THE GALAXY CRIMINALS (1965) see I Criminalli Della Glassia

THE GALLERY MURDERS (1970) see L'Uccello Dalle Piume di Cristallo

GALLERY OF HORROR (1967) see Hillbillys in a Haunted House

GALLERY OF HORRORS (1967) see Dr. Terror's Gallery of Horrors

GAMERA (1965) see Daikaiju Gamera

GAMERA TAI BARUGON (1966/Daiei) 106mins. Japan.
Aka: WAR OF THE MONSTERS; GAMERA VERSUS BARUGON.
Sequel to: Daikaiju Gamera.
Credits: Dir: Shigeo Tanaka; Prod: Masaichi Nagata; Sc: Nizo Takahashi; Ph: Michio Takahashi; Ed: Tatsuji Nakashizu; Sfx: Fumi Takahashi; Mus: Chuji Kinoshita.
Cast: Kojiro Hongo, Kyoko Enami, Akira Natsuki, Koji Fujiyama.
En route to Mars, Gamera is released from the rocket meant to contain him by a collision with a meteorite. The giant flying turtle returns to earth in the tropics where some treasure hunters mistake a dinosaur egg for a ruby and inadvertently release Barugon. Armed with a hot breath, Barugon starts to destroy the area, but Gamera is attracted to the heat and tries to protect the earth by defeating the monster intruder.
This is the weakest of the Gamera series with some unsatisfying special effects.
Sequel: Gamera Tai Gyaos.

GAMERA TAI DAIMAJU JAIGA (1970/Daiei) Japan.
Aka: GAMERA VERSUS JIGER; JIGER; GAMERA VERSUS MONSTER X; MONSTERS INVADE EXPO'70. Sequel to: Gamera Tai Guiron.
Credits: Dir: Noriaki Yuasa; Sc: Fumi Takahashi.
Cast: Tsutomu Takakuwa, Kelly Varis, Katherine Murphy, Ken Omura.
When a sacred statue is removed from a remote island, the statue's monster guardian Jiger awakes and traces the artefact to Tokyo's Expo '70 where the creature it partially destroys the city by firing spears from its mouth. Gamera arrives to rescue Japan, but Jiger lays an egg inside Gamera's shell that hatches a maggot to feast on the turtle's blood. Two brave boys take a submarine into Gamera's bloodstream to destroy the parasite so that Gamera can recuperate and save their city.
The sixth of the series released to American television as GAMERA VERSUS MONSTER X.
Sequel: GAMERA TAI SHINKAI JAGURA.

GAMERA TAI GUIRON (1969/Daiei) 88mins. Japan.
Aka: GAMERA VERSUS GUIRON; ATTACK OF THE MONSTERS.
Sequel to: Gamera Tai Virus.
Credits: Dir: Noriaki Yuasa; Prod: Hidemasa Nagata; Sc: Fumi Takahashi; Ph: Akira Kitazaki.
Cast: Nobuhiro Najima, Chris Murphy, Miyuki Akiyama, Yuko Hamada, Eiji Funakoshi, Kon Omura.
Alien women from a planet on the other side of the sun capture two Japanese boys and take them to their planet where they are kept under the watchful eyes of the monster Guiron until the women decide when to feast on the children's brains. Gamera, the friendly flying turtle, races to the planet to save the children and defeat Guiron, a monster with a knife blade for a head.
The fifth Gamera entry. Released to American television as ATTACK OF THE MONSTERS.
Sequel: Gamera Tai Daimaju Jaiga.

GAMERA TAI GYAOS (1967/Daiei) 87mins. Japan.
Aka: RETURN OF THE GIANT MONSTERS; GAMERA VERSUS GYAOS; GYAOS.
Sequel to: Gamera Tai Barugon.
Credits: Dir: Noriaki Yuasa; Prod: Hidemasa Nagata; Sc: Tetsou Yoshida & Fumi Takahashi; Ph: Akira Inouye; Sfx: Kazufumi Fujii; Mus: Tadashi Yamaguchi.
Cast: Kojiro Hongo, Kichijiro Ueda, Hisayuki Abe, Reiko Kasahara, Taro Marui.
Gamera the flying turtle encounters Gyaos, a winged reptile with laser beam breath awakened from its prehistoric slumber by a volcanic eruption. Although Gamera endures several beatings, he eventually overcomes the creature's deadly breath and deposits it back in the volcano.
This bizarre third appearance of Gamera is strangely entertaining. Toho's rival studio, Daiei tried to combat the Godzilla craze with a series of Gamera films.
Released to American television as RETURN OF THE GIANT MONSTERS.
Sequel: Gamera Tai Viras.

GAMERA TAI UCHI KAIJU BAIRUSU (1967) see Gamera Tai Viras

GAMERA TAI VIRAS (1967/Daiei) Japan.
Aka: GAMERA VERSUS VIRAS; GAMERA TAI UCHI KAUIJU BAIRUSU; GAMERA VERSUS THE OUTER SPACE MONSTER VIRAS; DESTROY ALL PLANETS.
Sequel to: Gamera Tai Gyaos.
Credits: Dir: Noriaki Yuasa; Prod: Hidemasa Nagata; Sc: Fumi Takahashi; Sfx: Kazafumi Fujii & Yuzo Kaneko.
Cast: Kajiro Hongo, Toru Takatsuka, Peter Williams.
The tentacled monster Viras is sent by aliens to destroy the earth where the creature succeeds in putting Gamera the giant flying turtle, under its control. Two little children free Gamera so that he can despatch the menace.
The fourth of the series was released to American television as DESTROY ALL PLANETS.
Sequel: Gamera Tai Guiron.

GAMERA THE INVINCIBLE (1965) see Daikaiju Gamera

GAMERA VERSUS BARUGON (1966) see Gamera Tai Barugon.

GAMERA VERSUS GUIRON (1969) see Gamera Tai Guiron

GAMERA VERSUS GYAOS (1967) see Gamera Tai Gyaos

GAMERA VERSUS JIGER (1970) see Gamera Tai Daimaju Jaiga

GAMERA VERSUS MONSTER X (1970) see Gamera Tai Daimaju Jaiga

GAMERA VERSUS OUTER SPACE MONSTER VIRAS (1968) see Gamera Tai Viras

GAMERA VERSUS VIRAS (1967) see Gamera Tai Viras

GAMES (1967/Universal) 100mins. US.
Credits: Dir: Curtis Harrington; Prod: George Edwards; Sc: Gene Kearney; Ph: William A. Fraker; Mus: Samuel Matlovsky.
Cast: Simone Signoret, James Caan, Katherine Ross, Don Stroud, Kent Smith, Estelle Winwood, Marjorie Bennett, Ian Wolfe.
A New York couple enter into complex and macabre games with another woman, (Signoret), which escalate to a psychopathic nature and lead to tragedy.
Some grotesquely developed characters appear in this imaginative film that owes a lot to Les Diaboliques and Alfred Hitchcock.

THE GAMMA PEOPLE (1955/Warwick/Columbia) 79mins. BW. UK.
Credits: Dir: John Gilling; Prod: Irving Allen, Albert Broccoli & John Gossage; Sc: John Gilling & John Gossage; Ph: Ted Moore; Sfx: Tom Howard.
Cast: Walter Rilla, Paul Douglas, Eva Bartok, Leslie Phillips, Philip Leaver, Olaf Pooley, Cyril Chamberlin, Martin Miller, Leonard Sachs, St. John Stuart, Michael Caridia, Pauline Drewett, Jackie Lane, Rosalie Crutchley, Paul Hardtmuth.
Boronski, (Rilla), the head of a Balkan state's science department utilises a gamma ray for experiments on children that can transform them into geniuses or into mindless zombies. As geniuses they will serve the state better, but unfortunately the ray tends to result in the latter. Two journalists, (Douglas & Phillips), uncover the plot.
As a thriller this provides little in the way of suspense.

GAMMA SANGO UCHU DAISAKUSEN (1968) see The Green Slime

GAMMERA THE INVINCIBLE (1965) see Daikaiju Gamera

GAPPA, FRANKENSTEIN FLIEGEND MONSTER (1967) see Daikyjau Gappa

GAPPA--THE TRIPHIBIAN MONSTER (1967) see Daikyjau Gappa

GAS NINGEN DAIICHIGO (1960/Toho/Allied Artists) 78mins. Japan.
Aka: THE HUMAN VAPOUR.
Credits: Dir: Inoshiro Honda; Ex.Prod: Tomoyuki Tanaka; Sc: Shinichi Sekizawa; Sfx: Eiji Tsuburaya.
Cast: Tatsuya Mihashi, Kaoni Yachigusa, Yoshio Tsuchiya, Keiko Sata.
After developing a new form of gas, a scientist discovers that he can change himself into a vapour that enables him to kill and rob without detection. He robs a bank for Fujichiyo, a famous dancer with whom he has fallen in love.
An effective, low budget version of The Invisible Man

GAS-S-S-S (1970/AIP./San Jacinto) 79mins. US.
Aka: GAS! OR IT MAY BECOME NECESSARY TO DESTROY THE WORLD IN ORDER TO SAVE IT.
Credits: Dir, & Prod: Roger Corman; Sc: Graham Armitage; Ph: Ron Dexter; Ed: George Vannoy; Mus: Country Joe and the Fish.
Cast: Robert Corff, Elaine Giftos, Pat Patterson, Graham Armitage, Alex Wilson, Ben Vereen, Bud Cort, Cindy Williams, Talia Shire, Alan Braustein.
In a future society a government created nerve gas kills everyone over 30 and people from history emerge from a crack in the earth. Several young survivors encounter a fascist football team that lay siege to an idyllic commune.
An awful hippie musical comedy. Corman complained that the studio cut most of the better footage.

DAS GEHEIMNIS DER SCHWARZEN KOFFER (1962) Germany.
Aka: SECRET OF THE BLACK TRUNK; DAS SCHLOSS DES SCHRECKENS.
Credits: Dir: Werner Klinger; Sc: Percy Allan. From a story by Edgar Wallace.
Cast: Joachim Hansen, Senta Berger.
Another in a spate of Edgar Wallace murder mystery adaptations released in Germany during the sixties.

GEKKOH KAMEN (1959/Toei) Japan.
Aka: MONSTER GORILLA.
Credits: Dir: Satoru Ainuda.
To combat a horned giant ape named Mammoth Kong, a scientist creates a Robot Kong, equipped with deadly laser beam vision.
The fourth in a series of films featuring the superhero known as 'The Man in the Moonlight Mask'.
The title translates as "The Moonbeam Man".

THE GENII OF DARKNESS (1960) see Nostradamus el Genio de las Tinieblas

GHIDORAH, SANDAI KAIJU CHIKYU SAIDAI NO KESSAN (1964/Toho/Continental) 85mins. Japan.
Aka: THE GREATEST BATTLE ON EARTH; MONSTER OF MONSTERS: GHIDRAH; GHIDRAH, THE THREE HEADED MONSTER.
Credits: Dir: Inoshiro Honda; Prod: Tomoyuki Tanaka; Sc: Shinichi Sekizawa; Sfx: Eiji Tsuburaya.
Cast: Yosuke Natsuki, Yuriko Hoshi, Hiroshi Koizumi, Emi Ito, Eiji Okada, Eiko Wakabayashi.
"The three-headed monster battles Godzilla, Mothra, and Rodan for the world!"
Survivors of a Martian race almost wiped out by the three headed monster Ghidorah, now live in the Himalayas. Their princess predicts disaster for the earth when a fireball from a meteorite lands in a Japanese mountain and transforms into the fire breathing Ghidorah. Two fairies from Infant Island convince Rodan, Godzilla and Mothra to stop fighting each other and combat the interloper.
If you happen to like men in rubber suits stamping on miniature sets, this will still bore you, however, the animated sequence depicting the birth of Ghidorah from the fireball remains impressive.
Godzilla's sixth appearance.
Sequel: Kaiju Daisenso.

GHIDRAH, THE THREE HEADED MONSTER (1964)
see Ghidorah, Sandai Kaiju Chikyu Saidai No Kessan

THE GHOST (1962) see Lo Spettro de Dr. Hichcock

THE GHOST AND MR. CHICKEN (1965/Universal) 90mins. US.
Credits: Dir: Alan Rafkin; Prod: Edward J. Montagne; Sc: James Fritzell & Everett Greenbaum; Ph: William Margulies; Mus: Vic Mizzy.
Cast: Don Knotts, Skip Homeier, Joan Staley, Liam Redmond, Dick Sargent, Reta Shaw.
A timid and nervous small town reporter, (Knotts), becomes embroiled in a libel case and encounters ghosts at a local mansion.
A terrible comedy that only serves as a vehicle for the antics of it's star.

GHOST CHASERS (1951/Monogram) 69mins. BW. US. Released June 2nd.'52.
Credits: Dir: William Beaudine; Prod: Jan Grippo; Sc: Bert Lawrence.
Cast: Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall, Philip Van Zandt, Lloyd Corrigan, Lela Bliss, Bernard Gorcey, Robert Coogan, Billy Benedict, Buddy Gorman, David Gorcey, Jan Kayne.
A friendly ghost named Edgar helps the Bowery Boys catch a mad doctor and some crooks posing as spiritualists.
More of the usual Bowery Boy tomfoolery.

THE GHOST IN THE INVISIBLE BIKINI (1966/AIP.) 82mins. US.
Aka: BEACH PARTY IN A HAUNTED HOUSE.
Credits: Dir: Don Weis; Prod: James H. Nicholson & Samuel Z. Arkoff; Co-Prod: Anthony Carras; Sc: Louis M. Heyward & Elwood Ullman; Ph: Stanley Cortez; Ed: Fred Feitshans & Eve Newman; Art: Daniel Haller; Sfx: Roger George; Mu: Ted Coodley; Mus: Les Baxter & The Bobby Fuller Four.
Cast: Boris Karloff, Basil Rathbone, Patsy Kelly, Tommy Kirk, Deborah Walley, Aron Kincaid, Quin O'Hara, Jesse White, Susan Hart, Nancy Sinatra, Francis X. Bushman, Harvey Lembeck, Benny Rubin, Bobbi Shaw, Claudia Martin, Piccola Pupa, Luree Holmes, Alberta Nelson, Andy Romano, The Bobby Fuller Four, George Barrows (Gorilla).
"There's something blood curdling for everyone!...When a pretty ghoul trades in her bedsheet for a bikini!"
A motorcycle gang, a bus load of guys and gals, and a gangster converge on a mansion where a crooked lawyer, (Rathbone), is trying to find a hidden fortune and scare away the rightful heirs. The deceased benefactor, Mr. Stokely, (Karloff), tries to make sure the money goes to his heirs before he has to leave for heaven, so he enlists the aid of a young beautiful ghost wearing an invisible bikini.
A zany musical comedy featuring some monsters, lots of girls and, of course, a gorilla. This is the seventh and final BEACH PARTY film and one of the last appearences by the embarrassed Karloff and Rathbone.

GHOST OF A CHANCE (1967/Fanfare Films) 51mins. UK.
Credits: Dir: Jan Darnley-Smith; Prod: George H. Brown; Sc: Patricia Latham.
Cast: Jimmy Edwards, Bernard Cribbins, Patricia Hayes, Graham Stark, Terry Scott, Ronnie Barker, Stephen Brown.
A friendly ghost helps some children save an old house.
An amusing British comedy.

THE GHOST OF DRAGSTRIP HOLLOW (1959/AIP./Alta Vista) 65mins. BW.
Shooting title: THE HAUNTED HOTROD.
Credits: Dir: William Hole Jnr.; Prod. & Sc: Lou Rusoff; Ex.Prod: James H. Nicholson & Samuel Z. Arkoff; Ph: Gil Warrenton; Ed: Frank Keller & Ted Sampson; Art: Daniel Haller; Mus: Ronald Stein. Songs: Nick Venet, Jimmie Maddin, Judy Harriet, Charlotte Braser, Bruce Johnson, & The Renegades.
Cast: Jody Fair, Martin Braddock, Russ Bender, Leon Tyler, Kirby Smith, Elaine DuPont, Henry MacCann, Sanita Pethey, Jack Ging, Paul Blaisdell.
Forced to leave their clubhouse, a group of teenagers obsessed with rock'n'roll and hot rod cars move to a new location where an embittered old horror actor, convinced he can still scare people, dresses up as a monster, (Blaisdell), and "haunts" the teenagers. However, noone seems to realise that the new clubhouse really is haunted.
A terrible musical comedy in which Blaisdell's slightly modified She Creature appears.

THE GHOST OF YOTSUYA (1958) Japan.
A detailed exploration of the human mind.

GHOST PARTY (1967) see Hillbillys in a Haunted House

GHOST SHIP (1952/Anglo Amalgamated) 74mins. BW. UK.
Credits: Dir., Prod. & Sc: Vernon Sewell; Ex.Prod: Nat Cohen & Stuart Levy; A.Prod: Henry Geddes; Ph: Stanley Grant; Ed: Francis Bieber; Art: George Haslam & Philip Thornton; Mus: Eric Spear.
Cast: Hazel Court, Dermot Walsh, Hugh Burden, John Robinson, Joss Ambler, Joan Carol, Hugh Latimer, Laidman Browne, Mignon O'Doherty, Meadows White, Pat McGrath, Joss Ackland, John King-Kelly, Colin Douglas, Jack Stewart, Anthony Marlowe, Geoffrey Dunn, Ian Carmichael, Anthony Hayes, Barry Phelps, Robert Moore, Ewen Solon.
A young couple, (Court & Walsh), purchase a yacht that has a reputation of being haunted after it was found floating at sea with noone on board. Several members of the crew make excuses to resign and the new owner sees the ghost himself. A medium arrives and reveals that the original owner murdered his wife and her lover and hid their bodies on the yacht after he heard them plotting to kill him. They find the rotting bodies and are surprised when one of the crew shoots himself until they discover that he was the murderer.
A creepy, but somewhat dull second feature filmed on Sewell's own yacht.

GHOSTS - ITALIAN STYLE (1969) 92mins. Italy.
Credits: Dir: Renato Castellani.
Cast: Sophia Loren, Vittorio Gassman, Mario Adorf, Margaret Lee, Aldo Guiffre, Francisco Tensi.
Newlyweds, (Loren & Gassman), move into a house that turns out to be haunted.
A weak vehicle for the stars.

GHOSTS ON PARADE (1968) see Yokai Daisenso

GHOUL IN A GIRL'S DORMITORY (1961) see Werewolf in a Girls Dormitory

THE GIANT CLAW (1957/Clover Prod./Columbia) 76mins. BW. US.
Aka: THE MARK OF THE CLAW; THE FLYING CLAW; THE CLAW.
Credits: Dir: Fred F. Sears; Prod: Sam Katzman; Sc: Samuel Newman & Paul Gangelin; Ph: Benjamin Kline; Ed: Saul A. Goodkind & Tony Di Marco; Art: Paul Palmentola; Mus: Mischa Bakaleinikoff.
Cast: Jeff Morrow, Mara Corday, Morris Ankrum, Louis D. Merrill, Robert Shayne, Edgar Barrier.
An enormous interplanetary buzzard protected by a force field lands and makes it's nest in New York City where it lays an egg. When a scientist destroys the egg the enraged mother goes on the rampage, while scientists, (Morrow & Corday), develop a "Mu-Meson Projector" which enables them to break through the creature's force field and destroy it.
Due to the extremely low budget the creature looks something like a large overstuffed turkey on wires.
Features scenes from Earth Versus the Flying Saucers.
Corday was a "Playboy" pin-up of 1958.

GIANT FROM THE UNKNOWN (1958/Astor Pictures/Screencraft Enterprises) 80mins. BW.
Credits: Dir: Richard E. Cunha; Prod: Arthur A. Jacobs; A.Prod: Marc Frederic; Sc: Frank Hart Taussig & Ralph Brookes; Ph: Richard E. Cunha; Sfx: Harold Banks; Mu: Jack P. Pierce; Mus: Albert Glasser.
Cast: Edward Kemmer, Richard E. Cunha, Sally Fraser, Buddy Baer, Morris Ankrum, Bob Steele, Joline Brand, Billy Dix, Gary Crutcher, Ned Davenport, Oliver Blake.
An archaeologist and a scientist search the California Hills for the remains of a Spanish giant named Vargas who the scientist believes can be restored to life once the remains are exposed to the air. Vargas' remains come to life, (Baer), when they are struck by lightening, embarking on a rampage through a modern Californian community.
A cheaply made slice of '50's horror hokum.

THE GIANT GILA MONSTER (1959/McLendon Radio/Hollywood Pictures) 75mins. BW. US.
Credits: Dir: Ray Kellogg; Prod: Ken Curtis; Sc: Jay Sims & Ray Kellogg; Ph: Wilfred M. Cline; Ed: Aaron Stell; Art: Louis Caldwell; Sfx: Ralph Hammeras & Wee Risser; Animation: Ray Harryhausen; Mu: Corinne Daniel; Mus: Jack Marshall. From a story by Ray Kellogg.
Cast: Don Sullivan, Lisa Simone, Shug Fisher, Beverly Thurman, Yolanda Salas, Fred Graham, Bob Thompson, Janice Stone, Ken Knox, Gay McLendon, Don Flournoy, Cecil Hunt, Stormy Meadows, Howard Ware, Pat Reeves, Jan McLendon, Jerry Cortwright, Clarke Browne, Grady Vaughn, Desmond Doogh, Ann Sonka, Pat Simmons.
A hotrodding teenager, (Sullivan), and a sheriff, (Graham), battle against a giant gila monster in New Mexico, eventually destroying the creature with a car full of nitro.
Rock'n'rollers, hot rod cars and close ups of a harmless lizard.
Originally double-billed with The Killer Shrews (1959).

THE GIANT KILLER (1961) see Jack the Giant Killer

THE GIANT LEECHES (1959) see Attack of the Giant Leeches

THE GIANT OF METROPOLIS (1961) see Il Gigante di Metropolis

GIANT OF THE LOST TOMB (1963) see Maciste al la Corte Dello Zar

THE GIANT OF THESSALY (1961/Medallion) 86mins. Italy.
Aka: THE ARGONAUTS.
Credits: Dir: Riccardo Freda.
Cast: Roland Carey, Ziva Rodann, Moira Orfei, Massimo Girotti, Alberto Farnese.
Mythological heros Jason, (Carey), and Orpheus, (Girotti), search for the Golden Fleece and encounter a witch who transforms men into creatures.
Another tedious Italian muscleman romp remade more effectively as Jason and the Argonauts in 1963.

THE GIANT YMIR (1957) see Twenty Million Miles to Earth

IL GIGANTE DI METROPOLIS (1961/Seven Arts Ass.) 82mins. Italy.
Aka: THE GIANT OF METROPOLIS; IL MISTERO DI ATLANTIDE.
Credits: Dir: Umberto Scarpelli; Prod: Emimmo Salvi; Sc: Sabatino Cuiffino, Oreste Palella, Ambrogio Molteni, Gino Stafford & Emimmo Salvi.
Cast: Gordon Mitchell, Roldana Lupi, Bella Cortez, Furio Meniconi, Liani Orfei.
In 10,000 BC., an immortal scientist in Atlantis has developed a new death ray that the Atlanteans now use on their enemies. Hercules appears to battle with the scientist and the Atlanteans.

GIGANTES PLANETARIOS (1963) Mexico.
Aka: PLANETARY GIANTS.
Credits: Dir: Alfredo B. Crevenna; Sc: Alfredo Ruanova.
Cast: Guillermo Murray, Lorena Valazquez, Jose Galvez, Adriana Roel.
A young space crew take a boxer and his trainer into space to combat aliens who intend to destroy the Earth.

GIGANTIS THE FIRE MONSTER (1955) see Gojira No Gyakushyu