The Movie Timeline - be obsessive, be very obsessive


Movie history events from 1957

Lionel Pritchard and his girlfriend Paquita battle a horde of zombies. (New Zealand) (Braindead)

Michael Myers born. (Halloween)

The Iron Giant. (The Iron Giant)

Scientists, from Labcentral try to stop a giant rampaging engery stealing robot from another planet. (Los Alamos, New Mexico) (Kronos)

Lana Turner meets Johnny Stompanato. (Los Angeles) (LA Confidential)

October Sky. (October Sky)

Monday 28th January: The United Nations opens debate on the French/Algerian Question. (New York, NY) (The Battle of Algiers)

Tuesday 29th January: The FNL calls for a seven-day general strike for all Arab Algerians. (Algiers, Algeria) (The Battle of Algiers)

April: Stratogirl sucked into a jet turbine. (The Incredibles)

Thursday 2nd May: Joseph McCarthy dies. (Bethesda, Maryland) (Tail Gunner Joe)

July: Jason Voorhees purportedly drowns in Crystal Lake when the counselors are having sex - no body is found. (Friday The 13th)

Friday 5th July: Ava Gardner and Frank Sinatra divorce. (The Rat Pack)

August: Ben & May Parker are married. (Queens, NY) (Spider-Man 3)

Wednesday 7th August: Oliver Hardy dies. (North Hollywood, California) (Sunset)

Friday 4th October: Sputnik One launched, starting the Space Race. (Soviet Union) (The Right Stuff)

Saturday 16th November: Edward Gein murders his last victim Bernice Worden. (Plainfield, Wisconsin) (In the Light of the Moon)


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