Arthur O'Connell Archives

The Monkey’s Uncle (1965)

Rating: ★★

Mar 5, 1999Teenage Inventor/Disney Comedy

One of the wacky inventor live-action comedies Disney made in the 1960s, a sequel to The Misadventures of Merlin Jones where Tommy Kirk variously adopts a chimpanzee and tries to sleep-coach football jocks

Director: Robert Stevenson

Actors: Tommy Kirk, Annette Funicello, Leon Ames, Leon Tyler, …

Category: Science Fiction

5 March 19993 December 2025 by Roog

Birds Do It (1966)

Rating: ★

Jun 11, 1999Weightless Man Comedy

An excruciatingly unfunny slapstick comedy with Soupy Sales as the janitor at an space laboratory who is accidentally made weightless

Director: Andrew Marton

Actors: Soupy Sales, Tab Hunter, Beverly Adams, Arthur O'Connell, …

Category: Science Fiction

11 June 199928 November 2025 by Roog

Fantastic Voyage (1966)

Rating: ★★★★

Dec 16, 2000Submarine Journey Through the Human Body

An all-time favourite based on the notion of a journey through the human body via a miniaturised submarine, an idea that comes with a sublime poetry despite the sometimes dodgy effects and plot holes

Director: Richard Fleischer

Actors: Stephen Boyd, Raquel Welch, Donald Pleasence, Arthur Kennedy, …

Category: Science Fiction

16 December 200018 February 2026 by Roog

The Silencers (1966)

Rating: ★

Mar 10, 2003Spy Film

The first and probably the least worst in a series of James Bond copycat films starring Dean Martin as agent Matt Helm. Martin plays the part as a tipsy lounge lizard and the film comes stuffed with excruciating double entendres

Director: Phil Karlson

Actors: Dean Martin, Stella Stevens, Victor Buono, Daliah Lavi, …

Category: Science Fiction

10 March 200326 November 2019 by Roog

The Power (1968)

Rating: ★★

Apr 1, 2003Psychic Supermind

The second-to-last film produced by the legendary George Pal, concerning people hunted by a psychic supermind

Director: Byron Haskin

Actors: George Hamilton, Michael Rennie, Suzanne Pleshette, Nehemiah Persoff, …

Category: Science Fiction

1 April 20032 April 2022 by Roog

The Reluctant Astronaut (1967)

Rating: ★★

Jan 2, 2000Bumbling Idiot Goes into Space

Most of the comics of the 1960s made a film dealing with the Space Race and here it is the turn of Don Knotts. Lots of bumbling slapstick ensues in this hardly inspiring entry

Director: Edward J. Montagne

Actors: Don Knotts, Leslie Nielsen, Arthur O'Connell, Joan Freeman, …

Category: Science Fiction

2 January 200021 November 2023 by Roog

A Taste of Evil (1971)

Rating: ★★

Jul 16, 2026Psycho-Thriller

TV movie psycho-thriller produced by Aaron Spelling (plus assorted Anglo-horror veterans) where heiress Barbara Parkins thinks she is going crazy. Barbara Stanwyck goes the Baby Jane route

Director: John Llewellyn Moxey

Actors: Barbara Stanwyck, Barbara Parkins, Roddy McDowall, Arthur O'Connell, …

Category: Horror

16 July 202616 July 2026 by Roog

Ben (1972)

Rating: ½

Jun 20, 2000Willard Sequel/Rats Amok

Sequel to the hit killer rat film Willard, which brings back the scene-stealing bad rat but kills the film off by pairing him with a nauseatingly cute kid

Director: Phil Karlson

Actors: Lee Harcourt Montgomery, Joseph Campanella, Meredith Baxter, Arthur O'Connell

Category: Horror

20 June 200013 January 2020 by Roog

Wicked, Wicked (1973)

Rating: ★★★

Jul 6, 2022Split Screen Psycho Film

Very unique psycho film that takes place in split screen with the killer seen on one side of the screen and the victims and pursuing detective on the other

Director: Richard L. Bare

Actors: David Bailey, Tiffany Bolling, Arthur O'Connell, Scott Brady, …

Category: Horror

6 July 20226 July 2022 by Roog