Paul Decker murders his wife in her Italian villa by drugging her milk and asphyxiating her by gas. Read More »
Tag Archives: Betta St. John
Tarzan the Magnificent (1960) Robert Day, Gordon Scott, Jock Mahoney, Betta St. John
Tarzan must escort his prisoner Coy Banton out of the jungle to the authorities. Read More »
Corridors of Blood (1958) Robert Day, Boris Karloff, Betta St. John, Christopher Lee
In an effort to relieve the suffering of surgery patients, Dr. Thomas Bolton painstakingly develops an opium-based anesthetic Read More »
Alias John Preston (1955) David MacDonald, Betta St. John, Alexander Knox, Christopher Lee
Wealthy John Preston arrives in small town Deanbridge. Read More »
The Naked Dawn (1955) Edgar G. Ulmer, Arthur Kennedy, Betta St. John, Eugene Iglesias, Crime, Drama, Western, Action, Romance
Given a bigger budget than usual, cult director Edgar G. Ulmer rises to the occasion in The Naked Dawn. Filmed in Mexico, the story focuses on a poor but proud farmer named Manuel (Eugene Iglesias) and his wife Maria (Betta St. John). When glib-tongued drifter Santiago (Arthur Kennedy) tries to get Manuel mixed up in a train robbery, the farmer is at first resistant, but is goaded into joining Santiago by the covetous Maria. Corrupted by the prospect of untold wealth, Manuel begins plotting the murder of Santiago; meanwhile, Maria makes plans to bump off Manuel and run off with the handsome stranger. There’s a moral in all this, and Ulmer makes certain that we don’t miss it.
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