The Strange Monster Of Strawberry Cove is based on “The Strange Sea Monster of Strawberry Lake” by Bertrand Brinley and is featured in his book, The Mad Scientists’ Club. Brinley’s stories detailed the adventures of a group of kids who usually got mixed up in schemes that had them using fairly sophisticated technology and equipment for the time in which the stories were written.
I think this may be it . I remember this movie also , more so the Indian calling it a Donkechin ( my rough interpretation ) but it was really called a Donkey Engine that was used by minors
The Strange Monster Of Strawberry Cove is based on “The Strange Sea Monster of Strawberry Lake” by Bertrand Brinley and is featured in his book, The Mad Scientists’ Club. Brinley’s stories detailed the adventures of a group of kids who usually got mixed up in schemes that had them using fairly sophisticated technology and equipment for the time in which the stories were written.
I think this may be it . I remember this movie also , more so the Indian calling it a Donkechin ( my rough interpretation ) but it was really called a Donkey Engine that was used by minors
There’s 2, both seen on TV in the mid-60s, probably made several years earlier. First was a sci-fi movie, astronauts on the moon or a planet, with a monster killing them off. What I remember is being terrified by the shots where all you see is the monster’s feet, big rubbery lizard feet, walking towards the spaceship. I was scared and impressed that I could be so scared by such a simple shot.
The second was a World War II movie, in which I really liked one of the secondary characters, who had a mustache. I think he was the squad joker or maybe the anti-authoritarian scoffer. I was devastated when he was killed when he used his helmet on a stick to draw sniper fire, and couldn’t believe they would kill off such a great character. This may be the same film where the American troops, fighting on an island, painted a U.S. flag on a Japanese building so the Japanese bombed their own troops. Both of the movies were pretty corny and trite, but at the time, they made me think a lot about the making of movies even as they moved me deeply. The things you remember! No idea of the titles, cast, or anything else, though.
Sure seems possible. I’ll have to watch it and see. Looks like it might be more of a serious horror film than a screwball wise-cracking type of horror film.
This was a classic comedy/romance B/W movie from the 30s or 40s. I’m pretty sure it was B/W but I could have been watching it on an old B/W tv.
Who was in it?
I thought the lead actress was Claudette Colbert but I looked through all her entries on IMDb and nothing seemed to fit.
What plot if any do you remember?
Man is pursuing a woman who is not interested in him. [not It Happened One Night!] The scene I remember is she books a sleeper and leaves town to go on a skiing holiday alone. He diverts her train overnight or maybe just the car she was sleeping in, to someplace warm like Palm Springs or Miami or…? So when she wakes up, she gets off the train in her woolen ski outfit. Everyone on the platform is dressed in summer clothes and is staring at her. She walks through the train station until she can find a public telephone booth to make a call, probably to the man.
He is obviously wealthy but she might not know that.
I’d like to try one. But I must warn you. This one will be very difficult.
When did it come out? Approx 1955-1956
Who was in it? Don’t know
What plot if any do you remember? Aliens land on earth in an attempt to take over our planet.
What was special to you about it? It was B&W
Any other clues you can think of? This was a “B” movie and was shown on the same bill as another B movie, “It Came From Beneath the Sea (1955)”.
These aliens had rather large handheld ray guns and whenever thy felt threatened by someone, they would shoot at them and they would be reduced to a skeleton. Their handguns had a round bulbous thing on top of the gun which would light up when they shot it. When they shot their guns, they would make a loud weird sound that would last for a few seconds and the bulb would light up. I was very frightened by those weapons. But, I was only 6 years old.
The aliens looked just like regular people in their twenties or thirties except for one thing. The women were all very attractive.
I remember one scene where they confronted someone who was in a swimming pool and that person said, “I’m going to call the police.” One of the aliens then said, “You will call no one” and turned them into a skeleton. We saw a shot of the skeleton lying at the bottom of the swimming pool.
The moral of this movie? If you feel the need to call the police about someone, just call them. Don’t announce that you will be calling them. Just smile and then walk away and go call them.
I’d like to say Hello and pay my respects to Burpo. He helped me find the title to "It Came From Beneath the Sea (1955). I was astonished because he found that tiltle in just a few minutes.
I saw this! Or something very similar. I remember because this was my first drive-in movie - I was a little kid so 1964-66? Anyway I remember space explorers come back from a mission and infect the mother ship. There is one scene in the infirmary where the guy has a black spot on his shoulder or face and every time it’s touched it doubles in size. The resolution was that a 2nd space ship is lauched from earth and the carbon monoxide(?) :rolleyes: from its engine blast is sprayed on the moldy space station which kills the fungus. At age six(?) I knew that was cheesy and violated most principles of physics. But I’d still like to see it again!
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I’d like to say Hello and pay my respects to Burpo. He helped me find the title to "It Came From Beneath the Sea (1955). I was astonished because he found that tiltle in just a few minutes.
Well done, Burpo!
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Shucks folks, I’m speechless! (Hey, Charlie, how’s it going?)
What plot do you remember?: There was something about dowsing, possibly not for water but for some other valuable substance. Two or three people on a journey and a giant bird that kept attacking them. Crappy cinematography/cheap grainy graphics.
What was special to you about it?: We were on vacation visiting old friends and my parents forced my brother to take me along to the theater to see a movie with he and his friend that I was really too young for. I felt so grown up and important. One of two movies I ever saw with him.
Thank you ever so much. Can you believe that I’ve been looking for this move for 60 years now?
And you found it for me just an hour after I made my post.
I don’t know how to thank you.
How did you like that dog skeleton? There is a yapping dog who lives down the hall from me. You have no idea how much I would love to have one of those ray guns! Heh! Heh!
Just kidding btw. Please don’t send me PMs. Last time I said something bad about dogs, a whole bunch of people send me PMs telling me what a piece of shite I am. For some reason, I have a feeling it would be much worse if I said something bad about cats.
Now I just have to find a way to buy this movie. I don’t care how much it costs. It will be like my dream come true to be able to watch it again.
If I posted “Thank you” a hundred times, I think the mods here would get seriously pissed. So I won’t do that. But Thank you x 100.
Can you tell us how you did that? I mean, how did you find that title?
I’d love to know because there are a few others I’d love to find.
P.S. Can you believe that IMDB listed the plot of this movie as well as all the “stars”?
I can’t imagine any of the actors in this movie ever acting in any more movies - at least not in any more movies that are any good. This movie got a 3.6 rating from IMDB.
How’s this for a plot?
A young alien (David Love) falls for a pretty teenage Earth girl (Dawn Anderson) and they team up to try to stop the plans of his invading cohorts, who intend to use Earth as a food-breeding ground for giant lobsters from their planet. The invaders, who arrive in a flying saucer, carry deadly ray guns that turn Earth-people into skeletons.
Have you ever heard of David Love or Dawn Bender? They were the two leading “stars” of this movie. Heh. Heh.
