The Time Machine.
at which to clutch. Eric Fleming may be Even though most of Beaumont's sa­
handsome, manly and stalwart but he is tire has been buried in the very drivel
about as sexy as a robot. The queen is­ it was spoofing, the film manages to be
n't fooled by the ruse and the Captain entertaining. It has been fairly hand­
feeling that the mask. . is interfering somely mounted without anything spectac­
with his technique, suddenly removes it. ular being done.- Zsa Zsa is about the
Here Beaumont fails us. He gets original only one to portray her role as Beaumont
—or reasonably so. The mask wasn't hid­ intended but, then, even in a serious
ing the queen's incredible beauty but role, she seems to be pulling somebody's
her incredible ugliness. Her face is leg.

56 Cli'^rTASTIQUS
THE NAME OF I HE NAME
BY CEDE RODDEBBERRY

Take a vessel, The United Space Ship

Enterprise, larger than any navel vessel
known, crossing our galaxy at a velocity
surpassing the. speed of light. So huge,
in fact, the ’’miniature” photographic mo­
del is over fourteen feet long. Fourteen
decks, a crew of four hundred thir­
ty persons. A whole city afloat in
space!
l/hat is out there in space? For
one thing, if we c a n believe our
scientists today, a universe'so vast
it contains millions of planets sim­
ilar to our own. And, again if we
can believe our scientists, life
forms and civilizations ranging from
the primitive to intelligence far
surpassing, our own. Unless our
science and mathematics and laws of
probability are all wrong, infinite
space must teem with as much life
and adventure as ourown ocean and
land masses here on Earth.
And just as bold men once dis­
covered and subdued new continents
here on Earth, bold men will someday
venture into the fantastic unknowns
of space. The name of the game is
’’Star Trek,” a tale of action-adven­
ture, men and women, and space tra­
vel hundreds of years from now. It
is the most difficult series ever
attempted, certainly, the most chal­
lenging and exciting.
iy job? Produce this new series.
I teethed on police shows and Wes­
terns, but this is something else
again, for, ’’Star Trek” emphasizes
believability. We started with the
premise that the American audience
is a lot more intelligent than the
socalled ’’experts” insist. We feel
you can shortchange the audience on­
ly at your own peril. Thus our peo­
ple, our vessel, everything seen and
heard, must be totally honest, real
and believable as if we were watch­
ing cops, cowboys, interns, or what
have you. .
Are we doing ’’science fiction?” If

CINEFANTASTIQUE 57
by that ypu Mean ’’space pirates” .of ’’the
monster that gobbled up Tokyo,” the an­ STAR TREK INDEX
swer is no. But if you mean how you and KAY ABDEkSOn 6 FS ClAkKE
I will feel and act if we were actually
there a few centuries from now, if you
mean the believable adventures that (like Special thanks to Kiss Margaret Clark of
it or not) man now faces, the ansvzer is Desilu Productions’ Publicity Dept.
yee.
One of our early episodes dealt with
the first contact with another race, a Credits
civilization so advanced that our o w n
giant starship could be smashed as we on Executive producer .... Gene Roddenberry
Earth today, swat.a fly.
* How do-you com­ Producer..................... Gene L. Coon
municate with such aliens? How do you con- Associate producer ... Robert H. Justman
vinve them of our intentions? Or are our Photography ...................... Jerry Finnsrman
morals and ideals sufficiently advanced Music ........................... Alexander Courage
even to interest them? Special effects ............................... Jim Rugg
As an example of scientific problems, Story editor ...................... Dorothy Fontana
our weaponry is called a ’’phaser.” It is Coordinator in charge of production ....
capable of anything from gently tranquil- .................................. Herbert F. Salow
izing a victim to explosively disinteg­
rating matter. Why the term "phaser?” Cast of Regulars
Simply because the more common "laser,"
as scientifically advanced as it is, may Captain James T. Kirk .. William Shatner
become household knowledge while our se­ Mister Spock ........................... Leonard Nimoy
ries is still on the air. Yoeman Janice Rand ...
* Grace Le^ Whitney
Another example of "Star Trek" try­ Dr. Leonard "Bones" McCoy .............................
ing to anticipate scientific devices is ............................................. Deforest Kelley
out "inventing" a language - converter -' Mister Sulu ............................... George Takei
which in conjunction with a small hand ^Lieutenant Uhura ........... Nichelle Nichols
communications instrument computes and Engineering Officer Scott . James Doohan
translates English into an alien tongue
and vice versa, Much to our surprise, SEQUENTIAL INDEX OF EPISODES
following our "invention," a news item
appeared announcing a current government "The Kan Trap" 9/ 8/66
project which is developing a similar "Charlie X" 9/15/66
device. "Where Ho Kan Ilas Gone Before" 9/22/66
Still another example of having to ’’The Naked Time" 9129/66 .
stay enough ahead of science is a hospi­ "The Enemy Within" 10/ 6/66
tal bed we introduced in the pilot film "Mudd’s Women" 10/13/66 .
of the series. This bed continually "Wnat Little Girls Are Hade Of'" 10/20/66
checks all body functions, in addition "Kiri” 10/27/66
to having the patient under closed-cir­ "Dagger of the Kind" 11/ 3/66
cuit visual observation at all 'tinos. "Corbomite Maneuver" 11/10/66
Upon congratulating ourselves on our "The Menagerie” (Part 1) 11/17/66
"genius" in "inventing" this, we discov­ ’’The Menagerie” (Part 2) 11/24/66
ered that Mayo Clinic is already doing PRE-EMPTED 12/ 1/66
this and is also working on further im­ "The Conscience of the King" 12/ 8/66
provements. We had to sit up nights to "Balance of Terror" 12/15/66
figure out how to go further. RE-RUN of 10/20/66 12/22/66 ~
While "Star Trek" is science fiction "Shore Leave" 12/29/66
our stories are basicly about people. "Galileo Seven" 1/ 5/67
This is not a series where you invent "The Squire of Gothos" 1/12/67
a machine and then fit a story around "Arena" 1/19/67
it. Our stories will always involve be­ '"Tomorrow Is Yesterday" 1/26/67
lievable people in believable conflict, "Court Martial" 2/ 2/67
but with outer space as a background. "The Return of the Archons" 2/ 9/67
-Gene Roddenberry-
r 'i'a.;-. . « LJ. xeKt LLv
-cies as a
re^lar a?tei th: 12/°/66 cvis;oc s ”T h e
* "Corbomite Maneuver" 11/10/66.
Conscience of thb'Kin- ,1

58 CINEFANTASTIQUE
 ARENA 1/19/67. Directed by Joseph Pev-
ney. Teleplay by Gene L. Coon. Original
story by Frederic Brown, Cast: Carole
Shelyne as the Metron. Jerry Ayres as
0’Herlihy. Grant Woods as Kelowitz. Tom
Troupe as Lt. Harold. James Farley as
Lang.
A confrontation between the USS En­
terprise and a hostile alien spacecraft
is halted by benevolent super beings who
decide that the conflict must be resolv­
ed without the total destruction of both
races. Captain Kirk and the lizard-like
commander of the alien ship must battle
unaided on a barren asteroid. The Winner
goes free, and the loser and his ship is
to be destroyed.

BALANCE OF TERROR 12/15/66. Directed by

Vincent McEveety. Toleplay by Paul
Schneider. Cast: Mark Lenard as the Rom­
ulan Commander. Paul Comi as Stiles.
Lawrence Montaigne as Decius. John War­
burton as Centurion. Stephan Mines as
Tomlinson.
Captain Kirk must make a decision
that could trigger a full scale galactic
war. A flagship of the war-like Romulan
Empire has destroyed three Earth out­
posts. For the Enterprise to retreat
would only invite further offensives, hit
counterattack has been expressly forbid­
den.
’’Space Seed" 2/16/6?
"A Taste of Armageddon" 2/23/67 CHARLIE X 9/15/66. Directed by Lawrence
"This Side of Paradise" 3/ 2/6? Dobkin. Teleplay by D. C. Fontana. Ori­
"Devil in the Dark" 3/ 9/6? ginal story by Gene Roddenberry. Cast:
PRE-EMPTED 3/16/6? Robert Walker Jr. as Charlie.
"Errand of Mercy" 3/23/6? The crew of the USS Enterprise is
"The Alternate Factor" 3/30/6'7 threatened by Charlie, a strange orphan­
"The City On the Edge of Forever" ^/6/6? ed child with fantastic mental powers.
"Operation-Annihilate" ^/13/6? As the sole survivor of a crashed star­
ship he was raised by a race of super
beings who invested these powers in him
ALPHABETICAL INDEX OF EPISODES in order that he survive on their barren
planet. Charlie’s power, however, makes
THE ALTERNATE FACTOR 3/30/6?. Directed him impatient and unwilling to accept
by Gerd Oswald. Teleplay by Don Ingalls. the restrictions of society and he slow­
Cast: Robert Brown as Lazarus. Janet Mac- ly begins to take control of t h e Enter­
Lachlan as Charlene Masters. Richard Dun prise and its crew.
as Barston. Eddie Pahegas as Lesley.
The USS Enterprise is directed to THE CITY ON THE EDGE OF FOREVER ^/6/6?.
investigate an energy source eminating Directed by Joseph Pevney. Teleplay by
from an uncharted planet. This strange Harlan Ellison. Cast: Joan Collins as
energy force is disrupting time and Edith Keeler. John Harmon as Rodent. Hal
space and may prelude the destruction..of Baylor as the Policeman. David L. Ross
the universe. On th e planet’s surface, as Galloway.
Captain Kirk discovers Lazurus who has Under the effect of "cordrazen", an
created a rift between our own and an experimental drug, Dr. McCoy enters a
alternate universe. time portal to New York City of the 1930's >

cinefantastique 59
and disrupts the normal time continuum. his prisoners. With a machine of his own
To restore the natural course of history- design which he alledgedly uses for re­
Captain Kirk and Hr. Spock must travel habilitation, he destroys the memories
through the portal, find He Coy, and undo and free will of his prisoners, creating
the disasterous changes he has made. mindless lsaves.

THE CONSCIENCE OF THE Kim 12/8/66. Di­ DEVIL IN THE DARK 3/9/6?. Directed by
rected by Gerd Oswald. Teleplay by Barry Joseph Pevney. Teleplay by Gene L. Coon.
Trivers. Cast: Barbara Anderson as Len­ Cast: Ken Lynch as Vanderberg. Janos
ore. Arnold Hoss as Karidian. Prohaska as Horta. Barry Russo as Giotto.
The USS Enterprise is diverted to Brad Weston as Appel.
the planet Cygnia iiinor where Captain The USS Enterprise receives a dis­
Kirk is to help identify Kodos the Exe­ tress call from a distant mining colony,
cutioner, a commander who executed half and in answering they come to grips with
the population of the planet Tarsus.; a totally different form of intelligent
Kirk is one of three survivors of the life. The mining colony is at the mercy
massacre, the only living humans who can of an indestructible creature capable of
identify Kodos. movement through solid rock.

CORBOMITE HAHEUVER 11/10/66. Directed THE M WITHIN 10/6/66. Directed by

by Joe Sargent. Teleplay by Jerry Sohl. Leo Penn. Teleplay by Richard Hatheson.
Anthony Callas as Dave Baily, Clint How­ Cast: Jim Goodwin as Farrell. Ed Hadden
ard as Balok. as Fisher. Garland Thompson as Wilson.
Tn.destroying a threatening ’’space Captain Kirk, commander of the USS
bouy” the USS Enterprise is confronted Enterprise, is split into two physical
with a colossal space vessel which beings by the ship’s transporter, one
threatens their destruction for tress­ hostile, one beneficent and the two wage
passing on the territory of the First war for control and survival of the star
Federation. In a battle of wits. Captain ship. The battle seems one sided how­
Kirk answers the alien ship’s threat ever, for the benificent side of the
with a daring bluff of his own. Nominat­ captain’s nature is weak and passive,
ed for the Hugo for ’’Best Dramatic Pre­ while the evil side is cunning and pow­
sentation” by the 25th World Science Fic­ erful.
tion Convention.
ERRAND OF HERCY 3/23/6?. Directed by
COURT-! ART IAL 2/2/67. Directed by Hare John Newland. Teleplay by Gene L. Coon.
Daniels. Teleplay by Don K. Hankiewicz Cast: John Abbott as Ayelborne. John Col-
and Steven Carabatsos. Cast: Percy Rod­ icos as Kor. Peter Brocco as Claymore.
riguez as Postmaster Stone. Elisha Cook Victor Ludlin as Lieutenant. Hillary
as Cogley. Joan Harshall as Areel Shaw, Hughes as Trefagne.
Richard Webb as Finney. Alice Rawlings The inhabitants of the planet Organ-
as Hankiewitz. Jamie Finney and Hapan ia refuse to assist Captain Kirk and the
Boggs as Helmsmen. USS Enterprise in defending their planet
Captain Kirk is court-martialed for from a hostile invader. When diplomatic
criminal negligence that resulted in the channels prove useless and a physical
death of a fellow officer. Kirk claims confrontation seems imminent the Organi-
to be innocent but cannot explain the ans intercede and give both sides a
damaging evidence offered by a computer’s lesson in warfare.
memory banks.
GALILEO SEVEN 1/5/6?. Directed by Robert
DAGGER OF THE HIND 11/3/66. Directed by Gist. Teleplay by Oliver Crawford and S.
Vincent HcEveety. Teleplay by Shimon Bar-David. Cast: Don Harshall as Boma.
Wincelberg. Cast” James Gregory as Dr. John Crawford as Commissioner Feariz.
Adams. Horgan Woodward as Dr. Van Gelder. Peter lArko as Gaetano. Phyllis Douglas
Harianna Hill as Helen Hoel. Susan Was - as Yoeman Hears. Rees Vaughn as Latimer.
son as Lethe. Grant Woods as Kelowit.
The USS Enterprise visits the Tanta­ Hr. Spock and six crew members of
lus Penal Colony to deliver cargo. On an the USS Enterprise are stranded on a
inspection tour Kirk and his crew are en­ hostile planet when the Galileo, an in­
dangered by Dr. Adams who is engaged in terspace shuttlecraft of the starship
terrifying experiments with the minds of Enterprise is used in place of the ship’s

60 •CINEFANTASTIQUE
Robert Walker presents Grace Lee Whitney Sally Kellerman stands by as William
with a rose in ’’Charlie X” Shatner, armed with a phaser gun, con­
fronts a mutated crewman from ”Where
No Man Has Gone Before"

Mr. Spock seems miffed at having to pose DeForest Kelly contemplates the ruins of
with Karen Steele and Susan Denberg from a strange earth-type planet in "Miri"
"Mudd’s Women”
The USS ENTERPRISE, a space cruiser over 250 feet thick containing 14 decks and
weighing over 190,000 tons. Manned by a crew of 439» the faster than light ship has
a travel range of 18 years which will take it to anywhere within the galaxy.

Mr. Sulu (George Takei) seems pleased Captive William Shatner and his crew are
with Emily Banks dressed as a storybook annoyed with the childish antics of Wil­
princess in "Shore Leave" liam Campbell in "The Squire of Gothos"
 ' transporter. Communication with the moi- /S ■':vy Hart,'1 Teleplay ' by Stephan:Kandel,'• - ■!
ther ship is impossible, and in Spqpfets: ,. ' Roger C,. Carmel as Harry Mudd. Ka­
decision of how to reach and signal the ren . Steele a:s‘ Eve. Susan Denberg as Mag- ?
’■ ■ Enterprise fests-the lives of the ^ali* ./ da. ^ggie Thrett as Ruth. * . '
leo Seven. ; / • p / . Harry Wdd, an illegal interspace
tradpr ls abducted in spade by the LESS '
TRA^ 9/8/664 Directed by Marc ’ ^terprisd T<tji his cargo of women, to
Daniels. ■ Teleplay uncredited*’ Cast : Al- ' have been taken ■ to the planet Ophiuctis
fred Ryder as Professor Crater. Joanne Six and sold as wives. Mudd craftily en­
Bal as Nanqy. dangers the mission of the ship to bar-
The USS Enterprise makes a cargo stop , gain fpf his hwn freedom*
to check up on two lone colonists on an .
Earth-type planet M-113, AH is not well THE JI&KED TITiK ' 91^1^6. Directed ly
on the planet1 s surface however, and the z MarcDaniels , Teleplay by ; John D. F.
Enterprise and crew a r e threatened by a, . Black. Gast: Bruce Hyde Jas Kevin Riley.
monster needing large quantities of salt Stuart Mossas Tormplen.
to survive. Premiere episode, j . The USS Enteiprise is inf ected with ,
an epidemic of a strange disease from the
MEiVAGERIE (Part 1) ll/17/66. Di- ; surface of. a dying planet, xdiich induces
rected byDaniels. Teleplay by Gene irrationality in the»erew. Amid' the anarchy
Roddenberry;■ Cast: Jeffrey Hunter as .. andchaos caused by, the disease Dr. Mc­
Commander Christopher. Pike. Susan Oliver Coy searches vainly for an antidote. No­
. as Vina. I-lalachi Throne as Comodore hien- minated for the Hug© by the 25th World
dpz,, ■ • ;’ v --z; ■ Science Fiction Convention.
: . At Starbase IK-li Hr. . Spock seizes ■ : - ; ■ ■■■'■ 7 ? '-V *. ' ' ■ ■ '■ '.1 ' ’ ' v - '

control of the USS Enterprise to tal^ OPERATIOM-AKMXHILATE 4/13/6?.. Directed

, / his former commander. Captain Christopher^', by Herschel Daughbrty. TeiOplaybySteVeh >
Pike, to Tales IV,. the one forbidden ’ W. 'Carabatsos. Cast: Joan Swift as Aure-
planet in the galaxy. Composed of the lan, Maurishka as Yoeman Zahra. Majil
. series first. ^pilot” episode starring:,; A Barrett As Ghri^tipfe*' ?
( Jeffrey ’Hunter as t h e starship cbmmahd^ ? ; Investigating distress calls ."from
er,/.^& !the the planet Denava,,' the USS'Enterprise ,
series current cast. . ,l 'L ■. ‘■ finds ah epiS^niq? ;of dAA^yj pai^sitic •.
■■ ’A. ■ . ■ . J..:T - ' . ■ . . 1 ■ ■ '■■■ ■ crea^^es Victims
THE IiEWERIE ^12.^1^ Dii,e- unbearable pain. Captain Kirk and Mr*
Sed by Mare ;©scn-ii.els, UelepSajy-' by Gene Spock ■bice agsfchst time tp discover , a
, Roddenberry. Cast-: (Jeffreiy Hunter As Com­ method to release the creatures1 hold on
mander ChristopherPike, Susan (Oliver, as the population, otherwise they must des­
Vina. Malachi Throne as Comodore. Mendez. troy the entire planet to prevent the
' ' llr, Spock is arrested for abducting spreadingof the danger1 to toher planets ■
the USS Enterprise and requests a.court
martial. in which are recounted the amaz- '
ing events of his former eomander'* a pre- •. ectedbyJoseph Pevney.Teleplay by Bor­
vlous visit to Talos TV. ■ Nominated for is Sobelman. Original story by Gene Rod-
the Hugo by the 25th World Science Fic- deriberry. ; Cast’, Barry Townes as Roger,
‘ tion Convention. ■. ./ / Tbrin Thatcher as Karplpn. Charles Mac-
auly as Landau.. Ghristqpher Held as Lind*-
KIRI 10/27/66, Directed by Vincent Me- strom. Brioni Farrell ; as Tula, Sid Haig
Eveety. Teleplay by Adrian Spies. Cast: ' as First lawgiver, ■ >■ - v
Kim Darby as iliri. Michael J, Pollard.as The USS Enterprise4 search fqr the
Jahn. John ljegna aS Little Boy. SurviVors df a lost starship leads them
Captain Kirk and his officers beam to a strange planet where individuals
down to the .surface of a planet where ari live in harmony under zombie-like con-
experiment
- ? designed to-- prolong -^-rr- life — has. tentment imposed by Landru. Captain Kirk -
t killed the adult population, leaving only and his crew must find a nd destroy Lan-
the children alive. Itbecomes imperative dru before they can return to the Ehterr
that they discover how to .counteract; thee —*prise — - which has beenbesiegedby -constant ± A.
; effects of the experiment :Uhen C bach of bombardment. •
the landing party begins to die..
SHORE LEAVE << 12/29/66. Directed by Rob­
- - WDDffl TOEH: 10/13/66. Directed by Har^ ert Spaar. Teleplay by 'Theodore Sturgeon’
CINEFANTASTIQUE ? V- &
Cast: Emily Banks as Tonia Barrows. Oli­ tana. Original story by Nathan Butler,
ver McGowan as the Caretaker. Perry Lopez and D. C. Fontana. Cast: Frank Overton
as Rodriguez. Bruse Mars as Finnegan. as Elias Sandoval. Jill Ireland as Leila.
Shirley Boone as Ruth. Grant Woods as Kelowitz. Michael Barrier
In deep space the USS Enterprise as DeSalle.
comes upon a most ideal planet for the The USS Enterprise’ mission is to e-
crew’s rest and recreation. The landing vacuate the agricultural community from
party’s furlough soon turns to a night­ the planet Omicron-Ceti 3 which is being
mare however, when mythological creatures, saturated by deadly space rays. Upon
story book characters, and things frciuthe beaming down to the planet’s surface
past begin to appear. Ho mirages these,it they find the colony leading a healthy
is discovered when Dr. McCoy is killed by and idyllic existence under the affect
a charging black knight. of strange spores. When the spores in­
fect the crew of the Enterprise, they de­
THE SQUIRE OF GOTHOS 1/12/6?. Directed sert their ship for the planet's surface
by Don MacDougall. Teleplay by Paul leaving only Captain Kirk mysteriously
Schneider. Cast: William Campbell as Tre- unaffected.
lane. Richard Carlyle as Jaegar.
While orbiting the planet Gothos, TOMORROW IS YESTERDAY 1/26/67. Directed
Captain Kirk and several crewman disap­ by Michael O’Herlihy. Teleplay by D. C.
pear from the bridge of the USS Enter­ Fontana. Cast: Roger Parrig as John
prise. They reappear in the . strange Christopher. Hal Lynch as Air Police Sgt.
abode of Trelane, the planet’s only in­ Ed Peck as Col. Felini. Richard Merri­
habitant, and find that they are to be field as Technician.
’’guests’1 whether they like it or not. In escaping the powerful attraction
of a black star, the USS Enterprise’ a-
SPACE SEED 2/16/67. Directed by Marc tomic engines send the craft hurtling
Daniels, Teleplay by Gene L. Coon and through time to Earth in the 20th Cen­
Carey Wilber. Cast: Ricardo Montalban as tury. In order to preserve the course of
Khan. Madlyn Rhue as Harla. Blaisdell history Captain Kirk and Mr. Spock must
Makee as Spinelli. Hark Tobin as Joaq- erase all record of the starship’s ap­
rien. pearance before returning to their own
In deep space the USS Enterprise century.
comes upon the derilict of an ancient
Earth spacecraft, containing over eaghty WHAT LITTLE GIRLS ARE MADE OF 10/20/66.
human specimens in suspended animation. Directed by James Goldstone. Teleplay by
Captain Kirk revives their leader, Khan, Robert Bloch. Cast: Majel Barrett as
only to find that the ship is a penal Christine. Michael Strong as Dr. Korby.
colony containing a eugenically superior Ted Cassidy as Ruk. Sherry Jackson as
breed of human who plan to conquer the Andrea.
universe. Captain Kirk and the USS Enterprise
search for Dr. Roger Korby, missing in
A TASTE OF ARMAGEDDON 2/23/67. Directed space for five years. The scientist is
by Joseph Pevney. Teleplay by Robert found on the surface of a dying planet,
Hammer and Gone L. Coon. Cast: David 0- and Kirk and Hrs. Christine Kbrbyv beam
patoshu as Anon Seven. Gene Ligons as Am­ down to meet him, finding that he has
bassador Fox. Robert Sampson as Sar Six. made startling scientific discoveries.
Barbara Babcock as Kia Three. Miko Kay­
ama as Tamula. WHERE HO KAN HAS GONE BEFORE 9/22/66.
The USS Enterprise is directed to Directed by James Goldstone. Teleplay by
begin diplomatic relations with an unco­ Samuel A. Peeples. Cast: Gary Lockwood
operative planet. In beaming down to the as Lt. Commander Gary Mitchel. Sally
planet’s surface Captain Kirk and Ambas­ Kellerman as Dr. Elizabeth Dehner.
sador Fox find that The Enterprise and At the fringes of the Galaxy the USS
crew have been designated war casulties Enterprise passes through a mysterious
in a bizarre computer war and ai-e to be field of force which invests a crew mem­
destroyed at the earliest possible con­ ber with omnipotent godly powers. Cap­
venience. tain Kirk matches wits with the mutated
crewman whose exalted superiority has
THIS SIDE OF PARADISE 3/2/67. Directed given him little regard for human life.
by Ralph Senesky. Teleplay by D. C. Fon- The series second Pilot.

64 CINEFANTASTIQUE
What do Captain Kirk and Mr. Spock seem so in­
tent on shooting? It could be a charging black
knight, a strafing airplane, an attacking sam­
urai, or a storybook character on a strange
planet on which the crew of the Enterprise have
chosen to take their ’’Shore Leave”
Yoeman Teresa (Venita Wolf) and comuni­ Engineering Officer Scott (James Doohan)
cations officer Uhura (Nichelle Nichols) seems concerned about a new fuel mixture
meet ’’The Squire of Gothos” in ’’The Frozen Time”

Mr. Spock falls in loue with Leila (Jill A Romulan commander? No. It’s Star Trek’s
Ireland) on the planet Omicron-Ceti 3 in producer Gene Roddenberry in a costume
’’This Side of Paradise” from ’’Balance of Terror” at the 24-th
World Science Fittion Convention
 Following is : A' list of.the series
/THA / i\!L /\./ O / ; OO r - . first twelve1 episodes on the hew
f 7 ;7' HEW SEASON PREVIEW
■ ■ / ■SSs
and guest stars • -a jaefin- ;
"Star Trek” "begins its see ond, hope ate schedule has net been formulated
fully successful, 7 season pn IBS Septem-? 7 past using, "Amok Tli&(" as?the-' first epi*
.7 bar 15th at' 8:^0 eaSterntime5, J 18^0 sode and therefore’ they’ ’may appear in 1
frdbr its comfortabib !&^sda^ slot ; '-any/se^Uence.':. ■■ .7”-7'7^ : L • -7>
\ uhere it'f^ "©aniel. ■ : r - ■-•'’7’ "T < - i
Boone^Vserie^ and.',.followed by the ri CF THE $967^8 SEASON . . /
highly popular "Dragnet 67"» to new and ' ' ; - •
unsure Friday night footing. " 3£ the "Amok Time" Directed by Joseph Pevney.
' switch, the show’ s producer Gene Rodden-. Teleplay by Theodore Sturgeon* Cast: Ce-
berry says "We were making out fine where lia Lovsky, Arlene Martel, LawrenceKon-
we were*, but now.wo may lose many of the taigne.. . r ..
young people who’ve been watching;, be- 7 S ? . ; , -
, cause Friday is the night th0 like to; "Catspaw" , Directedby Joseph PeVney.
go Out. I have no. Idea Uhy NBC changed Teleplay by Robert Blocks Cast.: Antoin- 7
Mights.,]’ If however," the 'great, success ette1 Bower. -- •
of Leonard Nimby’s record "Visit td.a 7 . 7'7
Sad Planet "is ary ’ indication df the "Metamorphosis" Directedby Ralph Sen*- -
popularity of "Star Trek" . among teenag- esky. Teleplay by Gene L. Coon. Cast:
ers, then the show may change the dating , Glonn Corbett, Elinor Donahue. , ' -
habits of the nation. ' . ; ' . • 7.7...y.7 ----- .- —,
A cast member will be added to ’’Friday’s Child" Directed by Joseph Pev-
the, show in the fall, & Russian;relief . pey. Teleplay /by D. C. Fontana. Cast:' .
irayigAfpr,'. *fho take to 0110 Tfewmar. ■ . < . 1 > :
#60-0-W 'Ehte^ri^ with • *' ' / 7^'-7*;
. Series ' regular* Hr -' Sulu . ^George Takei X, , Jibprns for ^do^iS^’; ? , feire^ted by
Roddenberry rbportdely decided tb mhke , Teleplajr by Gilbert Rals-
the addition after a dolus^st .of Russ^ toHi? Cas£: ■ Mjbhaei Par-*-
la’s Pravda' newspaper • reported in his ish. . 1- *' . 7' 'I
column that he thought it ridiculous V 5 " : 7" '
that the first nation to put a Sputnik Directed b^MarcT
into outerspace ' was not repr.esonted in Daniels. Teleplay -by • Normfen- Spinrari,
the erbt-r df "Star Trek." Walter Koenig \ Cast: William Windom. , , * 7.;
has Been oast to play the Russian/ Yoe- 7“ A v /- - 7
: - man Ghekbv,'• who- wears his hair long and . in the Fold" j Directed by Joseph
acts like a pop singer, < touch no doubt Pevney. Teleplay by .-obert Bloch. Cast: ,
added by Roddenberry to • further’asuage John Fiedler,7 Charles Macauly, Pilar
his teen audience.. Reports. ■ elsewhere Seurat,
that a female’ Vulcan i-zill be Addedtas a
regular to the-cast are incorrect. "The Changeling" Directed by Hare 7Dan- ’
The premiere episode, of : the new sea- iels. Teleplay by JohhrMohad^ 7
son is called "Amok Time” with* guest Cast: (no guest stars set)
stars Celia Lovsky, .Arlene-. liartel • and '7-; ’ 7 ; ( ? ' 7 V;'
lawre^b /fo^^ In this episode:, ;?’The AppW1 -' Di^
hy Tnoedore Sturgeon 1A0 sor^>t- . by Ito Ehrlich. .Cast: Keith An<
• ed last year's "Sh0»e Leave”, Celia JLev- des, Celeste Yarnell.
sky who is the former wife 6f the late ■> ,
Peter Lorre plays a female Vulcan thati ""^rror, Mirror" D~i rented by Hare Dan-
figures prominently in aar adventure-Of Teleplay by Jerome Bixby* Cast:
the Enterprise crew on Barbara Luna, Vic Perrin. /
planet. Other Scripts completed thus far 7 ’ 7 ‘ ■
by Science fiction authors’ arb- -two, by "The Deadly Years" । Directed by Joseph *
' Robert and -one. pevney.^ Teleplay by David P. Harmon- '
; : based on his short • story ; "The' Doomsday ; cast: Charles Drakd. ' ;‘ ’ - ■ :' ’
Machine." One script, "I- Thidd" > by . 7; 7 J ’ . • ' u- .• ■ '■
Stephan Kandel, is a continuation of one . Wdd" Directed by Hare Daniels.
' of 2fst year’s episodes, ’M’s Women" Tblbplay by Stephan Kandel. Cast: Roger
by the same author C#. Carmel as Harry Mudd.

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Director .. *............................. Tod Browning The writer who takes upon himself
Screenplay ......... Willis Goldbeck and the task of destroying long held illu­
Leon Gordon sions that have sprouted from the fer­
Dialogue .................. Edgar Allan Woolf and tile soils provided by legend and hear­
Al Boasberg say almost invariably finds himself
Basis ...................... ’’Spurs” by Tod Robbins placed in an uncompromising situation a-
Cameraman .........................Merritt B Gerstad mong his readers.
Art director ......................... Cedric Gibbons All fantasy film aficionados have
Editor ........................... Basil Wrangell read of the Tod Browning film dealing
with the degraded lives of circus side
show monstrosities, yet few have ever
seen the film. After a f e w showings at
the time of its release, 1932, Freaks
literally disappeared from the American
screen. It reappeared briefly in 1962
when entered at the Cannes Film Festival
where it was awarded the Best Horror
Film Prize, causing its rediscovery and
subsequent limited revival. DUe to its
rarity the opinions of many have been
formulated by few. The film for years
has enjoyed the reputation of expressing
the ultimate degree of horror on the
screen, a reputation which, in my opin­
ion, it does not fully deserve.
I attended a showing of Freaks
TOD BROWNING’S at a private theatre last night and was
mildly disappointed. In: a world so fill­
ed with ugliness and depravity the hum­
ble efforts captured through the lens of
a movie camera years ago no longer re­
tain the power they once had in days of
comparative innocence. Many years of
film making have mellowed the shock eff­
ects of Freaks and somewhat hardened the
audience, yet, the film is brilliantly
a, stuicly in revulsion constructed and directed. It is at times
captivating, certain scenes showing a
by GREGORY ZATIRKA
definate genius for the macabre. To a
mature audience the legendary horror and
nightmares inspired, here quoting the
noted critic Robert Bloch, ’’for a solid
year of Sundays” are not present.
Freaks is a singularly morbid and
revolting film. The critic who singles
it out as a masterpiece of horror con­
fuses the word with the revulsion that
all normal beings feel for the abnormal.
If one must confuse revulsion with hor­
ror, Freaks is indeed a study in horror.
It is totally and uncompromisingly, if
not unphotogenically, realistic to the
A Metro -Go ldwyn-1 layer Production last detail.
Released; February 23, 1932 Tod Browning, as is well known, used
Running time: 90 minutes real freaks - the legless arid armless,
the dwarfed, pinheaded idiots, things
Cleopatra . ........................... Olga Baclanova hardly human possessing warped minds and
Phroso, the Clown............... .. Wallace Ford warped bodies - in the making of t h e
Hans, the Midget......... ;.... Harry Earles film. The audience is not seeing a group
Hercules, the Strong Man .. Henry Victor of masterful ’’tricks” executed by a
skillful director and crew: miniatures
68 CINEFANTASTIQUE
 }1 and mirrors, clever lighting^ camera, / r' Saving this simple " story by drawing' ■
and makeup work. The degraded, deformed together its weak ends ; are the freaks ' ’
: andoutcast creatures searching for un­ themselves. Efe pity them, their1 lives,
derstanding andnot finding it, retreat­ and their surroundihgs , &$t, they are a
ing to an almost animal-like existence source of fascination to us. Humans love
under *’a code of their own,” are real. the macabre. Tod Browning knew thisde-
The solace one formally found in the feet .in the character of mail too well.
i phrase “Its only a movie” is pitifully / thus , he did everything possible to a-
/ ineffective in this case. chieve the effect . . of
_ the., abnormal in
Tpd Browning who is given credit for . this film that, naturally, fills circus
the originality and singularity of -side ^hows in the first place.
Freaks must answer for its faults , The most moving scenes, the scenes
BrowMng was a brilliant director of that make this film stand out, all be-
horror films because of his prime reli— long to ths. freaks. The macabre mock
ance on the ”mood of the composition and wedding celebration of the marriage be­
pace J’ He was a master at evoking cer­ tween the dwarf and Cleopatra is repul­
tain feelings in the hearts of the audi­ sive yet deeply moving. The camera
ence by the creation of a certain atmos­ swings upland down a long table laden
phere via lighting, sets and camera with £ood and drink. A horribly deformed
work. The story -in a Tod BrWoning film swarf dances on the table top to a tune
was always of secondary importance; One as warped as the bodies of its players.
suspects that his silent films with Lon More than a celebration it is a cere­
, Chaney Sr. greatly overshadowed .. h is- • mony. The freaks hope to take Cleopatra
work during the sound era . Dialogue aid a Into their confidence, their own soci-
exacting script seemed rather a hindrance ety* ■ -: 1.
, than a help to Brox*zning. ■ “ One of u?, one of U6,” the ..words
The first fifteen minutes of Bela .. .. are recited . ......... ........... manner as a
a ritualistic
Lugosi’s Dracula filmed A year before . Series of rapid close-ups ; are given the
Freaks are still unmatched for sheer at- / audience of . the unearthly participants
' raosphere: the coach rumbling through the of the feSst. Adwarf walking ^across, the
wintry passes of, the Carpathian Moun­ vt^bie ^spee^A- b^ the lip^
tains, the meeting at Borgo Pass,. and of the creatures that drink not like hu­
the lofty halls of 'Castle Dracula are a mans but 1^ Finally the bowl ,
dreajn-like fantasy. However, „ as the: film is offered to/ Clebpatray but having
progresses, it becomes little more'than a drunkenly grasped the significance of
photographed play. Dialogue > dulled, the their chant dashes. / it into the tape of
story and imprisoned the expressive cam- him pho offered the "cup, curses them all
erawork of -Karl Freund. Browning’s in­ and openly flirting, with 'the Strong loan
ability to keep the story value of his orders them away into the night.
work up to the standards set by khis atr " The final' reel depicting the revenge
mospheres of doom and horror has always of She freaks upon Clbopatra ' a n d the
been a drawback. to his sound films , Strong 11m - according tp the. ’’code of
Some scenes in Freaks are more than the freaks,” if‘one is offended all are
notable for their effect on the audi­ offended and take their revenge Upon the
ence. The maj ority of the film, however normal - completely devoid of dialogue*
is severely hampered by an incredibly , renders Tod Browning in his element. Who
banal Ibve triangle between the ӣueen can forget the torrentialdownpour, the
of the circus,/’ Cleopatra - deliciously circus wagons moving painfully through
overacted by Olga Baclanova - the thp mud laden rohds ? . An of
^Strong Ilan, and a midget played by Harry doom and. repayment for the. evil that has
. Earles of The Unholy Three fame. ■ ... been wrought has ./been . chrefully built
In the story, Cleopatra, encourages and now comes to a shattering climax.
the attentions of the dwarf in her ef- , L. of the
Scenes Strong Ilan :helpless,, ' ___
:______________________ the
forts to rob him of his money. VJhen she group of freaks crawling,/ hopping and
..learns of a largeihheritence in his slithering inexorably toward him through
possession she marries t^ the the. mud and rain; knives in teeth; or of
while flaunting her love for the Strong J Liiss Baclaniva- being pursued through the
Ilan in his face and beginning to poison dark*; rainsweptforest by footless midg-
/ him slowly. The Freaks, ; Of .course, get 1 ets were strong: stuff in 1932 And still
wind of her treachery and, her final remain unpleasant
come-uppance in the last reel is well / cinematic epcperience today. Zatirka-
deserved.
/
 On July 1^, 1793 Jean Paul Marat,
one of the political leaders of the
French Revolution was stabbed to death
with a dinner-knife by a young woman
named Charlotte Corday who burst in with
a personal petition while M. Marat was
soaking in a hot bath, wrapped in towels.
A painful skin condition he had con­
tracted while living in the sewers of
Paris to escape his enemies caused him -
to do his paperwork there, with a wooden
board serving as his desk. If Miss Cor­
day was not so hopped up with her own
A WORD FROM YOUR bKlENDLY martyr complex she would have noticed
ART EDITOR that poor Marat was almost reduced to a
state of purification and would soon be .
DAVE LUDWIG dead. But she committed the assassina­
17 West 239 Van Buren Street tion and three days later went calmly to
Villa Park, Illinois 60635 the guillotine.
The artist, Jacques Louis David, had
Marat/Sade is one film I didn’t see, taken an active part in the French Revo­
but wish I had. So I will let the film lution and his painting was planned as a
reviewer go over the film while I com­ public memorial to the martyred hero. It
ment on the actual event and the inspir­ is now considered to be his greatest
ed painting that came of it. My back co­ picture and it is a tribute to t he ar­
ver illustration is copied from Jaques tist that he made a masterpiece from a
Louis David's (pronounced day-veed) "The subject of a man murdered in his bath­
Death of Marat” painted in 1793- tub; a subject that would have embar-

70 CINEFANTASTIQUE
 rassed any lesser artist*. //'■ ■ ; ' her you realize , lt’^ not you are
rsr-rs f i' '■ - -x ■ t ' ■ r- ■'' ‘ missing '" many f ilms ‘ you would en-
EARNED > \ So far this -■year you berta-in^ • v
-1* would. ^’I® liked'Ifarat/Wa,
■ Fahrenheit A.5L, The War Game.. .You
BUCK GOBSON ' Mye Twice.♦ and I’m- sure that
, r l<7,' . there are others * And 1 shudder to
• Wr^or^ think what you’ve miAbed sinceThe
Seven Faces of -Dr* Lao. Then, of
;f A ..long' time age — a bit less .than course, there arc many fine non-
. - 15years ago,, in fact — I-Used to go to . stf ‘ films. Andk ■ these are.; beyond
every , stf. movie that appeared within comparison with what TV has to of- -
-driving distance.. They were* almost uni­ ' fer, and that includes the excel- ■
versally abominable,, but. those few ea^ lent “Star Trek.” .
?' captions {Day the Earth Stood SjbiLl; The
preening Unknown. The Twonky.and one or
.two others) kept me going. Eventually, FAMOUS MONSTERS ws. COF .
/• / though, J became too busy to Waste hours
. watching. m in advance
? that one in ten/ or less, would be. worth' 72-U 61st Street '
sitting -through. These days some of the Glendale, New York/1122? ■
stf .magazines. are getting th© same level
of quality, but it doesn’t take me an .
- it does take; that-long to. see a movie.' ; Have quite thoroughly enjoyed your
(Considering that tI have toget-ready, last two issues, though I note you per­
drive at least 15 miles in most cases, sist, in smiling upon Famous Monsters.. It
spend, the time ; at the movie, and'then would seem obvious that your association,
drive .. back. ) . If they will bring some^ with' the man Is a great factor in this
thing decent - into my living room, I’ll ; unwarranted applause.
watch" ‘ 3,t -- I watch “Star Trek”’ and 7 Mr. Bennett’s. “News tand Review0 car­
; “Wild, Wild West”, ' and I watched "Twi­ ries this one better by condemning Cas­
light Zone" and “Thriller” when they d tle- of Frankenstein arid cheering one of
;/ were on. That way lonly have to spend the more putrid (in a poor lot) FMs• A-
the time . -used in actually watching the ‘ greed, those stills from Brides of -Fu
performance. ' MAnchu had ho place in. the magazine
I believe ' the last fantasy movie I whose ” Largest segment of readers isdpm^
- watched was;Seven Faces of Dr. Lap .and prised of younger kids. If you want to
that was partly because it;iras\re see bare bosomed.breads there are, plenty
shortly after a fan had contributed an of places to find. them. Md st parents
; .interview with Finney to YANDRO and a* would probably, accept a filmonstermag ■
roused my interest* in ’his writing .and as relatively harmless and, as such,
their adaptions.a ' ; v Calvin T. Beck has definately sex-ploit- .
Ithink . the. main problem with film / ed a. segment.of his zine.
fans and stf fans-is that the principle One page, however, is,'no reason-to
fan medium of communication is7 the fan- .condemn a magazine. 75 pages of junk and
zine. And until recently, most film fan­ 1 repeated" .refuse, l?6wever^ is. Famous
zines were terrible. This doesn’t seem , Monsters? is so poor ■ it hurts.
to-be the case anymore; I’ve e’eeri two or .. Admitted < Castle of_____ Frankenstein
t has
three recently that were quite good;But / its faults; The movie reViews often dis—
it takes awhile to live downa reputa- play cinematic igndrance in wild Over-
tion. Most fans can’t even be bothered ..praise of any pretentious fantasy film
With all the fanzines devoted to"their 'someone has .called “art,“ the UFO _ ’ .arti-
. ..
own particular likes, without trying ..o- . ele was -silly' and blatently commercial,
ther types that they think are going to and that incredibly long “Necrology"
be pretty bad anyway. (Have you seen Tom 7 sepmed totally absurd. All this - and
■' Reamy’s TRUMPET? There is a stf . fanzine /inept Lin- Carter st ill does book reviews,1
RR . that, devotes a. large amount of space to •(in- bigger /type, anyway, thank ghod).
films, and it was considered good enough . Sure / . Castle of Frankenstein is on -the
' to win a Hugo nomination.) . ; .' downhill slide, but it’s got a hell-of a
I •imag ine there are' a number of way. to go before it sinks to FM’s iriane
fhns'■ in7-.' the
. '/
same
■■
Is■■ it;■ua
v'
t ion.-
.
Whe W*/
■' I <■ ■
■;: And how about the 7FM 1968 Yearbook?

CIJWA^AST^
A page for page (minus 25 and one arti­ Next day, clock re-appears and another
cle) reprint of the first yearbook. Too couple (fat, comedy-relief type) begin
much. the curse anew.
I do get tired seeing ' letters "King Vampire," story number two, .is
like the above. Bill, you are ob- even worse — mainly because old pro
,. viously too stupid or immature to Carradine is nowhere to be found and ev­
realize that you have outgrown FM. eryone else is sporting gosh awful Bri­
It is aimed (through no choice of tish accents. Vampire stalks London, mob
Mr. Ackerman I might add) at small rebels (well, mob of five extras) and
children and is not intended for kills passing stranger. Young detective
your age group (whatever it might informs boss he suspects vampire is a
be). The "man" to whom you refer woman, but the old boy scoffs. Detective
in your first paragraph I take to leaves and comely young secretary tip­
be Forry Ackerman, and I resent toes over to her boss and bites his
your intimations that any rela­ neck.
tionship with him influences what Rochelle Hudson is the star of the
appears in CF. I think it is time third episode, "Monster Raid," which
cease belaboring the merits of Fa­ condenses a fairly respectable plot -
mous Monsters, existent or lacking scientist is betrayed by faithless wife,
as they may be. It and any other returns from grave to gain revenge —•
English language publications de­ and produces some unexpected hilarity.
voted to cinefantastique are well "The Spark of Life," however, is the
beyond the province of serious in­ topper in the humor department. Famous
terest, although their existence scientist (Lon Chaney acting more like
is desirable and helpful, in that Lenny than Dr. Frankenstein) revives a
they attract and develope in the dead man to please two assistants (the
young an interest and attraction electrical charge could hardly light a
to horror, science fiction, and flashlight). The young doctors learn the
fantasy. Attacking 4sj because he "revived" man is a famed murderer and
writes FM, is like indicting Moth­ convince Lon to kill his "creation" (the
er Goose for her nursery rhymes. sight of Chaney babbling "But I made him
I can't destroy my 01m creation" is
right out of Nichols and May). At any
A WORD OF FRIENDLY WARNING trate, the surprise ending has the killer
running amuck.
WIZARD OF MARS The finale has young, inexperienced
GALLERY OF HORROR Ron Gentry stumbling through Transyl­
vania and coming upon a castle?inhabited
ROBERT L. JEROME JR. by Count Dracula. The Count is a direct
910 East Robson Street descendent of the pasty-looking fellow
Tampa, Florida/33604 on • the Isodettes TV commercial and the
erratic plot tumbles.downward. The twist
Please warn your readers about a borrowed .from Creepy comic magazine has
worthless double bill which is destined Gentry, now a werewolf, tearing the poor
for drive-in audiences: Gallery of Hor­ Count to shreds as he shrieks, "I want
ror and The Wizard of Mars. Both are re­ this territory for myself . "• v
American General Pictures. The former The companion feature"; • The V/izard of
begins in a haze of Pathe Color smoke, Mars ^is pallid by comparison:, a tedious
very similar to the effect used by Amer­ journey through the underground caverns
ican International in the Corman heyday of Mars. Unfortunately?, all the caverns
of Poe pictures. Cur old friend John look alike and the severe river current
Carradine next steps forward to intro­ at the bottom never ripples ("Watch out
duce five stories of horror. So far, so for the falls," someone screams, but
good. what falls?). The travellers are earth-
The first story, "The WitcMes men who have crashed on the Red planet.
Clock," effectively sets the tune: tack; They include Ron Gentry and at least a
sets, poor acting and befuddled plots couple of extras from Gallery of Horror.
A young couple discover an old grandfa­ At long last they discover a lost civi­
ther clock, set it in motion, and with a lization of mummified "superior" beings
clap of thunder warlock Carradine ap­ (led by Carradine). The only way to stay
pears. Husband suspects the worse, burns superior is to skip this trash altogeth­
the clock, and all are consumed by fire. er.

72 CICTANTASTIC
 CURRENT FILM REVIEWS
FRANKENSTEIN CREATED WOMAN 20th Century
Fox. 3/67. 92 min. A Seven-Arts-Hammer
Film Production. Produced by Anthony
NElson Keys. Directed by Terence Fisher.
Screenplay by John Elder. Camera (DeLuxe The Seven-Arts Hammer production of
Color), Arthur Grant. Film editor, James Frankenstein Created Woman marks the hap­
Needs. Sound, Charles Wheeler. Art di­ py reunion of Terence Fisher, Hammer
rector, Don Mingaue. Music supervision Films, and Frankenstein, a subject which
James Bernard. MUsic supervision, Philip began his way to film fame in 1957. The
Martell. master director, who has won a worldwide
reputation for his sensitive handling of
Baron Frankenstein ... Peter Cushing some truely fantastic themes, turns i:
Christina ................ .. Susan Denberg his best job in years in this latest ep­
Dr. Hertz ................ Thorley Walters isode in the screen life of the infame-
Hans ............................ .. Robert Morris ous scientist-creator, the fourth in Ham­
Anton ........................ ... Peter Blythe mer’s Frankenstein series. A well-polish­
Karl .......................... ... Barry Warren ed script, orisp dialogue, beautiful col­
Johann ...................... Alan McNaughton or photography, several interesting var­
Kleve ......................... ... •Peter Madden iations on a time worn filmic theme, and
Hans (as a boy) .. Stuart Middleton superior performances all help to make
Prisoner .................. ...Duncan Lamont Frankenstein Created Woman a highly en­
Priest........... .. .. Colin Jeavens joyable film.
New Landlord ......... .... Ivan Beavis Hammer seems to have foregone many of
Police Sargeant .. ........ John Maxim the traditional elements of the Franken­
Mayor ........................... ........ Philip Ray stein story in this latest version. Gone
Jailer ........................ .... Kevin Flood are the lumbering and awkward monster,
and half-mad scientist who makes mistakes
at every step of the way and the gruesome
surgical experiments conducted in the dim
light of cavernous laboratories. In their
stead is a dedicated savant whose preoc­
cupation with science and lack of regard
for human emotions is all too beleivable,
a beautiful young female creation whose
schizophrenic personality is far more
menacing than the physical hrutishness of
the usual monster and a plot which i.
more of a poignant romantic tradgedyiha-.
a .true horror film. It is these interest­
ing variations in a filmicwhich certain­
ly must be overly familiar to horror fan:
that make Frankenstein Created Woman a
unique and enjoyable film.
Unfortunately, screenwriter John Eld­
er (Anthony Hinds) has not polished hi'
script well enough for there are a few
noticable points of confusion in his
story. For example, the concept of two
souls within one body is never clearly
defined and the audience wonders wiriich
soul that it is dominating poor Christina
PETER CUSHING However, Elder has at least broken away
from the beaten path in visualizing a....
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murderous creature under the guise of a for other human beings that Frankenstein
sexy young girl. It is easy to feel An­ seems to lack, but lacks himself the
ton’s terror as, during an emotional mo­ scientific genius and ingenuity of the
ment, he is suddenly confronted with a creator* Which personality is prefer­
vengeful killer. These sudden changes in able? Fisher seems to answer that it is
the film’s atmosphere promote effective­ Frankenstein’s lack of regard for the
ly the terror Elder intended and his human element that led to disaster. The
experimentation is commendable. fine performances of Cushing and Thorley
One would wish Hammer to connect Walters help to bring these points home,
this story with their previous Frank­ as numerous scenes in which the exasper­
enstein films, but there is no evidence ated Baron attempts to explain what he
of any such attempt. Frankenstein Created is doing to the confused but tolerant
Woman is obviously not a continuation of Dr. Hertz. We can see that the Baron is
Evil of Frankenstein (1964) since there a real opportunist when he uses Anton’s
is no explanation of h o w the Baron es­ knife injury to get himself a hearty
caped from the fire at the end of that meal in the early part of the film. It
film. It could very easily have been is these insights into Frankenstein’s
made as a sequel to the classic Revenge personality that are of the greatest in­
of Frankenstein, but the Baron’s assis­ terest in t h e Hammer series and Cushing
tant in that film wa s young Hans Kleeve cannot be praised enough for his bril­
(Francis Matthews) while in the new film liant characterization.
it is elderly Dr. Hertz (Thorley Wal­ Cushing’s excellent performance is
ters). There is no evidence also of the matched by Throlejr Walters as Dr. Hertz.
scars Frankenstein had at the end of Re­ Director Fisher uses Walters for some
venge of Frankenstein and he reverts to comedy relief in what might be an overly
using his full name in this latest se­ sombre film. It is a tribute to Walter’s
quel. This latter point leads to some acting ability that his characterization
confusion in the current film. The is so believable. The veteran Hammer
townspeople don’t seem overly hostile character actor turns in another fine
toward the Baron yet when they sense job. Peter Blythe, Barry Warren and Der­
that Hans has returned to life, they are ek Fowles are all young actors who do
quick to affix the blame to Franken­ quite well as the villains of t h e story
stein. It is somewhat unclear whether while Robert Morris is convincing as the
they are aware of his previous gruesome ill-fated Hans.
experiments or not. This knowledge, if Susan Denberg is a striking American
known, would certainly make them more actress who has received more publicity
fearful and vindictive than they are from her campaign for Playboy’s Playmate
shown to be. of the Year award than for anything she
Admitedly, this is minor, but disap­ has done on the screen. It comes as a
pointing nonetheless, that the film is surprise then that she doos quite well in
not a sequel to any other story in the this, her first role of any signifi­
series. Hammer has a good idea in pro­ cance. She manages to arouse a good deal
mulgating the Baron rather than the mon­ of sympathy for the deformed girl, es­
ster, but they make the mistake of fail­ pecially in a tender love scene with
ing to connect the episodes. Hans. Unfortunately, she is not as ef­
The real strength of Frankenstein fective when trying to create an air of
Created Woman lies in the wonderful per­ menace as the surgically transformed
formances of the main characters. Peter Christina. Nonetheless, she seems to
Cushing could probably sleepwalk through have some acting talent to go along with
his lines by now, but he approaches his her extraordinary good looks, at least
role with such dedication that his sen­ under the guidance of Fisher. It may
sitive portrayal is a loy to observe. He come as a disappointment that Denberg’s
seems to sense just how to play the role highly publicized scenes wearing a brief
and his close identification with the hospital-type bikini are apparently pub­
character lends strength and believabil-' licity poses since they are not in the
ity to his performance and the film. film.
It is interesting to note that di­ Arthur Grant’s color camera work is
rector Fisher beautifully delineates the competent, although not particularly im­
personality of the Baron by contrasting aginative. Art director Don Mingaye’s
him with kindly Dr. Hertz. Hertz pos­ sets are colorful while catching the
sesses all the social graces and concern flavor of the ora. The James Bernard-

79 CINEFANTASTIQUE
 Hiilip' Marte 11 musical score. catches 1 the ■;'J image pro jected by the- left; lens ■'; tip the "
■ mood of the story well and James Need’s projector andtheright; eye sees 'the im- ■
tight editing ; to 92! t minute s keeps the ! age pro jested by the right lensAs in
film fastmoving throughout. ; normal vision, the brain blends these
Terence Fisher, ■ whose wo^k of late . two images to 'give depth and realism to
. (DraculaPrince of Darkness 1966, '■ The the picture. ■' _
dorgon 1965. Isjandof Terror ! 96?) has /■ ■:v; ■; ■ The added fillip—Space Vision-wise—
. - ■ ■ beensomewhat ■' diSappoOting » J returns'■ ■ ■, that the . images ' can ba ®ade^ty*”f1^ "
vqrably i^th ..this effort." For once he within Inched of the viewerv#? ■
' has gotten a screenplay which justifies / ' ' It producerCfeoler’s credit
the length of• the film a nd he makes the ■ that he uses.the ’tshock effect” inherent.
; most, of it. His. film is interesting and in the 4-D process in a tasteful manner,
well-paced and he avoids a recent, bad Only onee does An object ”jump” put from
• habit of showing people just standing the screen without ample waring, while
around; and talking. His expert director- .• / most of the protruding images-fe a
ial guidance of some of t h e younger ' cah*dan dancer’A an airplane, wing)
r, players in the cast was of great value \ come forward leisurely.- ; ■_ < \
ih promoting the : f ilm’s effectiveness. Unfortunately, as director-author of
Frankenstein Created Vfoman is Fisher’s this weird taleOboler has permitted
third Frankenstein feature (the first in young inexperienced leads and a repeti-
nine years) and' it is one of the best •- •. tious script to negate most o£ the plus
films he has done in recent memory. : ' value of -the 4*8 projection/ 1
-Ted Isaacs- , rating: In-Oboler’s screenplay, a young epu-
/><< •; i'.- ; -pie (Deborah1 Ifelley and; Michael Cole)
THF' > An Arch Oboler Release • ;pf.> ° -and; a Harrigah<rtype ; piMt;; CJohnpy
Wdwesterh J&giOTViewers Seduction/ FtOk . Dbsmond) . are forced by 'the girl’ s preg*
duced, directed, and written by Arch Obo* nancy to seek a hospital in a remote
ler, : HiotograpHed byCharles Wheeler. town where all the inhabitants moire in a
Music• by ; Paixl-Lawtell and Bert Shafter. strange, zombie-like lethargy, repeating
Film' editing bylgo Kantor.'Art ’ direc- ©ne or two phrases over and oveir again
tibn bv Marvin Chomsky. Cast; Michael■/:: * -
Coie,; ^tbr^ Johnny Desmond^ . Hhiie Walley has. her baby^; Cole .
Kassie ' Brabara Perrin, Olan ; ■ and Desmond discover their plane' is mis- v' -
Soule, and Chester Jdnes. 12/66. 112 min . ding and the . town is A' collection of' bits
Arch Oboler, one time radio -writer.’ . and piepes, from a subway entrance to
and. the creator of at-least one. striking a-bit of the Lincoln Memorial. Entering
science fiction film (Five 19510, bills An oddly shaped station, Desmondplayful-
himself as nthe master of th e unusual” z - ly -sits in its. solitary chair ’And re­
in his otherwise . upiinaginatiVe ads. for ; ceives a severe shock treatmentthus
The gobble. ?'' ■’ - ■ \ triggering ’’nightmare” • sequence which''
A^,\ indeed.is unusual. . ; sends an assortment of fright masks
Just as he utilized the shoestring jimr . , ,s '* ? : '
■ gle of Bwana Devil (1953), to introduce •. ■ ■ ’■ .
thrSe^mensiohal .movies to awed audi- * Bob errs here by pmision^ The truly >
ences of 1953, Oboler has fashioned hlA remarkable virtue of Space Vision is
hew. release, a science fiction brew,, to that it allows the stereoscopic process
“ uhveil 4-D or Space Vision. , ?< to. be done in full color. Thus the ’ rea* :
. ' "What is 4-D? According to the bro- ; ;/ son for Polaroid filters (which filter .
chUre packaged with the polaroid glasses: wt light rays of certain angles) / ■ ra-
'■ ; ”A special twin^lens camera takes •. ether than oblored filters' (^ieh filter
two pictures isimultaneously on the same , out all rays bdt those of the filter’s
piece of film. One is A ■ bright? eye’ pa^r ©dor). The. Space Vision :”brochure” is ;
ture, one is a ’left eye’ picture. In f oversimplified: . the process uses a sin-
the theatre a special twin-lens project- gle Mitchell camera with the speeialjy
or throws both pictures onto the single developed Aa-p liens, and is projected by
screen. These pictures are. projected one ; machine equipped with a special
through poloroid polorizing filters jus^ prism. The process took fourteen years
like th® oaes in the glasses. .Invisable : to develope under the:auspices of Col. ■
;;i;^;;si0is^ projector filters <are11 lined Robert Berhler, ofrmer head1 3-D film
up in opposite directions as are the in* research for the armed services.
■ visable slots in the glasses. ■ ■ .■ ■; : *FSC-
sees only the —।
floating over the audience. (The effect ject the degree of emotional maturity
here would have been heightened ‘if .these necessary to make their unusual plight
masks were not the five-and-dime variety, truly absorbing to the adult viewer.
but evidently, Oboler planned this tame Cole is especially burdened with miles
stunt so as not to jolt his viewers un­ of expository dialogue which he handles
duly). as best he can. Desmond—now in, now out
For a time Desmond becomes a "happy of the story—cannot sustain interest,
idiot" since this chair^is the "feeding while the only other major role (the doc­
unit" for the town and he wanders out of tor) is played well enough by Olan Soule
the story, but he soon returns, with a who looks remarkably like a bearded War­
truck, to take the couple and their in­ ner Anderson.
fant away. Some miles from town, however Director Oboler allows suspense to
they discover an impenetrable plastic steadily evaporate as the jittery couple
wall and come to realize they are trap­ wanders and wails over their fate. And
ped in a huge dome-shaped babble, obser­ it is somewhat ironic that the ponderous
ved like ants under glass by some unseen script ultimately proves more confining
alien beings. than the "bubble" of the title. Disap-
From this intriguing premise, the pointemnt has been expressed in some
story begins to bog down in- trip after quarters over Oboler’s decision not to
trip to town where Cole fails repeatedly show the alien beings. This, on the con­
to pursuade anyone to help him. He even­ trary, seems a wise move since unseen
tually begins to accept his imprisonment danger always appears more threatening.
much to his wife’s dismay, but their Space Vision, though it left at
worst fears are re-vived when they learn least one viewer with a severe headache,
their unknown captors periodically whisk is an astounding process and one can on­
away unfortunate human "specimens." (De­ ly hope Oboler and his associates will
smond is among the unfortunate). someday perfect the true stereoscopic
Cole finally begins a tunnel beneath movie without glasses.
the wall, and later, in a fury, he re­ Yet, the fact remains that there is
turns to town and rips the station’s still no substitute, be it or 5~D,
"hot" seat apart. The citizenry, depriv­ for the well-told, well-acted screen­
ed of their food supply, is aroused to play. -Bob Jerome-
help him complete the escape route, but
at f^deout there are indications the al* "Oboler’s direction is slow and repeti­
iens have tired of their toy and have tious, and although he kept the razzle
departed. dazzle effects to a minimum, he was ap­
lbwcomer Cole, and Iriss Walley, best parently unsure of h o w to use Space Vi­
remember'd as a lively Gidget, are ap­ sion in its initial outing.....An under­
pealing youngsters, but they cannot pro­ lying theme which questions whether hu-

Director
And Actors
Have Talk
.Veil Oboler, author, pro­
ducer and director of “The
Bubble,” fioea over a scene
with Deborah Walley and Mi­
chael Cole- The color movie,
now playing at the Palms
Theatre in Pinellas Park, fea­
tures a new dimensional tech­
nique which makes objects on
the screen appear to float
over the heads of the audi­
ence.
 mans would find a perfunctory Utopia ob­ eks ^Resembling large pepper-pots with
jectionable is opaque to the point of protruding weapons these mechanical
being almost undetectable.-Variety- voiced space Nazis have turned most of •
*Wile all this is dragging on, Oboler the inhabitants into robots and as they
tosses out instant philosophy about man1 s explore Tom and Dr. .Who are captured by
egocentricity, his quest for security, the Daleks while.; Louise, and Susanare ‘
etc., at s&nc time poking but that •rescued by a resistance groUp-headed by ;■
floating flotsam, which soon becomes as 77 Dortrtunand Wyieri. •' ■
welcome as a hula-hoop contest. One par­ The former leader decides to launch
ticular scene makes use of horror masks, an attack on the Daleks using hand-made
which prove about as frightening as a bombs, but as they leim to their cost,
gang of\5-year-old-trick-or-treaters.’, the Daleks are virtually invulnerable
-Clifford Terry- (Chicago Tribune) and1 the attack is. a failure and th,e few
’’Detroit’s. initial glimpse of fpur -di­ survivors are separated from each, other.
mensional cinema' proved to be a three- ■ -^ler and Susan head for the out­
dimensional movie 7 plus one-dimensional skirts of London and Dr. Who and David
acting.” (Wayne State University Press) set out for Bedfordshire where the Dr.
is anxious to find out about a huge Un?-
DALEKS - INVASION EARTH.2150 A.D. Brit- derground mine operation being conducted
ish Lion. Films. Directed by Gordon Flem-1; there by slaves working under Dalek or-
. yng. Screenplay} by lUlton Subotsky. •. ders. Tom and Iodise are trapped aboard
^btdgrUphyhy Jbhn Wilcox. Edited by Ann the. Dalek space ship there and after a
Chegwidden. Special effects by Ted Sam­ series of adventures, they meet within
uels. Electronic music by Barry Gray. the mine where Dr. Who ha s discovered
Based on the BBC Television Serial Dr. the Daleks are in fact planning to blast
x Who by Terry Nation. 84 minutes. out the Earth’s magnetic core with a
bomb and use the vast hollowed shell as
Dr. Wo ..... ........ Peter Cushing alarge space ship^ ' . \ •
TomGampbell ", Bernard j Cribbins . with .th® aid ®f hit friends he sue- ■
.David ......... Ray Brooks ceeds in destroying the bo&b before it
Wyler ....... ........ Andrew Keir cad' go off and releases a powerful mag­
Susan ....... 1..... Roberta Tovey netic force which destroys the Daleks.
Louise ...... Jill Curzon Though one knows that like Fu inchu and
Dortman ..... ..... Godfrey Quigley the Penguin and the Riddler and the Jok* b
Roboman ..... .. Geoffrey Cheshire er.;** they’ll all be back again, soon.
■■■ " s Again there are one or'twostudio
, This is the second feature film from effects that the . discerning eye will
BBC’s Television series Dr. Who and -it discover, some. • painted studio 'back*
is much better than the earlier version, clothe.s of the ruined London are not.
both in casting and in .acting. Peter very convincing, and most sharp eyes
Cushing, Hammer’s eternal horror star will pick out the , wires holding the
has the more gentle role here of Dr. Who ; Dalek ship up but otherwise the . spe-
who Spends his time travelling, through ’• cial effects, the space ship, in partlc*
the; universe, j through space and., time to I 1 ■ ular are: very. illusions./.
new worlds and other times in a Time Ila- perhaps o ne of the most formidable foes
, chine which is disguised to lookalike a in Science fiction and . it is said that
police, telephone call-box' of the large the Dr. Who television episodes in which
stand up variety. Inside of course it they appear, as opposed to the episodes
seems to be about fifty: times the ’size in .which . other villains appear, the
of the exterior appearance.- viewing figures are increased' almost
Police Constable Tom Campbell, seek­ threefold. 1 . r a ..
ing to give; the alarm after £' robb^fey There are a numberof violent deaths
stumbles into Dr. Wh0Ts timO machine un­ thrb^ghout thethe eplor
der the impression it is a regular po­ is much improved from the earlier filin’,
lice call-box, the controls are unfortu­ as indeed is the comedy > too, Beranrd
nately set for the year 2150 A.D. and Cribbiris being a much more suitable hu­
Dr. Who himself, his grand1 daughter Su- . morist than Roy Castle from th e earlier
san and niece Louise are whiskedoff to f ilmDr Who and. The Daleks. ' ■:
the'^Utwei \ . fry Who almost certainly
They arrive in London to find it a back again next year- and'so'will hi£ en­
desolate ruin, over-run by science f ic­ emiesthe Daleks and who knowswhat
tion’s most infamous robots - The Dal­ else?? -Alan Dodd-

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WILD, WILD PLANET M-G-M. 1/6?. 91 min­ for Outer Space, and a good example (in
utes. Produced by Joseph Fryd. Directed its mediocre way) of this nevi trend is
by Anthony Davison. Original screenplay, Joseph Fryd's Wild, Wild, Planet, fea­
Ivan Reiner. Director of photography, turing Tony Russell and Massimo Serato,
Richard Pallton. Music by Francesco Lav- both of whom, a couple of pictures ago,
agnino. Set design, Piero Poletto. Cast: were battling mercenaries on Spartan
Tony Russell, Lisa Gastoni, Massimo Ser- soil as members of Th® Secret Seven.
ato, Franco Nero, Charles Justin. Origi­ In this futuristic’farrago,,Russell
nally titled The Criminal of the Galaxy. is the space station commander who is
The decline in popularity of the opposed to the experiments of Serato, a
muscleman epics from Italy's poverty-row visiting scientist specializing in the
filmmakers has forced producers and per­ transplanting of human organs. Serato
formers, alike, to seek greener fields. further antagonizes his host by admiring
Some screen Apollos, like Gordon the "physique" of Lisa Gastoni, the com­
Scott (in The Trampiers) and Giuliano mander's athletic girl friend. Miss Gas­
Gemma (the Montgomery Wood of A Pistol toni, suddenly smitten with Serato's
For Ringo) have found boxoffice gold in charming ways, foolishly accepts an in­
the nco-produced" foothills of Spain. vitation to spend her vacation at his
Others (e.g. Richard Harrison as Secret private resort on the planet Delphos.
Agent Fireball) have gone the spy route Russell forgets his romantic en­
in obvious search of the pot-o-gold at tanglements when he is ordered to Earth
the end of the Bond-inspired rainbow. to investigate the disappearance of hun­
Still others, however, have headed dreds of prominent individuals. He even?a

83 CINEFANTASTIQUE
 tually discovers the operations of a se­
cret mutant army. These four-armed men­
aces accomplish' their assignments by
"miniaturizing" their victims just before
abducting them. Once of Delphos, Serato
receives these doll-sized people, rever­
ses the process and prepares his guests
for experiments which will lead to a
perfect race of beings.
Russell and a small band of friends
invade Serato's laboratory on Delphos
and, after a lively battle, manage to
destroy all before Serato can perform, a
monumental operation — the fusion of
half his body with Miss Gastoni’s.
(There’s a certain novelty about the
for scientific reasons.)
Unfortunately, no one has taken the
time to fuse this pot-boiler into an ac­
ceptable whole. The Plot, despite the
over-simplification above, is rather in­
volved and includes a weird political space gear in Wild, Wild Planet.
set-up which hampers the hero in his in­
vestigative work.
The direction is uneven, shifting herself as an actress-to-watch by win­
from furious action to dead, dubbed calm ning a top acting award (Nastro d’Argen­
and the acting, with the exception of to). And Franco Nero, one of the sup­
Serato's sincere villainy, is strictly porting players, has nabbed the Lancelot
from the Maciste-Samson-Ursus school of role in the screen version of Camelot.
scowls and smiles. Clearly, they have gone on to better
The real crippier, as far as sci-fi things — not bad advice for those con­
fans arc concern*. sidering a trip to the Wild, Wild, Plan-
ed., is t h o poor et. -Bob Jerome-
miniature work
which turns the
oft-viewed, city of
the future into a MARAT/SADE United Artists. 1/6?. 115
shiny, t o y-liko minutes. Produced by Lord Michael Bir­
display only wor­ kett. Directed by Peter Brook. Play by
thy of a holiday Peter Weiss. Photographed by David Wat­
kin. Color. Cast: Patrick Magee, Ian
window at Lacy’s.
Tho interiors Richardson, Glenda Jackson, and the mem­
bers of the Royal Shakespear Company of
are a bit better,
London.
with Serato*s lab
The Persecution and Assassination of
tho best of t h e
Jean-Paul Marat as performed by the In­
lot. Yet, the fi­
nal destruction mates of the Asylum of Charenton under
sequence with tons the Direction of the Marquis De Sade.
This longest of any film title is
of water pouring
in on the Delphos spelled out word by word on a totally
black background as though some phantom
base, is so im­
typist were painstakingly writing each
pressive it tends
word slowly after the other, the entire
to spotlight even
credit titles and cast list are shown
further the medi­
ocrity of the rest. firstly in this single sheet and second­
ly by a process of elimination in which
Postscript: It
a phantom eraser removes each single
should be noted
word one after the’other until the sec­
that the well-ap-
p o int od. 1 ;i s s „ Ga s - ond sheet of titles has been removed
from the entirely black screen. A fore­
toni, since com­
pleting this meatball, has'.established taste that the film to come is not of
the general run of things and is indeed

CINEFAKTASTIQUE 84
one of the most unusual ever to be shown chalk white smocks and mummy-like dress­
on the screen. ings, with ashen-white complexions rang­
A blinding white light diffuses the ing to grey, while others have shaven
opening scene of Marat/Sade and it comes heads as though they were a nightmare
from the vast windows at one side of the unearthed from a medieval flour-barrel
Charenton in France in the early part of of horrors.
the last century. Here the high gentry The herald who introduces the play
from Paris come regularly to see the is the only one with some resemblance of
plays performed by the inmates who are real clothing qlbiet in rags with the
seen from behind the bars that surround exception of the Marquis DeSade who
one side of the bath house. These plays still sports his once elegant knee-
for some years have been under the di­ breeches and white stockings and his
rection of the asylum’s most distin­ ruffled silk shirt. Only his face is un­
guished inmate — The Marquis DeSade. shaven to indicate the neglect of asylum
The current play of the inmates iscf life and the hidden brute beneath the
the assassination of the French Revolu­ veneer of a once nobel Marquis.
tionary ;eader Jean-Paul Marat by Char-- Four grotesqueries, three men with
lotte Corday. Marat is played by a par­ broken gapped teeth and soiled mouths
anoiac, Corday by a somnambulistic fe­ and one woman, all hideously painted,
male inmate who is unable to remain a- provide the garish singing link within
wake for most of the time as she re­ DeSade's play as slowly the story of Ma­
treats from reality behind a wall of rat unfolds. Marat, once the leader of
sleep. The other parts are played by va­ the poor against the rich, has become
rious inmates ranging from the grovel­ oppressor to the poor as he sits all day
ling and the drivelling idiot to the in his bath to relieve the pain from his
violent and the raging lunatic. disfiguring skin disease and it is from
The bath house is of polished grey here that he issues his "Calls to the
and white brick walls studded with Nation" until he is finally struck dovm
pipes, valves, turncocks, and other "in­ by Charlotte Corday's knife, a scene
struments of hygiene" as the Director of which incidentally can still be seen
the Asylum is pleased to call them. In within Madame Tussaud's Waxworks.
the center of the bath house are sunken The author, Peter Weiss, has within
chambers of white tile covered over' with this tale of horror some echoes cf an­
board frames under which the inmates other of his plays of even greater hor­
sometimes hide....The light from the big rors, The Investigation as DeSade here
windows glazes the interior where the speaks of "the final solution" and of he
grotesque inmates shake and shudder and who kills without passion being little
stagger and drool. Each is dressed in more than a machine. When DeSade de­
scribes the execution of Damien, who at­
tempted to kill the King of France at
the time, it becomes one of the most
graphically chilling descriptions of
horror ever heard on the screen.
The repellent inmates of Charenton
are a much deeper conception of mental
horror than say, The Snake Pit or The
Shrike, this is not a horror film in the
accepted sense of the word yet it par­
ades for the onlooker a panalopy of hor­
ror seldom seen before.
When the door to the entrance of the
bath house opens at the start of the
film to the closing riot in which the
Director of the Asylum and his bosomy
wife and daughter, in their cherished
seats within the cage, are overwhelmed
composes one of the most individual and
specialized pictures of fear and horror
since the same director Peter Brook's
earlier Lord of the Flies.
This is admittedly theatrical horror
Grand Guignol on a grand scale and it
85 CINEFANTASTIQ UE
was originally one of the distinguished yet lucidly penetrating experience...the
collection of modern plays performed by implication is explicit that the world
the Royal Shakespeare Company in London itself is a madhouse."
and the original cast has recreated for (St. Louis Post Dispatch)
posterity their impeccable and faultless "More immediate and powerful than it was
performances. On stage one misses the on the stage, and at the same time...a
individual horrors but here' the camera distinguished and brilliant film."
can select at will the selective distor­ (Chicago Sun-Times)
tions as it points a trembling finger of "Although Hollywood can claim that it
fear at those performing the play. Pat­ had taken its world-wide audience into a
rick Magee as the Marquis DeSade is madhouse as far back as 1949? with the
brilliant as the one inmate the Director horrendous "The Snake Pit", the asylum
believes he can trust. It is only at the of Charenton, the setting for "Marat/
end that he realizes too late that be­ Sade", is a house of horrors unlike any
hind the bars where he and his family a Hollywood filmmaker might consider for
have their envied seats that it is too the dramatization of madness as screen
late to rely on his club-weilding. assis­ entertainment." (Chicago Daily News)
tants who cannot save him when the in­ "A daring film with multiple implica­
mates provoked by DeSade’s play finally tions for our own times. Not the least
take over ---- -Alan Dodd- of its virtues is that it daringly pro­
poses the existence of an audience ma­
"We do not see a seething stage repre­ ture enough to understand and appreciate
sentation of a madhouse world; we are its purpose and meaning."
literally in the bathouse of an insane (Philadelphia Evening Bulletin)
asylum, subject to the leer and the
spray of spittle and the almost physical YOU ONLY LIVE TWICE
pressure of suppressed violence that can An Son (Albert R.
be triggered on an instant... If you can ('Broccoli and Harry
take the ordeal, you have the reward of !Saltxman) produc-
seeing the perfection of performance by Jtion. Directed by
each of the 4-1 players who repeat their Lewis Gilbert. Di­
stage roles." rector of photo-
(New York World Journal Tribune) igraphy, Freddie
"By means of a hand-held color camera, |Young, Screenplay
Mr. Brook (director) moves us through ;by Roald Dahl, l.u-
the white-walled room with its ’rude • sic by John Barry*
wooden floor boards and benches. He ’Production ddosign
makes us feel that, we too, are captured by Ken Adam. Tech­
inside a giant and teeming cage...Credit nicolor Cast: Sean
for a brilliant film version goes to Mr. Conncry, Akiko Wak-
Brook, to his cameraman David Watkin, •abayashi, Tetsuro
and to Lord Birkitt, who had the taste Tamba, 1 ia Hama,
and daring to arrange the production for SEAN CONNERY, the man' Karin Dor, Bernard
the screen." (Nev/ York Times) behind the 'o M iAcade Leo, Lois Laxwoll,
"When the camera starts running around sans makeup* one* toupee and Donald Plca-
on this stage and when it indulges it­ sonco.
self in the closeups there is confusion Contrary to popular opinion, the
compounded. The emphasis the camera was real stars of this new $9?500,000 Double
attempting to underline, was already 0-Seven outing are not Sean Connery,
there. Now the overdone (properly so) is Donald Pleasence and (in German speaking
re-:overdone, and that’s too much." countries) Karin Dor, but rather, Ken
(New York Post )‘ Adam, Freddie Young, and Lewis Gilbert.
"Pleasant? Mo. Entertainment? Doubtful. Adam, the set designer celebrated
But it isn’t likely you v/ill walk out or for the bold, beautiful imaginings he
soon forget this shattering drama. The constructed for the two previous James
entire cast performs with frightening Bond epics, Goldfinger and Thunderball,
conviction." (Philadelphia Daily News) has outdone himself in creating impres­
"Glenda Jackson, as Charlotte Corday, sively weird yet strikingly plausible
offers a haunting portrayal of a confus- surroundings for the famed secret agent
offers a haunting portrayal of a confus­ to race through on his way toward saving
ed, fear-ridden, mentally ack young woman.." - the world, (see CF page 13)
LA Herald-Examiner) "A brilliant... .shocking Adam's piece de resistance is Blo-

CINEFANTASTIQUE 86
feld’s underground fortress, situated in
the crater of a dead volcano somewhere
on the Japanese coast. This stunning,
futuristic set depicts a fabulous
launching pad from which the arch-fiend
sends out rocketships to gobble up Amer­
ican and Russian space capsules in a
strange cannibalistic ritual.
Freddie Young, of course, is the Os­
car winning cinematographer celebrated
for his work on Lawrence of Arabia and
Doctor Zhivago, and once again he floods
the screen with eye-enchanting-, images.
Japan, in a few words, never looked more
inviting to Western eyes.
Director Lewis Gilbert, who probably
won this coveted assignment after dis­
playing his success with the equally am­
atory Alfie, keeps the action moving at
a fast clip as Bond, the shogun of sec­
ret agents, is dispatched to Japan by M.
His assignment is to ferret out the
SPECTRE base responsible for all the DONALD FLEASENCE, furnished with
outer space skullduggery, and with the a perfect monocle scar, is sin­
aid of Tiger Tanaka (Tetsuro Tambia),of ister-plus as Ernst Stavro Blo-
the Japanese Secret Service, he traces fold.
an enemy freighter to its volcanic is­
land home base. used to hire even prettier girls and to
In the process, Bond tangles with construct even more fantastic sets for
various hired assassins, a powerful Jap­ the next Bond blowout, On Her Majesty1s
anese wrestler, a small squadron of Secret Service. ^Bbb Jerome-
deadly helicopters, the enticing Helga
Brandt (Karin Dor), who traps 007 in a "Action-packed and beautifully photo­
plummeting airplane, and Bldfeld's graphed in color, the film should satis­
henchman in the volcano. fy all James Bond fans...A sky battle
The screenplay, by fantasy author involving helicopters is well-staged, as
Roald Dahl, has little to do with the o- are fight scones and an inevitable car
riginal Ian Fleming novel, but his sub­ chase." (New York News)
stitution of science-fiction for sex is "It is notable that only Bond, the title
not out of line with what the Bond-Cman- and the location of an Ian Fleming book
iacs want nowadays. To be sure, there have been used by Roald Dahl in writing
are still some sexy drollery as a bevy his screenplay. The rest, with just a
of nubile Japanese girls offer their Dahl touch here and there, is blueprint
services to 007. (As one aptly puts it, Bond stuff cum science-fiction. The sex
"It will be a pleasure to serve under is minimal. But, then, Bond is getting
you, Bond-san.") old. And so, I would guess, is anybody
Sean Connery, despite growing threats who can’t get a few giggles out of this
to quit the profitable series, is still film," (New York Times)
in an acceptable, he-manly groove as re­ "The sexual aspect, strictly oriental,
doubtable Double-O-Seven; Donald Plea- places James in the arms of a Chinese
sence, furnished with a perfect "mono­ girl in Hong Kong, and later two Japan­
cle" scar, is sinister-plus as Blofeld, ese lovelies. He has never seemed less
and Karin Dor is just what one would ex­ involved, or more debonair. That Sean
pect of a slinky German operative. Of Connery needs some kind of refresher."
the Japanese performers on view, Tetus- (Neiv York Post)
ro Tamba, Akiko Wakabayashi (Aki), and "The most lavish super production of the
Mia Hama (Kissy Suzuki) are fine as whole series." (Chicago Daily News)
friends on Bond-san. "The real goods are once more available
But much the nicest thing vonnected with the familiar guarantee."
with this admiriable adventure is the (New Orleans Times-Picayune)
feeling the spectator gets knowing the "The formula fails to work its magic."
extra money he pays to see Bond will be (Chicago Sun-Times)

87 CIlmFAlTASTIQUE
 Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (based on a
Production and Release Checklist ■ 7 children’ s" book -fey' lah;'Fleming)' . >
BILL WARREN 6 F S CLARKE The. Cold, Cold Box
. The Curse of "the Rjrafen ;;: 11 .
I . Titles of special interest „ or unusual •
promise are preceded by asterisks *, ‘ Fish Came Out . (satire with fom
" . Courtney and Candice Bergen) ’ ;
■ COMING ^77 't '7 ■’ 7r ' The Devil InLove -completed for ' Warner
7 BrotherstS|ven Arts release..\ Italian,
*The Mien . now filming pn/laaaiionlin starring Vittorio GasSman;
. T ’ India. Scripted and direct0ifey Sat­ Rooney, and Claudine; Auger., A story
yajit Ray,-. Starring1 Peter Sellers. of the devil, returned to fearth, to
Satire of’a space... capsule. landing, in - ? -foment war,., between, thieA Ttefeaissa^ca ;■
and mistaken for a ’ ;: cities of Rome and’Florence. .
religious temple. (See CFpage 33) *Deyil Ridesr Out • (Starring Christopher
Armageddon 1975 L \ i /. "77 J /?•:,;j \ ;■ ■■■'
I, Lbe t "with screenplay by Riehard Mathr-
Arm of the Starfish (a Hanna-Barbara ■ ' eson.) : •• '■j ■ : ; ' 7.'.
feature) ’ ' Dihfeolik shooting in Rome for Paramount
The Astro Zombies release. J^oduc^ by Dino De Lauren­
tiis. Directed by Mario Bava. Starr-
*Barbarella ' now filming in Rome for Par­ = ing John Philip law, ilarisa J<ell,.'and;
amount release a Produced by Dino Do -. , Adolfo CejL; High-camp adventures ofa
Laurentiis. Directed byRoger Vadim. Parisian eat burglar and; his sexy ae-* .
- Starring Jane Fonda. Based on the . eomplioe. • . - / , - •, • . (
/Science fiction comic Strip fey ^he -DMafepearafece: . / . in pre-production y
Claude Forest. (See CF #3, page 32) d Vbrk "fdr I®I Produced by George Pal.
Battle Beneath the .Earth, completed, fori Based on the novel by
MDM relea s e • Produced by Charles Rey­ ’ P^btor Wfelittie cpmpi^fced'^
nolds. Directed by Montgomery Tully. • . " Roadshow release fey Roth Century Fox. -
Original screenplay by L. Z. Hart- Produced fey Arthur F. ; Ja^febs now
’ greaves. Starring Kerwin Matthews and ’ .working oh df the Apes. Direc­
Viviane Ventura* Drama, of s Chinese, ted by Richard Fleisher/who previous-
plot to: invade ’ the US by means of ly. 4i^ected Fantastic Voyage, ^fengs
/tunnels dug beneath ma'jp^ population and scredrii?My fey Leslie (Gfeldf ihger)
centers, Color and cinemascope. .7. BrieuSSe.. : A lavishly produced musi­
Battle Beyond the. Stars. ' < : \ '/ calstarring-. 'Rex 8ar^ispn7 bas^i'bn
BerseWi for January release the famous Hugh-. Lofting novels^ .. .
by Colombia. Produced by Herman Cohen Doc Savage (based on the famous novels
< Screenplay by Herman Cohen and1 Alan by Kenneth Robeson, possibly starring
Kandel.- Directed .by Jim O’Connpily.. ®iuck Conners) < ‘ ■ ’■ ■ ? ■
Starring Joan Crawford andTy Hardin. ^Doctor Faustus completed \for ^Colombia .
Formerly entitled Circus of Bleed,' _ release. Produced and? d^ected. by- ■
^Billion Dollar Brain ” how editing from; Richard Burton. Starring Rlehaid Bur^
United Artists. Produced by Harry . ton and Elizabeth Taylor. German le-
Saltzman. Directed fey., Ken Russell. . . r7gend df physician7 wfeo trad'ed ^sr
Screenplay by John llcGrath. Starring soul to the devil for knowledge .and
Michael Caine, ' Francois© Dorleac and > wisdom. . .. ’ , • % 7.
Karl Malden.Third in1 the Harry Palm- ■ ■■■ J- . : 777'-.7 -.-.-y- -■■ 7: -■■■,7.7 \ -■
er spy series. Palmer faces an inter­ - The; Mimjifeators ,
national conspiracy masterminded by a Ehd of August at Hotel Ozone ....
7 ‘ billion,4dliar- computer*: .
■ Blafekbeard’s Ghost
ghost story)- ." ...
*The Castle . (from a story by Franz Kaf- *E&eVef the Devil ' completed for1Septem- (?
her release by MGIU.... Produced1; by Mar-
^Charly (based fen Hugo nominee Flowers - / ■ . tin Ran© s ohpff and John Galley. ‘ Direc-
\ Algernon fey Roger Zelazney) ’J v- ' ■' ted by Lee. J. Thompson. Screenplayby
^Childhood.’s End (from the' novel by Ar­ Robert Estridge ■ and Dennis Murphy.
thur C. Clarke. ' Directed by John _ Starring Deborah Kerr,. David Niven,
Frankenheimer who previously/ produced David Hemmings andSharpn Tate-. Story '
the chilling Seconds) of a woman’s attempts to save her

cwmWM: “ 88
 husband from a mysterious religious Films Production. Produced by Michael
sect. Carreras. Remake of A. Conan Doyle’s,
The Fearless Vampire Killers Or Your The Lost World.
Teeth In My Neck completed for Oc­ Lost Island
tober release by EGM. Produced by The Lost Valley (starring Richard Carl­
Martin Ranosohoff and Gene Gutowski son with special effects by Ray Har-
Directed by Roman Polanski. Screen­ ryhausen. Based on Gwangi.)
play by Polanski and Gerald Bach. A
satirical horror - drama filmed on lbw The Mad Room (story of two children who
cation in the Italien Tyrol. murder their parents)
*Five Million Years to Earth editing for The Man Who Was Thursday
20th Century Fox release. A Hammer Marquis De Sade shooting in Europe for
Film Production. Produced by Anthony AIP release. Produced by Louis M.
Nelson Keys. Directed by Roy Baker. Heyward.
Screenplay by Nigel Kneale. Formerly Mission Lars
entitled Quatermass and the Pit. The Mr. Mysterious (Hanna-Barbara feature)
third film of Hammer’s Quatermass se­
ries. (See CF #1, page 1) Night Caller
Nightmare in Wax
Games Night of the Big Heat (Peter Cushing,
host Rider and Christopher Lee. A Richard Gordon
The Gold Bug in preproduction stages Production)
for AIP releasex Screenplay by Robert
Blees. Color and Cinemascope. *The Oblong Box now shooting in.Eurppe.
The Guests for AIP release. Produced by Louis M.
Heyward. Screenplay by Jerry Sohl.
The Haunted Opera Starring Vincent Price and Fabian.
Histoires Extraordinaires now shooting One-Thousand-and-One Nights
in France. Directed by Roger Vadim,
Orsen belles, and Louis Malle. Pro­ Planet of the Apes now shooting for 20th
duced by Edmund Tenoudji and Raymond Century Fox release. Produced by Ar­
Egar. Starring Jane Fonda and Horst thur P. Jacobs. Directed by Franklyn
Bucholz. Formerly entitled Histories Shaffner. Screenplay by Rod Serling
Fantastique. Poe trilogy. and Michael Wilson. Starring Charlton
House of 1,000 Dolls completed for Sep­ Heston, Maurice Evans, and Kim Hunter
tember release by AIP. Starring Vin­ From the novel by Pierre Boulle of a
cent Price, Martha Hyer, and George simian society on a distant planet
Nadar. Horror-sex melodrama. where the positions of apes and man are
reversed.
*The Illustrated Kan (from the novel by *The Power now editing for MGM release.
Ray Bradbury) Produced by George Pal. Directed by
Invasion Earth Byron Haskin. Screenplay by John Gay.
Starring George Hamilton, Suzanne Pie-
*Jungle Book completed for Buena Vista shette, and Yvonne DeCarlo. Based on
release, k Walt Disney Production. the novel by Frank M. Robinson of the
A full length cartoon feature with ultimate evolution of the human mind.
the voices of Sebastian Cabot, George The President’s Analyst (satire with
Sanders, Sterling Holloway, Louis James Coburn and Godfrey Cambridge)
Prima, and Phil Harris. 75 minutes. Project X now editing for Paramount re­
Based on the novel by Rudyard Kipling lease. Produced and directed by Will­
iam Castle. Screenplay by Edmund Mor­
Kelly Green (Hanna-Barbara feature, ris. Starring Christopher George and
live action and animation) Greta Baldwin. Science fiction set in
the year 2118 detailing the destruction
*The Last Revolution shooting for CBS of the western world. (seeCF#l, page
television for theatrical release. 3.)
Produced and directed by George Pal
from the novel by Lord Dunsany. Quatermass and the Pit see Five Million
*The Lost Continent now shooting for Years to Earth.
20th Century Fox release. A Hammer
Rosemary’s Baby (produced by William Cas-
89 CINEFANTASTIQUE
 stle. Directed and scripted by Roman
(continued from page 46) Polanski.
public consumption. Time was when fans
used to band together and write hate The Shadow of (musical parody of Dracula
letter to Herman Cohen and AIP demanding The Shuttered Room completed for 7 Arts-
that the cease and disist with their release. Directed by David Green.
trend of “teenage” monster films; fans Screenplay by Philip Hazelton from an
actually used to boycott and picket thea­ original novel by H. P. Lovecraft .
tres displaying a low-quality product. Stars Gig Young. (Released in England).
All of their activity for the betterment The Snake Pit (starring Christopher Lee
of cinefantastique came to naught - Her­ and Lex Barker. A german : version of
man Cohen kept grinding on in a back lot Poe’s Pit and the Pendulum)
at AIP and the "Bug eyed monsters” seem­ The Sorcerers (starring Boris Karloff.
ed ever to increase - and fans, hard­ Completed and in release in England.)
headed as they may be, gave up. The Spirit Is Willing (Produced by Will
Times have changed. The public’s iam Castle)
tastes in science fiction and horror
have matured, and the studios have like­ Tarzan and the Jungle Boy
wise followed suit, for, by and large, Tom Swift now shooting for December 1968
they give the public what it wants. It Roadshow release by 20th Century Fox.
is quite gratifying to see the studios Script by James Buchanan and Ronald
come around at last, to see them actual­ Austin.
ly strive to produce films like Fahren­ Torture Garden completed for January-
heit 451, Seconds, Planet of the Apes, release by Colombia. Produced by Milt­
Fantastic Voyage, and MGH”s upcoming on Subotsky and Maj J. Rosenberg of,
blockbuster 2001 * A Space Odyssey which, Amicus Productions. Directed by Fred­
ten years ago, would not have been given die Francis. Screenplay by Robert-
a second thought by any studio. Dloch...Starring Jack Palance. Burgess-
Of course we all expected this im­ l.eredith, and Beverly Adams. A compos
provement in stf films, or at least hop­ site of four tales. .
ed for it, but it is another matter for *2001: A Space Odyssey now editing in
the studios to actually begin listening England for Easter 19&8 Roadshow re­
and catering to the opinions of fans, lease by HGM. Produced and directed
which is precisely what I DM is doing. by Stanley Kubrick. Screenplay by
Rik Newman, who seems to specialize Kubrick and Arthur C. Clarke. Star­
in publicizing stf films (he merchandised ring Keir Dullea and Gary Lokkwood.
Fantastic Voyage for 20th Century), is A drama of adventure and exploration,
handling for Mill their current and up­ encompassing the Earth, the planets
coming crop of cinefantastique including of our solar system and a journey,
Wild, Wild Planet, Eye of the Devil, The light years away to another part of
Fearless Vampire Killers Or Your Teeth the Galaxy.
In My Neck, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Bat­
tle Beneath the Earth and The Power. In The Unkillables
so doing he is contacting every fan and
fanzine in sight, supplying publicity The Vengeance of She shooting for 20th
material, photographs, pressbooks and Century Fox release. A Hammer Films
setting up special screenings especially Production.
for fans. Why? We Have Always Lived In A gastie
The reason is simple. Such practices The Wolf Pack
are rich in exploitation possibilities The Wonderful Flight to the Mushroom
They help sell the picture,, and even in­ Planet
dicate how to sell it. I think I£K is
wise in doing this, and I congratulate Yesterday’s Children
them and only wish that all studios wi.ll
follow suit. I have much thanks for Mr. NOW IN RELEASE - 35
Newman, but little gratitude. If he can
use the review of Wild, Wild Planet i n Key to chart; (c) in parenthesis indi­
this issue (and I doubt that he can), cates color. (91) in parenthesis indi­
he is welcome to it, however publicity cates running time. Superior films are
material will buy little praise from preceeded by an asterisk *.
this publication. -Fred Clarke-
CINEFANTASTIQUE 90
 Bubble, The (3-D) (112) Arch Oboler
Michael Cole, Deborah Malley......................... 1/6? ...7/30- ... science fiction **
Casino Royals (c) (130) Colombia
International cast........... .................... 4/67 ...8/13- Bond spoof ***
Deadly Bees, The (c) (84) Paramount
An Amicus production........... . ............................. W6? ............................. horror-mystery ♦*
Death Curse of Tartu, The (c) Thunderbird .. 6/67 ...5/14-27 ... Indian curse ***
♦Devil’s Own, The (c) (90 J 20th Century .. 1/67 .. 4/16-8 ... witchcraft *****
Diabolical Dr. Z, The (83) U.S. Films
foreign, Estella Blain, Howard Ver­
non. Directed by Henri Baum. ................. 5/^'7................................ mad scientist *
♦Evil Forest (77) Hoffberg Productions
Based on Richard Wagner’s "Parsifal”
and featuring his music. .......................... 2/67........................... .. supernatural ****
♦Fahrenheit 451 (c) (111) Universal .. 1/67 .. 5/l^“24 ... science fiction *****
Frankenstein Created Woman (c) (92) 20th
Century. Fourth film in Hammer ser­
ies. Peter Cushing, Susan Denberg.. 3/67 ... ............................ gothic horror ***
Gnome-Mobile, The (c) (90) Buena-Vista
Walter Brennan, gnomes and elves............. 6/67 .. ... fantasy comedy ***
Hillbillys In A Haunted House.(c) (91)
Woolner. Basil Rathbone, Lon Chaney,
John Carradine........... ...........................................4/67 • • ... spooky comedy *
In Like Flint (c) (110) 20th Century .. 3/67 •. 7/16-39 ••• espionage spoof **♦
Island of Terror (c) (90) Universal .. 3/67 •• 7/16-38 ... monster film **
Kill Baby Kill (c) (83) Europix Consol­
idated. Directed by Mario Bava..................... 5/67 •. ... horror-meller ***
*Marat/Sade (c) (115) United Artists .. 2/67 .. 7/30- ... psych-horror *****
Monster of London City, The Producers
Releasing Corporation..................................... ^3/67 •• ... mystery-horror *
Mondo Balordo (86) Crown International
Narrated by Boris Karloff............................ 3/67 .. ... shock documentary *
Midsummer’s Night Dream, A (c) (93) Col­
ombia. A film of the New York City
Ballet production.............................................. 5/67 .. ... classic fantasy ****
Million Eye ’ s of Su-Maru, The (c) (93) A-
merican-International. Sax Rohmer........... 5/67 .. 8/13- ... Rohmer updated **
Mummy’s Shroud, The (c) (90) 20th Fox
Horror from Hammer Films........................ 3/67 .. ... monster film **
One Million Years B.C. (c) (91) 20th Fox .. 3/67 .. 4/30-14 ... trick animation ***
Phantom of Soho, The Producers Releas­
ing Corporation. Barbara Rutting............ 3/67 .. ... murder-mystery *
Prehistoric Women (c) (91) 20th Century .. 2/67 .. 4/30-17 ... time travel *
♦Projected Man, The (c) (77) Universal .. 3/67 .. ... science fiction*****
Psycho-Circus (65) American-International .. 6/67 .. 8/13— ... murder-mystery ***
Sound of Horror (85) Europix Consolidat­
ed. James Philbrook, Ingrid Pitt............ 5/67 .. ... horror-meller *
Sting of Death (c) (76) Thunderbird Inti .. 6/67 .. 5/14-28 ... monster film *
Terrornauts, The (c) (75) Embassy
From Amicus pictures, based oh "The
Wailing Asteroid" by John Brunner.......... 5/67 .. ... science fiction ****
They Came From Beyond Space (c) (85) Em­
bassy. Robert Hutton............... 5/67 .. ... science fiction ***
Thunderbirds Are Go (c) (91)20th Century*.. 5/67 .. ... marionettes *
The Viking Queen fc) (91) 20th Century
From'Hammer. Carita, Percy Herbert. ... 5/67 •• ... period piece **
Vulture, The (c) (91) Paramount .. 2/67 .. ... sci-fi horror ***
*War Game, The (47) Pathe-Contemporary
Peter Watkin’s academy-award win -
ning documentary of WWIII................................ 5/67 .. ... sci-fi. docmentry****
Wild, Wild Planet (c) (91) M-G-M .. 4/67 .. 7/30- ... science fiction **
♦You Only Live Twice (c) (117) U.A. .. 6/67 .. 7/3O- James Bond *****
ON THE HORIZON

CINEFANTASTIQUE'
This is the first large is­
sue of CINEFANTASTIQUE, and
others are to be published
periodically in our bi-week­
ly schedule, the next at
sometime in Karch. Hopefully
it will be completely photo­
offset with many more photo­
graphs and pages. The fol­
lowing list of articles are
in preparation for this and
future issues.

STAR TREK INDEX #2 - Com -

plete credits, synopses ,
photos and information on the
episodes of ’’Star Task’s” sec­
ond season, similar to the arti­
cle appearing in this issue, only
more comprehensive and illustrated
with photos from each episode.

THE INNER SANCTUli AT UNIVERSAL - An ar-

tide by John Brunas analyzing a little
known series of horror and mystery films of
the early 19^0’s, based on radio’s most fright­
ening program, and from the most prominent stu­
dio of the period. Each of the six entries in the
series are covered in depth, profusely ullustrated
with photos and publicity material.

THE STAGE CAREER OF BEIA LUGOSI - This comprehensive article concerning a very ob­
scure period in the career of cinefantastique’s foremost purveyor of the unusual,
is prepared by CINEFANTASTIQUE’S French correspondent, Jean-Claude Michel in co-op­
eration with the French Hungarian Embassy. Chronicling Lugosi’s stage career from
its begihning in September 1910 until January of 1919 it contains a complete list of
his weekly performances, reviews from Hungarian newspapers of the period, photo­
graphs, and posters. You may have read that Bela Lugosi was Hungary’s most popular
stage performer, this article tells why and much more.

THE NIGHT OF THE HUNTER - An in depth analysis of a cinemilestone in horror and su­
spense, often dismissed or overlooked by critics of the genre. Dave Ludwig aptly de­
scribes in pictures and words the place Charles Laughton’s only directorial effort
should claim in the history of the horror film.

ALSO

M starring Peter Lorre and directed by Fritz Lang reviewed by Gregory Zatirka
Tom Reamy’s column "The Science Fantasy Film Revisited"
’’Amateur Cinefantastique” a column devoted to amateur film making by Leonard Minter
And reviews of current cinema offerings by Alan Dodd,
Ted Isaacs, Robert Jerome and others.
A Stncly of Davids
“Tile Death of “Mlstra-t
by Dave Ludwig