From: jamesguinan450@gmail.com   
      
   On Thursday, November 3, 1994 at 8:19:08 PM UTC-5, Rhandon Hurst wrote:   
   > >Anyone remeber a 1950's scifi flick with a fungus that grew an   
   > >official name of the movie. I have yet to see this movie since    
   > >the first time when I was an impressionable child. any help    
   > >would be much appreciated. eni...@delphi.com   
   > Man I can't believe someone else asked about this thing. I saw it when   
   > it first came out and a few years ago, when I started going back to   
   > collect on video all those 50s SF/horror movies that were important to   
   > me, I couldn't for the life of me find it. I too thought it was called   
   > 'Blood Rust' .   
   > Then I just happen to be looking through The Encyclopedia of   
   > Monsters, by Jeff Rovin, and find the following entry. Text between   
   > lines is entire unedited entry (there were no illustrations):   
   > ________________________   
   > BLOOD RUST   
   > First Appearance: 1958, Space Master X-7, Regal Films/20th Century-Fox   
   > Species: Extraterrestrial Fungus (implicitly, from Mars).   
   > Features and Powers: The small, red spores multiply rapidly when they   
   > consume human blood or tissue.   
   > Biography: Returning from Earth orbit, the probe Space Master X-7 has   
   > been infested with alien spores. One day, while Dr. Charles Pommer is   
   > studying them in his New Mexico lab, his ex-wife Laura enters. In the   
   > ensuing fight, the scientist cuts his hand, and his blood drips onto   
   > the spores. They begin to grow and, when Laura has left, (she's going   
   > home to Hawaii), the fungus consumes the scientist -- though not before   
   > he calls for help. Security Chief John Hand and guard Joe Rattigan   
   > arrive and find a carpet of fungus, which they dispatch with   
   > flame-throwers. However, when they play a tape recording on which   
   > Pommer was keeping notes, they learn that a woman, identity unknown,   
   > has been there to visit him. (The tape recording also contains   
   > Pommer's speculation that the rust-colored spores are from Mars, and   
   > that they are what give the planet its red tint.) Because the woman   
   > may have inadvertantly picked up samples of the spore, the authorities   
   > try to find her. Fearful that she's wanted for Pommer's murder, Laura   
   > quietly continues on her trip. On a train to Los Angeles, the   
   > extraterrestrials she was indeed carrying break from her suitcase, kill   
   > a porter, and infest the baggage car; undaunted, she boards a plane to   
   > Honolulu, only to have the Blood Rust ooze from her purse! The plane   
   > returns to Los Angeles, where it crashlands; the wreck is promptly   
   > burned, destrying the last of the spores.   
   > COMMENT: Bill Williams played Hand, Robert Ellis was Rattigan, Paul   
   > Frees costarred as Pommer, and Lyn Thomas was Laura. Moe Howard of the   
   > 3 Stooges had a bit part as a cab driver. The film was directed by   
   > Edward Bernds from a script by George Worthing Yates and Daniel   
   > Mainwaring.   
   > _____________________________    
   > No wonder we didn't remember the damn title!    
   > - R. Hurst   
   > Austin   
   I saw it as a kid ( I think!). Always a distant memory!   
      
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