Phyllis Coates Movies

A comprehensive story of Hollywood's horror and science fiction films of the 1950s, told by the people who made them.

Reporters Clark Kent and Lois Lane arrive in the small town of Silsby to witness the drilling of the world's deepest oil well. The drill, however,...

Joe McDoakes' wife Alice wants to return to work to add income to the household. Joe would rather she stay at home to tend to domestic duties. When...

Radio star Kitty Moran, long married to partner Jack, finds she's pregnant, but miscarries. For a change, the couple turn their act into a series on...

Professor Frankenstein creates a teenager from an accident victim, who gets angry when he learns he is going to be taken apart.

A struggling, single mom with a precocious young daughter also has an unpaid mortgage. She falls back on her pool-playing skills to pay off her...

When the cable breaks on their diving bell four people find themselves trapped in a hidden underwater world.

The brother (House Peters Jr.) of rancher Bill Martin (Bill Elliott) is killed in a stampede started by cattleman. Bill returns to the Fargo country...

Someone stole Johnny Mack Brown's horse. If he can locate his missing horse, then he can prove they are also robbing the stagecoach.

Phyllis Coates, TV's erstwhile Lois Lane, essays one of her largest film roles in Blood Arrow. Coates is cast as a devout Mormon girl whose mission...

A group of American witness the deadly invasion of the United States by the Soviet Union.

In this comedic short, Joe and Alice McDoakes each wish their looks were better.

A double-crossing cowboy and his gang of henchmen steal cattle, even from friends, in this classic Western.

An evil scientist in a remote jungle location cultivates giant crawfish (!) as a means of scaring trespassers away from his diamond mine. Condensed...

On an African safari with his friend Grant, Clyde Beatty plans to buy some black-maned Numbian lions from Jo Carter but her animals are wiped out by...

Tish Gray had a baby and gave it up for adoption. She is contacted by a second childless couple who want her to have the husband's baby because of...

Terrorized citizens send for a Texas lawman to rid their town of bandits.

illustrates how directors pushed boundaries and altered the art of filmmaking during the turbulent, swinging 1960s. Narrated by Woody Harrelson,...

Joe has to find a way to go to a convention.

The story of the short film from the beginning of the movies in the 1890s, when all movies were shorts, through the 1950s when short subjects...