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"When we think of '70s cinema, we think of classics like The Godfather, Taxi Driver, and The Wild Bunch. but the riches found in the overlooked B movies of the time, rolled out wherever they might find an audience, unexpectedly tell an eye-opening story about post-Watergate, post-Vietnam America. Revisiting the films that don't make the Academy Award montages, Charles Taylor finds a treasury many of us have forgotten, movies that in fact "unlock the...
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From the second season of Mystery Science Theater 3000, Joel and his robot friends add their comments to the film. In the film itself, a mysterious spool containing an unusual recorded message is found in the Gobi Desert. Thorough testing reveals its point of origin to be the planet Venus! An elite team of scientists launches a mission to uncover the truth behind the cryptic alien message and the beings responsible for its recording.
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From the seventh season of Mystery Science Theater 3000, Mike and his robot friends add their comments to the film Laserblast. In the film itself, a teenager stumbles across an abandoned alien weapon that provides him with the ultimate weapon of revenge against the bullies who have tormented him. But the weapon's power source begins to mutate his mind and body.
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From the seventh season of Mystery Science Theater 3000, Mike and his robot friends add their comments to the film Werewolf. In the film itself, a workman at an archaeological dig in Arizona is accidentally injured by the skeletal remains of what is believed to be a werewolf. Within hours, he begins showing the signs of becoming a werewolf, prompting his foreman to begin conspiring to create a werewolf of his own.
10) The Tingler
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"Vincent Price stars as an obsessed doctor who discovers that fear manifests itself as a parasitic creature, which grows on the spinal cords of terrified people. If they scream, The Tingler can be destroyed. If they don't, it will sever the spinal column and kill them. He successfully isolates and removes The Tingler from a deaf-mute (Judith Evelyn) who has been scared to death by her devious husband. Once captured, the Tingler escapes and runs amok...
11) Rocketship X-M
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Four men and one woman take off to the Moon but are knocked off course by a meteor shower. They are forced to land on Mars, a planet devastated by atomic warfare and populated by deadly radiation-scarred mutants.
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Ronald Reagan did time as a federal employee 40 years before becoming U.S. President. In 4 fast-paced B-movies, Reagan was Lt. 'Brass' Bancroft, a stalwart Secret Service agent who risked life and limb to bring to justice illegal alien smugglers, counterfeiters and enemy spies. Includes Secret Service of the Air, Code of the Secret Service, Murder in the Air, and Smashing the Money Ring.
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Scope and Content: This collection documents various advertising and publicity activities for movie theaters owned by the Crescent Amusement Company and managed by Russell Parham Sr. The date span of the material is 1929-1983 with the bulk being 1930-1950. The majority of the collection focuses on the Princess Theatre in Nashville, with a number of news clippings and photographs featuring advertising campaigns for specific films. In addition to the...