What was your favorite sci-fi movie from the '50s-'60s?

[gen70]

The Godzilla and King Kong movies.

[jmarkross]

The Gozilla invasion of Japanese legend-monsters initiated a whole new era...I always liked Gamera--he always had a boy with him and he would protect him (every kid's dream) but--I think I liked the little Mothra Twins who sang to the ever-slumbering Mothra to wake it up whenever it was needed...the song--still haunts me today..."Mo-ta-ra-ah"

[Generals64]

I guess I'm too much older than you guys.....But, the birds was pretty nerve-wracking.....Then, I guess the Japanese specials were about the time I realized there were girls on earth and I didn't really care bout the scary shows.....Never mind.....

[jmarkross]

"The Birds"...a classic by any measurement--and scary! I saw it one night and I will always remember noticing on the way out of the theater EVERYONE glanced up into the sky--and I am sure they were not really aware of it...ha! All those eyes getting poked out! Cataract surgery gone haywire!

[jmarkross]

^^^^ BTW--it was also in that movie that I fell madly in love with Miss Tippi Hedren...what a foxy lady...

[flintysooner]

Yes, The Birds was very scary and I definitely had a crush for Tippi Hedren - although I think about that age getting crushes was pretty easily accomplished. I liked her daughter a lot, too.

[Generals64]

what about teenage werewolf:....Micheal Landon....kinda cheesey but, so is Godzilla vs. King Kong.....Man, King Kong died a long time ago...

[ljbab728]

"The Birds"...a classic by any measurement--and scary! I saw it one night and I will always remember noticing on the way out of the theater EVERYONE glanced up into the sky--and I am sure they were not really aware of it...ha! All those eyes getting poked out! Cataract surgery gone haywire!

I still think about that movie today every time I see a large concentration of birds flocking in one area.

[PennyQuilts]

I'm no good at this sort of trivia - what was the one that had that big swampy plant go around killing people? I also was scared to death by the House of Wax one. As a little kid, I used to worry that I would see a giant spider coming along the horizon (all the movies about radiation inspired).

[FRISKY]

I'm no good at this sort of trivia - what was the one that had that big swampy plant go around killing people? I also was scared to death by the House of Wax one. As a little kid, I used to worry that I would see a giant spider coming along the horizon (all the movies about radiation inspired).

Plants attacking - Day of the Triffids. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0055894/

Giant spiders attacking - So many, but probably; Earth vs. The Spider http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0051570/ or Tarantula http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0048696/

[FRISKY]

I still think about that movie today every time I see a large concentration of birds flocking in one area.

Me too, and I think about "Jaws" every time I go to the ocean.

[jmarkross]

I still think about that movie today every time I see a large concentration of birds flocking in one area.

ESPECIALLY on a telephone line--OMG!!!!

[jmarkross]

Plants attacking - Day of the Triffids. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0055894/

Giant spiders attacking - So many, but probably; Earth vs. The Spider http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0051570/ or Tarantula http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0048696/

LOVED the Triffids--have that on DVD. "Eight-Legged Freaks" is a good newer spider movie--spiders never disappoint...the brief spate of "Shrinking People" and "50-foot People" movies were also a oddity of the 1950's. I swear--the movie "I Was A Teenage Frankenstein" made me ease off the foot-feed many times in my youth...when my very soul said put the hammer right through the floor on the old lady's Chrysler New Yorker 413-Hemi-Firedome...

[papaOU]

attack of the 50ft woman

[jmarkross]

Not a 50's or 60's movie...but..."Near Dark" was a great movie..."it's finger-lickin' good!"

[FRISKY]

^^^That reminds me...
Although it was from the early '70s, "A Boy and His Dog" is one of my favorites because of the last scene.

[Generals64]

^^^That reminds me...
Although it was from the early '70s, "A Boy and His Dog" is one of my favorites because of the last scene.

that was ole yeller Frisky....

[jmarkross]

Old Yeller...still makes me tear up...

[gen70]

The Island of Dr. Moreau.

[OKCRT]

Lost in Space.
Sometimes I feel that way.

[papaOU]

The Tingler!! At the theater. saw it at the Yale. Seems like of the 3 theaters on the Hill, Redskin would make 4, Yale is the one that showed all the sci-fi and horror movies. This was during the 1960's, although The Redskin ran the 3-D 13 Ghosts.

[jmarkross]

The Tingler!! At the theater. saw it at the Yale. Seems like of the 3 theaters on the Hill, Redskin would make 4, Yale is the one that showed all the sci-fi and horror movies. This was during the 1960's, although The Redskin ran the 3-D 13 Ghosts.

At the Boomer Theater in Norman--it was actually wired with those "vibrators" that jiggled your seat during the "Tingler" appearances (in an odd pattern of seating--maybe 20 or so in the theater)...made a lot of racket and people laughed...as bad a special effect as the "Emerge-O" effect during "House on Haunted Hill" when it was first run in 1959--where a plastic skeleton cranked out over the audience on the right and left side of the screen during the acid-bath scene where the spook came out of the vat...

[jmarkross]

Just happened to be watching "Strait-Jacket" with Joan Crawford tonight--pretty good--but--it has the lovely and beautiful foxy lady Miss Diane Baker in it....I have always loved her. "Marnie" was another hit with her--a double-treat with Tippi Hedren too...and then as an older woman--she was marvelous in "Silence of the Lambs" as the politician...she is class all the way...with that mane of hair...

[ljbab728]

I liked Forbidden Planet. Anne Francis was hot stuff!
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0049223/

She passed today at the age of 80.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110104/...s_obit_francis

[mugofbeer]

I also have to go with Forbidden Planet. A great idea that someone could redo.