Eegah

Actors: Arch Hall Jr., Marilyn Manning, Richard Kiel, Arch Hall Sr.

Rating: 0 out of 10, The latest in my journey through 100 bad sci fi films is possibly the worst movie ever made. It tries to be a beach flick with the 1960s boy band starring as the romantic lead but he’s so bad that you wonder how he ever got cast until you see his dad directed and co-starred with him. It’s a cheap movie involving noted thespian Richard Kiel, of 007 Jaws fame, as a lonely caveman looking for love in the Mohave Desert. He carries off a young maid, who conveniently faints on demand, and her dad in order to get a personalized shave in his cave. He takes that as encouragement to paw at the young lady until shotgun toting surfer dude belatedly arrives. Should have been called, Egad! So very and unremittingly terrible in virtually every phase.

MVP: Marilyn Manning as Roxy Miller, the designated fainter

Colossus and the Amazon Queen

Actors: Rod Taylor, Ed Fury, Dorian Gray, Daniela Rocca,  Gianna Maria Canale

Rating: 1 out of 10, The latest in my journey through 100 bad sci fi films was a very silly sand and sandal comedy. At least I think that’s what they were going for, maybe it was unintentional. I was surprised to see Rod Taylor in this Italian dubbed Hercules type flick and he acted circles around everyone and seemed to be poking fun at himself throughout. He and his Hercules buddy are kidnapped and dumped off on the Amazons’ island where all gender roles are reversed. The typically well-endowed Italian actresses playing the amazons only need the virile men for one night of fun before sentencing them to the salt mines. The regular house duties are taken up by obviously and very over the top, gay men. It all seemed very weird for an early 1960s movie – someone had a lot of sneaky fun putting this together.

MVP: Dorian Gray as Antiope, the most Italian of the endowment

Phantom Planet

Actors: Dean Fredericks, Coleen Gray, Anthony Dexter, Francis X. Bushman, Richard Kiel

Rating: 2 out of 10, The next in my trek through bad cinema wasn’t execrably bad. You first have to dismiss the ludicrous plot but this could have survived as a bad Star Trek episode. It’s a 1961 black and white film looking into the distant future of 1980 when the US Air Force has bases on the moon to explore the solar system. One of those explorers meets the phantom planet where the inhabitants are three inches tall. As soon as he’s exposed to their environment he shrinks down as well and is soon caught in a love triangle and an ongoing war with some buy eyed monsters, one of whom was played by Richard Kiel of 007 Jaws fame. The effects were laughably bad – space suits with sweat stained under arms but this was at least watchable.

MVP: Fredericks as Chapman the incredible shrinking astronaut 

Warning from Space

Actors: Keizo Kawasaki, Toyomi Karita, Bin Yagasawa, Shozo Nanbu, Bontarô Miyake, Mieko Nagai

Rating: 1 out of 10, The latest in my journey through 100 bad sci fi films was a 1950s Japanese colliding planets story. Earth is about to perish, again, but luckily some guys wearing huge felt starfish costumes want to help. One morphs into a beautiful Japanese lady to convince the planet to build the super bomb it needs to deflect the incoming planet. I hope this was better in undubbed Japanese because it seemed like a lot of pointless scurrying around. The key scientist the aliens want to contact doesn’t want to be bothered with the details for most of the movie. Avoid this – it should have been better.

MVP: Toyomi Karita as Ginko the transmuted starfish lady

They Came from Beyond Space

Actors: Robert Hutton, Jennifer Jayne, Zia Mohyeddin, Bernard Kay, Michael Gough, Geoffrey Wallace

Rating: 3 out of 10, The latest in my journey through 100 bad sci fi films actually wasn’t that bad, especially compared to it predecessors in this process. This is a British 1960s sci fi film about aliens taking over the minds of the scientists sent to investigate a strange meteor fall. A typically brash American is the only one not infected and he wages a somewhat flawed campaign against the aliens. The aliens are working to set up a daily commuter run to their base on the moon using a plague stricken human slave force. Although patentedly silly throughout, the movie takes off in unintentional comedy when we meet the Master of the Moon (his actual title). You know he’s evil because he’s wearing a cape.

MVP: Zia Mohyeddin as Farge

Prehistoric Women

Actors: Laurette Luez, Allan Nixon, Joan Shawlee, Judy Landon, Mara Lynn

Rating: 1 out of 10, The latest in my journey through 100 bad sci fi films is one of the strangest ones yet. I guess there was some sort of film sub-genre in the early 1950s which features women running around in one piece bathing suits pursuing love and happiness in prehistoric jungles. There was not a single line of dialogue in the entire movie just a bemused narrator telling us about the love story of Tigri and whatever the name of the guy was. A tribe of men hating women decide it’s time to acquire mates and set out to capture some dolts. There’s also a horny 9 foot giant wandering around occasionally kidnapping women. I’m not sure this film accurately portrays Cro-Magnon times but at least its behind me now in my quest to see the worst sci fi movies  ever made.

MVP: Luez as the leader Tigri 

Wild Women of Wongo

Actors: Jean Hawkshaw, Mary Ann Webb,  Cande Gerrard, Adrienne Bourbeau, Marie Goodhart, Michelle Lamarck, Joyce Nizzari, Val Phillips, Jo Elaine Wagner

Rating: 0 out of 10, The next in my trek through bad cinema left me speechless. After I finished laughing when the title appeared as the next film in the collection I subjected myself to what is possibly the worst film concept ever conceived, much less realized. This might have passed for titillating back in the 1950s when it was made but it’s just insanely bad viewed today. Mother Nature decides to conduct an experiment putting all beautiful women with ugly menfolk on the island of Wongo (I am not kidding). She does the reverse on a neighboring island with ugly women and handsome men. I guess the message is that comeliness will seek out their own. A few wrestles with obviously plastic alligators and a couple beach parties later I’m left with less brain cells for being exposed to this.

MVP: Hawkshaw as Omoo 

The Brain Machine

McRaney on the Right

Actors: James Best, Barbara Burgess, Gil Peterson, Gerald McRaney, Marcus J. Grapes, Doug Collins 

Rating: 1 out of 10, The latest in my journey through 100 bad sci fi films features with the typical 1970s paranoia about the evil government conducting invasive experiments on unsuspecting citizens. Four losers volunteer to participate in a seemingly innocent experiment only to have the government baddies step in to muck things up. An Army general with a really big pool, not sure why that was important but we see a lot of it, is the villain pulling strings behind the scenes. Interesting to see veteran character actor Gerald McRaney, Major Dad himself, with hair but sporting the devastating receding hair line portending his current look. Bad cinema.

MVP: Gerald McRaney as the hirsute Willie West 

Bloodtide

Actors: James Earl Jones, José Ferrer, Lila Kedrova, Mary Louise Weller, Martin Kove, Lydia Cornell, Deborah Shelton 

Rating: 1 out of 10, The latest in my journey through 100 bad sci fi films features no less than three Oscar winning actors, none of which were probably particularly proud of this outing. I guess the early 1980s were tough for everyone. Predictably James Earl Jones is the only thing watchable (well that and the bikinis) in this very bad monster flick. The Sweep the Legs guy from Karate Kid is newly wed to Mandy of Faber College fame and trying to track down his missing sister in the very unfriendly Greek islands. She’s become entranced by an ancient sea monster recently freed by Jones. The monster is laughably plastic and thankfully only appears as roiling water most of the time. As bad as this movie is Jones is impossible to ignore – he’s just that good, and well there are the bikinis.

MVP: Jones as Frye, dominating in a supporting role

Unknown World

Actors: Bruce Kellogg, Marilyn Nash, Jim Bannon, Otto Waldis

Rating: 1 out of 10, My journey through 100 bad sci fi films ran to an early 1950s black and white journey to the center of earth that looked remarkably like Carlsbad Caverns. Once again the nuclear fears of the time period had scientists seeking out a place for humanity to survive when the inevitable nuclear cataclysm happens. This group of scientists and their money guy head underground using a boring (on a number of levels) submarine type vehicle. They are soon competing for the affections of the one female along for the ride. With better acting, writing, and color this would have been a passable version of Jules Verne’s classic, unfortunately it most definitely is not.

MVP: Nash as the female scientist

Snow Beast

Actors: Bo Svenson, Yvette Mimieux, Robert Logan, Clint Walker

Rating: 1 out of 10, My journey through 100 bad sci fi films inflicted a 1977 TV movie in which they apparently casted the male leads by weight. Bo Svenson and Clint Walker on the same screen must have required a wide angle lens. Even those noted thespians couldn’t rescue this poorly crafted monster flick. A very hungry snow monster is stalking a Colorado ski resort which our boys have to handle when they’re not competing over Ms. Mimieux (that I can understand at least). There’s a whole two minutes of action and even les of that actually showing the monster crammed into the 90 minutes of this disaster. Most of the screen time is devoted to following skiers shushing down the mountain or POV for the monster while he grunts in the background. Avoid this.

MVP: Walker as the sheriff, good to see this Dirt Dozen hero, always wondered why he didn’t do more

Galaxy Invader

Actors: Richard Ruxton, Faye Tilles, George Stover,  Greg Dohler, Ann Firth, Don Leifert, Dick Dyszel

Rating: 0 out of 10, My journey through 100 bad sci fi films reaches an even lower nadir than I thought possible. This is in the running for the worst movie I’ve ever seen, nonsensical on too many levels to credit here. An alien spaceship crashes and soon runs afoul of the local red necks. The red necks were uniformly ridiculous - over playing their parts which sent the unintentional comedy level though the roof. The alien is smart enough to cross galactic distances but can’t outsmart a hunting pack with the shallowest gene pool this side of a Trump campaign rally. This was so terrible it was beyond enjoyment as bad cinema, run screaming if anyone attempts to foist this on you – you’ve been warned – my public service is done.

MVP: No one – they all should be arrested

The Astral Factor

Actors: Robert Foxworth,  Stefanie Powers, Sue Lyon, Mark Slade, Leslie Parrish, Marianna Hill,  Elke Sommer,  Percy Rodrigues

Rating: 1 out of 10, My journey through 100 bad sci fi films continues to bombard my senses with utter nonsense. This is one of the first that I recognized most of the cast and wondered how they were coerced into making this. Most were TV stars and maybe this is why. This felt like a TV movie except for the swearing and gratuitous butt shots. One of my favorite all time actresses, Stephanie Powers, is completely ruined in a ditzy throw away role. The plot involved a maniacal prison inmate who studies hard and figures out how to make himself invisible (the old astral plane ploy). This of course comes in very handy considering his incarcerated state and he’s soon outside launching on a murder spree of attractive women. With her brief role as a potential victim I can now completely understand the fascination with Elke Summer who was the only one who didn’t mail in their performance. A really bad movie.

MVP: Elke Sommer as Chris Hartman

The Alpha Incident

Actors: Ralph Meeker,Stafford Morgan, John F. Goff, Carol Irene Newell, George "Buck" Flower

Rating: 1 out of 10, My journey through 100 bad sci fi films continued with the increasingly rare American movie. This was a very poor man’s combo of the Andromeda Strain and Night of the Living Dead. A highly contagious alien virus is sent via slow freight train with one guard and an overly inquisitive drunk conductor. Despite these high security standards the virus gets out at a remote train station which is immediately quarantined. The characters can’t fall asleep or their heads will explode. I’m serious. Besides the fact the measures involved made very little sense this could have been the formula for a highly introspective look at the four people trapped under these conditions. Unfortunately the viewer is given the chance to sample just how boring their plight is and the dynamic is dominated by possible the most annoying character in recent history. A very early look at what a Trump supporter would look like. I spent the second half of the movie praying for his lead to explode. So, very bad, and liberally laced with the typical pessimism of the late 1970s.

MVP: Stafford Morgan as Dr. Sorensen

First Spaceship on Venus

Actors: Günther Simon, Julius Ongewe, Yoko Tani, Oldrich Lukes, Ignacy Machowski, Michail N. Postnikow, Kurt Rackelmann, Tang Hua-Ta

Rating: 2 out of 10, This was a novel experience, the first ever East German/Polish film I can remember seeing. As part of my journey through 100 bad sci fi films this one actually wasn’t horribly bad. Made at the height of the Cold War it presented a fairly optimistic view of the near future where man has a base on the moon in 1985 and a completely multi-cultural crew mans the spaceship to Venus. The 1908 Tunguska meteor impact in Siberia in this film was a spaceship from Venus and a united earth sends their own spaceship to establish contact. Laughably bad, by today’s standards, special effects contribute little other than distraction. This wasn’t very good but it wasn’t horribly bad either and I liked the optimistic view.

MVP: Yoko Tani as Dr. Sumiko Ogimura

Giants of Rome

Actors: Richard Harrison, Wandisa Guida, Rulph Hudson, Ettore Manni, Goffredo Unger, Philippe Hersent, Alberto Dell'Acqua

Rating: 3 out of 10, The next in my trek through bad cinema was actually not that bad, no giants though. It was probably the best film out of the trash I’ve forced myself to watch during this effort. There was actually some acting, a bit of a plot, a Sophia Loren knockoff, and some entertaining action. They even got some of the history right as we join Julius Caesar during the Gallic Wars just before the siege of Alesia. He sends out a team of his best warriors to find the secret Gallic weapon. Along the way they acquire the Sophia lookalike and for a knockoff she was every bit a knockout as the original. Against all odds, I actually enjoyed this one and not just for the schlock quotient.

MVP: Richard Harrison as Claudius Marcellus

Sons of Hercules in the Land of Darkness

Actors: Dan Vadis, Spela Rozin, Carla Calò, Ken Clark, Jon Simons

Rating: 0 out of 10, I thought I was through with Italian sand and sandal epics until this monstrosity drew me back in during my trek through 100 bad films. This time we have a son of Hercules played by a guy who makes the Governator look like Lawrence Olivier, there are rock cliffs with more expression. Anyways, while wandering the countryside our hero tangles with a lion, although it looked more like a hugging match, and wins the hand of the local king’s daughter because, you know that’s what it takes. While sent out to kill a local mini-Godzilla the fiancé is kidnapped by an underground queen from a nearby volcano. You just can’t make this stuff up and unhappily, someone in Italy back in the early 1960s did.

MVP: Spela Rozin as Telca

The Snow Creature

Actors: Paul Langton, Leslie Denison, Taru Shimada

Rating: 1 out of 10, Deliciously bad cinema. This is really two bad movies spliced together to form a longer, really bad movie. Two culturally insensitive botanists are on a trek into the Himalayas with native guides who speak Japanese for some untold reason. The guides shanghai the Americans after the leader’s wife is kidnapped by a yeti and they’re off in pursuit. They eventually capture it and everything is forgiven. The next part involves getting the yeti back to the US and here they fall afoul of the INS which was tough even back in the 1950s. The immigration service can’t decide if the yeti is human and therefore in need of a visa. While they dither the yeti escapes from his refrigerator and terrorizes the city. The yeti’s costume was historically bad. It looks like they eviscerated a bunch of stuffed animals and taped them to a large actor. That was almost as bad as the acting.

MVP: Paul Langton as Frank Parrish

White Pongo

Actors: Richard Fraser, Maris Wrixon, Lionel Royce, Al Eben, Gordon Richards, Michael Dyne,  George Lloyd, Larry Steers, Milton Kibbee

Rating: 0 out of 10, Oh. My. God. I’ve seen some pretty bad movies over the past couple weeks in my trek through a series of bad sci fi “classics” but this was significantly worse than the worst of the nightmares I’ve been exposed to so far. How could anyone have ever thought this was entertaining? The three stooges’ gorilla suits are back in play as a group of class conscious Brits try to find the one wearing a white gorilla suit which they think is the missing link. A good 85% of the movie involves watching the group walk or canoe through the jungle while the white gorilla watches from the same set of bushes. He develops a crush on the eye candy along for the ride and predictably kidnaps her. Before any true romance can blossom the whole group is involved in a nefarious plot by the lone German is exposed (this was made in 1945 after all). Excruciatingly bad on so many levels

MVP: Richard Fraser as Geoffrey Bishop

Phantom from Space

Actors: Ted Cooper, Noreen Nash, Dick Sands, Burt Wenland

Rating: 1 out of 10, The next in my series of bad sci fi “classics” as an extremely low budget alien “thriller” from the early 1950s. As required for that time period there was a long section on the security of the US and the dangers of nuclear energy. A somewhat befuddled alien streaks into the night sky ably tracked by the military until he crashes near Santa Monica. This is when the stalwart field investigators of the FCC start tracking him down, huh? I hope it made more sense back then. It turns out the alien is invisible once he removes his scary looking scuba outfit. I’m sure whatever money was laid out for this disaster came from the tobacco industry because no scene could be completed without someone lighting up. I’m serious, they actually paused dialogue so actors could spark up before proceeding. I think this is the third or fourth of these early 1950s sci fi flicks that was set in the Griffith Observatory – wonder what that was all about. Avoid this – unless you’re a dedicated smoker.

MVP: Cooper as the steadfast FCC investigator

Killers from Space

Actors: Peter Graves, Barbara Bestar, Frank Gerstle, James Seay, and Steve Pendleton.

Rating: 3 out of 10, This actually wasn’t that bad. If you took out the comically enlarged eyes from the aliens and the pathetically staged spiders and geckos this was a pretty taut sci fi mystery featuring old Jim Phelps as a young man. There is the heavy dose of nuclear scare prevalent in the early 1950s. A nuclear scientist is abducted by some subterranean aliens in the middle of a nuclear bomb test. They plan on colonizing earth after everyone is eaten by huge geckos, spiders, and cockroaches. They tell him about their whole plan and then release him to thwart the whole thing. Well, maybe it wasn’t that good after all. I did enjoy seeing the young Jim Phelps charging around though.

MVP: Graves as the good doctor

Laser Mission

Actors: Brandon Lee, Debi A. Monahan, Ernest Borgnine, Graham Clark, Trevor Williamson

Rating: 1 out of 10, The next in my series of bad sci fi “classics” which wasn’t sci fi at all so I’m not sure how this film made into this collection. There wasn’t a single laser in the whole thing. Brandon Lee plays a dime store version of Jason Bourne tracking down a missing diamond and a nuclear scientist (Ernest Borgnine in a huge stretch). He is charging around East Africa and somehow fighting both Cubans and Russians. It was all very cold war-ish. He’s assisted by the scientist’s daughter who contributes a very low cut and memorable blue mini-dress. They criminally underused Lee in fighting sequences where he demonstrated he bred true, everything else was nightmarishly bad.

MVP: Debi A. Monahan as the low cut Alissa

Assignment Outer Space

Actors: Rik Van Nutter, Gabriella Farinon, David Montresor, Archie Savage, and Alain Dijon.

Rating: 1 out of 10, The next in my series of bad sci fi “classics” is an early 1960s Italian monstrosity featuring some American “actors” as well as some sullen Italian ones. The American actor plays a 22d century reporter who journeys into space with some unappreciative military types. He’s soon romancing a lady the ship’s captain had already staked out which doesn’t help his cause. They journey to Mars to rescue someone who seems to have spent the rest of the movie on the cargo hold floor where they left him as the rest are distracted with saving earth from a rogue space ship.  A little research showed the American actor was married to Anita Ekberg so you could understand why he was smiling throughout the movie. Bad acting, a stilted plot, and no discernible effort in the special effects department, results in just gloriously bad cinema.

MVP: The very lucky Van Nutter as Mr Ekberg

Mesa of Lost Women

Actors: Jackie Coogan, Robert Knapp, Mary Hill, Harmon Stevens, Jeanette "Tandra" Quinn, Nico Lek,  George Barrows, Samuel Wu

Rating: 1 out of 10, During this trek through bade cinema I’m come to have a grudging respect that some of these were ever made. I know it was a different Hollywood back then but a movie about a mad doctor in the middle of the Mexican desert creating beautiful women out of tarantulas, c’mon. Someone had to have questioned this but it did get made and I wandered through it last night as Uncle Fester himself, Jackie Coogan, was getting his groove on creating the killer women. An interesting take on 1950s feminism as none of the ladies he created could speak but were inadequately clothed throughout. It also features possibly the most polite kidnapper in movie history.

MVP: Jackie Coogan as Dr. Aranya, the one eyed mad scientist (I’m sure there’s a double entendre there somewhere)

The Lost Jungle

Actors: Clyde Beatty, Cecilia Parker, Syd Saylor, Warner Richmond, Edward LeSaint    

Rating: 2 out of 10, The oldest movie in my current trek through abysmal cinema. This is what happens when you make a lion tamer a movie star. I actually attended the Clyde Beatty Circus when I was a very young lad and didn’t know I was in the presence of a renowned movie star. I wasn’t. As a movie star Mr. Beatty was a great lion tamer. The plot and everything else about the movie was staggeringly terrible but the animal sequences were mesmerizing. Even in black and white and the almost quaint quality of the filming it was obvious Beatty was face to face with some real, very large, and very pissed off felines. The ASPCA would need counseling if this type film was ever made nowadays but the viewer is transported inside the cage and it was startlingly good when it did that. Even a very young Mickey Rooney was impressed.

MVP: Beatty as Beatty

Hercules Unchained

Actors: Steve Reeves, Sylvia Lopez, Sylva Koscina, Sergio Fantoni, Mimmo Palmara

Rating: 1 out of 10, I think (pray) that I’ve reached the end of the Hercules section of my foray through bad cinema and I ended it (hopefully) with the guy who was supposedly the gold standard (who knew) for this early 1960s phenomena – Steve Reeves. Herc returns home with his new wife, both wearing daring mini skirts that were apparently all the rage in ancient Greece. They get embroiled with a dynastic fight involving old friend Oedipus until they bring on the dancing girls and Hercules is spirited away as a love slave. His young buddy Ulysses and his jilted wife work to free him as this winds down into criminal mediocrity.

MVP: Koscina as Herc’s wife Iole – just dominating that mini-skirt

Hercules Against the Tyrants of Babylon

Actors: Peter Lupus, Anna-Maria Polani, Helga Liné, Mario Petri, Livio Lorenzon, Tullio Altamura, Franco Balducci, Rosy De Leo

Rating: 1 out of 10, I kept trying to figure out where I’d seen the taller, skinnier Hercules before until it dawned on me that he went on to play part of Peter Graves’ Mission Impossible team in the 1960s. This was every bit as bad as hoped for with Herc wielding an obviously plastic club and routing veritable armies who ran towards him to get clubbed. While Herc was out adventuring the evil tyrants of Babylon (including the well-endowed sister) kidnapped virtually the entire population of his home country including his well-endowed lady love. As luck would have it Babylon is equipped with a pre-historic self-destruct mechanism, and well – you can guess.

MVP: Peter Lupus with mission impossible of making this watchable

Hercules and the Captive Women

Actors: Reg Park, Fay Spain, Ettore Manni, Luciano Marin, Laura Efrikian, Enrico Maria Salerno

Rating: 1 out of 10, My forage through bad cinema continued with yet another Hercules adventure. The cosmos may have been looking out for me because the DVD failed at about the three quarters mark but if you haven’t figured it out by that point – well enough said. Hercules wants to settle down with wife and kids but is tricked into taking on the entire continent of Atlantis and the inevitable well-endowed evil queen. We can all guess how it ended up, you’ve heard of Atlantis’ fate, right? This guy reminded me of the Governator and it was interesting to see they were good friends in real life. I finally see where Arnold gets his acting tips from.

MVP: Reg Park as the big guy, an early version of Ah-nuld

Transformers: The Last Knight

Actors: Mark Wahlberg, Josh Duhamel, John Turturro, Glenn Morshower, Laura Haddock, Anthony Hopkins

Rating: 7 out of 10, Anyone who goes to a Michael Bay directed transformers movie and complains has only themselves to blame. You know going in you’re going to be subjected to incessant CGI action, relentless noise, and plot holes Optimus Prime could easily walk through. I enjoyed the cacophony and thought this might be the best of the transformer movies although that isn’t exactly high cotton. Who else but Bay could audaciously link King Arthur and his knights with Hasbro’s transformers? The movie is overly long but it’s all breathless action so it goes quickly. The first three quarters focus mostly on the human characters which was welcome as Wahlberg is always watchable and Sir Anthony Hopkins (must have been a huge payday) looked to be having a supremely good time with tongue firmly in cheek. It was Bay at his best/worst which means an action packed summer popcorn-a-palooza. I liked it, so sue me.

MVP: Hopkins as the last earl chewing up scenery amongst all the Bay madness

Hercules Against the Moon Men

Actors: Alan Steel, Jany Clair, Anna Maria Polani, Nando Tamberlani, Jean-Pierre Honoré, Delia D'Alberti

Rating: 2 out of 10, I loved Hercules movies when I was growing up, more so for the bevy of well-endowed young ladies that populated them rather than any of the many incarnations of the son of Zeus. This was a perfect example of the sword and sandal era of the early 1960s. Steel, a respectable Herc, is called upon to rescue a city whose well-endowed queen is conspiring with some recently arrived space aliens to sacrifice all of the city’s children including her well-endowed sister. Fortunately Herc’s contact in the city has a well-endowed daughter to help him out of the tight spots, such as when he’s confronted with glacially slow rock men. A joint Italian-French production, need I say more.

MVP: Steel as Hercules, actually had some screen presence

Menace from Outer Space

Actors: Richard Crane, Sally Mansfield, Scotty Beckett, Nan Leslie, Patsy Parsons, Harry Lauter

Rating: 1 out of 10, My forage through bad cinema continued with yet another poorly combined collection of episodes from the 1950’s TV series Rocky Jones, Space Ranger. Rocky is asked to investigate why a moon of Jupiter keeps lobbing missiles at earth. He grabs his usual group and arrives at the moon to find a earth like atmosphere, harem girls, and the odd mad scientist. Once again I could see how something as bad as this eventually morphed into Star Trek. The construction paper spaceships really rocked, tongue firmly in cheek.

MVP: Crane as Rocky, smirking through the whole thing