This is a collection of media from some other horror films that played in the Pacific Northwest in 1959. These are movies that don't have enough media to justify their own pages. This does not make them lesser films in any way! And with this, we wrap our coverage of the 1950s!
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A Bucket of Blood (1959)
A dim-witted busboy finds acclaim as an artist for a plaster-covered dead cat that is mistaken as a skillful statuette. The desire for more praise soon leads to an increasingly deadly series of works.
Director: Roger Corman
Writer: Charles B. Griffith
Stars: Dick Miller, Barboura Morris, Antony Carbone
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Attack of the Giant Leeches (1959)
A backwoods game warden and a local doctor discover that giant leeches are responsible for disappearances and deaths in a local swamp, but the local police don't believe them.
Director: Bernard L. Kowalski
Writer: Leo Gordon
Stars: Ken Clark, Yvette Vickers, Jan Shepard, Bruno VeSota
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October 29, 1959 ad (Seattle)
October 30, 1959 ad (Seattle)
October 31, 1959 ad (Seattle)
A Bucket of Blood (1959) poster
Attack of the Giant Leeches (1959) poster
A Bucket of Blood (1959) trailer
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Attack of the Giant Leeches (1959) trailer
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The Monster of Piedras Blancas (1959)
The monster invades a sleepy seaside town. The lighthouse keeper, widowed and estranged from the town folk, has been secretly leaving food out for the monster for years, unaware of its blood lust. When the monster's appetite outstrips the keeper's ability to serve it, bloodless decapitated corpses start to show up.
Director: Irvin Berwick
Writer: H. Haile Chace
Stars: Les Tremayne, Forrest Lewis, John Harmon
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Okefenokee (1959)
Gangland boss Joe Kalhari, working with Ricki Hart, operator of a swamp-side dive in the Okefenokee swamp aside the Georgia-Florida border, rules an empire of smugglers who run dope and undesirable aliens into the United States,
Director: Roul Haig
Writers: Jess Abbott, Roul Haig
Stars: Peter Coe, Peggy Maley, Henry Brandon
September 15, 1959 ad (Seattle)
September 16, 1959 ad (Seattle)
The Monster of Piedras Blancas (1959) poster
The Monster of Piedras Blancas (1959) trailer
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Date with Death (1959)
Hobo thrown off a train assumes the identity of a big-city police detective, found by him dead, and is assigned to rid an isolated desert town of big-time racketeers.
Director: Harold Daniels
Writer: Robert C. Dennis
Stars: Gerald Mohr, Liz Renay, Harry Lauter
The Hideous Sun Demon (1958)
After exposure to radiation, an atomic research scientist finds himself changing into a murderous, lizard-like creature every time he is exposed to sunlight.
Directors: Robert Clarke, Tom Boutross
Writers: E.S. Seeley Jr., Doane R. Hoag, Robert Clarke
Stars: Robert Clarke, Patricia Manning, Nan Peterson
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November 6, 1959 ad (Portland)
February 10, 1960 ad (Seattle)
February 12, 1960 ad (Seattle)
Date with Death (1959) poster
The Hideous Sun Demon (1958) poster
Date with Death (1959) trailer
The Hideous Sun Demon (1958) trailer
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