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Riders To The Stars
''Riders to the Stars'' is a 1954 independently made American science fiction film produced by Ivan Tors Productions and released by United Artists. The film was directed by Richard Carlson (who also stars) and Herbert L. Strock (uncredited) and also stars William Lundigan, Martha Hyer, and Herbert Marshall. ''Riders to the Stars'' is the second film in Ivan Tors' "Office of Scientific Investigation" (OSI) trilogy, which was preceded by '' The Magnetic Monster'' (1953) and followed by '' Gog'' (1954).Warren 1982. Plot A group of highly qualified single men, including Dr. Richard Stanton ( William Lundigan) and Dr. Jerry Lockwood ( Richard Carlson), are recruited for a top secret project. They undergo a series of rigorous physical and psychological tests, during which Stanton becomes attracted to the beautiful Dr. Jane Flynn ( Martha Hyer), one of the scientists testing the candidates. After most of the candidates have been eliminated from consideration, the four remainin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Film Poster
A film poster is a poster used to promote and advertise a film primarily to persuade paying customers into a theater to see it. Studios often print several posters that vary in size and content for various domestic and international markets. They normally contain an image with text. Today's posters often feature printed likenesses of the main actors. Prior to the 1980s, illustrations instead of photos were far more common. The text on film posters usually contains the film title in large lettering and often the names of the main actors. It may also include a tagline, the name of the director, names of characters, the release date, and other pertinent details to inform prospective viewers about the film. Film posters are often displayed inside and on the outside of movie theaters, and elsewhere on the street or in shops. The same images appear in the film exhibitor's pressbook and may also be used on websites, DVD (and historically VHS) packaging, flyers, advertisements in newspap ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Karnes
Robert Anthony Karnes (June 19, 1917 – December 4, 1979) was an American film, stage and television actor. Life and career Karnes was born in Kentucky. He served in World War II, during which he toured the Pacific with the Maurice Evans Troupe's production of '' Hamlet''. His first screen appearance was in the 1946 film '' The Bamboo Blonde'' in the uncredited role of a Nightclub Patron. His film career stalled when he was blacklisted because of his earlier political associations. Karnes later appeared in numerous television programs including '' Gunsmoke'', ''Bonanza'', '' Cheyenne'', '' The Twilight Zone'', '' The Waltons'', '' The Rockford Files'', '' M*A*S*H'', '' The Streets of San Francisco'', ''Alfred Hitchcock Presents'', '' Emergency!'', '' Perry Mason'', '' The Andy Griffith Show'', '' The Fugitive'', '' The Untouchables'', '' Mission: Impossible'', and '' Ironside'', among others. He also starred, co-starred and appeared in films such as '' Miracle on 34th Stre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The New York Times
''The New York Times'' (''NYT'') is an American daily newspaper based in New York City. ''The New York Times'' covers domestic, national, and international news, and publishes opinion pieces, investigative reports, and reviews. As one of the longest-running newspapers in the United States, the ''Times'' serves as one of the country's Newspaper of record, newspapers of record. , ''The New York Times'' had 9.13 million total and 8.83 million online subscribers, both by significant margins the List of newspapers in the United States, highest numbers for any newspaper in the United States; the total also included 296,330 print subscribers, making the ''Times'' the second-largest newspaper by print circulation in the United States, following ''The Wall Street Journal'', also based in New York City. ''The New York Times'' is published by the New York Times Company; since 1896, the company has been chaired by the Ochs-Sulzberger family, whose current chairman and the paper's publ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Black-and-white
Black-and-white (B&W or B/W) images combine black and white to produce a range of achromatic brightnesses of grey. It is also known as greyscale in technical settings. Media The history of various visual media began with black and white, and as technology improved, altered to color. However, there are exceptions to this rule, including black-and-white fine art photography, as well as many film motion pictures and art film(s). Early photographs in the late 19th and early to mid 20th centuries were often developed in black and white, as an alternative to sepia due to limitations in film available at the time. Black and white was also prevalent in early television broadcasts, which were displayed by changing the intensity of monochrome phosphurs on the inside of the screen, before the introduction of colour from the 1950s onwards. Black and white continues to be used in certain sections of the modern arts field, either stylistically or to invoke the perception of a hist ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cinecolor
Cinecolor was an early subtractive color-model two-color motion picture process that was based upon the Prizma system of the 1910s and 1920s and the Multicolor system of the late 1920s and the 1930s. It was developed by William T. Crispinel and Alan M. Gundelfinger, and its various formats were in use from 1932 to 1955. Method As a bipack color process, the photographer loaded a standard camera with two film stocks: an orthochromatic strip dyed orange-red and a panchromatic strip behind it. The orthochromatic film stock recorded only blue and green, and its orange-red dye (analogous to a Wratten 23-A filter) filtered out everything but orange and red light to the panchromatic film stock. Since the distance to the two film emulsions differed in depth from a single emulsion, the camera's lens focus had to be adjusted and a special film gate added to accommodate a bipack negative. In the laboratory, the negatives were developed and the orange-red dye removed. The prints we ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Men Into Space
''Men into Space'' (a.k.a. ''Space Challenge'' in later US syndication) is an American black-and-white science fiction television series, produced by Ziv Television Programs, Inc., that was first broadcast by CBS from September 30, 1959, to September 7, 1960. The series depicts future efforts by the United States Air Force to explore and develop outer space. The series' star, William Lundigan, played Col. Edward McCauley. Scenarios ''Men into Space'' was not set in a specified time period, but clues dropped in the scripts indicated that it took place between the mid-1970s and mid-1980s. The first Moon landing would have occurred circa 1975. Some props were futuristic (such as a forerunner of today's real-life LCD TVs), but the show's Earth clothing and environs, including automobiles, telephones, and other machines, were decidedly late 1950s. The program aired in the year just prior to the beginning of human spaceflight, with Vostok 1 and the Project Mercury launching crewed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
V-2 Rocket
The V2 (), with the technical name ''Aggregat (rocket family), Aggregat-4'' (A4), was the world's first long-range missile guidance, guided ballistic missile. The missile, powered by a liquid-propellant rocket engine, was developed during the Second World War in Nazi Germany as a "V-weapons, vengeance weapon" and assigned to attack Allies of World War II, Allied cities as retaliation for the Strategic bombing during World War II#The British later in the war, Allied bombings of German cities. The rocket also became the first artificial object to travel into space by crossing the Kármán line (edge of space) with the vertical launch of MW 18014 on 20 June 1944. Research of military use of long-range rockets began when the graduate studies of Wernher von Braun were noticed by the German Army. A series of prototypes culminated in the A4, which went to war as the . Beginning in September 1944, more than 3,000 were launched by the Wehrmacht against Allied targets, first London and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Best
Jewel Franklin Guy (July 26, 1926 – April 6, 2015), known professionally as James Best, was an American television, film, stage, and voice actor, as well as a writer, director, acting coach, artist, college professor, and musician. During a career that spanned more than 60 years, Best was known for his high-pitched, exasperated voice, who performed not only in feature films, but also in scores of television series, his appearances were almost all on Western programs, as well as appearing on various country music programs and talk shows. He played Captain Thorne Sherman in both '' The Killer Shrews'' (1959) and its spin-off, '' Return of the Killer Shrews'' (2012). Television audiences, however, perhaps most closely associate Best with his starring role as the bumbling Sheriff Rosco P. Coltrane in the action comedy series ''The Dukes of Hazzard'', which originally aired on CBS between 1979 and 1985. He reprised the role in 1997 and 2000 for the made-for-television movies ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kem Dibbs
Kem Dibbs (August 12, 1917 – March 28, 1996) was a Lebanese-American film and television actor. He was known for playing Deputy Mike Teague in the first season of the American western television series ''The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp''. Life and career Dibbs was born in Zahle, Lebanon. He began his career in 1949, appearing in the anthology television series '' The Chevrolet Tele-Theatre''. In 1950, Dibbs starred in the title role of ABC's science fiction series ''Buck Rogers''. Dibbs appeared in numerous television programs including '' Studio One'', '' Maverick'', ''Daniel Boone'', ''Rawhide'', ''Bonanza'', ''Tombstone Territory'', '' Colt .45'' and ''Tales of Wells Fargo''. He also appeared in numerous films such as ''Riding Shotgun'' (1954), '' The Twinkle in God's Eye'' (1955), '' Terror at Midnight'' (1956), '' Party Girl'' (1958), '' How the West Was Won'' (1962) and ''Fate Is the Hunter'' (1964). Dibbs died on March 28, 1996, in Rancho Mirage, California R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
King Donovan
Francis King Donovan (January 25, 1918 – June 30, 1987) was an American film, stage, and television actor, as well as a film and television director. Early years King Donovan was born in Manhattan on January 25, 1918. His parents were vaudevillians who traveled nationwide in the United States, and at three weeks old he began traveling with them. He attended Mt. Joseph School in Buffalo, New York through eighth grade, after which he went to work. His acting debut occurred in his teenage years at the Butler Davenport Theater. Acting work Radio Donovan worked in radio before serving in the Air Force for three years. After he left the military, he returned to radio and worked on stage on the West Coast. Film Donovan's film debut occurred in '' The Man from Texas'' (1947). His film acting work includes Jack in the original ''Invasion of the Body Snatchers'' (a role later reprised by Jeff Goldblum in the 1978 version), Solly in ''The Defiant Ones'', Joe Capper in ''Cowboy'', ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Fox (American Actor)
Michael Fox (born Myron Melvin Fox, February 27, 1921 – June 1, 1996) was an American character actor who appeared in numerous films and television shows. Some of his most famous recurring roles were as various autopsy physicians in '' Perry Mason'', as Coroner George McLeod in '' Burke's Law'', as Amos Fedders in ''Falcon Crest'', and as Saul Feinberg in ''The Bold and the Beautiful''. Early life Fox was born in Yonkers, New York, to Jacob Fox, an Austrian-born salesman, and his wife, the former Josephine Berkowitz. He was the youngest of four children, and the third son. Career Michael Fox began acting in stage plays in southern California circa 1945. Through his stage endeavors, Fox met Harry Sauber who introduced him to Sam Katzman. Two of his regular TV roles were as the coroner in the courtroom drama '' Perry Mason'', and as Saul Feinberg on the CBS soap opera ''The Bold and the Beautiful'' from 1989 to 1996. Among his earlier television work was the penultimat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dan Riss
Frederic Daniel Riss (March 22, 1910 – August 28, 1970) was an American actor who had a career from 1949 to 1965. Filmography References External links * 1910 births 1970 deaths 20th-century American male actors American male film actors People from Streator, Illinois {{US-screen-actor-1910s-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
