Gene Fowler Jr.
Gene Fowler Jr.( 27 May 1917 – 11 May 1998), the eldest son of journalist and author Gene Fowler, was a prominent Hollywood film editor.
His work included films of Fritz Lang and Samuel Fuller and movies like Stanley Kramer's" It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World"( 1963), John Cassavetes'" A Child Is Waiting"( 1963) and" Hang' Em High"( 1968).
He was also the director of feature films as well as numerous television programs.
While the majority of his directorial work is regarded as minor efforts( Leonard Maltin lists only three of his seven features in his compendium), two of his films," I Was a Teenage Werewolf"( 1957) and" I Married a Monster from Outer Space"( 1958), have gained some critical attention in retrospect.
Gene Fowler Jr. was married to film editor Marjorie Fowler from 1944 until his death.
He died in Woodland Hills, California of natural causes.
His brother Will Fowler( 1922–2004) was a Hollywood screenwriter.
La farfalla dalle ali d'oro
La farfalla dalle ali d'oro is a 1915 Italian film directed by Augusto Genina.
Plan 10 from Outer Space
Plan 10 from Outer Space is a 1994 low budget science fiction film starring Karen Black and written and directed by Trent Harris.
The film is a surreal satire of Mormon theology.
The film has no connection to" Plan 9 from Outer Space"( 1959) other than its title and the fact that both films feature aliens.
This film premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 1994 in the midnight madness category.
It also received the jury prize at the Raindance Film Festival in London in 1994.
Parts of the film were shot in Salt Lake City and the Great Salt Lake in Utah.
Plan 9 from Outer Space
Plan 9 from Outer Space is a 1959 American independent science- fiction horror film written, produced, directed and edited by Ed Wood, starring Gregory Walcott, Mona McKinnon, Tor Johnson, and" Vampira"( Maila Nurmi), and narrated by Criswell.
It also posthumously bills Bela Lugosi as a guest star( silent footage of the actor had actually been shot by Wood for another, unfinished film just prior to Lugosi's death in August 1956).
Other guest stars are Hollywood veterans Lyle Talbot( who claimed that he never refused any acting job) and former cowboy star Tom Keene.
" Plan 9 from Outer Space" was released theatrically in 1959 by Distributors Corporation of America( then credited as Valiant Pictures).
The film's storyline concerns extraterrestrials who seek to stop humanity from creating a doomsday weapon that could destroy the universe.
The aliens implement" Plan 9", a scheme to resurrect the Earth's dead, referred to as" ghouls".
By causing chaos, the aliens hope the crisis will force humanity to listen to them; otherwise the aliens will destroy mankind with armies of the undead.
The film was originally developed under the title Grave Robbers from Outer Space, but its financial backers objected to this title, which they saw as being sacrilegious, and it was retitled" Plan 9 from Outer Space" prior to production.
" Plan 9 from Outer Space" played on television in relative obscurity until 1980, when authors Harry Medved and Michael Medved dubbed it the" worst film ever made" in their book" The Golden Turkey Awards".
Wood and his film were posthumously given two Golden Turkey Awards for Worst Director Ever and Worst Film.
It has since been retrospectively described as" The epitome of so- bad- it's- good cinema" and has gained a cult following.
The Blob
The Blob is an independently made 1958 American science fiction- horror film in widescreen color by De Luxe, produced by Jack H. Harris, directed by Irvin Yeaworth, and written by Kay Linaker and Theodore Simonson.
The film stars Steve McQueen( in his starring feature film debut, as Steven McQueen) and Aneta Corsaut and co-stars Earl Rowe and Olin Howland.
" The Blob" was distributed by Paramount Pictures as a double feature with" I Married a Monster from Outer Space".
The storyline concerns a growing, corrosive, alien amoeboidal entity that crashes to Earth from outer space inside a meteorite.
It devours and dissolves citizens in the small communities of Phoenixville and Downingtown, PA, growing larger, redder, and more aggressive each time it does so, eventually becoming larger than a building.
W. Augustus Barratt
W. Augustus Barratt( 1873- 1947) was a Scottish- born, later American, songwriter and musician.
Augusto Genina
Augusto Genina( 28 January 1892 – 18 September 1957) was an Italian film pioneer.
He was a movie producer and director.
Born in Rome, Genina was a drama critic and wrote comedies for the" Il Mondo" Magazine, under advise of Aldo de Benedetti switches to movies for the" Film d' Arte Italiana", that produces his first film" La moglie di sua eccellenza".
In 1929 Genina moved to France to direct Louise Brooks in sonorized film" Miss Europe".
He studied sound techniques and worked in France and Germany in same but alternate languages film versions which were filmed simultaneously, before his return to Italy.
He won Venice Film Festival Mussolini's cup for Best Italian Film twice, in 1936 by" Lo squadrone bianco" and in 1940 by" The Siege of the Alcazar", both Fascist propaganda films.
In 1953, he filmed" Three Forbidden Stories", another version of the real accident depicted by Giuseppe De Santis one year before in" Rome 11 o'clock Roma ore 11").
Teenagers from Outer Space
Teenagers from Outer Space( a.k.a. The Gargon Terror( UK title), The Boy from Outer Space, and originally titled The Ray Gun Terror) is a 1959 independently made American black- and- white science fiction film released by Warner Bros.
The film was produced, written, and directed by Tom Graeff and stars David Love, Dawn Bender, Bryan Grant, Harvey B. Dunn, Tom Graeff, and King Moody.
" Teenagers from Outer Space" was distributed theatrically by Warner Brothers on a double feature with" Gigantis the Fire Monster", the English- dubbed version of the 1955 Japanese giant monster film" Godzilla Raids Again".
In the film, alien teenager Derek abandons his crew to search for a new life on Earth, while one of his crewmates is sent to kill him while they attempt to eradicate human life in order to farm Earth with giant lobster- like livestock they call Gargons.
The film was later shown on" Mystery Science Theater 3000 Elvira's Movie Macabre", and" Off Beat Cinema".
Night Caller from Outer Space
Night Caller from Outer Space, also known as simply The Night Caller or Blood Beast from Outer Space, is a British 1965 science fiction film directed by John Gilling.
It is based on Frank Crisp's novel "The Night Callers".
A colourised version of the film was released in 2011.
I Married a Monster from Outer Space
I Married a Monster from Outer Space is a 1958 American black- and- white science fiction film from Paramount Pictures, produced and directed by Gene Fowler Jr., that stars Tom Tryon and Gloria Talbott.
Paramount released the film as a double feature with" The Blob".
The film's storyline concerns a young wife that begins to realize that her husband is not the man he was before they married.
He has lost all real affection for her and for his new pet dog, which she gave him as a present.
Thereafter, she quickly discovers that he is not the only man in town that appears to have changed.
Now suspicious, she follows him one evening when he goes out for a walk and shockingly discovers that her husband is actually an alien humanoid.

Question: Which film has the director born later, La Farfalla Dalle Ali D'Oro or I Married A Monster From Outer Space?
Answer: I Married A Monster From Outer Space