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Favorite 50's sci-fi film?
#26
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I loved Them

as a kid and still like it today. The whole mystery atmosphere in the beginning. Voted for that but there are alot of great ones on this list. But what about The Giant Gila

Monster or better yet The Giant Claw!

as a kid and still like it today. The whole mystery atmosphere in the beginning. Voted for that but there are alot of great ones on this list. But what about The Giant Gila

Monster or better yet The Giant Claw!

#27
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THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL is one of my top movies of all time, so it is automtically the fave.
Picking a runner-up would be difficult, because so many on that list are movies I've been watching my entire life, without ever tiring of them.
Picking a runner-up would be difficult, because so many on that list are movies I've been watching my entire life, without ever tiring of them.
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I'm going to go with Them!, because it's an excellent movie and one of my earliest memories of 50s sci-fi. Plus, it's friggin scary. And it's got Santa Claus.
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If it's "Favorite" and not "Best," then I've got to go with...
The War Of The Worlds
I love everything about that movie, but one thing in particular stands out - the voice work. Paul Frees, Les Tremayne, Sir Cedric Hardwicke - three fantastic voices all in the same movie. Of course, the movie itself is great - great script, direction, and the acting is really underrated and quite good. It's a classic, without a doubt.
But for me several films are practically tied with that one, including...
Forbidden Planet
Gojira/Godzilla: King of the Monsters
Them
When Worlds Collide
The Creature From the Black Lagoon
And one that I wouldn't put quite that high on the list, but is worth watching is
IT! The Terror From Beyond Space
The War Of The Worlds
I love everything about that movie, but one thing in particular stands out - the voice work. Paul Frees, Les Tremayne, Sir Cedric Hardwicke - three fantastic voices all in the same movie. Of course, the movie itself is great - great script, direction, and the acting is really underrated and quite good. It's a classic, without a doubt.
But for me several films are practically tied with that one, including...
Forbidden Planet
Gojira/Godzilla: King of the Monsters
Them
When Worlds Collide
The Creature From the Black Lagoon
And one that I wouldn't put quite that high on the list, but is worth watching is
IT! The Terror From Beyond Space
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I love everything about that movie, but one thing in particular stands out - the voice work. Paul Frees, Les Tremayne, Sir Cedric Hardwicke - three fantastic voices all in the same movie. Of course, the movie itself is great - great script, direction, and the acting is really underrated and quite good. It's a classic, without a doubt.
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I chose Invasion of the Body Snatchers, but really could have been Them!, Forbidden Planet, the Thing, or the Day the Earth Stood Still - all are awesome and movies that really freaked me out when I was a kid....especially Them! I remember seeing that on a saturday Chiller! on tv50 in the mid 70s and being scared shitless!
Other random movie memory that gave me nightmares: Gargoyles!
Other random movie memory that gave me nightmares: Gargoyles!
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Which is the one with the guy who grows into a giant, and his sister or his girlfriend is chasing him around shouting, "Glenn! Come back!"
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as for the film, which I watched last night - wow, what a truly absurb absolutely entertaining film. Some of the action scenes could have been tightened a bit, but the story and how the situations play out make this a wild little gem of a film.
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I love John Carpenters The Thing, and have to admit that I've never seen the Howard Hawks version. I think I have to pay netflix a visit...also never seen Forbidden Planet.
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Mara Corday stopped acting after 1961, but then made a comeback of sorts, quite a bit heftier than she was in the above photos, appearing in four Clint Eastwood movies, THE GAUNTLET, SUDDEN IMPACT, PINK CADILLAC and THE ROOKIE. In SUDDEN IMPACT, she's the counter girl pouring sugar into Dirty Harry's coffee cup as a way of alerting him that a robbery is in progress. "Me and Smith & Wesson."
What's the connection? Eastwood had a bit part in TARANTULA.
What's the connection? Eastwood had a bit part in TARANTULA.
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It's a lot of fun. Hawks directs with his usual breakneck speed, characters tossing off rapid rejoinders, often stepping on each other's lines - it's like a 1930's screwball comedy that just happens to include an alien monster. The performances are nicely low-key too, with very little of the stiff, strident pontificating that bogs down many of it's contemporaries.
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Fiend Without a Face has a pretty graphic sequence for it's time, but the overall concept is a bit more creative than the execution. That's a great poster though.