10 Best Classic Sci-Fi Movies of the ’50s

Are you a black and white B-motion picture buff like me? No? Perfectly, you oughta be! You happen to be lacking some wonderful films. Some are so undesirable they’re good if only for their entertainment benefit. And, some of the very good types are good! Either way they’re all classics in my e book. Many, numerous wonderful sci-fi classics arrived out of this 10 years, far much more than 10. But, I had to pick out. So, right here are some of my favorites.

10. Journey to the Middle of the Earth: 1959
This sci-fi journey follows a crew of explorers, (3 males and a female) down an extinct Icelandic volcano that leads to the center of the earth. Along the way, they come across floods, dinosaurs, a giant Gila monster and as generally, the evil adversary who attempts to quit and/or destroy them, so he can achieve the center to start with.

At a time when ladies experienced small energy and independence, this was a person of the 1st films to depict a female as a sturdy and capable member of the group, fairly than the helpless damsel in distress. It had good specific outcomes for the time. With main stars like James Mason, Pat Boone and Arlene Dahl, it was heads earlier mentioned the common sci-fi movie of the 10 years. I failed to see the remake.

9. Invaders From Mars: 1953
Terrified the be-jesus out of me the 1st time I saw it! It starts out with younger David star-gazing just one night time from his bedroom window. He sees a traveling saucer land in the sand pit around his home. He runs to warn his mother and father and insists that his father go examine. His father disappears into the sand pit, and will not return until finally the subsequent morning…but he is ‘changed’ somehow. He sees a scar on the back of his father’s neck and realizes some thing has happened to him.

The nightmare expands as lots of of the local townspeople are also slowly ‘changing’. No just one thinks David at initial, but he finally convinces a scientist and a girl doctor that something’s incredibly erroneous. Together they foil the invasion and save the globe. The mummy-like Martians and their disembodied, head-in-a-fishbowl, multi-appendaged leader are primarily ‘creepy’. The remakes ok, but I preferred this a single very best.

8. 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea: 1954
A visually partaking interpretation of the Jules Verne common, this film has impressed several motion picture remakes and a prosperous Television series. It was the first and only sci-fi motion picture made by Walt Disney himself, and a person of the genre’s best.

With a star-studded cast which include Kirk Douglas, James Mason, and Peter Lorre, it is the tale of a Naval Officer and his crew who are assigned the undertaking of investigating the disappearances of ships on the substantial seas by a ‘sea monster’. They quickly uncover the ‘monster’ is really a submarine-like ship operate by the sinister, enigmatic Captain Nemo, who’s just one intention in lifestyle is to bring peace to the environment by destroying all of the world’s war vessels. Fantastic experience and exclusive consequences.

7. The Detail (From Outer Space): 1951
Anybody keep in mind the lawman from Gunsmoke, James Arness? Effectively, this was his first motion picture. He plays The Point, a creature who crash landed in the frozen Arctic some time in the distant earlier. His ship and frozen physique are learned by a team of exploration scientists. They cut him out in a block of ice and take him back to the investigation station where he is unintentionally thawed out.

They soon find he’s a carnivorous predator when he commences killing scientists and feeding on their blood. ‘It’ is quite clever and commences sabotaging their research station. Then they understand he’s definitely a ‘plant’ that only appears to be like humanoid. They have to get rid of it, but it really is 7 feet tall and seemingly impervious to all of their weapons. The good news is for them, 1 of the scientists is a female, who in her female knowledge claims, ‘So…how do you kill a turnip…you prepare dinner it!’ Ah, adult males! What would they do devoid of us!

6. The Blob: 1958
If you like Steve McQueen movies, this has received to be a favourite. It was one particular of his very first movies. He performs a teen on a day with his woman, when they see a meteor crash in the woods just outside the house of city. On the way to look into, they come upon a man in distress with a ‘gooey thing’ masking his hand and arm. They put him in the automobile and acquire him to the neighborhood medical doctor for support.

Then, the health practitioner, his nurse and the previous gentleman vanish. In advance of extensive, other persons commence disappearing. The following factor they know, this goo-ball has grown into a huge wad of rolling Jell-O, that’s absorbing every person in sight. Just after viewing this film, I could not sit in a darkish theater devoid of continually looking up at the movie room. Yet again, greater than the remake!

5. The Fly: 1958
What can I say! It is a tale of the supreme an infection! The film tells the tale of a scientist’s try to generate a matter transporter, and an experiment that goes horribly awry. He assessments the machine on himself, unaware that he is not by yourself in the chamber…until finally it really is far too late.

Just after observing the movie, we ran all over our yards checking each individual spider world-wide-web for flies with white heads. The motion picture stars Vincent Value and David Hedison. It spawned many sequels and remakes, which had been remarkably good.

4. Creature from the Black Lagoon: 1954
Way in advance of Jaws strike the significant display screen, we were all frightened out of the water by the ‘Creature’, a reptilian-on the lookout, guy-beast with the hots for a quite woman (Julie Adams) he sees swimming in his area, the Amazon River. It was really like at first sight. He results in being a gentleman-beast on a mission as he tries to seize his lady-really like. There have been two sequels, Revenge of the Creature and the Creature Walks Amid Us…both equally creepy!

3. Godzilla: 1956
Still the greatest prehistoric, radiation-respiratory, dinosaur monster movie ever made. Initial launched as a 1954 Japanese movie termed Gojira, it was enhanced for its American release by adding footage starring Raymond Burr and an English soundtrack.

The Us residents have been testing A-bombs in the South Pacific. Now you can find a giant, radioactive dinosaur rising from the sea and attacking Tokyo. What to do, what to do? Right after various attacks on the town, a scientist with a hugely productive ‘bomb’ of his own saves the working day. It motivated several sequels, which includes the up-to-date 1998 remake. Loved it much too!!

2. Working day the Earth Stood However: 1951
Continue to displaying on a regular basis on Tv, this was the first ‘believable’ alien from outer place film. Compared with its current remake that’s major on special effects, the original’s a perfectly-published sci-fi drama and focuses more on the storyline.

Klaatu, an alien ambassador on a goodwill mission of peace and his peacekeeper robotic Gort, arrive on Earth throughout the early times of area exploration and atomic bomb screening. The extraterrestrial confederation he represents has outlawed violence and aggression among the its member planets and Earth falls in their region of authority. He provides us an offer, and a warning: Conclude our warring, violent means, be part of the alliance and reside, or confront annihilation by their enforcer robotic drive.

The 2008 remake is in fact the sequel to this wonderful motion picture. Naturally, we did not heed the warning!

And now, the most effective classic sci-fi film of the 50’s…(drum roll, you should)

1. War of the Worlds: 1953
In my feeling, it can be the grand-daddy of all sci-fi alien invasion movies! The inspiration for many, numerous films and Television set reveals, it truly is dependent on the H.G. Wells sci-fi traditional.

It handles 3 times in the course of which a worldwide Martian invasion approximately destroys mankind. The invaders arrive down in meteor-like ships and commence terra-forming Earth by ray-zapping people, in get to consider above the planet. We are helpless to cease them and all appears to be shed until finally they all out of the blue die from a mysterious an infection prompted by viruses we are immune to.

It experienced excellent unique results for the technological know-how of the time. My favorite scene is when the invaders deliver their roving-eye ‘camera’ into the basement of a home the place two people today a scientist and a attractive woman (performed by Gene Barry and Ann Robinson) have taken refuge. The scientist chops the head off of the digicam, which prompts one of the aliens to enter the property to look into. With their notice centered on what is occurring outside the house, they don’t observe him sneaking up powering them. He reaches out and grabs the female by the shoulder…YIKES!

I liked the initial, but I should acknowledge, the 2005 remake is way scarier, and definitely retains its possess!