John Hoyt

John Agar

June Kenney

Marlene Willis

Laurie Mitchell

Scott Peters

Ken Miller

Jean Moorhead

Susan Gordon

Hank Patterson

Jamie Forster

Michael Mark

Jack Kosslyn

June Jocelyn

Hal Bogart

Troy Patterson

Bill Giorgio

George Diestel

George Worthing Yates

Bert I. Gordon

Maurice Lessay

Charles Arrico

Roy Roberts

Ronald Sinclair

Frank Webster

Pauline Lewis

Walter Veady

Paul Wittenberg

Judith Hart

Edgar Zane

Walter E. Keller

Buzz Gibson

Phillip Scheer

Albert Glasser

Kay Shea

Jack R. Berne

Jack Mills

Ernest Laszlo

Flora M. Gordon

Jack Dimond

Horror

Science Fiction

Attack of the Puppet People

Alta Vista Productions

United States of America

CinemaSerf

"Sally" (June Kenney) ought to have had the alarm bells ringing when she goes for an interview with doll-maker "Franz" (John Hoyt) who positively begs her to take the job. They ought to have rung even louder when she discovers that his previous assistant never turned up at her new position. Swiftly, we discover that her new boss is collecting people - but at a fraction of their size and he is keeping them alive in glass jars. He lets them out to play every now and again and even manages to procure what has to be the smallest bottle of Champagne ever seen! Meantime, though, the slow on the uptake "Sally" is beginning to suspect something's amiss - especially when her beau "Bob" (John Agar) disappears too! She goes to the incredulous police who offer a cursory investigation - but can they, or she, rescue her love? I actually quite enjoyed this. That's entirely down to the almost maniacal (and accidentally comedic) effort from Hoyt. A frequent participant in daft sci-fi stories, but rarely with just such a big part as he has here. It's padded out a little too much, but there's some fun to be had with the giant telephones, a great big dog and a really annoying stage-door man at the theatre. The title doesn't really do it any favours, but if you like the B-feature horror genre then this is worth a watch, I'd say.

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Attack of the Puppet People (1958) - Movie Trailer