Kurt Neumann Archives

Tarzan and the Amazons (1945)

Rating: ★★

Jun 26, 2014Jungle Hero

The ninth of the Johnny Weissmuller Tarzan films. All but the first two Weissmuller films slip into the utterly banal and formulaic. The novelty this time is Tarzan encountering a city inhabited all by all women

Director: Kurt Neumann

Actors: Johnny Weissmuller, Brenda Joyce, Johnny Sheffield, Henry Stephenson, …

Category: Fantasy

26 June 201429 September 2025 by Roog

Rocketship X-M (1950)

Rating: ★★★

Mar 9, 2010Space Expedition

Low-budget film designed to copy the success of Destination Moon that ended up being the first film of the 1950s Golden Age. A surprisingly modest effort about a rocketship going off course to land on Mars

Director: Kurt Neumann

Actors: Lloyd Bridges, Osa Massen, John Emery, Noah Beery Jr, …

Category: Science Fiction

9 March 201010 December 2025 by Roog

Tarzan and the She-Devil (1953)

Rating: ★★

Apr 27, 2022Jungle Adventure

The last of the Tarzan outings featuring Lex Barker, as well as an interesting cast line-up including Raymond Burr as the villain

Director: Kurt Neumann

Actors: Lex Barker, Raymond Burr, Tom Conway, Monique Van Vooren, …

Category: Fantasy

27 April 202227 April 2022 by Roog

She Devil (1957)

Rating: ★★

Mar 5, 2025Scientist Creates Femme Fatale

1950s mad scientist film where a scientist develops a regeneration serum only to turn Mari Blanchard into a man-eating femme fatale

Director: Kurt Neumann

Actors: Mari Blanchard, Albert Dekker, Jack Kelly, John Archer

Category: Horror, Science Fiction

5 March 202513 November 2025 by Roog

Kronos (1957)

Rating: ★★★

Feb 1, 2022Alien Energy-Devouring Machine

A 1950s alien invader film that is driven by the quite imaginative image of a giant black alien cube marching across the countryside devouring all forms of energy

Director: Kurt Neumann

Actors: Jeff Morrow, John Emery, George O'Hanlon, Morris Ankrum

Category: Science Fiction

1 February 202214 June 2026 by Roog

The Fly (1958)

Rating: ★★★★

Mar 9, 2002Teleporter Accident/Human-Fly Mixup

A teleporter accident causes a scientist to swap head and arm with a fly. This requires you to suspend believability but is otherwise one of the classic monster movies of the era. Several sequels and a remake followed.

Director: Kurt Neumann

Actors: Vincent Price, David Hedison, Patricia Owens, Herbert Marshall, …

Category: Science Fiction

9 March 200229 September 2025 by Roog