The Golden Age of Sci-Fi!
Angry Red Planet:
A rocket ship returns from Mars. Contact was lost since the ship arrived on Mars. Now the crew does not answer any radio messages from mission control. The people from mission control try to land the rocket ship by remote control and investigate what happened on Mars.
AKA: Invasion of Mars
Year/Rated/Info: 1959 / NR / 83m - BW
Directed by: Meichier
Starring: Gerald Mohr, Nora Hayden, Jack Kruschen
Beast From 20,000 Fathoms:
As a result of an arctic nuclear test, a carnivorous dinosaur thaws out and starts making its way down the east coast of North America. Professor Tom Nesbitt, only witness to the beast's existence, is not believed, even when he identifies it as a "rhedosaurus" to paleontologist Thurgood Elson. All doubts disappear, however, when Elson is swallowed whole during an oceanic bathysphere excursion to search for the creature. Soon thereafter the rhedosaurus emerges from the sea and lays waste to Manhattan Island until Nesbitt comes up with a plan to try to stop the seemingly indestructible beast.
Year/Rated/Info: 1953 / NR / 80m - BW
Directed by: Eugene Lourie
Starring: Paul Christian, Paula Raymond, Celil Kellaway, Donald Woods, Lee Van Cleef,
King Donovan, Mary Hill and Steve Brodie.
Day of the Triffids:
Majority of Earth's population is blinded by a meteor shower which causes plant spores to mutate into mobile carnivores. It's a world gone mad and to the plants.
Year/Rated/Info: 1963 / NR / 94m - C ----Directed by: Steve Sekely
Starring: Howard Keel, Janet Scott, Nicole Maurey, Kieron Moore, Mervyn Johns, Ian Wilson, Alison Leggatt, Janina Faye, John Tate, Arthur Gross, Ewan Roberts
KING KONG:
An expedition exploring a remote island capture a gigantic ape and bring him back to New York for exhibition. A beautiful actress who accompanies them is menaced when the monster's love for her causes him to break out.
Year/Rated/Info: 1933 / NR / 100m - BW
Directed by: Merian C. Cooper
Starring: Fay Wray, Robert Armstrong, Bruce Cabot
MIGHTY JOE YOUNG:
Jill Young has brought up her pet gorilla since she was a child. When the gorilla is full grown, Hollywood promoter Max O'Hara travels to Africa and convinces Jill to bring the gorilla, Joe, back to America. When in Hollywood, Joe is used in a stage production and is exploited to no end. It doesn't take long until Joe is sick of being mistreated and he escapes to run loose in civilization.
Year/Rated/Info: 1949 / NR / 94m - BW
Directed by: Ernest B. Schoedsack
Starring: Ben Johnson, Robert Armstrong, Frank McHugh, Terry Moore
THE MONOLITH MONSTERS:
A strange black meteor crashes near the town of San Angelo and litters the countryside with fragments. When a storm exposes these fragments to water, they grow into skyscraper-sized monoliths which then topple and shatter into thousands of pieces that grow into monoliths themselves and repeat the process. Any humans in the way are crushed or turned into human statues. The citizens of San Angelo desperately try to save themselves and the world from the spreading doom.
Year/Rated/Info: 1957 / NR / 76m - BW
Directed by: John Sherwood
Starring: Grant Williams, Lola Albright, Les Tremayne, Trevor Bardette
MYSTERIOUS ISLAND:
During the US Civil War, Union POWs escape in a balloon and end up stranded on a South Pacific island, inhabited by giant plants and animals. They must use their ingenuity to survive the dangers, and to devise a way to return home. Sequel to the Sea, 20,000 Leagues Under.
Year/Rated/Info: 1961 / NR / 101m - C
Directed by: Cy Endfield
Starring: Michael Craig, Joan Greenwood, Michael Callan, Gary Merrill.
THE TIME MACHINE:
From the book by H.G. Wells, a scientist and tinkerer builds a time machine and uses it to explore the distant future where there are two races, a mild gentle race, and a cannibalistic one living underground. His machine is stolen by the underground race and he must risk capture himself (and being eaten) to return to his own time.
Year/Rated/Info: 1960 / NR / 103m - C
Directed by: George Pal
Starring: Rod Taylor, Alan Young, Yvette Mimieux, Whit Bissell, Sebastian Cabot, and Tom Helmore
Awards: Academy Awards - Best Special Effects
WHEN WORLDS COLLIDE:
When a group of astronomers calculate one planet is on course to pass close enough to the Earth to cause havoc on land and sea while a few days later a second will record a direct hit, they set about building a rocket so a few selected individuals can escape to the first of the unwanted intruders.
Year/Rated/Info: 1951 / NR / 81m - C
Directed by: Rudolph Mate
Starring: Richard Derr, Barbara Rush, Larry Keating, Peter Hanson, John Hoyt, Judith Ames
THE ANDROMEDA STRAIN:
A U.S. Army satellite (Scoop VII) falls to earth near Piedmont, New Mexico. The recovery team experiences difficulties as it becomes clear that the satellite has performed its intended function all too well, and has brought back something from space. A team of scientists is assembled in a high-tech, underground facility to identify and defeat the "enemy" before it is too late. Based on the novel by Michael Crichton.
Year/Rated/Info: 1971 / G / 131m - C
Directed by: Robert Wise
Starring: Arthur Hill, David Wayne, James Olson, Kate Reid, Paula Kelly, George Mitchell
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