Benson Fong Archives

Conquest of Space (1955)

Rating: ★★

Jun 1, 1999Expedition to Mars

George Pal’s successor to Destination Moon imagines one step further – an expedition to Mars. Where Destination Moon had a bold unfettered optimism, this is killed off by an ending that falls prey to typical 1950s fear and anxiety

Director: Byron Haskin

Actors: Walter Brooke, Eric Fleming, Mickey Shaughnessy, Benson Fong, …

Category: Science Fiction

1 June 19996 July 2022 by Roog

Our Man Flint (1966)

Rating: ★★★

Feb 4, 2003Spy Film Spoof

One of the more amusing of the numerous James Bond copies of the 1960s featuring James Coburn as agent Derek Flint, this plants tongue in cheek and cheerfully spoofs the whole spy fad

Director: Daniel Mann

Actors: James Coburn, Lee J. Cobb, Edward Mulhare, Rhys Williams, …

Category: Science Fiction

4 February 200328 January 2025 by Roog

The Love Bug (1969)

Rating: ★★½

Nov 12, 2002Cute Car/Disney Comedy

This was the first of Disney's Herbie films about a Volkswagen with a life and mind of its own. Not quite as good as the sequels, this still has a charming silliness to it

Director: Robert Stevenson

Actors: Dean Jones, Buddy Hackett, Michelle Lee, David Tomlinson, …

Category: Fantasy

12 November 200228 July 2026 by Roog

Spiderman and the Dragon’s Challenge (1980)

Rating: ★

Mar 29, 2001Comic-Book Superhero

The third and last of the theatrically released films recut from the 1970s live-action Spider-Man tv series. The near sleep-inducing plot takes Nicholas Hammond's Spider-Man to Hong Kong

Director: Don McDougall

Actors: Nicholas Hammond, Rosalind Chao, Benson Fong, Robert F. Simon, …

Category: Science Fiction

29 March 200126 September 2025 by Roog