Tom Weaver has been "chatting with the oldtime Hollywood pros" for more than 35 years. He knows everybody in SF and horror B-movies. This sparkling collection of 20 interviews includes Gene Barry, lead actor in George Pal's 1953 classic The War of the Worlds, Robert Dix, who was zapped by the Id monster in Forbidden Planet and Gary Conway, star of I Was a Teenage Frankenstein. Conway admits he was embarrassed about the film but now appreciates it: "The things that one thinks are so inane become the cult classics." Other highlights include Donnie Dunagan – who, aged four, played the Son of Frankenstein (1939) – recalling that "Mr Karloff, in his monster makeup and costume, taught me how to play checkers", and Peter Graves of TV's Mission: Impossible, who saved the Earth from a "teepee-shaped monster from Venus" in It Conquered the World, admitting what he truly thought: "Boy, this is really some awful corny stuff!" Weaver's hugely entertaining interviews offer a unique insight into film making in the golden age of schlock sci-fi movies.