Eric Fleming 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

Queen of Outer Space (1958)

Rating: ★

Jan 6, 2001Planet of Women

Absurd space exploration fantasy where men encounter an all-women planet and proceed to put them in their place. The film has a Plan 9 from Outer Space-level badness and the appallingness of the sexual politics makes you do a double-take today

Director: Edward L. Bernds

Actors: Zsa Zsa Gabor, Eric Fleming, Paul Birch, Laurie Mitchell

Category: Science Fiction

6 January 200115 June 2023 by Roog

Curse of the Undead (1959)

Rating: ★★½

Jan 30, 2015Vampire Western

The world's first vampire Western featuring a vampire gunslinger. Today it'd be called Cowboys vs Vampires but such casual genre cross-hatching didn't exist back then and it astride two genres with not uninteresting results

Director: Edward Dein

Actors: Michael Pate, Eric Fleming, Kathleen Crowley, Bruce Gordon, …

Category: Horror

30 January 201512 January 2026 by Roog

The Glass Bottom Boat (1966)

Rating: ★★

Dec 19, 2002Space Age Comedy

Comedy where Doris Day is a NASA employee drawn into spy shenanigans. It feels as though Day has been cast in a Jerry Lewis role and the whole film is nothing more than a series of slapstick set-pieces

Director: Frank Tashlin

Actors: Doris Day, Rod Taylor, Paul Lynde, Edward Andrews, …

Category: Science Fiction

19 December 200228 October 2025 by Roog