Sandy kicked Saturday off with an old poverty row murder flick called The Mystery of the 13th Guest. It’s a weirdly structured film but like most such films, literal B-Films in the original sense, it was short and moved quickly and went down quite smoothly. It didn’t feature any of the down on their luck stars such as Lugosi that often appeared in these, but it was directed by William “One Shot” Beaudine.
Next up he showed something a bit more in our normal ballpark, the ’50s sci-fi monster flick Invisible Invaders. Basically having the same plot as Plan 9 from Outer Space, the somewhat more grandly scaled zombie action is a bit of a precursor to Night of the Living Dead. Stars the inevitable John Agar and a too briefly seen John Carradine. The film was part of a double bill with The Four Skulls of Jonathan Drake. Man, I’d spend a lot more time in theaters if they were still making stuff like that.
