List of science fiction films of the 1950s
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A list of science fiction films released in the 1950s. These films include core elements of science fiction, but can cross into other genres. They have been released to a cinema audience by the commercial film industry and are widely distributed with reviews by reputable critics.
This period is sometimes described as the 'classic' era of science fiction theater. Much of the production was in a low-budget form, targeted at a teenage audience. Many were formulaic, gimmicky, comic-book-style films. They drew upon political themes or public concerns of the day, including depersonalization, infiltration, or fear of nuclear weapons. Invasion was a common theme, as were various threats to humanity.[1]
Three of the films from this decade, Destination Moon (1950), The War of the Worlds (1953) and 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954) won Academy Awards, while The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957) won a Hugo Award.
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1950 | ||||||
Title | Director | Cast | Country | Subgenre/Notes | ||
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Destination Moon | Irving Pichel | Warner Anderson, John Archer, Tom Powers | United States | [nb 1] | ||
Flying Disc Man from Mars | Fred C. Brannon | , Gregory Gaye | United States | Serial film | ||
The Flying Saucer | Mikel Conrad | Mikel Conrad, , | United States | |||
The Invisible Monster | Fred C. Brannon | Stanley Price, Richard Webb, Aline Towne, Lane Bradford | United States | Serial film | ||
Prehistoric Women | Gregg G. Tallas | Laurette Luez, Allan Nixon, Joan Shawlee | United States | |||
Rocketship X-M | Kurt Neumann | Lloyd Bridges, Osa Massen, John Emery | United States | |||
1951 | ||||||
Title | Director | Cast | Country | Subgenre/Notes | ||
Abbott and Costello Meet the Invisible Man | Charles Lamont | Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Nancy Guild | United States | |||
Captain Video: Master of the Stratosphere | Spencer Gordon Bennet, Wallace Grissell | Judd Holdren, Gene Roth | United States | Serial film | ||
The Day the Earth Stood Still | Robert Wise | Michael Rennie, Patricia Neal, Hugh Marlowe, Sam Jaffe | United States | [nb 2] | ||
Five | Arch Oboler | William Phipps, Susan Douglas, James Anderson | United States | |||
Flight to Mars | Lesley Selander | Marguerite Chapman, Cameron Mitchell, Arthur Franz | United States | |||
I'll Never Forget You | Roy Ward Baker | Tyrone Power, Ann Blyth, Michael Rennie | United Kingdom | |||
Lost Continent | Sam Newfield | Cesar Romero, Hillary Brooke, Chick Chandler | United States | |||
Lost Planet Airmen | Fred C. Brannon | Tristram Coffin, Mae Clarke, | United States | [nb 3] | ||
The Man from Planet X | Edgar G. Ulmer | Robert Clarke, Margaret Field, | United States | |||
The Man in the White Suit | Alexander Mackendrick | Alec Guinness, Joan Greenwood, Cecil Parker, Michael Gough, Ernest Thesiger | United Kingdom | |||
Mysterious Island | Spencer Gordon Bennet | Richard Crane, Marshall Reed, , | United States | Serial film | ||
Superman and the Mole Men | Lee Sholem | George Reeves, Phyllis Coates, Jeff Corey | United States | |||
The Thing from Another World | Christian Nyby | Margaret Sheridan, Kenneth Tobey, Robert Cornthwaite | United States | |||
Two Lost Worlds | Norman Dawn, | James Arness, Laura Elliott | United States | |||
Unknown World | Terrell O. Morse | Bruce Kellogg, Marilyn Nash, Jim Bannon, Otto Waldis | United States | |||
When Worlds Collide | Rudolph Maté | Richard Derr, Barbara Rush, Peter Hansen, John Hoyt | United States | |||
1952 | ||||||
Title | Director | Cast | Country | Subgenre/Notes | ||
Alraune | Arthur Maria Rabenalt | Hildegard Knef, Erich von Stroheim | West Germany | |||
April 1, 2000 | Wolfgang Liebeneiner | Hilde Krahl, , Curd Jürgens | Austria | [nb 4] | ||
Captive Women | Stuart Gilmore | Robert Clarke, Margaret Field, Gloria Saunders | United States | [nb 5] | ||
Invasion USA | Alfred E Green | United States | ||||
The Jungle | William A. Berke | Rod Cameron, Cesar Romero, Marie Windsor | United States | [2] | ||
Radar Men from the Moon | Fred C. Brannon | George D. Wallace, Aline Towne, Roy Barcroft | United States | Serial film | ||
Red Planet Mars | Harry Horner | Peter Graves, Andrea King, | United States | |||
Untamed Women | , | Mikel Conrad, Doris Merrick, | United States | |||
Zombies of the Stratosphere | Fred C. Brannon | Judd Holdren | United States | Serial film | ||
1953 | ||||||
Title | Director | Cast | Country | Subgenre/Notes | ||
Abbott and Costello Go to Mars | Charles Lamont | Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Mari Blanchard | United States | |||
Abbott and Costello Meet Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde | Charles Lamont | Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Boris Karloff | United States | |||
The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms | Eugène Lourié | Paul Christian, Paula Raymond, Cecil Kellaway | United States | |||
Cat-Women of the Moon | Sonny Tufts, Victor Jory, Marie Windsor, Carol Brewster | United States | [nb 6] | |||
Commando Cody: Sky Marshal of the Universe | Harry Keller, Franklin Adreon, Fred C. Brannon | Judd Holdren, Aline Towne | United States | Serial film | ||
Donovan's Brain | Felix E. Feist | Lew Ayres, Gene Evans, Nancy Davis | United States | |||
Brumberg sisters | (voice), (voice), Valentina Sperantova (voice) | Soviet Union | Animated short film. Russian title: Полёт на Луну, tr. Polyot na Lunu[3][4][5][6] | |||
Four Sided Triangle | Terence Fisher | Barbara Payton, John Van Eyssen, Percy Marmont | United Kingdom | |||
Invaders from Mars | William Cameron Menzies | Jimmy Hunt, Arthur Franz, Helena Carter | United States | |||
It Came from Outer Space | Jack Arnold | Richard Carlson, Barbara Rush, Charles Drake | United States | |||
The Lost Planet | Spencer Gordon Bennet | Judd Holdren, Vivian Mason, Michael Fox | United States | Serial film | ||
The Magnetic Monster | Curt Siodmak | Richard Carlson, King Donovan, | United States | |||
Mesa of Lost Women | , Ron Ormond | Jackie Coogan, Richard Travis, Allan Nixon, | United States | |||
The Neanderthal Man | Ewald Andre Dupont | Robert Shayne, Doris Merrick, Richard Crane | United States | |||
Phantom from Space | W. Lee Wilder | Ted Cooper, Rudolph Anders, Noreen Nash | United States | |||
Port Sinister | Harold Daniels | James Warren, Lynne Roberts, Paul Cavanagh | United States | [nb 7] | ||
Project Moonbase | Richard Talmadge | Donna Martell, Hayden Rorke, Ross Ford | United States | |||
Robot Monster | Phil Tucker | George Nader, Claudia Barrett, Selena Royle | United States | [nb 8] | ||
Spaceways | Terence Fisher | Howard Duff, Eva Bartok, Alan Wheatley | United Kingdom United States |
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The Twonky | Arch Oboler | Hans Conried, Billy Lynn, Gloria Blondell, | United States | [7] | ||
The War of the Worlds | Byron Haskin | Gene Barry, Ann Robinson, Les Tremayne, Lewis Martin | United States | [nb 9] | ||
1954 | ||||||
Title | Director | Cast | Country | Subgenre/Notes | ||
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea | Richard Fleischer | Kirk Douglas, James Mason, Paul Lukas | United States | [nb 10] | ||
Crash of Moons | Hollingsworth Morse | Richard Crane, Sally Mansfield, Robert Lyden, Scotty Beckett, Patsy Parsons | United States | Television film [nb 11] | ||
Creature from the Black Lagoon | Jack Arnold | Richard Carlson, Julie Adams, Richard Denning, Antonio Moreno | United States | |||
Devil Girl from Mars | David MacDonald | Patricia Laffan, Hugh McDermott, Adrienne Corri | United Kingdom | |||
Godzilla | Ishirō Honda | Akira Takarada, Momoko Kōchi, Takashi Shimura | Japan | |||
Gog | Ivan Tors | Richard Egan, Constance Dowling, Herbert Marshall | United States | |||
Killers from Space | W. Lee Wilder | Peter Graves | United States | |||
Monster from The Ocean Floor | , Stuart Wade, | United States | ||||
Riders to the Stars | Richard Carlson | William Lundigan, Herbert Marshall | United States | |||
Snow Creature | W. Lee Wilder | William Phipps | United States | |||
Stranger From Venus | Burt Balaban | Patricia Neal, Helmut Dantine, Derek Bond | United States | [8] | ||
Target Earth | Richard Denning, Kathleen Crowley, Virginia Grey | United States | ||||
Them! | Gordon Douglas | James Whitmore, Edmund Gwenn, Joan Weldon, James Arness | United States | |||
Tobor the Great | Lee Sholem | Charles Drake, Karin Booth, Billy Chapin | United States | |||
1955 | ||||||
Title | Director | Cast | Country | Subgenre/Notes | ||
The Beast with a Million Eyes | Paul Birch, Lorna Thayer, , Dick Sargent | United States | [9][10][nb 12] | |||
Bride of the Monster | Edward D. Wood, Jr. | Bela Lugosi, Tor Johnson, Tony McCoy, Loretta King | United States | |||
Creature with the Atom Brain | Edward L. Cahn | Richard Denning, Angela Greene, S. John Launer | United States | [11] | ||
Conquest of Space | Byron Haskin | Walter Brooke, Eric Fleming, Mickey Shaughnessy | United States | |||
The Phantom from 10,000 Leagues | Kent Taylor, Cathy Downs, Michael Whalen | United States | ||||
Day the World Ended | Roger Corman | Richard Denning, Lori Nelson, Paul Birch, Touch Connors | United States | |||
Godzilla Raids Again (a.k.a. Gigantis, the Fire Monster) | Motoyoshi Oda | Hiroshi Koizumi, Minoru Chiaki | Japan | |||
It Came from Beneath the Sea | Robert Gordon | Kenneth Tobey, Faith Domergue, Donald Curtis | United States | |||
King Dinosaur | Bert I. Gordon | Douglas Henderson, | United States | [12][13] | ||
Monster Snowman (a.k.a. Half Human) | Ishirō Honda | Akira Takarada, Akemi Negishi | Japan | |||
The Quatermass Xperiment | Val Guest | Brian Donlevy, Jack Warner, Richard Wordsworth, Margia Dean | United Kingdom | [nb 13] | ||
Revenge of the Creature | Jack Arnold | John Agar, Lori Nelson, John Bromfield, Nestor Paiva | United States | |||
Tarantula | Jack Arnold | John Agar, Mara Corday, Leo G. Carroll, Nestor Paiva | United States | |||
This Island Earth | Jack Arnold, Joseph Newman | Jeff Morrow, Faith Domergue, Rex Reason | United States | |||
1956 | ||||||
Title | Director | Cast | Country | Subgenre/Notes | ||
1984 | Michael Anderson | Edmond O'Brien, Jan Sterling, Michael Redgrave, Donald Pleasence | United Kingdom | |||
The Beast of Hollow Mountain | Edward Nassour, Ismael Rodríguez | Guy Madison, Patricia Medina, Carlos Rivas | United States | |||
The Black Sleep | Reginald Le Borg | Basil Rathbone, Akim Tamiroff, Herbert Rudley, Patricia Blake, Lon Chaney, Jr., John Carradine, Bela Lugosi, Tor Johnson | United States | |||
The Creature Walks Among Us | Jeff Morrow, Rex Reason, Leigh Snowden | United States | [14] | |||
Earth vs. the Flying Saucers | Fred Sears | Hugh Marlowe, Joan Taylor, Donald Curtis, Morris Ankrum | United States | |||
Fire Maidens from Outer Space | Cy Roth | Anthony Dexter, Susan Shaw | United Kingdom | [nb 14] | ||
Forbidden Planet | Fred Wilcox | Walter Pidgeon, Anne Francis, Leslie Nielsen | United States | |||
The Gamma People | John Gilling | Paul Douglas, Eva Bartok, Leslie Phillips | United Kingdom | |||
Godzilla, King of the Monsters! | Terrell O. Morse, Ishirō Honda | Raymond Burr, Takashi Shimura, Akira Takarada, Kenji Sahara, Momoko Kochi | United States Japan |
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Indestructible Man | Jack Pollexfen | Lon Chaney, Jr., Max Showalter, Marian Carr | United States | |||
Invasion of the Body Snatchers | Don Siegel | Kevin McCarthy, Dana Wynter, King Donovan | United States | |||
It Conquered the World | Roger Corman | Peter Graves, Beverly Garland, Lee Van Cleef | United States | |||
The Man Who Turned to Stone | Victor Jory, William Hudson | United States | - | |||
The Mole People | Virgil Vogel | John Agar, , Hugh Beaumont, Nestor Paiva | United States | |||
On the Threshold of Space | Robert D. Webb | Guy Madison, Virginia Leith, John Hodiak | United States | Techno-drama[17][18][19] | ||
Sora no Daikaijū Radon (USA title: Rodan) | Ishirō Honda | Kenji Sahara. Yumi Shirakawa, Yoshifumi Tajima | Japan | [nb 15] | ||
Toward the Unknown | Mervyn LeRoy | William Holden, Lloyd Nolan, Virginia Leith | United States | Techno-drama[20] | ||
Uchūjin Tokyo ni Arawaru (Warning From Space) | Koji Shima | , , | Japan | [nb 16] | ||
World Without End | Edward Bernds | Hugh Marlowe, Nancy Gates, Rod Taylor | United States | |||
X the Unknown | Leslie Norman | Dean Jagger, Edward Chapman, Leo McKern | United States United Kingdom |
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Marcia Manolescue,Gillian Harrison,Fella Edmonds | United Kingdom | |||||
1957 | ||||||
Title | Director | Cast | Country | Subgenre/Notes | ||
20 Million Miles to Earth | Nathan H. Juran | William Hopper, Joan Taylor, Frank Puglia, John Zaremba | United States | |||
The 27th Day | William Asher | Gene Barry, Valerie French, George Voskovec | United States | |||
She Devil | Kurt Neumann | Albert Dekker, Jack Kelly, Mari Blanchard | United States | |||
The Amazing Colossal Man | Bert I. Gordon | Glenn Langan, Cathy Downs, William Hudson | United States | |||
The Astounding She-Monster | , , Robert Clarke | United States | ||||
Attack of the Crab Monsters | Roger Corman | , Pamela Duncan, Russell Johnson | United States | |||
Beginning of the End | Bert I. Gordon | Peter Graves, Peggie Castle, Morris Ankrum | United States | |||
The Black Scorpion | Edward Ludwig | Richard Denning, Mara Corday, Carlos Rivas | United States | |||
The Brain from Planet Arous | Nathan H. Juran | John Agar, Joyce Meadows, Robert Fuller | United States | [14] | ||
The Cyclops | Bert I. Gordon | James Craig, Gloria Talbott, Lon Chaney, Jr. | United States | |||
The Deadly Mantis | Nathan H. Juran | Craig Stevens, William Hopper, Alix Talton | United States | |||
From Hell It Came | Tod Andrews, , Linda Watkins | United States | ||||
The Giant Claw | Fred Sears | Jeff Morrow, Mara Corday, Morris Ankrum | United States | |||
The Incredible Shrinking Man | Jack Arnold | Grant Williams, Randy Stuart, | United States | [nb 17] | ||
Invasion of the Saucer Men | Edward L. Cahn | Steve Terrell, Gloria Castillo, Frank Gorshin, | United States | |||
The Invisible Boy | Herman Hoffman | Richard Eyer, Philip Abbott, Diane Brewster | United States | |||
Kronos | Kurt Neumann | Jeff Morrow, Barbara Lawrence, John Emery, George O'Hanlon | United States | |||
The Land Unknown | Virgil Vogel | Jock Mahoney, Shawn Smith, William Reynolds | United States | |||
The Monolith Monsters | Grant Williams, Lola Albright, Les Tremayne | United States | ||||
The Monster That Challenged the World | Arnold Laven | Tim Holt, Audrey Dalton, Hans Conried | United States | |||
The Mysterians | Ishirō Honda | Kenji Sahara, Yumi Shirakawa, Momoko Kochi | Japan | |||
The Night the World Exploded | Fred Sears | Kathryn Grant, William Leslie, Tristram Coffin | United States | |||
Not of This Earth | Roger Corman | Paul Birch, Beverly Garland, Morgan Jones | United States | |||
Quatermass 2 | Val Guest | Brian Donlevy, John Longden, Sid James | United Kingdom | [nb 18] | ||
The Secret of Two Oceans | Igor Vladimirov, , | Soviet Union | [21] | |||
The Strange World of Planet X (UK) a.k.a. Cosmic Monsters (USA) | Gilbert Gunn | Forrest Tucker, Gaby Andre, Martin Benson | United Kingdom | [nb 19] | ||
The Unearthly | John Carradine, Myron Healey, Allison Hayes | United States | ||||
The Unknown Terror | Charles Marquis Warren | John Howard, Mala Powers, , May Wynn | United States | |||
The Vampire | Paul Landres | John Beal, Colleen Gray, Kenneth Tobey | United States | |||
The Robot vs. The Aztec Mummy | Rafael Portillo | Ramon Gay, Rosita Arenas, Luis Aceves Castaneda | Mexico | |||
1958 | ||||||
Title | Director | Cast | Country | Subgenre/Notes | ||
She Demons | Richard E. Cunha | Irish McCalla, , Victor Sen Yung | United States | |||
Attack of the 50 Foot Woman | Nathan H. Juran | Allison Hayes, William Hudson, Yvette Vickers | United States | |||
Attack of the Puppet People | Bert I. Gordon | John Agar, Michael Mark, | United States | |||
Jin Shan | Jin Shan, , | China | [22][23][24] | |||
The Blob | Irvin Shortess Yeaworth, Jr. | Steve McQueen, Aneta Corsaut, | United States | |||
The Brain Eaters | Bruno Ve Sota | Ed Nelson, Alan Frost, Jack Hill | United States | |||
The Colossus of New York | Eugène Lourié | Ross Martin, Mala Powers, Charles Herbert | United States | |||
The Day the Sky Exploded | Paolo Heusch | Paul Hubschmid, Fiorella Mari, Gérard Landry, | France Italy |
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Doroga K Zvezdam | Pavel Klushantsev | Soviet Union | [25][26] | |||
Earth vs. the Spider | Bert I. Gordon | Ed Kemmer, Gene Persson, Gene Roth | United States | |||
The Electronic Monster | Montgomery Tully | Rod Cameron, Mary Murphy, Meredith Edwards | United Kingdom United States |
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The Fabulous World of Jules Verne | Karel Zeman | Lubor Tokoš, | Czechoslovakia | |||
Fiend Without a Face | Arthur Crabtree | Kynaston Reeves, Marshall Thompson, Terry Kilburn | United Kingdom United States |
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The Fly | Kurt Neumann | Vincent Price, Patricia Owens, Herbert Marshall | United States | |||
Frankenstein 1970 | Howard W. Koch | Boris Karloff, Tom Duggan, Jana Lund | United States | |||
Frankenstein's Daughter | Richard Cunha | , John Ashley, Sandra Knight | United States | |||
From the Earth to the Moon | Byron Haskin | Joseph Cotten, George Sanders, Debra Paget | United States | |||
The H-Man | Ishirō Honda | Yumi Shirakawa, Kenji Sahara, Akihiko Hirata | Japan | |||
Half Human | Ishirō Honda, | John Carradine, Morris Ankrum | Japan United States |
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The Hideous Sun Demon | Robert Clarke | Robert Clarke, , Nan Peterson | United States | |||
I Married a Monster from Outer Space | Gene Fowler | Tom Tryon, Gloria Talbott, Ken Lynch | United States | |||
It! The Terror from Beyond Space | Edward L. Cahn | Marshall Thompson, Shawn Smith, Kim Spalding | United States | |||
The Lost Missile | Robert Loggia, Ellen Parker, Phillip Pine | United States | [28] | |||
Missile to the Moon | Richard E. Cunha | K. T. Stevens, Richard Travis, Lisa Simone | United States | |||
Monster from Green Hell | Jim Davis | United States | ||||
Alfredo B. Crevenna | Arturo de Córdova, Ana Luisa Peluffo, Raúl Meraz | Mexico | [29] | |||
Night of the Blood Beast | Bernard Kowalski | , Angela Greene, John Baer | United States | |||
Queen of Outer Space | Edward Bernds | Zsa Zsa Gabor, Laurie Mitchell, Eric Fleming | United States | |||
The Space Children | Jack Arnold | Adam Williams, Michel Ray, Johnny Crawford, Sandy Descher | United States | |||
Space Master X-7 | Edward Bernds | Robert Ellis, Bill Williams, Lyn Thomas | United States | |||
Teenage Cave Man | Roger Corman | Robert Vaughn, , Frank de Kova | United States | |||
Teenage Monster | Anne Gwynne, Stuart Wade | United States | [nb 21][30] | |||
The Trollenberg Terror | Quentin Lawrence | Forrest Tucker, Laurence Payne, Janet Munro | United Kingdom | [nb 22] | ||
Varan the Unbelievable | Ishirō Honda | , , | Japan | [nb 23] | ||
War of the Colossal Beast | Bert I. Gordon | Sally Fraser, , | United States | |||
War of the Satellites | Roger Corman | Susan Cabot, Richard Devon, | United States | [31] | ||
Terror from the Year 5000 a.k.a. Cage Of Doom (UK) | Robert J. Gurney Jr | Ward Costello, Joyce Holden, John Stratton, Salome Jens,Fred Herrick | United States | |||
1959 | ||||||
Title | Director | Cast | Country | Subgenre/Notes | ||
The 30 Foot Bride of Candy Rock | Sidney Miller | Lou Costello, Dorothy Provine, Gale Gordon | United States | |||
4D Man | Irvin Shortess Yeaworth, Jr. | Robert Lansing, Lee Meriwether, | United States | |||
The Angry Red Planet | Ib Melchior | Gerald Mohr, Les Tremayne, Nora Hayden | United States | |||
The Atomic Submarine | Spencer Gordon Bennet | Arthur Franz, Dick Foran, Brett Halsey | United States | |||
Attack of the Giant Leeches | Bernard Kowalski | Jan Shepard, Gene Roth, Yvette Vickers | United States | |||
Battle Beyond the Sun | , | Soviet Union | ||||
Battle in Outer Space | Ishirō Honda | Ryō Ikebe, Koreya Senda | Japan | |||
The Cosmic Man | Bruce Bennett, John Carradine, Angela Greene | United States | [32] | |||
First Man into Space | Robert Day | Marshall Thompson, Marla Landi, Bill Edwards | United Kingdom | [33] | ||
Giant Gila Monster | Ray Kellogg | , Lisa Simone, Fred Graham | United States | |||
Gigantis the Fire Monster | Hiroshi Koizumi | United States Japan |
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Have Rocket, Will Travel | David Lowell Rich | Jerome Cowan, Anna-Lisa, Curly Joe DeRita | United States | |||
The Head | Victor Trivas | Michel Simon, Horst Frank, Christiane Maybach | West Germany | [34][35] | ||
Invisible Invaders | Edward L. Cahn | John Agar, Jean Byron, Philip Tonge, Robert Hutton, John Carradine | United States | |||
Journey to the Center of the Earth | Henry Levin | Pat Boone, James Mason, Arlene Dahl, Diane Baker | United States | |||
The Killer Shrews | Ray Kellogg | James Best, Ken Curtis, Ingrid Goude | United States | |||
The Manster | George Breakston, | Peter Dyneley, Jane Hylton, Satoshi Nakamura, | Japan United States |
[36][37] | ||
The Man Who Could Cheat Death | Terence Fisher | Anton Diffring, Christopher Lee | United Kingdom | [nb 24] | ||
The Monster of Piedras Blancas | Les Tremayne, Forrest Lewis, John Harmon | United States | ||||
Monster on the Campus | Jack Arnold | Arthur Franz, Joanna Cook Moore | United States | [38] | ||
Nebo Zovyot | Mikhail Karyukov, Aleksandr Kozyr | Ivan Pereverzev | Soviet Union | |||
On the Beach | Stanley Kramer | Gregory Peck, Ava Gardner, Fred Astaire | United States | |||
Plan 9 from Outer Space | Edward D. Wood, Jr. | Bela Lugosi, , Gregory Walcott, Vampira | United States | |||
Return of the Fly | Edward Bernds | Vincent Price, Brett Halsey, John Sutton | United States | |||
Space Invasion of Lapland or Terror in the Midnight Sun | Virgil W. Vogel | Bengt Blomgren, John Carradine | United States Sweden |
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Teenagers from Outer Space | Tom Graeff | David Love, , Harvey B. Dunn | United States | |||
The Tingler | William Castle | Vincent Price, Judith Evelyn, Darryl Hickman | United States | Science fiction horror[39] | ||
The Giant Behemoth (UK) a.k.a. Behemoth, the Sea Monster a.k.a. The Behemoth |
Eugène Lourié, Douglas Hickox | Gene Evans, André Morell | United States | |||
The Wasp Woman | Roger Corman | Susan Cabot, Anthony Eisley, Barboura Morris, Michael Mark, Bruno Ve Sota | United States | |||
The World, the Flesh and the Devil | Ranald MacDougall | Harry Belafonte, Inger Stevens, Mel Ferrer | United States |
See also[]
Notes[]
- ^ Winner of a Retroactive Hugo Award in 2001.
- ^ Winner of a Golden Globe Award for Best Film Promoting International Understanding in 1951.
- ^ Assembled from the serial King of the Rocket Men.
- ^ Original title: 1 April 2000.
- ^ 1956 reissue title: 1000 Years from Now
- ^ Alternative title: Rocket to the Moon.
- ^ 1957 reissue title: Beast of Paradise Isle.
- ^ U.S. 2-D version title: Monster from Mars.
- ^ Winner of an Academy Award for Visual Effects in 1953, and a Retroactive Hugo Award in 2004.
- ^ Winner of Academy Awards for Visual Effects and Best Art Direction in 1954.
- ^ 16mm rental movie.
- ^ Uncredited. There is no hint of other directors on the reel, on air or on AMC TV. Co-directed by and Roger Corman.
- ^ U.S. title: The Creeping Unknown.
- ^ U.S. title: Fire Maidens of Outer Space.
- ^ US title: Rodan! the Flying Monster.
- ^ International title: Warning from Space.
- ^ Winner of a Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation in 1958.
- ^ U.S. title: Enemy from Space.
- ^ U.S. title: The Cosmic Monster.
- ^ Italian title: La Morte viene dallo Spazio.
- ^ Also called Meteor Monster. Premiered in 1957.
- ^ U.S. title: The Crawling Eye.
- ^ US revision in 1962: Varan the Unbelievable.
- ^ Remake of The Man in Half Moon Street.
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