Beverly Garland

Edward G. Robinson

Kathleen Freeman

Kathleen Hughes

The Glass Web

The Glass Web (1953)

Curucu [pronounced Cur-Ah-Sue] opens with the title and credits running over a dry, dusty cattle ranch somewhere in Brazil. We get the ball rolling immediately with a clawed creature pulling the jungle vegetation apart to spy on a girl in a white dress and hat hauling a water jug down to the river's edge. As she fills the jug, she senses someone or something near, but continues her task. She notices strange footprints in the wet sand. We get a brief glimpse of something that resembles a giant mutated parrot or toucan. It attacks the woman and the scene ends with the fallen water jug emptying its contents. A man on horseback, wearing a red shirt, rides into the plantation crying, "Curucu, Curucu, es aqui." The workers scatter.A police car is waiting for an airplane to land. Rock Dean (John Bromfield) greets the Captain of Police, Casaras (Sergio de Oliveira). Casaras explains to Dean that all the plantation workers have abandoned their jobs and returned to the jungle. Casaras takes Dean to examine the body of the girl killed earlier. Tupanico (Tom Payne) arrives on scene and explains that this is the monster's fifth victim. He goes on to describe the creature as having claws like a giant bird and is said to live behind the falls in Curucu.At an impromptu gathering of plantation workers, a man agitates the crowd to leave the plantation and return to the jungle. Dean decides, in his words, to "have a talk with the man". This entails pushing through the crowd and starting a fist fight with the rabble rouser. The crowd scatters. Next we are treated to an aerial view of Rio de Janeiro and passengers exiting a Lockheed Super Constellation airplane at Aeropuerto do Galeao. Dean has arrived in the city and is taken by cab to the B.A.T.C. company headquarters. He flirts briefly with Rita (Andrea Bayard), the company secretary, then enters the office of the company president, his father. Dad asks his son about the monster, but assumes the real situation is a strike action and that all the plantation workers want is money. Dean explains his plan to have someone travel up the Amazon to the Curucu Falls because the legend indicates that is where the monster lives. He proposes to go up, dispel the myth and allay the worker's fear, and by doing so the workers will return to the plantations. Prior to his departure, Dean visits a hospital for a physical and some inoculations for his jungle trip-namely Tetanus, Yellow Fever, and Smallpox. Dr. Vale explains to Dean that his assistant will be giving him his shots, and she is a very capable young woman. She is an American woman working in Brazil during a sabbatical. Dr. Andrea Romar (Beverly Garland) enters the room, sporting wavy red hair, and matching lipstick. As Dean dresses, Dr. Vail gives him a prescription for malaria. Dean explains to Dr. Vail and Dr. Romar that this is a dangerous mission, and he might not return. In his crude, 1950s fashion, he proposes a going away celebration with a mildly interested Andreas Romar. She agrees to the dinner and dancing date. Dean has no idea that she has her own agenda.At the nightclub we meet Vivian (Larri Thomas). Dean and Andrea smoke and chat at their table as they watch Vivian gyrate around the stage and dance floor. Andrea tells Dean about her cancer research and that the headhunters have a drug she is interested in getting. Vivian joins them at their table, and she warns Andrea, "Don't get involved and don't fall for his charm." After Andrea tells Vivian she is going up river with Dean, she finally agrees to dance. During the dance, Dean tells Andrea he plans to take Tupanico as his guide. Dean announces that he has no intention of allowing Andrea to accompany him up the Amazon River. That pretty much ends the date.At the Port of Belam, Gateway to the Amazon, Tupanico meets with Rock Dean in front of a pile of crates. Tupanico explains that he is a chieftain's son and that he is happy his people are returning to the jungle. Dean tells Tupanico he is ready to depart, but Tupanico has made arrangements with Andrea to be her guide. Rock Dean is not happy he has been outmaneuvered, but agrees to a joint venture. They travel up river with their first planned stop to see Father Flaviano. They switch to a canoe and continue their journey. We are treated to a great deal of stock footage and a snake that falls onto their boat. It and a crocodile are dispatched by Rock Dean and consumed by the piranha.As they trek through the jungle they encounter a native tribe. Dean explains to Andrea that she should accompany him to meet the natives, reasoning that a man traveling with a woman is a sign they are not looking for trouble. The sound of a rattle and drum indicates someone is sick and Andrea springs into action claiming, "That's my department." She barges into the scene of a sick native, Tico (Wilson Viana) overseen by the tribe witch doctor. She quickly diagnoses Tico has appendicitis. She insists that Tico be taken to the clinic run by Father Flaviano. They hack their way through the jungle with the sick native on a stretcher until they reach Father Flaviano (Harvey Chalk). As Andrea prepares her patient for an appendectomy, another man is killed in the jungle by the monster. The body is brought to Father Flaviano. Tupanico tells the priest that the perpetrator is the Curucu monster. Dean grabs his gun and goes out looking for it. Tupanico tell Andrea what Dean is up to and she leaves her patient to go find him. They return to the clinic and Andrea explains to the priest and Tupanico of her mission to find this plant extract. Tupanico agrees to take Andrea to his tribe and get the formula and a sample. The substance may have some therapeutic value, but the natives use it to aid in shrinking heads. Tico enters the room with a dagger and a bandage over his surgical wound. His tribe has arrived to see him. He presents the ceremonial headhunter dagger to Andrea as a gift. Tico leave with his tribe.Dean and Andrea head off through the jungle for the Curucu Falls and Tupanico's tribe. They camp along the river. Dean and Andrea have dinner in her tent and encounter a tarantula, but Dean dispatches it with the rifle. The gunfire attracts Tupanico, who offers to clean and reload Dean's weapon. The porters have had enough and leave. Dean wants to head back, but Andrea insists they continue. Tupanico agrees to take them to his tribe. Asleep in her tent, Andrea is startled by the monster. She is abducted and carried through the jungle, with Dean in hot pursuit. He shoots at the creature, but it has no effect. He uses the rifle butt to beat the creature. The mask falls off Tupanico and he is exposed. He runs off into the jungle. Dean escorts Andrea back to the encampment, and along the way discover and examine the costume. They are soon captured by Tupanico's tribe. The pair are marched past the Curucu Falls to the village and thrown into a hut under heavy guard. Later they are moved to another hut for an audience with Tupanico. The snake dancer (Luz del Fuego) performs a ritual dance. Tupanico presents Andrea with the formula and a sample of the drug she sought.Tico's tribe attacks Tupanico's village. Many are killed on both sides and huts are burned. Rock Dean and Andrea manage to escape the burning hut. They run into the jungle and back past the Falls. Exhausted, they stop to rest. The pair board a raft along the river and are attacked by a native. They float and paddle down river, reenter the jungle and encounter snakes and other critters. They make it back to their encampment before the rain starts. The two finally manage to get back to the Clinic run by Father Flaviano, aided by Tico and some of his tribe members. The movie closes with Dean and Andrea embracing, and Tico presenting Dr. Andrea Romar with some gifts. He has recovered the medicine, her dagger and the shrunken head of Tupanico.

Curucu, Beast of the Amazon

Curucu, Beast of the Amazon (1956)

Kenneth Tobey

Skip Homeier

"Stark Fear" is the story of Ellen Winslow, who hungers for affection but finds herself chained to a hate-warped husband Gerald. Ellen gets a job, which is more than George seems to be able to do, but he disappears in a jealous rage, but Ellen's sense of loyalty and duty won't let her abandon him, so she goes looking for him in his home town. Gerald attacks her anew, and she is subjected to painful humiliation and abuse by Gerald's best friend, lecherous old Harvey Suggett, at a Comanche tribal dance. The hidden Gerald watches with sadistic delight. Ellen buries herself in her work, to forget her anguish, and falls in love with her employer, Cliff Kane, and they both take a business weekend at the "Little Switzerland" resort in Arkansas. Ellen tells Gerald that he is too emotionally warped for marriage and divorces him, and to prove she is wrong he tries to kill her.—Les Adams

Stark Fear

Stark Fear (1962)

Humphrey Bogart

Mary Murphy

Richard Eyer

After escaping from prison, Glenn Griffin, his brother Hal and a third inmate Sam Kobish randomly select a house in a well-to-do suburb of Indianapolis in which to hide out. The home belongs to the Hilliard family, Dan and Ellie who live there with their 19-year old daughter Cindy and their young son Ralph. They plan on staying only until midnight as Griffin is awaiting his girlfriend who will meet them with some money he had stashed away. When she doesn't arrive, their stay stretches out to several days. Dan Hilliard plays their game knowing that if he makes any attempt to contact the police, his family could be caught in the crossfire.

The Desperate Hours

The Desperate Hours (1955)

Beverly Tyler

Brian Keith

Phyllis Coates

An honest union official named Blane is framed for the murder of another union official. Thus off the hook, the crime syndicate actually responsible for the crime is free to continue its activities. However, State's Attorney Jim Fremont begins to suspect that Blane has been set up. Fremont launches a new investigation.

Chicago Confidential

Chicago Confidential (1957)

Vincent Price

Richard Denning

Joyce Taylor

Three horror stories based on the writings of Nathaniel Hawthorne. In the first story titled "Dr. Heidegger's Experiment", Heidegger attempts to restore the youth of himself, his fiancee and his best friend. In "Rappaccini's Daughter", Vincent Price plays a demented father inoculating his daughter with poison so she may never leave her garden of poisonous plants. In the final story "The House of the Seven Gables", the Pyncheon family suffers from a hundred year old curse and the Pyncheon brother returns to his home to search for a hidden vault.

Twice-Told Tales

Twice-Told Tales (1963)

Lana Turner

Sara Haden

Small town Kansas girl, Lily James, is the latest model working for the Thomas Callaway Agency in New York City. Despite her small town roots, Lily is street-wise because of her tough growing up experiences, and as such she is a good judge of character. She believes she can escape her troubles through professional success. Because of her hard work ethic, she quickly does rise to the top of her profession. She attracts the attention of Steve Harleigh, a wealthy copper mine owner. Despite they both knowing that nothing can come between them, they fall in love. The issues are that he lives and works in Montana, and that he is already married. Steve feels guilty about his marital infidelity as his wife, Nora, is physically disabled from a car accident in which he was the cause. Lily has to decide if her own happiness is worth destroying the life of a woman - an invalid - she's never met.

A Life of Her Own

A Life of Her Own (1950)

Stella Stevens

Shelley Winters

Michael Burns

Remake of 1941's "Ladies in Retirement" has Stella Stevens playing companion to wealthy, loony widow and she soon brings her brother and sister to live with them after they are released from an asylum for brutally murdering their parents years before. Now there appear to be skeletons that Stevens has worked so hard to keep hidden, ready to tumble out of her closet.

The Mad Room

The Mad Room (1969)

Michael Ansara

Mike Mazurki

Ed Nelson

Navy veteran Dan Corbett arrives at the New Orleans shipping docks where he's looking for a job. Unknown to him is the fact that shipping docks owner Zero Saxon is a crooked businessman and a racketeer. Using a complex scheme, Saxon is stealing legitimate cargo and switches this cargo for phony cargo. This scheme involves his network of trucks, rail cars and ships. Most longshoremen make extra money by turning a blind eye to the racket and they're also afraid of Saxon's hired killers. Dan Corbett meets nice gal Alma Mae who invites him at the longshoremen picnic where he's introduced to Jack Petty, business agent for the longshoremen's union, and Joe Reilly, Saxon's dock manager. Dan Corbett befriends Joe Reilly, his wife Marie and her brother Scrappy Durant. Joe Reilly is a nice guy and offers Dan Corbett a job on the docks. Unfortunately, Joe is on the take and implicated in Saxon's racket. When he tries to quit the racket and go into a legitimate business, Joe is killed by Saxon's ...

New Orleans Uncensored

New Orleans Uncensored (1955)

Bruce Bennett

Lon Chaney Jr.

George Macready

A newlywed couple sit in a train. The husband receives a frantic telegram. He gets off at a station to make a phone call, the train pulls away without him on it, and that's the last his wife sees of him. Years later after a long search she finally tracks him down on his family's southern estate where she discovers that a failed medical treatment has turned him into an alligator mutant.

The Alligator People

The Alligator People (1959)

Linda Blair

Charlton Heston

Karen Black

When the pilot of a small aircraft has a heart attack and crashes his plane into the cockpit of a Boeing 747, several members of the flight crew are killed and the pilot is blinded. Miraculously, the 747 stays in the air on auto-pilot with flight attendant Nancy Prior at the controls. Ground controllers, including her boyfriend Alan Murdock, try to teach her the basics but they soon realize they will have to get a trained pilot into the cockpit. Their first attempt fails and Murdock realizes he will have to do it. Meanwhile, various passengers have their own problems including a young girl who is destined to a life saving operation. —garykmcd

Airport 1975

Airport 1975 (1974)

Kimberly Beck

Laurene Landon

Beyond ensuring that she makes it into Julliard as a flautist for the upcoming fall term, wealthy Lillian and Roger Barkley largely neglect their teenaged daughter, Terry Barkley. Although Terry doesn't try to hide the facts from them, her parents have no idea that she hates the flute and the associated music, has no desire to attend Julliard, and spends all her time on the proverbial wrong side of the tracks with her friend Lana roller skating on the Venice Beach boardwalk with the legions of other roller skaters. There, she attracts the attention of Bobby James, the hotshot skater who rightly believes he is headed to the next Olympics. Terry initially rebuffs Bobby's advances, until she asks him to teach her how to dance so that they can compete in the upcoming roller boogie contest at Jammer's, the local skating rink owned by Jammer Delaney, a former roller derby star. Terry and Bobby's relationship eventually becomes more than just about skating. But the roller boogie contest and by association Terry and Bobby's relationship is threatened when they learn that Thatcher, a cutthroat land developer, has physically threatened Jammer and anyone around Jammer, including the kids at the rink, unless Jammer signs a contract to hand over the roller rink property to him for redevelopment. The situation is even worse for Terry when she learns she has a personal albeit indirect connection to Thatcher. —Huggo

Roller Boogie

Roller Boogie (1979)

Robert Shayne

Robert Easton

William Fawcett

Wheeler, a tourist-hunter in the California High Sierras, is not believed by the patrons of Webb's Cafe when he claims to have run across a live tiger with tusks. Among the scoffers is game-warden Oakes - until he is driving home later that night and the critter hops on the hood of his car. Oakes convinces a skeptical Dr. Harkness, state university zoologist, to come to the small town to investigate. At Webb's, Harkness meets Ruth, fiancée of Prof. Groves who maintains his home and lab outside the town, and thru her meets Groves' daughter, Jan. Groves himself is down in the city, angrily trying to convince the Naturalists' Society of the truth of his theory that the size of skull and brain equate with intelligence, and therefore Neanderthal man was equal, if not superior, to Homo sapiens. He is rejected, and by the time he returns home, seems completely unhinged, rejecting his fiancée and secluding himself in his lab. There, he has developed a serum with which he is experimenting. ...

The Neanderthal Man

The Neanderthal Man (1953)

Tuesday Weld

John Randolph

Anthony Perkins

Dennis Pitt, now in young adulthood, has been conditionally released from a psychiatric hospital, where he had been institutionalized for an incident that occurred when he was fifteen. Despite the doctors believing he to be rehabilitated in not suffering from the fantasies which dominated his life, Dennis is still required to check in with his case officer, Morton Azenauer, once a week. Azenauer will do whatever he can to help Dennis survive in the outside world. A year following his release, Dennis violates the conditions of his release by moving without telling Azenauer, thus missing his weekly check-ins. He moves to Winslow, Massachusetts where he has gotten a job at Sausenfeld Chemical Co., his boss, Bud Munsch, the company, and his acquaintances in town not aware of his history. In not being truly rehabilitated, Dennis believes the company is part of an alien conspiracy to poison the water supply, including openly discharging chemical waste into the local lake next to the plant. Dennis spends much of his time gathering photographic evidence to support his belief. He also becomes infatuated with seventeen year old high school senior Sue Ann Stepanek upon first sight. In his "investigative" work, Dennis is able to convince Sue Ann that he is a secret agent, she who he co-opts into those investigations as they begin a romantic relationship. However, as Sue Ann deals with what she considers her repressed life, she, in her own slightly off kilter mental state and using her relationship with Dennis, works toward her own agenda, leading to tragic consequences. —Huggo

Pretty Poison

Pretty Poison (1968)

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