The Celluloid Highway

Dir: SAM PECKINPAH Country: USA AKA: Guns in the Afternoon Sacramento There is an internal paradox to the delightful western Ride the...

Dir: JOHN FORD Country: USA The gunfight at the OK Corral and the events surrounding it have become one of the most enduring of Hollywoo...

Dir: DANIEL STAMM Country: USA The Blair Witch Project (1999) was a heavy stone thrown into calm waters, and ever since this event the r...

ATTACK OF THE 50 FT WOMAN (Nathan Juran, USA, 1958) THE BLOB (Irvin S. Yeaworth Jr, USA, 1958) THE BRAIN EATERS (Bruno VeSota, USA, 1958...

THE BEAST WITH 1,000,000 EYES (David Kramarsky, USA, 1955) CONQUEST OF SPACE (Byron Haskin, USA, 1955) CREATURE WITH THE ATOM BRAIN (Edw...

DESTINATION MOON (Irving Picher, USA, 1950) ROCKETSHIP X-M (Kurt Neumann, USA, 1950) THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL (Robert Wise, USA, 1...

Dir: CHRISTIAN NYBY Country: USA AKA: The Thing Howard Hawks’ production The Thing from Another World is a towering heavyweight withi...

Dir: ROGER CORMAN Country: USA Day the World Ended was Roger Corman’s third official film as a director and his first major foray into t...

Dir: ARNOLD LAVEN Country: USA The Monster that Challenged the World is a curious little film from 1957 that is very undeserving of the ...

Dir: BERT I. GORDON Country: USA AKA: Six Inches Tall I Was a Teenage Doll The Fantastic Puppet People It was very difficult for me ...

Dir: EDWARD LUDWIG Country: USA The Black Scorpion is a mundane pillar of unimaginative derivation. It efficiently sweeps through the la...

Dir: ROBERT GORDON Country: USA AKA: Monster from Beneath the Sea It Came from Beneath the Sea marked the first occasion that produce...

Dir: FELIX E. FEIST Country: USA Writer/producer/director Curt Siodmak was an instrumental figure in establishing the cross pollination o...

 The following is a chronological guide to science-fiction in the 1950s, a shopping list for those just starting out on this fantastic odys...

A myriad of influences and pressures, both external and internal to the American film industry, coalesced in the early 1950’s to create a ha...

 Over the last three months regular visitors to The Celluloid Highway will have noticed that a poll to decide the next themed month has bee...

Dir: GARETH EDWARDS Country: UK I can imagine that many a mindless moron rented or purchased this title expecting the usual masturbatory ...

Dir: DON CHAFFEY Country: UK Hammer had a long tradition in the production of historical adventure films, one which dated back to their f...