Comments on: 10 Great Serious Sci-Fi Movies From The 1950s

By: peter8172

peter8172 — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 09:11:11 +0000

Starring Grant Williams, a typical House Cat and an Infamous Tarantula Spider. Its a must see for all

By: peter8172

peter8172 — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 09:09:08 +0000

“The Incredible Shrinking Man” (1957)

By: carlos

carlos — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 19:02:10 +0000

“The incredible shrinking man” , by Jack Arnold 1957. “The experiment of Dr. Quatermass”, by Val Guest, 1955

By: Alfie

Alfie — Fri, 01 Jul 2011 00:11:35 +0000

The Thing from Another World definitely – an all-time great of SciFi
Invaders From Mars Its cinematography was just surreal
This Island Earth The inspiration for the Coneheads

I would move Invasion of the Body Snatchers way up on my list and deep six Journey to the Center of the Earth and Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea among others.

By: ken rambush

ken rambush — Thu, 30 Jun 2011 23:56:41 +0000

best are invasion of body snatchers-forbidden planet-them-last man on earth-the crawling eye-kronos-beast from 20000 fathoms-it came from outer space-the man from planet x

By: olfool

olfool — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 06:49:41 +0000

First off, Speilbergs interpretation of War of the Worlds was WAAAAAY better AND more accurate with actual tripods and more character emphasis.. The 1953 version was extremely campy.

By: dbinPhilly

dbinPhilly — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 03:21:53 +0000

Re: The Blob
It was supposed to take place in Downingtown, but the theater in the movie was actually in Phoenixville, PA, about 15 miles up the road from Downingtown. The Colonial still sits in the center of Phoenixville, showing art films and the occasional Blob festival.

You underrated The Invasion of the Body Snatchers. The Don Siegel version was far better than the ’80s version with Donald Sutherland. I place it at the top of the list.

Missing: THEM! The first truly great 50′s monster movie starring James Arness, Edmund Gwenn, and James Whitmore.

The Thing From Another World, also starring James Arness in a slightly more negative role, and Kenneth Tobey also belongs at the top of the list. A great Cold War thriller.

By: bassbait

bassbait — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 05:41:28 +0000

Where’s 1984? It’s not in the 80′s list or the 50′s list!

By: Morlock07

Morlock07 — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 05:07:41 +0000

I saw DESTINATION: MOON when I was 3 years old. After seeing it I was hooked on sci fi. FORBIDDEN PLANET also changed my life as a true to life space opera with outstanding f/x considering the time it was made. I was assistant editor of Famous Monsters magazine from 1978 thru 1982. I was there for the last issue when editor Ackerman was dumped with no warning. My dream was to write for the magazine but never did I imagine I’d be working there and meeting all the stars from many of those old sci fi epics. A fond memory indeed!

By: Polly

Polly — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 06:13:50 +0000

We seem to be missing “Them!” The ant coming over the hill bhind the trailer–basic basic special effect indeed–utterly terrified my teenage years. And you *must not* include “Destination Moon” in place of the politically sophisticated (for the early 1950s) “Rocketship XM”–the first fiction film, to my knowledge, to try to show what horror nuclear war might bring. Yes, the men the XM are constantly putting down the woman and she nods and agrees, but Dalton Trumbo (the blacklisted Leftwing script writer) makes clear each time, through the plot, that she is the one who is right. An extraordinary film I remembered from puberty—and when I saw it again on DVD recently, it still holds up.