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Attack of the Giant Leeches (1959)

Name: Attack of the Giant Leeches
Genre: Science Fiction
Released: 1959
Duration: 1 h 2 min
Cast: Yvette Vickers, Ken Clark, Bruno VeSota

195962 minScience FictionStrong rights evidence★ Prime-time headliner

Attack of the Giant Leeches (1959) is a 62-minute science-fiction film that airs free on Starlite TV's Rocket Age (CH 5) channel. Our rights research indicates it is in the U.S. public domain (evidence below). Directed by Bernard L. Kowalski.

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About Attack of the Giant Leeches (1959)

Attack of the Giant Leeches (originally titled The Giant Leeches) is an independently made 1959 black-and-white science fiction-horror film produced by Gene Corman and directed by Bernard L. Kowalski. It stars Ken Clark, Yvette Vickers, Bruno VeSota, and Jan Shepard.

In the Florida Everglades, a group of gigantic, intelligent leeches live secretly beneath the depths of a deep swamp. Following the violent death of a local fisherman near the swamp, game warden Steve Benton (Clark) sets out to investigate the cause, despite local authorities blaming the incident on an alligator. Only a few days after, two more locals, Liz Walker (Vickers) and Cal Moulton (Emmet) go missing near the swamp, while having an affair behind the back of her husband (VeSota), who is wrongly blamed for their deaths (eventually committing suicide while in jail).

Summary adapted from the Wikipedia article Attack of the Giant Leeches (text available under CC BY-SA 4.0).

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Credits

Directed by: Bernard L. Kowalski
Cast includes: Yvette Vickers, Ken Clark, Bruno VeSota
Country: United States

Credits from Wikidata · Wikipedia article

Airs on

Graveyard Shift - CH 4, Horror TV
Rocket Age - CH 5, Sci-Fi TV

Rights & source

Basis: Documented as U.S. public domain (e.g. copyright not renewed / no notice)
Evidence: Listed in Wikipedia 'List of films in the public domain in the United States' (cites Pierce 2007 / Fishman / trade sources).
License on source: creativecommons.org/licenses/publicdomain
Music: Film soundtrack falls with the film; separately published songs (if any) not individually cleared.
Source: Internet Archive

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