The 1950's: The Golden Age of Sci-fi

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A great decade that spawned many good sci-fi films and many atrocious ones
too; a number of these movies involved being invaded or attacked by aliens
or being attacked by irradiated mutant creatures, people and even mud! It
has been said by cinematologists that many of these movies reflected our
national cold-war fear of insidious communist infiltration and outright nuclear attack.
The following is a list of the better films, ranging from excellent to
fairly good, arranged chronologically:
1951: The Day The Earth Stood Still; The Thing From Another World.
1953: War Of The Worlds; Invaders From Mars; It Came From Outer Space;
Beast From 20,000 Fathoms.
1954: Them!; Godzilla-King of the Monsters.
1955: This Island Earth; Tarantula.
1956: Forbidden Planet; Invasion of the Body Snatchers; The Creeping
Unknown; X-The Unknown.
1957: 20 Million Miles To Earth; Kronos; The Black Scorpion.
1958: It! The Terror From Beyond Space; The Fly; Fiend Without A Face;
Earth Vs The Flying Saucers; The Blob; I Married A Monster From
Outer Space; Rodan.
1959: The Angry Red Planet; Return Of The Fly.
Of course, there were many duds; e.g., "Attack of the Giant Leeches";
"The Mole People"; "Attack of the Crab Monsters"; "The Brain From Planet
Arous"; "The Crawling Eye" and "The Giant Claw" (which gets my vote for
worst special effects). - AH

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Topic - The 1950's: The Golden Age of Sci-fi - AudioHead 08:25:31 09/04/99 (3)

I'd pick "The Creeping Terror" for bad special effects. - TAFKA Steve 00:38:56 09/05/99 (0)

You must watch Mstery Science Theater 3,000! - Scott Woebcke 21:26:02 09/04/99 (1)

Re: You must watch Mstery Science Theater 3,000! - AudioHead 12:25:37 09/05/99 (0)

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