Great SF Movies from The
Fifties
The movie THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL from 1951 was
based on a 1940 pulp story, “Farewell To The Master” by Harry Bates, and
starred Michael Rennie and Patricia Neal, along with Gort the robot, and
probably one of the best SF movies of the period, about an emissary from space
arriving in a flying saucer to warn the world of disaster if they continue show
aggression when they enter space.
Another flying saucer brings another kind of emissary
in THE THING FROM ANOTHER WORLD, starring Kenneth Tobey and Margaret Sharidan,
and a monster carrot creature played by James Arness. The Thing was here to
conquer Earth, and except for a brave team at the Arctic Circle might have just
did that. It was Box Office success, and still popular today.
I had recently read the hardback edition of THIS
ISLAND EARTH, which was originally written in three stories appearing in the
pulp magazine, THRILLING WONDER STORIES in 1949, when this 1955 movie played in
Wichita Falls. Starring Jeff Morrow, Faith Domergue, and Rex Reason, is was
about scientists from another world arriving in a flying saucer to recruit
Earth scientists into helping them save their planet.
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