David Duncan


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Time Machine, The (1960) -- (Movie Clip) No Paradise Having crash landed the machine upon making the big leap to the year 802701, George (Rod Taylor) explores what appears to be unpopulated living space, where much will transpire, in George Pal's The Time Machine, 1960.
Rodan (1957) -- (Movie Clip) There's Nothing We Can Do Roll call at the coal mine, engineer Shigeru (Kenji Sawara) worries as three of his colleagues go looking for his missing brother-in-law, still no creatures seen, in Inoshiro Honda's Rodan, 1957.
Time Machine, The (1960) -- (Movie Clip) It Became Intoxicating His first voyage, New Year's Eve 1899, "George" Wells (Rod Taylor, as an enhanced version of the author H.G. Wells) travels forward in time, in George Pal's The Time Machine, 1960.
Monster That Challenged The World, The (1957) -- (Movie Clip) This Is Flutterboy Two Four Two Joining the opening narration on U.S. Navy operations on the Salton Sea, the earth quakes as seamen Johnson and Sanders (Jody McCrea, William Swan) support a routine parachute jump, in the independent Sci-Fi feature The Monster That Challenged The World, 1955.
Monster That Challenged The World, The (1957) -- (Movie Clip) I'm A Big Girl Now First in the diner with her mom (Sarah Selby) then at the Salton Sea beach with Morty (Bob Beneveds), prefiguring Steven Spielberg's Jaws, 1975, Jody (Barbara Darrow) encounters the mollusk, in The Monster That Challenged The World, 1957.
Monster That Challenged The World, The (1957) -- (Movie Clip) Get Help! The equivalent of "We Need A Bigger Boat," just after our first glimpse of the title creature, as Dr. Rogers (Hans Conreid) and Cmdr.Twillinger (Tim Holt), with frog-men, search the Salton Sea for bodies and strange phenomena, and find them, in The Monster That Challenged The World, 1957.
Fantastic Voyage (1966) -- (Movie Clip) Opening, Benes After a dramatic jet landing, joining director Richard Fleischer’s artful opening, briefly introducing Stephen Boyd, and Jean Del Val as the defector Benes, from Fantastic Voyage, 1966, also starring Raquel Welch, Edmond O’Brien, Arthur Kennedy and Donald Pleasence.
Fantastic Voyage (1966) -- (Movie Clip) An Ocean Of Life The big moment as the miniaturized submarine is injected into the bloodstream of the ailing Cold War defector, William Redfield the pilot, Arthur Kennedy, Donald Pleasence and Raquel Welch the medical crew, Stephen Boyd the CIA man along for security reasons, in director Richard Fleischer’s Fantastic Voyage, 1966.
Fantastic Voyage (1966) -- (Movie Clip) About The Size Of A Microbe Colonel Arthur O’Connell tangles with doctors Arthur Kennedy and Donald Pleasence, as General Edmond O’Brien introduces spy Grant (Stephen Boyd), to the crew, including Raquel Welch and William Redfield, all planning to miniaturize a submarine to perform emergency surgery on a valuable defector, in Fantastic Voyage, 1966.
Thing That Couldn't Die, The (1958) -- (Movie Clip) Disembodied Spirit Water-witch Jessica (Carolyn Kearney) is persuaded by academic Gordon (William Reynolds), who's more interested in the ancient chest found that night, to look for Mike (Charles Horvath), who has disappeared with its weird contents (Robin Hughes), in The Thing That Couldn't Die, 1958.
Thing That Couldn't Die, The (1958) -- (Movie Clip) This Accursed Chest Digging on a spot found by her maybe-psychic niece, rancher Flavia (Peggy Converse) instructs employees Boyd and Mike (James Anderson, Charles Horvath) who find a chest scholar Gordon (William Reynolds) connects, pretty much correctly, to history, in The Thing That Couldn't Die, 1958.
Thing That Couldn't Die, The (1958) -- (Movie Clip) It's Not Superstition Introducing characters and premise, Peggy Converse, James Anderson and Charles Horvath watch as Carolyn Kearney (as "Jessica") divines, skeptical Andra Martin, William Reynolds and Jeffrey Stone riding up, weirdness ensuing on the Universal back-lot, in The Thing That Couldn't Die, 1958.

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