Thursday, May 30, 2024

On this day in movie history - The Terror (1963):


The Terror,
directed by Roger Corman, Francis Ford Coppola, Jack Hale,
Monte Hellman, Jack Hill, Dennis Jakob and Jack Nicholson,
written by Leo Gordon, Jack Hill and Roger Corman,
was released in France on May 30, 1963.
Music by Ronald Stein.


Cast:
Boris Karloff, Jack Nicholson, Sandra Knight, Dick Miller, Dorothy Neumann, Jonathan Haze.

On this day in movie history - While the City Sleeps (1956):


While the City Sleeps,
directed by Fritz Lang,
written by Casey Robinson,
based on the novel The Bloody Spur by Charles Einstein,
was released in France on May 30, 1956.
Inspired by the true 1946 case the Chicago serial killer William Heirens.
Music by Herschel Burke Gilbert.


Cast:
Dana Andrews, Rhonda Fleming, George Sanders, Howard Duff, Thomas Mitchell, Vincent Price, Sally Forrest, John Drew Barrymore, James Craig, Ida Lupino, Robert Warwick, Mae Marsh, Ralph Peters, Sandra White, Larry J. Blake, Celia Lovsky, Ed Hinton, Pitt Herbert, Vladimir Sokoloff, David Andrews, Eddie Baker, Ralph Brooks, Leonard Carey, Russell Custer, John Damler, Sayre Dearing, George DeNormand, Joe Devlin, Sam Finn, Mike Lally, Andrew Lupino, Ralph Manza, Mickey Martin, Joey Ray, Cosmo Sardo, Charles Sherlock, Olan Soule, Bert Stevens, Carleton Young.

Born on this day – Meredith MacRae:


Meredith MacRae

Actress

Singer

Talk show host

May 30, 1944 – July 14, 2000

Born on this day – Michael J. Pollard:


Michael J. Pollard

Actor

May 30, 1939 – November 20, 2019

Born on this day – Michael Small:


Michael Small

Composer

May 30, 1939 – November 24, 2003

Born on this day – Agnès Varda:


Agnès Varda

Director

Writer

Photographer

Artist

May 30, 1928 – March 29, 2019

Born on this day – Hal Clement:


Hal Clement

Writer

Painter

May 30, 1922 – October 29, 2003

Credits:

Books:

Analog: Writers' Choice Volume II (1984); Astounding Science Fiction, May 1958 (1958); Attitude (1943); Best of Science Fiction: No. 10 (1964); Close to Critical (1964); Cycle of Fire (1957); Decade: The 1940's (1975); Fossil (1993); Half Life (1999); Heavy Planet (2001); Hot Planet (2016); Iceworld (1951); Intuit (1987); Left of Africa (1976); Mission of Gravity (1954); Murder at the Galactic Writers' Society (1995); Music of Many Spheres (2000); Natives of Space (1965); Nebula Awards 34 (2000) (2000); Needle (1949); Noise (2003); Ocean On Top (1967); Phases in Chaos (1991); Planet for Plunder (2012); Science Fiction Today and Tomorrow: A Discursive Symposium (1975); SF Authors' Choice 2 (1970); Small Changes (1969); Star Light (1971); Stellar #2 (1976); Stellar #2 (1976); Stellar #3 (1977); Stellar #4 (1978); Stellar #5 (1980); Stellar #6 (1980); Stellar #7 (1981); Stellar Short Novels (1976); Still River (1987); The Ascent of Wonder (1994); The Best of Hal Clement (1979); The Diplomacy Guild (1990); The Eighth Galaxy Reader (1965); The Green World (2010); The Hard SF Renaissance (2003); The John W. Campbell Memorial Anthology / Astounding (1973); The Nitrogen Fix (1980); The Ranger Boys in Space (1956); The Year's Best Horror Stories: Series IV (1976); Through the Eye of a Needle (1978); Trio for Slide Rule and Typewriter (1999); Unnatural Diplomacy (1992); Variations on a Theme by Sir Isaac Newton (2000).

Movies and television:

50th Anniversary Brunch Noreascon Three Videotape (1989); Amok (1985); Prisoners of Gravity (1992); Sci-Fi Buzz (1992).