Ralph Bellamy Archives

The Wolf Man (1941)

Rating: ★★

Feb 18, 2008Werewolf Film

Although it wasn't the first werewolf film, this is the one the created all the mythology of the werewolf film – full moons, silver bullets etc – while the wolfman went on to join the pantheon of Universal Famous Monsters.

Director: George Waggner

Actors: Lon Chaney Jr, Claude Rains, Evelyn Ankers, Maria Ouspenskaya, …

Category: Horror

18 February 200812 June 2025 by Roog

The Ghost of Frankenstein (1942)

Rating: ★★

Jul 30, 2000Universal Frankenstein Sequel

The fourth of Universal's Frankenstein films where Lon Chaney Jr inherits the role of the monster and makes it into a stumbling brute that lacks the pathos of Boris Karloff. The plot recycles what has now become the cliches of the series

Director: Erle C. Kenton

Actors: Cedric Hardwicke, Lon Chaney Jr, Bela Lugosi, Evelyn Ankers, …

Category: Horror

30 July 200027 October 2025 by Roog

Rosemary’s Baby (1968)

Rating: ★★★★★

Apr 1, 2003Satanic Impregnation

Classic film and one of Roman Polanski’s finest works, the comically paranoid story of a housewife who increasingly comes to believe that the child she is pregnant with was fathered by The Devil

Director: Roman Polanski

Actors: Mia Farrow, John Cassavetes, Ruth Gordon, Maurice Evans, …

Category: Horror

1 April 200328 February 2026 by Roog

The Clone Master (1978)

Rating: ★★★

Jul 2, 2020Scientist Creates Clones of Himself

One of the earliest film treatments on the subject of cloning, this comes with an intelligent and well written script in which Art Hindle creates twelve copies of himself. The original Orphan Black if you like.

Director: Don Medford

Actors: Art Hindle, Robyn Douglass, Ralph Bellamy, Ed Lauter, …

Category: Science Fiction

2 July 20209 June 2026 by Roog

Billion Dollar Threat (1979)

Rating: ½

Nov 3, 1999Spy Film

A TV movie that was released theatrically outside the US with Dale Robinette as a James Bond copycat with Dale Robinette up against villain Patrick MacNee who has weaponised the ozone layer

Director: Barry Shear

Actors: Dale Robinette, Patrick MacNee, Ralph Bellamy, Bill Bryant, …

Category: Science Fiction

3 November 199916 July 2026 by Roog

Amazon Women on the Moon (1987)

Rating: ★★

Jun 1, 1999Anthology of Comedy Skits & Genre Parodies

An anthology of comedy skits from several different directors including Joe Dante and John Landis. The result is fairly scattershot with moments of occasional humour falling between laughs that do not come off

Director: Carl Gottlieb, Joe Dante, John Landis, Peter Horten, Robert K. Weiss

Actors: Arsenio Hall, Michelle Pfeiffer, Rosanna Arquette, Monique Gabrielle, …

Category: Science Fiction

1 June 199930 December 2025 by Roog