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Category: Directed by Ray Kellogg

  • The Killer Shrews (1959, Ray Kellogg)

    The Killer Shrews (1959, Ray Kellogg)

    I’m not sure The Killer Shrews is the best movie with a protagonist with the first name Thorne, but it’s got to be very high on the list. James Best plays that lead—Captain Thorne Sherman of the S.S. Minnow, and he and first mate Judge Henry Dupree are on a three-hour tour… okay, no, but…

  • The Giant Gila Monster (1959, Ray Kellogg)

    The Giant Gila Monster (1959, Ray Kellogg)

    I thought this one was called The Great Gila Monster, not The Giant Gila Monster. During the first act, I kept thinking how Great was one heck of a flex given the content, but it’s not Great; it’s Giant, which is technically correct. The film is about a giant Gila monster terrorizing a bunch of…