Dan O'Herlihy Archives

Invasion USA (1952)

Rating: ★

Jul 28, 2013Communist Invasion of the USA

An amazing Communist Scare film from the 1950s depicting a Soviet invasion and atomic bombing of the US. This writes its fears of the Communist treat in loud and red-bloodedly alarmist tones

Director: Alfred E. Green

Actors: Gerald Mohr, Dan O'Herlihy, Peggie Castle, Robert Bice

Category: Science Fiction

28 July 201313 November 2024 by Roog

Fail-Safe (1964)

Rating: ★★★★

Apr 17, 2001Nuclear War

Work of incredibly stark tension set amidst post-Cuban Missile Crisis nuclear anxieties with the US trying to recall a bomber that has been accidentally dispatched to drop an atomic bomb on Moscow

Director: Sidney Lumet

Actors: Henry Fonda, Walter Matthau, Dan O'Herlihy, Larry Hagman, …

Category: Science Fiction

17 April 200121 October 2025 by Roog

How to Steal the World (1968)

Rating: ★★

Apr 1, 2005The The Man from U.N.C.L.E. Film/Spy Film

The eight and last of the films recut from episodes of tv's The Man from U.N.C.L.E.. This starts to show the strain of trying to make what were originally designed as tv episodes work as feature films

Director: Sutton Roley

Actors: Robert Vaughn, David McCallum, Leslie Nielsen, Barry Sullivan, …

Category: Science Fiction

1 April 200521 March 2026 by Roog

The People (1972)

Rating: ★★★

Sep 27, 2023Town of Alien Refugees

Quite magical Francis Ford Coppola produced film about a schoolteacher who discovers she had taken a position in a town of alien refugees

Director: John Korty

Actors: Kim Darby, William Shatner, Diane Varsi, Dan O'Herlihy

Category: Science Fiction

27 September 202313 November 2025 by Roog

Good Against Evil (1977)

Rating: ★★

Jan 23, 2025Deviltry and Exorcism

From the great and underrated Paul Wendkos, a 1970s tv movie that taps the deviltry movie fads of the day and becomes a blatant copy of The Exorcist, albeit cleaned up for tv sensibilities

Director: Paul Wendkos

Actors: Dack Rambo, Elyssa Davalos, Richard Lynch, Dan O'Herlihy, …

Category: Horror

23 January 202513 November 2025 by Roog

Halloween III: Season of the Witch (1982)

Rating: ★★★

Feb 19, 2001Mad Scientist's Occult Revenge Plot

Unrelated to the Michael Myers saga, John Carpenter tried to use the Halloween name to launch an original horror series. The plot is a baffling mix of Celtic magic and hi-tech but Tommy Lee Wallace creates some way out effects scenes

Director: Tommy Lee Wallace

Actors: Tom Atkins, Dan O'Herlihy

Category: Horror

19 February 200129 October 2025 by Roog

The Last Starfighter (1984)

Rating: ★

Jun 20, 2002Videogame Junkie Joins Intergalactic War

One of the sillier films made in the aftermath of Star Wars. It is recycling third hand cliches and reduces these to simplistic fantasies of military heroism for the videogame generation

Director: Nick Castle

Actors: Lance Guest, Dan O'Herlihy, Robert Preston, Catherine Mary Stewart, …

Category: Science Fiction

20 June 20023 July 2026 by Roog

RoboCop (1987)

Rating: ★★★½

Jan 16, 2005Cyborg Cop

A popular hit that spins the cyborg cop theme through a Cyberpunk future, while director Paul Verhoeven piles on excesses of violence and black humour. A darkly funny satire of Reaganite America, this is an entertainingly slick comic-book of a movie

Director: Paul Verhoeven

Actors: Peter Weller, Nancy Allen, Kurtwood Smith, Miguel Ferrer, …

Category: Science Fiction

16 January 200523 November 2024 by Roog

RoboCop 2 (1990)

Rating: ★★★

Jan 6, 2011Cyborg Cop

With a script co-written by Frank Miller, this sequel comes in as a leaner work that abandons the campier excesses of its predecessor while expanding on its ideas with considerable ingenuity

Director: Irvin Kershner

Actors: Peter Weller, Nancy Allen, Belinda Bauer, Gabriel Damon, …

Category: Science Fiction

6 January 201127 September 2023 by Roog