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So far I've watched The Big Cube, Skyjacked and Trog; The Big Cube is probably my favorite of the three, and Trog has its charms. Skyjacked felt like a boring TV-movie.

Brilliant! I've definitely got to get the Historical Epics set for the first Leone (and to add to my peplum collection) and Land of the Pharaohs. There's nothing better than seeing Joan Collins buried alive after all of her scheming throughout the film!

And the Women In Peril just for Caged and the predatory, bulky lesbian warden!

The Terrorised Travellers one sounds fun, but I don't think I'll be getting the Sci-Fi Epics volume - I saw Queen Of Outer Space once on television and felt cheated then, so I couldn't forgive myself for actually paying money for a copy of it, even if I was getting a couple of other films at the same time! (I still have visions of the wendy house with the giant flower in the top of it in my nightmares!)

I wish I'd found Queen of Outer Space Rivette-ing! (I prefer Nude On The Moon!)

80-plus DVD arrivals - could you send some of those my way?

davidhare wrote:The movie's structure is also extremely interesting - you notice from the sceenplay's similarities to the Airplane spoof that this must be one of the first average features to start incorporating multiple and contiguous sublots and mini characterizations in what was to become a standard television style by the late 50s. It's really not a bad movie at all.

Sorry to take things off topic, but that reminds me of a film I caught on television at about 4 in the morning a couple of months ago, Out Of The Clouds. Trust the British to make a film about a bunch of people waiting for their delayed flights due to fog! No terrorists, no food poisoning, no terminally ill patients, just polite, time-passing conversations and a dash of romantic banter!

It is amazing how quaintly dated the film seems now, with most of the excitement and drama coming from the filmmaker's fascination with the workings of an airport to show people who have never experienced them the delights of air travel!

davidhare, thinking about 'terrorised travellers' have you ever seen Strange Holiday where a guy comes back from a fishing trip to find Communists have taken over America! Typical, you go away for a week and look what happens...!

I just wonder if I'll be able to watch Zero Hour with a straight face and not think of Airplane!