Plunder Road (1957)

  A gang of men stage a well-organized robbery and try to stick to their plan. After they make it with a nine-ton gold shipment, they divide into three truck loads and head to different directions to confuse the police. Soon, they find out that no crime goes unpunished...
   For a film noir is neither so dark neither so atmospheric. Hubert Cornfield creates some very serious dialogues between the culprits but that is not enough to make this film actually thrilling and adventurous. The black-and-white color is a big plus and so are the angles and sequences but something gets in the way of this film becoming a very good film noir. Is it the story? Is it the acting? Is it the fact that it's too politically correct (the true American lesson in the end teaching that all criminals get it some way or the other) ? Watch it and check for yourself.
  All the acting of the film is decent enough, just as expected from a U.S. film of that era. Most of the gang members are quite "not famous" but Gene Raymond and Elisha Cook Jr. are the most recognizable. If you ask me, there's one person that steals the show and that is the old lady that fucks it all up int he end.
Must watch this : with a good old hot bowl of mushroom soup on a random col January night. 
Segment
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0050847/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1

I think mine's dirty

Gotta look fresh for my mugshot

Oh, my ! I wrecked your car!

20 Million Miles to Earth (1957)

  The first spaceship sent to Venus crash-lands off the coast Sicily while carrying a very peculiar specimen of what seems to be alien form of life, entrapped in a green hard goo. A lizard-like creature soon escapes out of the goo and starts roaming free on Earth, maximizing in size with the help of the oxygen and spreading chaos wherever it stands...
  A more than interesting piece of old-school Sci-Fi from the forgotten 50's, this film was directed by Nathan Juran. More important, though, is the fact that this film employs the amazing skills of Ray Harryhausen in the art of stop-motion animation. It may not be computer-aided, HD animation but it certainly gets its thing done, leaving you scared shitless of the monster (as I imagine people were back then)!
  The main protagonist here is none other than the monster itself but still William Hopper, military and fearless stud, and Joan Taylor, old-school Sci-fi scream queen, still a bit of its glory. The two actors fall in love while fighting the monster (wow I did not see that coming) but my best feelings go tot the monster. It just wants to break stuff and chill out and these motherfuckers don't let it be. I mean, it traveled 20 million miles for it...
Must watch this : on a laid-back Sunday, right after the barbeque, with a cool beer in your hand and your girl sleeping on your laps. Feel totally relaxed and Zen while being careful not to scare her with the monster...
Trailer
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0050084/

Mmmmm, how much cash can I make out of that shit?!

Who's a pretty monster? You are, you are!

Hey guys, wanna play fetch?

The Curse of Frankenstein (1957)

  Dr. Victor Frankenstein is now in ail waiting his conviction and confesses his lifetime experiences to a priest. We learn about his early days and how he was tutored by Paul Krempe and later became his assistant and colleague. He explains his first attempts to bring to life a dead dog and finally how he managed to bring his monster to life and come at knives with Paul Krempe.
  The first film in the long film story of Frankenstein and what a way to start it! Terence Fischer could not be absent from the director's seat! Directing leaves a great space to the characters to express their talents and evolve their characters grim psychosynthesis. This movie delves deeper into the psychological cosmos of Dr. Frankenstein rather his creation.
  Peter Cushing as Frankenstein (who else? ), Christopher Lee as the creature, Robert Urquhart as  Dr. Krempe and Hazel Court as Elizabeth, Frankenstein's fling thing. A classic British cast worthy of its name and fame, all these actors do more than a great job here. It is like you are reading an old and dusty book in a hut in the woods by the fireplace and the writing is so vivid that you are actually in the book! This movie is that good.
Must watch this : as I set the mood with fireplaces and everything , I should keep it. Watch this on the windiest night of February, by the fireplace with a selection of cheese and sausages. Let the wind be a reminder of all the foul things that linger in the dark outside...
Trailer
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0050280/

Fuck the police!

And this is how you get pussy!

'Scuse me, Sir. Is this the set of Dracula?