Favorite 1950's sci fi movies

[rinso]

I loved "Earth vs The Flying Saucers." I always wondered why the technologically superior beings, couldn't manage to get the gurgle sound out of their translating device or PA system. "People of Earth, attention; people of Earth, attention."

 

[golittlesport]

How about Target Earth, Not of This Earth and The Crawling Eye?

Target Earth gave me nightmares after watching it on Saturday night's Chiller Theatre when I was a kid. Scary robots from outer space!!! A woman wakes up after taking sleeping pills and the city is deserted. I found it on DVD recently and it is still scary.

 

[circlew]

Destination Moon

is one I've always liked; first saw it when I was about 6 or 7. It's kind of hokey, but fun to watch.

Link is to the trailer.

http://https//www.youtube.com/watch?v=QBEfpVkwWS4

 

[verizonbear]

Wasp Woman

I always liked this movie, my mother went into labor while watching it in June of 1959 and my dad drove her to the hospital and out popped me !

http://https//www.youtube.com/watch?v=E5zAPCwCh40

 

[cuffs054]

Golittlesport, you reminded me of the Sat night horror flicks. We had the Philco portable TV out on the back porch and me and some friends would do a sleep over and watch the flicks. Great fun.

 

[dartman]

We had Sinister Cinema on Saturday nights. We all used to watch it on my 1953 Zenith tv/phonograph combo set that was ancient even then and barely showed a picture. We watched the original Godzilla movie on it in my tiny room. Later I saved my berry picking money all summer and bought a used 69 Zenith 23" color set, the first one our family had. Sinister Cinema was still on and they were all excited to be playing much newer Japanese Godzilla, and all their other monsters so we watched those in color. They of course started out playing all the ancient classic horror flicks from the 30s, 40s, and 50s and they actually on a very long time maybe longer than 10 years and I think we watched all of them, it was great fun.

 

[beekeyknee]

Does anyone remember a disembodied hand with needles at the end of the fingers? It crawled up the back of a car seat and stung the driver in the back of the neck/shoulder and caused him to crash. Was it called The Hand?

 

[DADoES]

 
Possibly "Invasion of the Saucer Men"

 

[tolivac]

Have the Crawling Eye on MSTK-Its a hoot!!I have a DVD boxed set of various old Sci-fi horror shows.Some of the ones mentioned here are in the set.

 

[beekeyknee]

“Invasion of the Saucer Men”. That’s it. Thanks Glenn.

 

[passatdoc]

<span style="font-size: 36pt;">KLAATU BARADA NIKTO!</span>

 

[glomain]

MST3K

was the best to watch old horror movies,Joel was the best host,even thou the creators were always fighting behind the scenes they made 1 funny show.To bad they couldnt work out their differences,which lead to MST3Ks end.

 

[sudsmaster]

I was about four years old when I saw When Worlds Collide at a small town theater. It must have been a double feature with Fire Maidens From Outer Space, because that's the first time I ever heard the Borodin melody that was also the tune borrowed for  "Stranger In Paradise". I was enchanted by the melody, and for some reason I associate it with the final scene in When Worlds Collide, and that beautiful pink landscape. Maybe I fell asleep during Fire Maidens and then woke up just in time to see the end of When Worlds Collide...

 

It wasn't until many years later when I got interested in Russian orchestral music that I realized it was a Borodin composition.

 

Fire Maidens from Outer Space  has been widely panned as perhaps the most boring sci-fi flick ever made... 

 

 

[philcobendixduo]

2 of My Favorites Are....

....."The Blob" (theme song by Burt Bacharach!) and "Island of Terror" (1966 - I know - NOT 1950's but a GREAT sci-fi horror movie none-the-less!).

 

[sudsmaster]

The Blob

When I was a kid, our next door neighbor's kid had seen "The Blob" and couldn't stop talking about it. I was a bit mystified since I hadn't seen it. I think I finally saw it on TV about 10 years later, and wondered what the fuss was all about. The special effects were atrocious even for the 50's, but I guess the whole idea of a shapeless murderous mass taking over the world was fresh and new for people who hadn't yet become acquainted with Richard Nixon.