Popcorn Crunchers, Reel 129 Trivia Quiz

Answer: Creature From the Black Lagoon

"Creature with the Atom Brain" (1955) is about a radioactive zombie. "The She-Creature" (1956) is about a prehistoric sea creature brought to life through hypnotic regression. "The Snow Creature" (1954) is about a Yeti-human interbreeding experiment conducted by Yetis. "Revenge of the Creature" (1955) follows the Gill Man, who appeared to have been killed in "Creature From the Black Lagoon" (1954), to the Ocean Harbor Oceanarium in Florida.

The creature escapes and misbehaves.

Answer: The Planet of Lost Women

There were movies called "Mesa of Lost Women" (1953), "Island of Lost Women" (1959), and even "Voyage to the Planet of Prehistoric Women" (1968). There was a short story by Robert E. Howard titled "The Vale of Lost Women" (1967) which was a part of the Cthulhu Mythos.

There was a novel by Ellen Meeropol called "The Lost Women of Azalea Court" (2022). There does not appear to have been a 1950s theatrical motion picture called "The Planet of Lost Women".

Answer: little green men with very large heads

The first good look anybody got of one of the aliens was when Johnny Carter, played by Steven Terrell, and Joan Hayden, played by Gloria Castillo, hit and killed one with their car. The creature was the size of a child with a huge head, big black eyes and a tiny mouth.

At the end of these creatures' hands, they had retractable needles where their fingernails ought properly to have been. These needles were capable of injecting ethyl alcohol directly into a victim.

Answer: Noah Beery, Jr.

Noah Beery, Jr. played Joseph "Rocky" Rockford, the irascible pipe-smoking father of James Garner's character Jim Rockford on "The Rockford Files". He is there portrayed as a Navy veteran and a semi-retired truck driver. His character in "Rocketship X-M" is a gregarious and humourous crew member. Sadly, in this film, he is killed when a mutant Martian hits him with a very large rock.

Answer: hot cars, pretty girls, rock and roll

Teensploitation is a searchable category on both the Internet Movie Database and Wikipedia. It is a genre (or subgenre) of films which tend to have teenage actors, hot cars, sexual situations, plot points including alcohol and drugs, and rock-and-roll music. Almost all of these are B-movies. Examples are "I Was a Teenage Werewolf" (1957), "The Blob" (1958), "Ghost of Dragstrip Hollow" (1959), and "Teenagers from Outer Space" (1959).

Answer: a TV pilot script by Robert A. Heinlein

Producer Jack Seaman hired well-known science fiction writer Robert A. Heinlein - "The Puppet Masters" (1951), "Starship Troopers" (1959), "Stranger in a Strange Land" (1961), "The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress" (1966), and "The Cat Who Walks Through Walls" (1985) - to write the script for a television pilot called "Ring Around the Moon".

When it appeared that the story could be fleshed out and additional scenes shot to produce a feature-length movie, this was accomplished using additional scripts by Jack Seaman alone.

This was apparently done without Heinlein's consent or even knowledge, by which facts he was very upset.

Answer: executed as The Haymarket Strangler

Edward Style, played by Michael Atkinson, was charged with and convicted of the Haymarket Murders. Style had only one usable arm and the killer was said to have only one usable arm by witnesses. Unfortunately for Mr. Style, the true killer, Dr. Tennant, also had only one usable arm. Tennant performed the autopsy on Style and put the knife/scalpel with which he committed the Haymarket murders in Style's coffin just before burial in the Newgate Prison cemetery.

Answer: acting

George Fenneman (1919-1997) was well known as an announcer on American radio and television. His best-known role was as the announcer for and straight man to Groucho Marx on "You Bet Your Life" (1947-1961). He was born in Peking, China, and worked in radio for the U.S. Office of War Information during WWII.

He was an announcer for Jack Webb's "Dragnet" on television; it was his voice which said, "The story you are about to see is true. Only the names have been changed to protect the innocent." He was not primarily an actor but his association with horror and science fiction movies was his role as Dr. Redding in the 1951 film "The Thing from Another World".

Answer: the New Mexico desert

The "recovered" satellite crash lands in the New Mexico desert. When its contents begin to create problems, a consortium comprising the US Army, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and the New Mexico State Police is formed. Holloman Air Force Base and the White Sands Missile Range, mentioned in the movie, have an important part in the history of America's space endeavours.

Answer: It disappears into the sea when Dr. Lombardi dies.

The monster exists only as long as Dr. Lombardi maintains his hypnotic link with Andrea Talbott's distant past. When Lombardi sets the beast to a killing spree, Andrea countermands his orders and sets the creature to kill Lombardi. The She-Creature attacks Lombardi who is mortally wounded.

He loses his control over Andrea and thereby over the beast. The She-Creature lumbers back into the sea. Police bullets appear ineffective. The monster essentially deliquesces in the surf as its link to the present dissolves.