Bullet for a Badman (1964) / Unearthly Stranger (1963) / The Last Man On Earth (1964) - Newspaper Ad

Oakland Tribune - January 3, 1965

While the top-billed movie of this triple feature at the Lux Theatre is a western melodrama, Darren McGavin (who will always be Carl Kolchak first and the Old Man from A Christmas Story second) played the heavy. For that reason alone I would give it a watch.

Yet it is the second and third features that qualify this ad for posting here, rather than at The Newspaper Ad Archive. Unearthly Stranger is a highly regarded British thriller. One that dresses Cold War paranoia as an alien invasion.

Last, but in no way least, is The Last Man on Earth. This was the first cinematic adaptation of Richard Matheson's apocalyptic vampire novel I Am Legend, followed by 1971's The Omega Man and 2007's I Am Legend, and the acknowledged inspiration and creative blueprint for 1968's Night of the Living Dead.