Lori Nelson

The Day the World Ended (1956)

Cast: Roger Corman Jonathan Haze Lori Nelson Adele Jergens Raymond Hatton   

Tags: Sci-Fi Disaster Film Creature Film Science Fiction Horror 

Length: 80min

The Day the World Ended was filmmaker Roger Corman's modest entree into the realm of science fiction. The film begins at "The End"--or rather, the years following an all-out atomic war. A group of survivors find refuge in a well-protected valley owned...

Find Videos

Pardners (1956)

Cast: Jerry Lewis Sammy Cahn Agnes Moorehead Jack Elam Lon Chaney, Jr.   

Tags: Comedy Western Comedy Musical Western Odd Couple Film 

Length: 90min

This Dean Martin-Jerry Lewis romp is liberally based on the 1936 Bing Crosby film Rhythm on the Range. Set around 1910, the film stars Lewis as the pampered son of female tycoon Agnes Moorehead. Yearning to return to the Wild West where his father was...

Find Videos

Untamed Youth (1957)

Cast: Howard W. Koch John Russell Mamie van Doren Lurene Tuttle Lori Nelson   

Tags: Prison Film Musical 

Length: 80min

Untamed Youth is a camp classic, so stupefyingly awful that it's actually festive. The villains are cotton grower Tropp (John Russell) and corrupt female judge Mrs. Steele (Lurene Tuttle), who conspire between them to ship female convicts to work on...

Find Videos

Mohawk (1956)

Cast: Allison Hayes Rita Gam Mae Clarke Neville Brand Scott Brady   

Tags: Western 

Length: 80min

Though released by 20th Century-Fox, Mohawk was produced independently by Edward L. Alperson, who also doubled as the film's musical composer. Scott Brady stars as an 18th century Boston artist, sent to Mohawk Valley to paint landscapes and portraits...

Find Videos

Ma and Pa Kettle at Waikiki (1955)

Cast: Marjorie Main Percy Kilbride Russell Johnson Bernard Herzbrun Joseph E. Gershenson   

Tags: Comedy Crime Domestic Comedy 

Length: 79min

The title tells all in this seventh entry in Universal's "Ma and Pa Kettle" series. This time around, Ma (Marjorie Main) and Pa (Percy Kilbride) take their brood to Hawaii, where Pa is to take over management of his cousin's fruit processing...

Find Videos

Hot Rod Girl (1956)

Cast: Chuck Connors Leslie Martinson Frank Gorshin Lori Nelson John Smith   

Tags: Adventure Drama Drama Juvenile Delinquency Film 

Length: 75min

American-International's Hot Rod Girl is a whole lot less exploitaitonal than its title. Chuck Connors stars as Ben, a policeman who hopes to stem an outbreak of juvenile delinquency. Overcoming great obstacles--most of them created by prejudiced...

Find Videos

I Died a Thousand Times (1955)

Cast: Lee Marvin Shelley Winters Jack Palance Dennis Hopper Mae Clarke   

Tags: Crime Drama Crime Romance 

Length: 109min

I Died a Thousand Times is a scene-by-scene remake of the 1941 crime-drama classic High Sierra. Jack Palance steps into the old Humphrey Bogart role as Roy "Mad Dog" Earle, the ageing bank robber who intends to pull off one last heist before retiring....

Find Videos

Revenge of the Creature (1955)

Cast: Clint Eastwood John Bromfield Bud Westmore Jack Arnold Dave Willock   

Tags: Creature Film Horror Sci-Fi Horror 

Length: 82min

Revenge of the Creature is, of course, the sequel to Universal's fabulously successful The Creature from the Black Lagoon--and like its predecessor, the film was lensed in 3-D (though released "flat" in most theatres). Though the audience had seen the...

Find Videos

Underwater! (1955)

Cast: Jane Russell Richard Egan Gilbert Roland Jayne Mansfield Robert Keith   

Tags: Adventure 

Length: 99min

Both Jane Russell and her uncredited stunt double look great in skimpy swimwear throughout the Technicolor and SuperScope romantic adventure Underwater. Ms. Russell is cast as the wife of fortune-chasing Richard Egan, who takes her along to the...

Find Videos