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This Island Earth (Universal 1955)
Universal’s first science-fiction feature in full colour, This Island Earth, was released on the 1st of June, 1955.
Directed by Joseph M Newman,… [more]
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Evil of Frankenstein, The (Hammer 1964)
The third offering in Hammer's Frankenstein series was The Evil of Frankenstein, which was released on the 1st of June, 1964.
Originally intended… [more]
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Werewolf of London (Universal 1935)
Universal’s first full moon foray into the world of the luckless lycanthrope came with their Werewolf of London, released on the 3rd of June,… [more]
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Nosferatu (Prana 1922)
Although made in 1921, and released in Berlin on the 4th of March, 1922, F W Murnau’s seminal vampire film, Nosferatu, didn’t see the light… [more]
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Phantom of the Opera, The (Hammer 1962)
Hammer’s version of The Phantom of the Opera was released on the 7th of June, 1962, with Captain Clegg as its supporting feature.
The company… [more]
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Ernest B Schoedsack
Ernest Beaumont Schoedsack was born on the 8th of June, 1893 in Council Bluffs, Iowa. He ran away from home at the age of fourteen, heading to… [more]
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Ruth Rose
Writer, researcher and filmmaker Ruth Rose, famous for her role as the screenwriter for King Kong (1933), was born on the 16th of January, 1891.
She… [more]
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Wallace Ford
Wallace Ford was born Samuel Jones Grundy in Bolton, Lancashire, England on the 12th of February, 1898.
At the age of seven, he was sent to… [more]
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Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (Universal 1948)
Director Charles Barton’s Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein, the first of that famous comedy duo’s encounters with monsters, was released… [more]
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Them! (Warner Brothers 1954)
When it came to the run of 1950s science-fiction creature-features, it is hard to find one that has stood up quite as well as Them!, a desert… [more]
