Biography: Russell Johnson |
Having served as a bombardier in World War II, Russell Johnson used the GI Bill to finance his studies at the Actor's Lab. Between performing assignments, Johnson supported himself by driving a cab and working the assembly line at a ballpoint pen... more
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The Castaways on Gilligan's Island (1979)
Cast: Natalie Schafer
Tags: Comedy
Length: 74min
Following the astonishing (and, to some, appalling) success of the 1978 TV movie Rescue From Gilligan's Island, most of the cast of the popular 1960s sitcom Gilligan's Island were hired for two additional "reunion" films. The second, Castaways on...
Rescue From Gilligan's Island (1978)
Cast: Russell Johnson
Tags: Comedy of Errors Comedy
Length: 100min
Eleven years after the network cancellation of Gilligan's Island, the crew and passengers of the ill-fated S. S. Minnow returned to the small screen in Rescue from Gilligan's Island. The cast remains the same, with one significant change. Bob Denver...
Cast: Buddy Ebsen
Tags: Supernatural Horror Thriller
Length: 73min
Featuring a smorgasbord of has-beens and never-weres only a Love Boat casting director could love, this silly '70s movie-of-the-week involves a demonically-possessed Druid artifact from an English monastery coming to supernatural life aboard a...
Tags: Sci-Fi Action Science Fiction
Length: 86min
For reasons that defy logic, the excellent This Island Earth was held up for ridicule as an allegedly bad movie in the film version of TV's Mystery Science Theater. If not the best science-fiction film of the 1950s, Earth is certainly one of the most...
Attack of the Crab Monsters (1957)
Cast: Roger Corman
Tags: Thriller Horror Science Fiction Natural Horror Creature Film
Length: 62min
A group of scientists arrive on a remote Pacific island to investigate what became of the previous team, which was sent out there as observers of American hydrogen bomb tests and disappeared without a trace. They island is uninhabited and devoid even...
Tags: Western
Length: 80min
Saga of Hemp Brown gets under way when the title character (Rory Calhoun) is court-martialed and booted from the Cavalry. Brown is accused of permitting his men to walk into a deadly ambush; he knows he's innocent, and he spends the rest of the...
Cast: Dan Duryea
Length: 80min
Audie Murphy may have had top billing in Ride Clear of Diablo, but the film is bushwhacked and stolen by co-star Dan Duryea. As notorious gunslinger Whitey Kincaid, Duryea is hired by sinister forces to kill Murphy, who is out to avenge the murders of...
Ma and Pa Kettle at Waikiki (1955)
Cast: Percy Kilbride Marjorie Main
Tags: Domestic Comedy Crime 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...
It Came from Outer Space (1953)
Cast: Henry Mancini
Tags: Alien Film Science Fiction Sci-Fi Horror
Length: 81min
It Came From Outer Space is one of a handful of science fiction films from the 1950s that plays as well today as it did on its original release, this despite the fact that its original 3-D elements seem to be lost. It was also the first science...
Cast: Audie Murphy
Tags: Western
Length: 79min
Audie Murphy plays wagon train scout Jim Harvey in Universal-International's Tumbleweed. Through a series of unfortunate circumstances, Harvey is wrongly accused of saving himself while allowing the people under his protection to be slaughtered by...
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