As adaptations of William Shakespeare’s “The Tempest” go, “Forbidden Planet” is out there. Out there in space, in fact. Starring Anne Francis and Leslie Neilson – yes, the guy from The Naked Gun films and all the rest – it tells the story of a mad scientist, his beautiful daughter, the monster that he...
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1956 – “Forbidden Planet” premieres
1951 – “When Worlds Collide” premieres
George Pal was the producer of some of the most famous science fiction movies of the Fifties – Destination Moon, War of the Worlds, The Time Machine and, of course, When Worlds Collide. Based on a Philip Wylie novel from 1933, When Worlds Collide has a ludicrous plot involving the evacuation of the planet...
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1951 – “The Day The Earth Stood Still” is released
“The Day The Earth Stood Still” was a milestone in the history of the cinema. It was perhaps the first truly serious science fiction movie, and certainly the first such film to acheive mainstream success. Before it, and for the most part, after it, science fiction films were b-movies. “The Day The Earth Stood...
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1932 – “Doctor X” premieres
“Doctor X” was the second Warner Bros. movie to be filmed using the improved Technicolor process which both removed grain and improved the colour and clarity of the film. Starring Fay Wray, Lee Tracy and Lionel Atwill, the film was directed by Michael Curtiz (best known to history as the director of “Casablanca”. The...
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“The Time Warp” from ‘The Rocky Horror Show’
“You’re spaced out on sensation – Like you’re under sedation” I don’t know what sedatives are like on the planet of Transexual, in the galaxy of Transylvania – or whether the biochemistry of a Transexual is sufficiently different from that of a DirtlingEarthling that there’s some sort of peculiar reaction to our Earth sedatives…...
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