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[Bud Brewster]

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So, what special treat does Daddy have today?

We've got Three Stooges, two Projects, and a Partridge in a Pear Tree.

(Okay, I made up the partridge in a pear tree, but it sounded so good I couldn't resists. )

However, just to demonstrate how easy it is to add replies (even if they're just witty ones), click on the three links below and you'll find a hidden Partridge in a Pear Tree in one of the three replies which I'll add right now!
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Project Moonbase (1953)



This is actually several episodes of an unsold television series by director by Richard Talmadge, edited into a feature starring Ross Ford, Donna Martell, and Hayden Rourke.

The plot involves a "communist saboteur" who damages a spacecraft on a lunar orbital mission, making it necessary for the ship to land on the Moon -- the first lunar landing.

The costumes are a bit bizarre; the astronauts wear shorts, t-shirts, skullcaps, and boots. A female president congratulates the astronauts (both male and female). One of the astronauts is the first person to orbit the Earth -- the woman.

These bold aspects of the story might have contributed to it being rejected in 1953. Too progressive.

But the FX are stellar, and the shots of the space port near the beginning are the stuff of which a sci-fi lovin' kid's dreams are made.


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Project X (1968)

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A sci-fi tale from bargain-basement horror master William Castle.

Christopher George (from TV's "Rat Patrol") is a secret agent in the year 2118 who knows how to prevent the West from being destroyed by their mortal enemies, "Sino-Asia".

Unfortunately George has amnesia, so scientists stimulate his memory by causing him to think he's a bank robber in the 1960s. (That's certainly a novel treatment for amnesia.)

His subconscious creates a lethal force -- an animated effect by the Hanna-Barbara Studios. (That's certainly an unexpected side-effect to a medical treatment.)

Castle is famous for his novel promotional gimmicks for low budget horror films such as "The Tingler", which featured vibrating seats. "Project X" doesn't quite fit this mold. (But the poster is kinda cool, huh?)
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The Three Stooges in Orbit (1962)

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With Edward Bernds directing and Emil Sitka playing the luny inventor, this film would have been Ka--razy even without The Three Stooges. Sitka is the perfect forerunner of Christopher Lloyd's Dr. Emmett Brown from "Back to the Future".

The Stooges play TV show host who help Sitka keep his submarine/tank invention out of the hands of Martian agents. That's a nice twist, eh? Martian trying to steel our science!

The producers decided to give the story a psuedo-horror look by having Sitka live in a run-down castle and by giving the Martians a Frankenstein appearance.

Carol Christensen is the pretty face with whom the boys flirt, and Nestor Paiva (the sleazy boat captain from "The Creature from the Black Lagoon") is the Martian leader — an interesting bit of casting.
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Is there no man on Earth who has the wisdom and innocence of a child?
~ The Space Children (1958)