Articles by Rock Baker

Invasion of the Star Creatures was envisioned as a satiric play on the studio’s bread-and-butter drive-in monster pictures and was a sort of inside joke about American International Pictures.

Flight to Mars is a tightly-paced, emotionally complex and nuanced science fiction adventure story that makes the most of a modest budget and a fine cast of familiar faces.

Battle Beneath the Earth told of the discovery of tunnels being dug under the United States by a rouge red Chinese Army unit. Heroic Kerwin Matthews leads the counter-attack forces.

Gunslinger is the brisk tale of a widowed woman who takes on the responsibility of wearing her deceased husband’s tin star. Her efforts to clean up the town don’t sit well with the locals.

Director, Roger Corman sometimes did things just to see if he could. Known for his speed, Corman decided to put himself to the test and shoot a picture in just two days.