Junk Film
Main films and TV series featured in book "Junk Film" (2023) written by Katharine Coldiron.
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- DirectorEdward D. Wood Jr.StarsGregory WalcottTom KeeneMona McKinnonEvil aliens attack Earth and set their terrible "Plan 9" into action. As the aliens resurrect the dead of the Earth, the lives of the living are in danger.
- CreatorSteven BochcoWilliam M. FinkelsteinStarsAnne BobbyBarbara BossonDavid GianopoulosThe musical adventures of a police force.
- DirectorJack HillStarsRobbie LeeJoanne NailMonica GayleThe leader of an inner-city girl gang is challenged when a new girl moves into the neighborhood.
- DirectorArthur DreifussStarsFreddie StewartJune PreisserJudy ClarkA rich man's son is running for student-body president in the local high school, and the boy's father tells the school principal that if his son wins the election, he will make a sizable donation to the school that will pay for the football team's much-needed uniforms.
- DirectorArthur DreifussStarsFreddie StewartJune PreisserWarren MillsA high-school student is mistaken for a famous radio singer who goes missing; complications ensue.
- DirectorArthur DreifussStarsFreddie StewartJune PreisserNoel NeillThe students at Anytown, USA High School (Monogram version) are down in the dumps: their football team faces almost-certain defeat, the school paper might need to suspend publication because the circulation is so low, and the principal intends to replace student performers at the school bazaar with professionals. But with the class roster on this Monogram campus made up of Freddie Stewart, June Preisser, Anne Rooney, et al, it's only a matter of about 45 more minutes before the team wins, the paper gets a large circulation boost, and all hands are on stage performing with the Freddie Slack and Jan Savitt orchestras.
- DirectorArthur DreifussStarsFreddie StewartJune PreisserFrankie DarroMiss Hinklefink (Belle Mitchell) inherits a western ranch, and to spend the summer with Professor Owen Townley (Milton Kibbee), she invites students Freddie Trimball (Freddie Stewart), Dodie Rogers (June Preisser, Betty Rogers (Noel Neill), Lee Watson (Warren Mills), and Roy Donne (Frankie Darro to spend their vacation on the ranch if Townley will help chaperone the kids. Real-estate agent Tom Sneed (Hugh Prosser) tries to persuade her to send the kids home when desperadoes rob the bank. In the saloon, Sneed's henchman Charlie (Terry Frost) mistakes Freddie for a baby-faced killer who was blamed for a murder actually committed by Sneed, and ranch foreman Big Jim (John Hart), also working for Sneed, tries to kill Freddie.
- DirectorWill JasonStarsFreddie StewartJune PreisserFrankie DarroA Marine Sergeant wounded in overseas combat service requires an operation, and Navy psychiatrist Captain R. S. Handler recommends to Marine Captain Russ Morgan and Colonel Winters that "Sarge" be given a few weeks' rest before hospitalization. Through Dean McKinley of San Juan Junior College, Sarge enters the school on a temporary basis. The teenagers are rehearsing a school show and Freddie is worried because they have no band. Freddie, Dodie Rogers, and Betty Rogers find Sarge asleep in the park, and the girls put him up at their house when they learn that he can't find a room. Betty has a row with boyfriend Roy, and to make him jealous she gets Freddie to invite her to the school dance after telling Freddie that his girlfriend Dodie is going with Sarge. Many misunderstandings later, all is well when Sarge gets his marine captain to bring his band over to the school for the school's BIG SHOW.
- DirectorWill JasonStarsFreddie StewartJune PreisserFrankie DarroThe growth of juvenile crime in a small town starts a movement for the building of a youth center. The project leaders discuss with the town mayor Phineas Wharton Sr. about buying an old warehouse from the city and rebuilding it as the Center. However, the mayor has plans to buy it himself for another project from which he would profit. Freddie Trimball, Dodie Rogers, Lee Watson, Betty Rogers, Roy Donne, and Monogram's other non-delinquent juveniles, now attending San Juan Junior College, think otherwise, and while the mayor does buy the warehouse, he is forced to donate it to the Youth Center committee.
- DirectorWill JasonStarsFreddie StewartJune PreisserWarren MillsWhen a magazine photographer is found dead on campus, a group of students decides to find out who committed the crime.
- DirectorWill JasonStarsJimmy DorseyJimmy Dorsey and His OrchestraFreddie StewartIn New York City, Italian-American songwriting brothers Phil and Freddie Russo turn out one successful song after another for their publisher, Sanders. One day, Freddie and Phil accept an invitation from attractive June Larkin to sing at a benefit that her parents are hosting. Kitty, the brothers' secretary, is secretly in love with Phil, but Phil is smitten with June. Following the benefit party, Kitty visits Phil and Freddie's mother, who lives alone in an East Side tenement, and asks her to help stop the bickering between her sons. Mrs. Russo tells Kitty that she has refused to play favorite with either son, and that she has turned down separate invitations from Phil and Freddie to live with them. Joe, a milkman and an aspiring songwriter who adores Mrs. Russo, drives Kitty home and, en route, recites the lyrics of one of his new songs. Later, Mrs. Russo throws a party to bring her sons together, and they sing a song written especially for her. Mrs. Russo eventually consents to live with her two sons in a large apartment, but the arrangement soon sours when the two brothers become embroiled in a jealous rivalry over June. The dispute results in Freddie moving into his own apartment. Although Freddie refuses to speak with Phil, the brothers manage to continue writing songs together. However, when the feud begins to take its toll on the quality of the brothers' songs, Sanders tells Freddie that he will no longer publish their work. Frustrated by his inability to find a new publisher, Freddie decides to start his own publishing business. The company makes little money, and goes bankrupt soon after, but Freddie refuses to accept financial help from bandleader Jimmy Dorsey. Later, Kitty enlists Joe's help to force a reconciliation between the estranged brothers. As part of Kitty's plan, Joe poses first as a lyricist and then as a composer, tricking the brothers into collaborating on a musical comedy without the other's knowledge. The show appears destined for success until the brothers discover the ruse and threaten to stop the show with an injunction. When Mrs. Russo tells her sons that she has invested heavily in their show, but they call off their injunctions and allow the show to continue. The show is a hit, and the brothers are finally reconciled.
- DirectorJustin MacGregorStarsGreg SesteroTommy WiseauKristen StephensonPinoWhen a drifter befriends a quirky mortician, an unlikely business partnership is formed. Paranoia soon develops, however, and both men are forced to come to terms with the fragility of friendship and loyalty.
- DirectorJustin MacGregorStarsTommy WiseauGreg SesteroKristen StephensonPinoLeaving the mortician adrift, the drifter finds himself on an expedition across the Southwest encountering wild and crazy characters through a series of twisted and dark foibles.
- DirectorGeorge BarryStarsDemene HallWilliam RussJulie RitterA bed possessed by a demon spirit consumes its users alive.
- DirectorMark RegionStarsJason KulasPeggy McClellanScott WintersTwo neurology students create a telepathy experiment together to visualize a murderer, who recently knifed another student.
- DirectorNathan JuranStarsAllison HayesWilliam HudsonYvette VickersWhen an abused socialite grows to giant size because of an alien encounter and an aborted murder attempt, she goes after her cheating husband with revenge on her mind.
- DirectorNeil BreenStarsNeil BreenLaura HaleMike BradyThe controversial story of a lone genius who closes down the Las Vegas Strip... The goverment can't stop him. As he reunites with his dead girlfriend each night.
- DirectorNeil BreenStarsNeil BreenJoy SennElizabeth SekoraDisappointed by its creation, the almighty being that created Man arrives on Earth in a human form and interacts with various troubled, wicked and sinful people on his journey to Vegas.
- DirectorNeil BreenStarsNeil BreenKlara LandratJennifer AutryA computer-scientist/novelist reunites with his childhood friend, hacks into government databases, and faces the dire and fateful consequences of the mystical actions he obtained as a child.
- DirectorNeil BreenStarsNeil BreenViadKathy CorpusA messianic entity from the future travels to modern-day earth to wipe out 300,000,000 "bad people" and usher in a new era of peace.
- DirectorNeil BreenStarsNeil BreenSara MerittSiohbon Chevy EbrahimiIdentical twin brothers become hybrid A.I. (artificial intelligence), entities, yet are torn in different directions to achieve justice for humanity.
- DirectorNeil BreenStarsNeil BreenArchitect-turned-filmmaker Neil Breen (a god in his own right) humbly shares his professional movie knowledge, along with how he was able to write, shoot, edit, produce, direct, act, and self-fund five theatrical independent feature films.
- DirectorNeil BreenStarsNeil BreenGwendolyn BrownNicole ButlerAn identical Al twin brother restores an old mysterious mental asylum. He takes it upon himself to mystically train the patients as warriors for humanity and justice.
- DirectorCurtis HarringtonStarsPiper LaurieStuart WhitmanRoger DavisSixteen years after Ruby Claire's gangster boyfriend was shot and killed by four associates, a series of gruesome murders takes place at the drive-in movie theatre she now owns. Meanwhile, the behaviour of her mute daughter Leslie is becoming increasingly strange and a visiting psychic claims that forces from beyond are out for revenge.
- DirectorPaul VerhoevenStarsElizabeth BerkleyKyle MacLachlanGina GershonA mysterious young drifter who calls herself Nomi Malone hitches a ride to Las Vegas, where she finds work as a stripper and sets about clawing her way to the top of the Vegas showgirls.