Martha Hyer Archives

Abbott and Costello Go to Mars (1953)

Rating: ★★

Jun 6, 2000Two Idiots Go to Venus

Abbott and Costello take time out from comic hijinks with the Famous Monsters to go to Venus (despite the title) and engage in various datedly sexist gags with a planetful of women

Director: Charles Lamont

Actors: Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Mari Blanchard, Jack Kruschen, …

Category: Science Fiction

6 June 200011 November 2025 by Roog

Riders to the Stars (1954)

Rating: ★★½

May 2, 2000Space Launch

An film from the early days of the Space Age about the attempts to capture meteorites to use as building for rockets. The basic premise is scientifically preposterous but the film is not uninteresting

Director: Richard Carlson

Actors: William Lundigan, Richard Carlson, Martha Hyer, Herbert Marshall, …

Category: Science Fiction

2 May 200018 February 2026 by Roog

The First Men in the Moon (1964)

Rating: ★★

Sep 5, 2002Victorian Lunar Expedition/H.G. Wells Adaptation

Adaptation of the H.G. Wells novel about a Victorian journey to the Moon and encounter with its denizens. The film comes with Ray Harryhausen effects but is considerably weakened by a buffoonish tone

Director: Nathan Juran

Actors: Lionel Jeffries, Edward Judd, Martha Hyer

Category: Science Fiction

5 September 200214 February 2026 by Roog

Picture Mommy Dead (1966)

Rating: ★★

Apr 15, 2026Psycho-Thriller

Bert I. Gordon, best known for his giant bug films of the 1950s, makes a torrid psycho-thriller about a young girl being cheated of her inheritance as people around her are being killed possibly by the ghost of her mother (Zsa Zsa Gabor)

Director: Bert I. Gordon

Actors: Susan Gordon, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Don Ameche, Martha Hyer, …

Category: Horror

15 April 202615 April 2026 by Roog