Famous Monsters of Filmland 005 1959 Warren Publishing
Famous Monsters of Filmland 005 1959 Warren Publishing
Famous Monsters of Filmland 005 1959 Warren Publishing
FAMOUS
OF FILMLAND
WHYTHCYMiTO
BRINfi
NOVEMBER 19S9
THE WINNERS!
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PHOTOS
MAKE-IP CONTEST
THt UNTOLIi
"Look Ma-no eavilies!" Ion Chaney, Sr., AFTER MIDNIGHT so he can sink his teeth
is
in
LONDON
info the
new
issue of
FAMOUS MONSTERS.
OR/
Hallo, weenies!
Know you pun, kins? One dictionary definiis "a low grade of literature." If you are reading this editorial in any monster magazine other than FAMOUS put down that truck, mac.
tion of "truck"
MONSTERS,
the #5 Treat yourself, instead, to greatest horror film publication alive. don't feel half safe, feel Snakes alive unsafe! With ungentle men of distinction it's MONSTERS three-to-one. So don't stand there like a broomstick; before the next customer snatches the last copy, break open your Jack O'Lantern piggybank and make with the jack. Be a Fan who Shrinks for Himself! FORREST J
FM
FAMOUS
ACKERMAN
Vincent Price doesn't appear to want any help with his necktie, but his helpful friend says "Time is flying, Vince, and you know have to return soon." For Exclusive Scoop Story on THE RETURN OF THE FLY, start buzzin' the Table of Contents, cousin.
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by AlbtrtNuitull.
THINGS INSIDE
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DEAR MONSTER
Now
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FORREST
ACKERMAN
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editor
Little
Cut-Upa.
PHYLLIS FARKAS
32
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AMONG
LAGOON
US
First Time a Title has been Longer than the Article! Pictui-e- Story of the Famnus Black Lagoon Seriee.
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"BE KIND TO
ACKNOWLEOaMEHTS:
Robert
Kt^th
Alton
It's FeedinK Time Ag'ain and the Beasties are Feeling Weakly. A Transfusion of MONEY would Save Their Lives and m Gratitude They'd Probably Take Yours! Some (jreat ideas for Halloween here!
&*argi Qalltt,
Miirpliy,
Gordon.
MOflE
ABOUT ZACH
I
My
ghoul-friend and
Just had
arguement. She claims that Borit Karloff and New York's Zacherley I are one and the same. I say she J Who is right? And can! is wrong. you show us "hat Zacherley looksj
like in real life?
MONSTERS ON VACATION
MARILYN
New York,
RM
THIS IS the Department where we see the hand-*rithing on wall. For greatest assistance to Dr. Acula this time, a fine First Prize to ED URBWK; 2d toSUZY pish: and 3d to BOB SCHERL.
Thanx,
fiends.
IPS
Here is a picture of me and my gang looking at your latest great issue. This Halloween we are all planning on flying up to your offices on our brooms - to haunt the editor.
SIEVE LAPIDUS
Great Neck, N.J.
MONSTERS MONHILY
agree wholeheartedly with reader 1 Goldstein that you should try to publish an Issue every month. As it is my preceeding issues are worn out from reading them over and over by the time another issue comes out. Congratulations on your #4 cover. Artist Neutzell
is tops.
ZACHERLEY UNMASKED!
Above
is
ANTI-F.M.
ANONYMOUS
I TTiing your mag. smells. It rots away the intelligent minds of American youth. PM should be In the trash. It isn't worth the
CLVDC SIHPSON
Florence,
Ala.
DAVE KEV
Wayne,
Pa.
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it' s printed on. That' s why I buy your crumby magYes, me and the thousands of other Mickey Monster Club Members. So we can burn it, yes, bum it to the last molecule, and if you have guts enough to print this I' 11 buy the next issue and not burn it like the other 4 issues.
paper
FM?
The last issue of your scremy but funny magazine was so spectacular that even our teachers couldn't Your keep their noses out of it! monster mush is really keen: keep A devoted reader. up the good work.
NO NiWE
Perth Amboj. N.J,
PETER CABEL
Radio City, N.Y.
30s and
newsstands
FH
as
they sell
out too
403. I realize that about one third of your readers must love this type of film, therefore you must please them or lose a great amount of your circulation. Hoever--more Chancy, Karloff and
Lugosi, please?--and some coverage on CABINET OF DR. CALIGARI. CAT AND THE CANARY, John Barrymore' DR. JEKYLL & R. HYDE. A. Merritf s SEVEN FOOTPRINTS TO SATAN and the early films of Georges Helies. PLAN NINE FROM OUTER SPACE was the most cheaply produced film I have ever seen in my entire life. The gravestones were, cardboard, the
CARSLE PERRY
PiteDlo
Park, calif.
straw
movies.
covered rug, and the outfits for the outer spacers were borrowed from an old plash Gordon serial. I have seen more class in home However, the acting of
COMMERCIAL UtEAK
We interrupt this letter by Bob Scherl to bring you a candid still shot given us by TOR JOHNSON and showing some horrors -play between him and J(MN CARRAOINE. Below that is a photo of them in make-up, in a scene from THE BLACK
JOHN
In
ft
an
filming FRANKENSTEIN--1970 he
knew they didn*
a
decent horror film any more. "In the old days the films had a good plot, direction, production
and intelligence behind them.
In
SUE' S BATS OVER MONSTERS e' shall itDiaedlately enter you in our Queen of Transylvania contest! --Ed. A CRITI-GHOUL READER
my day the public would never accept such utter nonsense." I invite challenges from readers who feel differently and like the
trashy films of the 50s.
Altho
am only
15 years old,
BOB SCHERL
Okay,
if
s 6
ou r eade argument. If
THE DAY THE END iHIRLED your monsters were laid end to end, it would serve them right. The day I pay Cor a copy
all
of your magazine (my trained monkey Kween Kong steals them) it would be
the end of the world.
FLASH COULSON
Yandro,
ind.
JOHN
ft
Flash, you are a man after my own heart--but must you use such
a sharp knife?--Ed.
THE
g
MAN
them as he
horrorwood
is
oil
to bring
you
one, two,
three, fear
My
breath
is
coming
in short
pants and,
wearing long underwear to keep from being chilled, I look pretty peculiar with the underwear sticking out of my halfconsidering- I'm
can't help
it.
Laff at
me if you will, but I've just read the h'st-I've prepared and I'm scared. You could call the following report "The Case of the Cowardly Monster Lover," because you see Just like a mushy pumpkin, I'm uelloiv to
the core!
Dr.
Acula
Eye say there, Guv'nor, bit baggy around the eyeyou? You may be THE MAN WHO COULD CHEAT DEATH, but was it worth it?
bails, aren't
devilish address
13
DEMON STREET
will
be the diabolic
Ming the Merciless is about to try out his new hairrestoring machine in MARS ATTACKS THE WORLD. And if it doesn't work as guaranteed, we've a good notion someone will hair of it in fact they'll undoubtedly
be bald
out!
abode of a number of satanic new characters nightmared up by Curt Siodmak, some of whose old satanic characters have included
CURUCU, THE MAGNETIC MONSTER, THE INVISIBLE WOMAN. THE MAN WITH THE ATOM BRAIN and DONOVAN'S BRAIN. Taking up
at the corner of Sinister
early residence
Way
is
DEATH
Death
Drive
&
Shocking
("ask the
and believe me
Bela Lugosi used to say when hired to play another vampire role: "Well, it's a dying." Now Bill Harlow has scripted ,
As
& white.
DIE. Sounds
like
KILLER CORPSE would be a good one to co-bill with this feature. Or (now here's a if title you can really sink your teeth into you don't mind their glowing in the dark afterwards) ATOMIC CANNIBAL. Let',', hope the jatter isn't just another pot-boiler. Small wonder they call producer William Castle "haunted," after he gave the shiver screen such spookeramas as MACABRE and
-
THE HOUSE ON HAUNTED HILL. Now he's responsible for THE TINGL,ER. Who
or what is the Tingler? Castle describes it as: "An unpredictable mass of pent-up fury that soars beyond the wildest flights of your nightmare fantasies ... the most gory, ghastly, grisly gimmick that ever satellited to the screen from a launching-pad of
screams."
Looks like Lionel Atwill has just given his Lon Chaney Jr. doesn't belt him back!
l^AsK^TowAKrYei) A }!^m%...ff^tt
w/
the return
of the
winged rodent
Once upon a time there was a baby rat who wandered into a cave and for the first time in saw a bat. He went running to his Mother and cried, "Mommy, Mommy, I just saw an angel !" Another once upon a time, the parents of most of you reading these pages were themselves still teenagers, there was a shocker of a mystery melodrama that was really heavenly. It was THE BAT/
his life
when
And now this Mary Roberts Rinehart classic has been modernized and THE BAT will soon swoop again!
I remind them of Ape Lincoln. Do you think be President of the USA (Universal Shock Association)? From THE SCARLET CLUE.
oceans of
thrills
Mummy,
Peter Cuahing.
has written a new screenplay dealing with a marine menace. HELL AND HIGH WATER. Filmed in the Philippines, another sea-based horror-suspense story is THE SEA WITCH. And of course, don't fail to keep a weather eye out for Jules Verne's great sequel to 20,000 LEAGUES UNDER THE SEA: THE
MYSTERIOUS ISLAND.
Yes, Bert
I.
Gordon,
THE BOY
and THE AMAZis busy with a new and terror tales. The first is IN THE BOTTLE, in which, producer Gordon revep'o, "a special dimen-
THE
and
its effect is
quite startling."
He
also plans
THEUID
and
THE HAUNTED.
Alex Gordon and his mate. Ruth Alexander, have launched their futuristic submarine and it will soon torpedo onto the screen. I know, because one noon recently when I went out to visit the set of ATOMIC SUBMARINE, no one was there, but a large explanatory sign was posted reading "Out to Launch!"
^1
Who
THE
el5e?
tin
brother!
Zorko
in
PHANTOM
Other thriller-dillers on the Gordons' proauction scaredule are PROJECT X, Frank Quattrocchi's PROJECTED MAN, Edgar Allan Poe's OF THE DEATH. Robert Louis Stevenson's THE SUICIDE CLUB and (the most horrible story ever to be attempted on the screen) WAS. A
MASK
RED
from their He this unusual policy by saying: "It is due to the controversial character of the picture, who is none other than the Editor of
under 90 be admitted to th'e picture, declares Alex Gordon, and those over 90 only if accompanied by their parents or bearing a note grandparents. explains
FAMOUS
It is understood it will be a low budget film in black & white or perhaps only black as the record-shattering sum of $10 (ten dollars. Confederate) has been paid for .the rights (not to overlook the wrongs) of the youthful story of FJA, and this naturally did not leave a great deal of money for the actual film, to which the VicePrincipal of Delinquent Junior High said, "Just as well-" It is further understood that producer Gordon is having great casting difficulties, as everyone from Gory Cooper to Haunts Conreid has turned down the role as one that would typecast them and destroy
MO?JSTERS."
you torch
me
I'll
in
RETURN
"kro" baby
knocked twice at the Editor's door but no response. Do you suppose he could be out seeing a People movie?
I
Bill
KRA
!,
Alland's new "baby" will be cailod a super hush-hush horror subject. For
it
co-release with
he'll
make
DIMENSION
FOUR. The latter is not to be confused with Jack Harris' current great picture about a 4th dimensional man, nor lb J. Melchior's
screen story of
TERROR
We're to get a peek BEHIND THE MASK, And Weaver Wright has dreamed up an golem called
ziva
CURSE,
and kiva
last
ZivaRodann,
will
menaced
in
PHARAOH'S
VOODOO WOMEN. A Hopi Indian legend will be the basis of THE KIVA MONSTER.
Other monsters, unwilling to let Kiva get ahead of them (or even an arm or a leg) will give their all in such epics as
THE BEAST FROM ASSUAN THE FLYING EYE FIEND FROM THE FUTURE THE WASP WOMAN Jack Williamson's WOLVES OF DARK.
. . .
.
ASSASIN
NESS
Calling all TEENAGERS FROM OUTER SPACE and any other place you may be: don't lef this happen to you! This reader got so interested in FAMOUS MONSTERS that he forgot to eat and wasted away to skin and bones. Now he's so skinny he opens his door with o skeleton key and keeps himself in a closet.
...and
MR. & MRS.
.
.
still
more monsters
MONSTER
. . . .
GORGO
. . .
(million dollar
monster from
the
King Bros.)
THE INVISIBLE MONSTER {alias DR. DOOM) THE GILA MONSTER THE SEAWEED CREATURE (another
.
Bill
.
Alland venture)
And Thad Swift's wholly unusual LITTLE MONSTER, for which a theme song has recently been recorded and Jim (Mr. Magoo) Backus reported as interested in playing the frantic Father of THE LITTLE
MONSTER.
hollow laughter
Don't look behind you now, but that apparition rising at any moment may be
THE
Drag-
Hollow
is
south-beast of
OF USHER,
constructed.
which Richard Matheson has is rumored that a certain Count, a gentleman of Transylvanian nobility, would like to move a coffin or two into the Usher mansion, but they won't let him in for
It
a reason that
like
is
unmansionable, so
it
looks (a
comedy to feature Christopher DracuLee). At least Lee has not lost his head over it, which is more than can be said for THE
HEADLESS GHOST.
franken's trina
Casting of
Trina Petit in
FRANKEN-
STEIN FROM SPACE, MEDUSA, DEBBIE AND THE DEMON, SINVALA or TAKE ME TO YOUR LEADER could spark a whole
career as a horrorine (that's a heroine of horror pix) for this pixie. She's the ingredient that's been missing ever since Maria (THE SHE-CREATUKE) English left the screen. All Trina needs is one good Scream Test. Speaking of which, there's to be a sci-fi feature called SCREAMING TEENS.
Carroll in
meets the 21st CENTURY SUE, it may be enough to sink the legendary island of ATLANTIS all over again. Curt Jurgens is being sought to star in the latter story, which should be a first class spectacle provided they don't do a watered down version.
When THE
.^^;
"I'm really very fond of you, Jules, but of all my boy friends $2.50 for a shave artd a haircut when we go out on a date?"
why
On
in
HAVE ROCKET, WILL TRAVEL THE MOON ... I AIM FOR THE
Wernher von Braun biofiim) and MYSTERIOUS SATELLITE. Dragons could scarcely be accused of draggin* behind in the monster race, what
with ST.
GEORGE AND THE DRAGON, SIEGFRIED AND THE DRAGON and EVE
SIEGFRIED
has been completed in Germany, and all that's holding up its release in America is the dubbing of the dragon's roars into English.
last
. .
minute noose
MAN
"Well, I'll be a monkey's unclel" exclaims Bela Lugosi in THE APE MAN.
And, as we go to press {to press another hunaan beneath the body of a giant monster, is) the line-up of future shoclters looks real shook up (award-win THE DEMOLISHED ning Alfred Bester novel purchased for production by John Payne) THE DREAMERS (modern hex book turned into screenplay by Ray Bradbury) ZEX, THE ELECTRONIC FIEND (by Charles Eric Maine)
.
that
you be right here staring back even if you fall you don't believe me, woke up and see!
try to outstare
if
me
care
to,
but
bet
I'll
asleep,
THE DEMON OF CAWNPORE ... A JOURNEY TO THE CENTER OF THE EARTH ... and 800 LEAGUES ON THE AMAZON all by Jules Verne. Pius his IN THE YEAR 2889. THE BROTHER GULLIVER'S TRAVELS (another Harryhausen triumph)
NEW
VISIT TO
Poe's
CAT
HONEYMOON
HELL
(Fredric
Brown)
CURSE OF THE UNDEAD HORROR OF THE UNDEAD COWBOY FROM OUTER SPACE CONJURE WIFE (Fritz Leiber's classic) OLE DOC METHUSELAH (L. Ron Hubbard's series, for
TV)
pro(sec-
CRATER BASE 1 (telcseries) SPACE (also video adventures) SPACE HOTEL (Curt Siodmak TV
gram)
ond remake)
THE GENIE (starring Fritz Leiber, Bjo Fortaff and Spencer Strong)
MABUSE
(Fritz
Lang)
LAZARUS
. . .
NO. 7
And watch
turn of
FAMOUS MONSTERS!
K.Jf
fv-qit^
life,
MHKk A MONSTER.
statement?
I hard that when they filmed CURUCU, BEAST OF THE AMAZON, a couple of the natives lost their heads over leading lady Bevrly Garland. Could you show me ony photographic evidence of this - DICK DANIELS, Oakvaie, Calif. (Bev's
friends might have something to say about that, but they obviously aren't talking.)
When
I
lived in Hannover, Germany, saw a picture never forgot, because the interplanetarian in it looked like the original Egghead. Do you know which film mean? - INGRID FRITZSCH, Brentwood, Calif.
I I I
(Think so. This it? THE MAN the type to put all his
just
FROM PLANH
"x"
in
THE MUMMY was made before was born. Do you have a candid foto of Boris KoriofT from it? - MICHAEL BANKS, Wyncote, Penna. (Candid enuf? That's the great Mr. K. lighting up a camel; this was centuries ago before they thought of smoking cigarets.)
I
As a
bit
tions to play in
more monster
movies, I always enjoy be* hind-the-scenes scenes. Would you have anything with Karloff, Rothbone or Lorre?
DWAYNE
FRANKENSTEIN.)
GILL- FRIEND
THE REVENGE OF
i
\
FROM THE BLACK LAGOON THAT
WALKS AMONG US
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Do the
fools think
puny chains
like these
in
my family
Of all the semi-explored areas in the world where the prehistoric past clings most strongly to the present, and frequently merges with it, the vast dense humid Amazonian jungle is perhaps the most intriguing. It is full of frightful forms. Almost anything could seem to be lurking there just beneath
the surface. "Dr. Maia !" The terrified voice of a native cuts thru the heat and jungle noises of the upper reaches of the Amazon, rousing Dr. Carl Maia of the Morajo Institute of Maritime Biology from his work.
hand of horror
"Dr. Maia! Come quick! most frightening discovery!" When Dr. Maia stands before the crumbling rock, his eyes bulge in shock at the sight of the fossil embedded in it the giant clawed hand of some kind of unknown crenture. There is evidence that webbing once stretched between its huge fingers. Thtowner of that hand must have towered 8 fee'
tall.
says the native. "He be big maybe killer." The doctor agrees. "Killer he would mo.tt certainly be, with talons like this. Just tho
I
live
now, huh?"
made a
Big Splash
in
my
first picture.
same, I'd have given almost anything to havf seen him in the live state from a safe posi-
tion, of course."
It'll
Little does Dr. Maia dream how soon, how startling, and how dangerously his desire is to be fulfilled,
human
bull-frog
So intent is the doctor on speculating about the amphibian aspects of the fossil claw, that there goes unnoticed altogether an unusual amount of bubbling in the nearby lagoon, as tho a bull-frog the size of a large man were active beneath the surface. Dr. Maia decides to head back to the outskirts of civilization to report the find and return with a small expedition better equipped to investigate further. He leaves behind to guard the camp Luis and Tomaso. At Morajo Bay the doc looks up his friends David Reed (Richard Carlson) and Kay
Lawrence. Dave is a frogman and Kay hi.s girl Friday. Dave's boss. Dr. Mark Williams, is also brought into the discussion, along with his colleagues, Drs. Thompson and Matos. "Amazing," "incredible," are some of their exclamations when they examine the fossil. In all of their lives as marine experts, they admit, they have never seen anything like it. Wild sea-horses could not keep them from seeing more.
John Bromfield
just
became a
Life
Guard.
First job:
guarding
his
own
life!
mysteries
of nature
Meanwhile, at Mr. Maia's camp Tomaso and Luis prepare to retire for the night, their guns by their sides. Suddenly their jungle-trained ears hear an ominous noise the tread of heavy feet crackling twigs
. . . :
and branches underneath. Their eyes go wide with fright, their nostrils flare, and in one paralyzing moment the Thing is upon them An 8-foot tower of power, black as the heart of a shark, tough as a rhino, strong as a boa constrictor, temper like a bear-trap that's our "Blacky LaGoon." They call him Blacky for short, but not for
long.
With an
Don Megowan
his
sips a cooling glass of water direct from dear old Black Lagoon between shots on THE CREATURE WALKS AMONG US. The term "between shots" means between the time one man shoots at him and another.
hurls an oil-lamp at the Creature. It bursts in the gill-man's face, scalding him with burning oil and sending him into a flaming rage. He seizes Luis and batters him into insensibility before the popping eyes of Tomaso. Like a doll the Creature slams Luis around the tent until he is limp and lifeless. Then it turns on Tomaso, who suffers the
same
fate.
A rare
the camera
picture of The Creature in a quiet mood while is being focused for the next scene. Seconds later Don Megowan (The Creature) almost scared the lens off the comera.
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After that Blacky vents his rage on the camp, smashing everything to bits.
danger
in
the deep
When the expedition arrives at Dr. Maia's campsite, the dead men and destruction present a bafRing sight. The days pass and the research progresses. One day Dave and Williams are underwater, exploring, when Williams is attacked by the octopus-like branches of a man-eating plant "There is a terrific threshing battle that absorbs all the skill and energies of both men, until Dave's slashing knife finally mortally stabs the savage tree. The narrow escapes and harrowing adventures follow thick and fast, freezing the marrow even in the tropical heat. To repeat them all would require more pages than are availMONable for a single article in besides STERS. And don't forget
there
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FAMOUS THE CREATURE FROM THE BLACK LAGOON was its sequel. REVENGE OF THE CREATURE, and the followup to that, THE CREATURE WALKS AMONG US, both
with their share of
thrills 'n' chills.
In the original film, they capture Blacky once in a net, but his razor-sharp talons release him. Another time they try to capture him by poisoning the lagoon, but to no avail.
!'-
A long straw
brinss Blacky Lagoon a fresh air soda during the filming of THE CREATURE
WALKS AMONG
US.
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i.liJ.
Gill
Man
is
born. Bud
Wsstmore
costume.
17 ?*">*
-V^VIff
Coma on
in,
Blacky
tion in
is
civiliza-
but they e^'t hold the likes of him long at the Oceap ^^rbor oceanarium, and while they harry him, he harries them, the two main
thems being John (Man from Planet Arous) Agar and Lori (Day the World Ended)
Nelson.
the creature
from the
walks museum
In
US, Blacky meets up with Jeff Morrow and Rex Reason, and they wax enthusiastic about making him a little more human by removing the webbing from his burned hands and performing plastic surgery on his scarred face.
The operation is a physical success but does not particularly improve Blacky's temper, for he goes on several more rampages before the
him reeling into the sea. The first of the pictures filmed in 3D. book about Blacky's. first adventure
last reel sees
CREATURE
was
was
America.
to the
many
friends
late Blacky LaGoon, is proud to present this historical tribute to his memory. R.I.P. which means Rest In Pieces,
FAMOUS MONSTERS
-he Creature stares at a mountain lion he has iust sent to th Happy Hunting Ground. And we're not lyin'l
Tangle.
sliftpery fish
I'll
huff
and
I'll
puff
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Last year crowds lined up at the bugsthe nation like bees swarming to a
honeycomb. Object: to see the sensation of the hour, the incredible cinemascope and technicolor smash hit THE FLY. They saw, in the final reel, the helpless screaming tiny figure of "a fly with a white head" enmeshed in a spider's web, and they saw that that head was human. Then a rock mercifully smashed down on the doomed creature that had once been a man, extinguishing its life and permitting
. . .
spellbound audiences to breathe again. The fly-man did not escape, to return in a sequel as did the Frankenstein monster, the Mummy, the Creature from the Black Lagoon, and other legendary "things" before him, but
RETURN
fly,
eh?"
son
After leaving the funera!, Philippe insists that his uncle Francois reveal to him the family secret his Mother would never disclose, and which he was too young to comprehend when it happened. Reluctantly, Francois takes him to the ruins of the old lab and there relates to him the nightmarish circumstances surrounding the death of his Father. When Philippe announces that he wishes to further his Father's experiments, Francois becomes angry and refuses to give him funds. Undismayed, Philippe enlists the aid of a
scientist named Alan Hinds, and together they turn the wine cellar of an old mansion Philippe has inherited into an improved version of Andre Delambre's original lab. From the old lab they rescue a number of charred documents which give them some clue as to the construction of the Transmatter Machine. Young and pretty Cecile Bonnard wanders around in the atmos-fear of the mansion.
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Philippe's friend anci lab assistant, Alan Hinds, who has represented himself as being a scientist, is unmasked as a criminal sought by the British police as a murderer. His undoing is when he schemes to sell the plans for the matter transmitter to an underworld
character named Max Barthold. Hinds is followed to the lab by a policeman, whom he is forced to kill. Hinds conveniently gets rid of the body by transposing it into the "ether," or 4th dimension. Later, when he brings the policeman due to back, he is part man and part rat the fact that a rat's atoms were suspended in nearby space as part of a previous experiment. There is also the counterpart: a small
!
rat
with
the the
little
legs! Hinds kills The grotesque body of dead policeman Hinds stuffs into the
monstrosity.
trunk of his own car, drives to a meeting place with Barthold, and disposes of the body. Barthold drives him back to the mansion and
leaves.
Upon enteringthe lab. Hinds is confronted by Philippe, who has become suspicious of Hinds' actions. A fight is prov^ed, and Philippe is bested. The criminal Hmds puts Philippe in the disintegrator. As a sadistic touch, he throws In a fly with him The atoms of Philippe and the fly are simultaneously smashed to smithereens and
flung into inner space!
have a shave and a halrcuf and don't take too much off the top, please.
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on the verge of escaping with the plans for the revolutionary mechanism, Philippe's uncle Francois appears and is wounded by a shot from Hinds' gun. The weakened Francois manages to operate the Transmatter-mitter, and puts Philippe back together again but as part man, part fly.
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Meanwhile, Philippe-the-monster seeks out Barthold's establishment and kills the crook
when Barthold attacks and wounds him. When Philippe finally catches up with Hinds he clutches him in his giant claw and
snuffs out his
to the
life.
Inspector Charas and Francois move back mansion, to which they believe the bewildered Fly will instinctively return, and they are right.
Ji^
cecile
squeals
It is now Ceciie's turn to exercise her lung power, and this she does powerfully when the fly-headed monster creeps into her room and faints from loss of blood by the side of her bed.
manage
Between them, the two men and the girl to get the limp body of the halfinto the disintegrator. The disintegrator does its job. It is the end of The Fly and Philippe returns to normal.
There is no truth to the rumor that Clawd Rains ployed the part of The Fly.
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Response to FAMOUS MONSTERS' makeup contest was phenomenal Entries were submitted from all over the world and out of it!
Boys and
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girls participated!
Even
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genuine monsters tried to take part but were when discovered to be lurking behind masks that made them appear almost
human.
GRAND
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of
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(they felt like small mountains) in my mouth." Lee lives in Washington, D. C, fortunately is young enough yet that he will get to keep all his $25 and not have to share any of it with Uncle Sam's Income Taxers. But give him another 10 years and he may be one of our high-priced Hollywood Horror Stars.
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swamp.
also has one former Tarzans, Bruce Bennett. And, as heroine, the screaming beauty who's previously been menaced by CURUCU, beast of the Amazon Cucumbro, creature of IT CONQUERED THE WORLD and a terror that was out of this world in NOT OF THIS EARTH;- brave, brunet Beverly Garland. Charles O'Neal, author of THE ALLIGATOR PEOPLE, reveals that "researchers have discovered repeated references to the existence of such half-human monsters as described and seen in the picture." Producer Jack Leewood adds "By piecing together all available information, we have recreated startlingly real monsters, monsters which, according to local Louisiana folklore, once roamed and preyed on the surrounding countryside in the late 18th and early 19th
; ;
centuries."
from altar to
alligators
Jane Marvin (Eev Garland) is aboard a honeymoon train with her bridegroom, Lt. Paul Webster (Richard Crane), when he receives a mysterious telegram. He does not reveal its contents to her, but instead dis-
appears. Altering her plans, Jane makes frantic efforts to locate Paul, but a whole year passes by in the process and she is about to give up all hope of ever seeing him again. Was it all a dream? Did she marry a man or a ghost? Then suddenly Jane discovers a university record that indicates there might be some knowledge of Paul's whereabouts at a place
called
The Cypresses
there,
Hurrying
tion
from a woman claiming to be a Mrs. Hawthorne and denying that she knows anything about Paul. Jane is put up for the night but cautioned to keep close to her room.
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in
the nite
As she is about to retire, Jane observes Mrs. Hawthorne leave the house hurriedly. She decides to risk following her. Her adventure as a shadow leads her to a clinic on the grounds, where she hears Mrs. Hawthorne tell a Dr. Mark Wingate, "Paul's wife has arrived What shall we do?" The clinic itself has an aura of strangeness about it. As a nurse, Jane senses that something weird, unusual, is going on there. The patients seem to be suffering from acute skin diseases that give them a scaly, somewhat deformed appearance. Shortly after she sneaks back undetected to her room, Jane hears a piano being played ih a sad manner and goes downstairs to investigate. Startled, the dark figure darts from the room and flees into the swamp. It is Paul He has recognized his wife. The next morning Jane faces "Mrs. Hawthonie" and accuses her of hiding Paul. She admits she is his Mother but will not reveal the motive lor her mysterious behavior.
!
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in
the
Mad
it's
a-pauling
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said,
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make a
Perhaps as you've suspected, Paul is turning into an alligator Nextime Jane sees him she attempts to follow him into the swamp, but he manages to lose her. Instead she is
MAN
of you I"
Where's
my
teethbrush.
Ma?
Mannon (Lon Chaney Jr.-) This great hulking brute menaces her more badly than an alligator till her alligator-man husband comes to her rescue. Dr. Wingate now reveals what is going on. "I have been experimenting," he explains, "with the same glandular secretions that permit some reptiles to grow new limbs, attempting to return amputation cases (in human accidents) to normal. Unfortunately, I have not always been successful. In science there
found by
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is
much
is
the result of
SWAMPED!
In a last all-out effort to cure Paul, Dr.
to rays from a cobalt bombardment machine, but the operation is
interrupted by the interference of crazed Mannon, and Paul emerges more like an alli-
gator than ever! In his horror he staggers into the swamp and drowns as the cobalt machine explodes and destroys the doctor and his work.
Jane survives.
Moral: Don't dig alligators, or you be left holding the bag.
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