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Bud Brewster · Last edited by Bud Brewster on Fri Nov 11, 2022 3:12 pm; edited 8 times in total

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Lordy me, what a poster! It's got everything — gorgeous gals, half-eaten bodies, attacking jets, an A-bomb mushroom cloud, and the most beautifully rendered monster in any poster, ever, bar none.

And there's an army of monsters lined up to attack in the background! What a poster!

What a movie! It doesn't have any of that great stuff, and the film makers ought to be taken out and shot by a military firing squad, just to keep things legal.

And yet it's hard not to like a movie with such an outlandish plot and such an infamous cast.

Mamie Van Doren is scrumptious as the Navy nurse heroine. Anthony Eisely ("Journey to the Center of Time") is the hero. Popular song-and-dance man Bobby Van ("Kiss Me Kate") is comic relief. Billy Gray ("Father Knows Best", "The Day the Earth Stood Still") is one of the brave young sailors who battle the Night Monsters (invading plant-creatures from space, ala "The Thing").

The monsters resemble huge mobile weeds (ala "The Day of the Triffids") which have acid for blood (ala "Alien"). The setting is Antarctica (ala "The Thing" . . . sort of), but the climate is a warm and well-lit (ala a studio set).

If all this sounds silly enough to be fun, take heart, it is (but beware of several gory scenes). The film was released by a company called Realart (this is "real art"?). Directed by Michael Hoey.
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Is there no man on Earth who has the wisdom and innocence of a child?
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Bud Brewster · Posted: Wed May 13, 2015 8:03 pm Post subject:

About that magnificent poster, I started wondering what the original painting looked like without all the text and without the sides clipped off — assuming there was a bit more on the sides, which seems likely.

I couldn't find a jpeg of the original artwork, so I took a jpeg of the DVD box art and went to work on it with Microsoft Paint, taking out the text and added in what I thought the original painting would have in those areas, as well as a bit of rendering on the left and right too.

Here's what I ended up with. The best part was finishing out the mushroom cloud and the arm of the woman in the lower right corner. Very Happy

Like I said earlier, lordy me, what a poster . . .

Original

Enhanced!

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Is there no man on Earth who has the wisdom and innocence of a child?
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Bud Brewster · Posted: Wed Aug 30, 2017 1:43 pm Post subject:

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Imagine being a 10-year-old kid in 1966 and seeing this double-feature trailer for The Navy vs the Night Monsters and Women of the Prehistoric Planet!

You'd lay awake for hours every night fantasizing about the women and the monsters and the women and the spaceships and the women! Shocked

The second video below is the trailer for The Navy vs the Night Monsters, with the narraator giving it the hard sell in the best Tinseltown tradition! Very Happy

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Double Feature Trailer for The Navy vs Night Monsters & Woman of the Prehistoric Planet!

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___________ The Navy vs. the Night Monsters

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Is there no man on Earth who has the wisdom and innocence of a child?
~ The Space Children (1958)

orzel-w · Galactic Ambassador Joined: 19 Sep 2014 Posts: 1865

Ooh... "...primitive passions unleashed..." Ooh...
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Bud Brewster · Posted: Sat Aug 20, 2022 1:22 pm Post subject:

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By 1966 my trips to drive-in theaters were NOT with my parents, and I'm quite sure that my date and I found ways to stay entertained during these two less-than-perfect movies. Wink

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Is there no man on Earth who has the wisdom and innocence of a child?
~ The Space Children (1958)