From: jack.bohn64@gmail.com   
      
   And after that, a two competent movies to leave you in a better mood.   
      
   "War of the Planets" (1965)   
   "The Cosmic Monster" (1958)   
   "Satellite in the Sky" (1956)   
   "The Green Slime" (1969)   
   "Queen of Outer Space" (1958)   
   "The Wild, Wild Planet" (1965)   
   "Village of the Damned" (1960)   
   "Children of the Damned" (1964)   
      
   The two with "planet" in the title are from a package of 4 films MGM   
   commissioned from an Italian studio.  By shooting all four simultaneously on   
   the same sets, and using the same effects miniatures, each has production   
   values greater than its cost.     
   Each of these two does have at least one striking visual.   
      
   "Comic Monsters" is a low budget British entry.  As the only one of this six   
   in b&w, it's going to look particularly dismal.   
      
   "Satellite in the Sky" (a good place for it, I say) is a bigger budget British   
   film.  Technicolor and widescreen, with a script strong on dialog and story.    
   However, it lapses in logic in the technical aspects of the rocketship, the   
   arguments both for    
   and against its carrying an atom bomb to be exploded in space, and the   
   emotional journey of one character (well, since it's an emotional journey, it   
   doesn't have to be logical).  At least when things go wrong, the warmonger   
   only briefly shows himself to    
   be a whimpering coward before re-stiffening his upper lip.   
      
   "Green Slime" is a co-production of MGM and a Japanese studio.  It looks so   
   much like the Italian movies that it suggests even four years later MGM   
   considers them the acme of space film.   
      
      
   "Queen of Outer Space", ah,  "Queen of Outer Space", can't blame anyone but   
   the U.S. for that one.   
      
   Two Damned good movies at the end, I'm not even sure Children suffers being   
   seen immediately after Village.   
      
   --    
   -Jack    
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)