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Man Bait (The Last Page, 1952)

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Man Bait is a lesser-known film that really shouldn’t be. It’s director Terence Fisher’s first movie for Hammer Films, marking the beginning of a legendary career he’d have with the studio. It’s one of the first films made at Bray Studios, having just been converted to a movie studio a few months prior, and also the first proper American release for British sexpot Diana Dors, and is one of the better entries in the tight little British thriller market of the 1950s, short and sturdy black-and-white movies made on small budgets, meant to be exported to the U.S.

Classic Amiga Game Review: It Came from the Desert (1989)

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Based loosely on dozens of 1950s American sci fi thrillers, especially the 1954 mutant-ant classic “Them!”, It Came from the Desert challenges both your mind and your might. When you boot up the game, a gorgeous red-orange desert panorama scrolls by as a narrator warns that, because man has meddled where he should not have, this desert will become living proof that the Biblical prophesy “the meek shall inherit the earth” is about to come true.

Band of Angels (1957)

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Band of Angels contains some of the most laughable dialogue of the 1950s, pseudo-epic puffery complete with a star-studded cast and a wardrobe budget exceeding the entire annual income of Guam. Scored by Max Steiner and directed by the legendary Raoul Walsh, one would think that this movie could at least have some entertainment value, but it struggles to provide even that.

S.O.B. (1981)

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Blake Edwards was mad at Hollywood. He’d gone through some things, man, and now he had a whole lot of beef with the entire cynical, money-grubbing, back-stabbing lot. In 1981, after making a comeback with mega-hits The Pink Panther and 10, he started on a nasty little poison pen letter to Tinseltown called S.O.B., short for “standard operational bullshit,” otherwise known as the way Hollywood always works.

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