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Beast from Haunted Cave (Film Group, Inc., 1959). Half Beast from Haunted Cave (Film Group, Inc., 19

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Beast from Haunted Cave (Film Group, Inc., 1959). Half Beast from Haunted Cave (Film Group, Inc., 19
<B>Beast from Haunted Cave (Film Group, Inc., 1959).</B></I> Half Sheet (22" X 28"). An odd quirk of many genre films is how readily they mix genres. Westerns often turned into musicals, with singing cowboys, for example, or science-fiction films could begin as domestic melodramas or as crime thrillers. Monte Hellman's bizarre brew takes the latter as its launching point when four crooks decide to steal bars of gold out of a safe in a ski resort town. After they set off a bomb that awakens a giant spider-monster, the gang and its unsuspecting guide veer too close to the lair, providing the beast with delicious snacks. Filmgroup worked with the producing Corman brothers, "B"-movie giants who would introduce directors like Martin Scorsese, Francis Ford Coppola and James Cameron. Hellman would not be as fortunate, though he would later direct a young Jack Nicholson. Once folded but now rolled, the borders are clean aside from a couple of paper clip stains and creases in the top border. Very Fine.