Paul Birch
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Flinty character actor Paul Birch was strictly a Broadway performer until switching to films in 1952. It didn't take long for Birch to be typecast in science fiction films after playing one of the three "vaporized" locals at the beginning of 1953's... more
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Cast: Myron McCormick Paul H. Frees Bernard Girard Edward Binns Paul Birch
Tags: Drama
Length: 71min
California politics is the clinically dissected yet informative and interesting topic of this feature-length drama by co-directors Bernard Girard and Robert Lewis. Relegating any character development to secondary status, the two directors have opted...
Cast: Paul Birch Don C. Harvey Charles Horvath Wallace MacDonald Walter Coy
Length: 67min
In this run-of-the-mill western, one of the few films directed by producer Wallace MacDonald, a rancher has been falsely accused of murdering his wife and escapes from prison to seek revenge. Robert Knapp is the rancher Gil Reardon who knows that the...
Cast: Edward Bernds Dave Willock Ben Hecht Zsa Zsa Gabor Marlin Skiles
Tags: Space Adventure Science Fiction
Length: 80min
This legendarily campy sci-fi epic (shot in color and CinemaScope, and rather lavish for a sci-fi film of this period) concerns a team of astronauts (all men -- this was 1958, you know) who are drawn off course and land on the planet Venus, only to...
Cast: Karin [Katharine] Booth Edmond O'Brien Mona Freeman Mischa Bakaleinikoff Paul Birch
Tags: Drama
Length: 82min
In this drama, a sea captain is accused of negligence when his ship sinks and 162 passengers drown. A zealous defense attorney, proud of his perfect track record, is assigned to defend the sailor. Though the captain is clearly guilty, the DA gets him...
Cast: Roger Corman Jonathan Haze Beverly Garland Paul Birch Charles B. Griffith
Tags: Sci-Fi Action Alien Film Science Fiction
Length: 67min
One of Roger Corman's finest science-fiction endeavors of the 1950s, Not of This Earth is an excellent film by any standards. Paul Birch stars as Johnson, a taciturn gentleman in a dark business suit who hires nurse Nadine (Beverly Garland) to care...
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...
Cast: Roger Corman Lloyd Bridges Jonathan Haze Floyd D.Crosby Joan Taylor
Tags: Adventure Drama Western B-Western
Length: 82min
In 1870s Arizona, Anne LeBeau (Joan Taylor) is caught between two cultures in a conflict that may kill her and her brother Armand (Lance Fuller). They're the children of a white French father and an Apache mother (the daughter of a chief, no less),...
The Beast With a Million Eyes (1955)
Cast: Paul Birch Chester Conklin Dick Sargent David Karmansky Lorna Thayer
Tags: Alien Film Natural Horror Science Fiction Horror Sci-Fi Horror
Length: 78min
Notable only for the presence of former silent film great Chester Conklin, this silly sci-fi flick from legendary producer Roger Corman is a murky blend of alien-invasion fare such as It Came from Outer Space and sundry "animals-run-amok" movies. When...
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