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The Unearthly (1957)
Country of Origin: USA
Year of Production: 1957
Running Times: 73 mins
Format: black and white 35mm
Ratio:
Sound: mono
CREDITS
PRODUCTION
Production Companies: AB-PT Pictures Corp / American Broadcast-Paramount
Theatres
Producer: Brooke L. Peters (real name: Boris Petroff)
Associate Producer: Robert A. Terry
Production Manager: Betty Sinclair
SCRIPT
Script: Geoffrey Dennis (real name: John D.F. Black), Jane Mann
Story: Jane Mann
Characters: Edward
D. Wood Jr
DIRECTION
Director: Brooke L. Peters (real name: Boris Petroff)
PHOTOGRAPHY
Director of Photography: W. Merle Connell
Camera Operator: Ben Wetzler
Chief Electrician: Paul Grancely
Best Boy Grip: Art Mankin
Lab: Consolidated Film Industries, Hollywood, California, USA
EDITING AND POST-PRODUCTION
Editor: Richard C. Currier
MUSIC
Music: Henry Vars
Music Supervisor: Michael Terr
SOUND
Sound: Philip Mitchell
Sound Effects: Morton Tubor
MAKE UP AND COSTUMES
Make Up: Harry Thomas
Wardrobe Supervisor: William Zacha
DESIGN AND SET CONSTRUCTION
Art Director: Daniel Hall
Set Decorator: Mowbray Berkeley
Property Master: Tony Portoghese CAST
John Carradine (Dr Charles Conway)
Myron Healy (Lt Mark Houston)
Allison Hayes (Grace Thomas)
Marylyn Buferd (Dr Sharon Gilchrist)
Arthur Batanides (Danny Green)
Sally Todd (Natalie Anders)
Tor Johnson (Lobo)
Harry Fleer (Harry Jedrow)
Roy Gordon (Dr Loren Wright)
Guy Prescott (Captain Reagan)
Paul McWilliams (police officer)
Raymond Guta
Gloria Petroff (screaming woman)
Karl Johnson (monster in basement - uncredited)
PLOT SUMMARY
Searching for the secret of eternal youth, Professor
Charles Conway discovers the hitherto unknown "seventeenth gland".
But things aren't going to plan – he's already murdered
many victims in his quest and all he has to show for it is a small
army of zombies. And now his patients are beginning to wise up to
what he's doing...
AVAILABILITY
USA
Theatrical Distributor: Republic Pictures Corporation
Video Distributors: Rhino Home Video; Sinister Cinema
DVD Distributor: Image Entertainment (ID1200PQDVD)
CENSORSHIP HISTORY
Finland
Rating: K-16
USA
Rating: unrated
TIMELINE
1957
June
28: USA – theatrical release
1960
February
26: Finland – theatrical release
2002
August
6: USA - DVD release (Image Entertainment (ID1200PQDVD))
POSTER TAGS
An army of mutants on a mission from hell!
ALTERNATIVE TITLES
La casa dei mostri - Italian title
House of the Monsters - working title
Kauhutohtori - Finnish title
Nido de monstruos - Venezuelan title
Night of the Monsters - working title
LINKS
SEE ALSO
Bride of the Monster (1955)
REFERENCES
MAGAZINES
Chiller Theatre no.11 (1999) pp.16-20 (USA)
interview with John D. F. Black (Unearthly Writer by Tom Weaver)
BOOKS
John Carradine: The Films (Jefferson, NC: McFarland
and Co (1999))
article (by Tom Weaver)
Science Fiction Confidential pp.15-23 (Jefferson
NC: McFarland and Co (2002))
interview with John D.F. Black (by Tom Weaver)
KEYWORDS
eternal youth, experiments, human experiments, mad scientists, mutants
Last Updated:
1 January, 2009
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