Monster a-Go Go (1965)

Country of Origin: USA
Year of Production: 1965
Running Times: 70 mins
Format: black and white
Ratio:
Sound: mono

CREDITS

PRODUCTION
Production Company: B.I. & L. Releasing Corp
Producers: Script: Sheldon Seymour (real name: Herschell Gordon Lewis), Bill Rebane
Assistant Producer: Henry Marsh
Production Manager: Andy Romanoff
2nd Unit Manager: William Johnson

SCRIPT
Script: Jeff Smith, Dok Stanford, Bill Rebane
Additional Dialogue: Sheldon Seymour (real name: Herschell Gordon Lewis)

DIRECTION
Directors: Bill Rebane, Herschell Gordon Lewis (uncredited)
Assistant Director: Stu Taylor

PHOTOGRAPHY
Director of Photography: Frank Pfeiffer

EDITING AND POST-PRODUCTION
Editorial Supervisors: Peter Geilfhoyte, Thomas Casey

MUSIC
Music: The Other Three
Song: Libby Quinn

SOUND
Sound Recordist: George Turek
Sound Mixer: Howard Warren
Chief Sound Engineer: Paul Allen

MAKE UP AND COSTUMES
Make Up: Lillian Toth
Wardrobe: Barbara Rebane, Merigail Moreland

DESIGN AND SET CONSTRUCTION
Production Designer: Seymour Sheldon (real name: Herschell Gordon Lewis)

MISCELLANEOUS
Production Assistants: Leonard Gelstein, Ray Foster, Seymour Zolotarel
Crew Chief: Robert Vercruse

LOCATIONS
Locations: Chicago, Illinois, USA

CAST
Phil Morton (Colonel Steve Connors)
June Travis (Ruth)
George Perry
Lois Brooks
Rork Stevens
Peter Thompson
Robert Simons
Barry Hopkins
Stu Taylor
Lorri Perry
Del Clark
Art Scott
Leonard Gelstein
Aviva Crane
Dean Tompis
Jim Bassler
Rick Paul
Henry Hite (Frank Douglas / monster)
Herschell Gordon Lewis (voice of radio announcer (uncredited))
Bill Rebane (voice of narrator (uncredited))

PLOT SUMMARY

A space mission crashes back to Earth but astronaut Frank Douglas is missing. Several burned bodies turn up around the crash site, apparently caused by a giant monster. When the creature is captured Dr Logan believes that it is Douglas, horribly mutated by radiation. But is everything quite as it seems?

AVAILABILITY

USA
Theatrical Distributors: B.I. & L. Releasing Corp
Television Distributors: Peregrine Film Distribution Inc
Video Distributors: Something Weird Video; United Video; VCI Home Video
DVD Distributors: Something Weird Video

TIMELINE

1965
July
Day Unknown: USA - theatrical release

POSTER TAGS

The picture that comes complete with a 10-foot-tall monster to give you the wim-wams!

How did a 10-foot-tall monster get into that little bitty space capsule?

You've Never Seen a Motion Picture Like This -- Thank Goodness!

A way-out tale of a far-out monster!

An astronaut went up - a "guess what" came down!

ALTERNATIVE TITLES

Terror at Halfday - working title

LINKS

FOOTAGE INCLUDED IN
Extra Weird (2003)

KEYWORDS

astronauts, giants, monsters, mutations, radiation, scientists, sewers, twist endings

Last Updated: 1 January, 2009