Atomic Age Cinema - Spies Sci-Fi Noir and Propaganda Movies

The Amazing Spider-Man (1977)

Taro — Sat, 17 Jul 2010 22:03:04 +0000

Peter Parker has a laboratory accident that changes his life. He finds himself with greatly increased strength, the ability to stick to walls to climb them without needing hand and footholds and a “spider-sense” that allows him to sense danger. Designing a costume and a webshooter that allows him to fire a strong artificial web, he fights crimes as Spider-Man.

Plan 9 from Outer Space (1959)

Taro — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 22:08:50 +0000

A pair of aliens, angered by the “stupid minds” of planet Earth, set up shop in a California cemetery. Their plan: to animate an army of the dead to march on the capitals of the world. (The fact that they have only managed to resurrect three zombies to date has not discouraged them.) An intrepid airline pilot living near the cemetery must rescue his wife from this low-budget terror.

The Naked Jungle (1954)

Taro — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 21:10:13 +0000

It’s 1901. At 19, tough, stubborn Christopher Leiningen came to South America and built levees to claim thousands of acres of Rio Negro river land for a chocolate plantation. Now 34, with no knowledge of women, he recruits a mail-order bride in New Orleans. She’s beautiful, independent, and arrives ready to be his stalwart helpmate; however, no one has told him she’s a widow. He rejects her. During the next week, as she awaits the boat to take her back to the US, they learn that legions of army ants will strike in a few days’ time. She joins the fight to save the plantation; their courage and his probable loss of all he’s worked for may crack his resolve to send her away.

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The Ultimate Warrior (1975)

Taro — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 09:26:43 +0000

Only a few people still live in New York in 2015. They are organized in gangs with their own turf. One of them is led by Baron, another one by Carrot, and they are constantly at war with each other.

The Secret of Santa Vittoria (1969)

Taro — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 00:05:41 +0000

Bombolini is a fairly worthless drunk in the small Italian town of Santa Vittoria in the closing days of World War II. When word comes that the Fascist government has surrendered, he climbs a water tower to tear down the flag. He can’t get down and someone gets the crowd to chant his name to give him confidence. The Fascist town council hears this and believes that he is the town’s new leader. They surrender to him and make him the new mayor. He rises to the occasion and when he finds that the Germans plan to occupy his town and take their wine (over a million bottles) he works out a plan to hide it.

Tarantula (1955)

Taro — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 01:32:00 +0000

Professor Gerald Deemer has been working on a special nutrient to help ease a predicted food shortage that is expected to come with the increase in human population. His experiments have been moderately successful but there have been some failures as a result. One day while he is gone two of his colleagues inject themselves with the nutrient with disastrous results and die a few days later. One however goes mad and injects Deemer with the formula. During a struggle, a giant tarantula injected with the formula escapes its cage and grows even larger and starts to attack cattle as well as human beings.

Silkwood (1983)

Taro — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 00:09:45 +0000

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The story of Karen Silkwood a metallurgy worker at a plutonium processing plant who was purposefully contaminated psychologically tortured and possibly murdered to prevent her from exposing blatant worker safety violations at the plant.

The China Syndrome (1979)

Taro — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 00:08:24 +0000

While doing a series of reports on alternative energy sources, an opportunistic reporter Kimberly Wells witnesses an accident at a nuclear power plant. Wells is determined to publicise the incident but soon finds herself entangled in a sinister conspiracy to keep the full impact of the incident a secret.

Demon Seed (1977)

Taro — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 02:57:03 +0000

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Dr. Alex Harris (Fritz Weaver) has developed a creative artificial brain dubbed Proteus IV which can do its own thinking. Ultimately, it decides to trap Harris’s poor wife Susan (Julie Christie) in their own home because Proteus has determined that she can give it what it desires most.

This knockout 1977 science-fiction thriller is almost a two-character story, a battle of wills between the frightened and angry Susan and the coldly determined Proteus IV (whose voice is provided by an uncredited Robert Vaughn). It’s a strange, disquieting, fascinating little movie with a thoroughly engaging performance by Christie, exploring not only the idea of entrusting our lives to computers, but of also what it means to be human. The music and special effects are good, and the dialog is interesting.

The Dirty Dozen (1967)

Taro — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 12:45:37 +0000

It is 1944 and the Allied Armies stand ready for a major invasion of Germany from bases in England. As a prelude to D-Day, US Army Intelligence orders a top secret mission where convicted criminals will be offered a pardon in return for parachuting into the Reich on a suicide mission.