Five Against the House was a supposedly minor film that stepped out of the pack mostly because it introduced five new actors, three of whom became big stars, (Guy Madison, Kim Novak, Brian Keith) one a noted comic (Alvy Moore) and a buuny, B movie star (Kerwin Matthews). The five play brilliant Psych students who, as an academic exercise, decide to pull off the perfect robbery. They knock off an impregnable casino and it does indeed go perfectly until Keith, an unbalanced  Korean veteran, goes mad and tries to keep the money. It’s a bloody good movie, Novak indeed sizzles, and I’m not surprised that I never forgot it.

Without doubt the most hilarious of all accidentally funny science fiction movie monsters (which are innumerable), the silliest occurred in The Giant Claw. Never was there a film that so completely failed to live up to the promise of its remarkable poster (which instances are also innumerable.) Here was a creature that looked for all the world like the Jabberwocky, only we were supposed to take it seriously. An embarrassed Jeff Morrow, himself a woeful actor, felt the need to apologise to the world. The story goes that they shot the film first, and then the producers hired a bargain basement Mexican studio to do the monster. The funniest bits are those when the actors react in horror at seeing this plainly laughable creature, and when, time and again, it is described as a flying battleship.
Not to mention the moment when it pounces on a biplane and ends up with a delta jet in its mouth.