This is another collection of media from other films that played the Pacific Northwest in 1958 that don't have enough media for their own pages. This week's mixed bag focuses on a couple of double features from AIP as well as a nice piece of general horror content.
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Attack of the Puppet People (1958)
A lonely, deranged puppet-master designs a machine that shrinks people.
Director: Bert I. Gordon
Writers: George Worthing Yates (screenplay), Bert I. Gordon (story)
Stars: John Agar, John Hoyt, June Kenney
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War of the Colossal Beast (1958)
Glenn Manning, "The Amazing Colossal Man," believed dead after falling from the Hoover Dam, reemerges in rural Mexico, brain damaged, disfigured, and hungry.
Director: Bert I. Gordon
Writers: George Worthing Yates (screenplay), Bert I. Gordon (story)
Stars: Sally Fraser, Roger Pace, Duncan 'Dean' Parkin
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July 13, 1958 ad (Seattle)
July 12, 1958 ad (Seattle)
July 13, 1958 ad (Seattle)
August 13, 1960 ad (Portland) - It sure took a long time to make it down the coast!
Attack of the Puppet People (1958) trailer
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War of the Colossal Beast (1958) trailer
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I wasn't able to find any material from Portland for the next double-bill.
The Screaming Skull (1958)
A newly married couple arrives at the home of the husband's late wife, where the gardens have been maintained by a gardener faithful to the dead woman's memory. Soon, eerie events lead the new wife to think she's losing her mind.
Director: Alex Nicol
Writer: John Kneubuhl
Stars: John Hudson, Peggy Webber, Russ Conway
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Terror from the Year 5000 (1958)
Prof. Erling and his financial backer Victor build a prototype time machine to snatch objects from the past. Latest find, a statuette, radiometrically dates to 5200 AD! When this draws colleague Richard Hedges to the island lab, Erling reveals that 20th-century objects put in the machine seem to be "traded" for analogous future objects by intelligent life.
Director: Robert J. Gurney Jr.
Writers: Robert J. Gurney Jr., Henry Slesar (story "Bottle Baby")
Stars: Ward Costello, Joyce Holden, Frederic Downs
September 7, 1958 ad (Seattle)
September 6, 1958 ad (Seattle)
September 10, 1958 ad (Seattle)
September 12, 1958 ad (Seattle)
The Screaming Skull (1958) trailer
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Terror from the Year 5000 (1958) trailer
Here's the bonus content I warned about. A cool article from the Seattle PI (June 15, 1958) about horror and Hollywood is next. This is a large piece so click to read it. Mobile users, you're out of luck. Sorry!
June 15, 1958
