1950's Sci-Fi Films.
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Joey Shabadoo
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This film scared the living bejeezus out of me when I was a kid, nightmares the lot.
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rTLRyLnqCH4
There's also a connection to Kate Bush & Hounds of Love
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rTLRyLnqCH4
There's also a connection to Kate Bush & Hounds of Love
Gravity Aided
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Yes, I've seen it. Worst of all the adaptations.Heh heh, just found this from 1956 - this is a real movie release(!)
Gravity Aided
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I loved Shape of Things to Come. He wasn't far off about when the war would start (He had it as Christmas, 1940) and the bombing of civilian populations.
Gravity Aided
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What goes best with science fiction?
Why, singing cowboys, of course.
(I actually have a copy of this somewhere)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Phantom_Empire
check out the dvds' at the https://scifistation.com they even have the ads from that period
Profpointy
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whilst Welles's whinge is in a sense correct, he does seem to have missed the point entirely. The film (Metropolis) isn't in any sense meant to be realistic surely. It's a nightmare vision, an allegory (on the banks the the nile?) rather than a real prediction like Things to Come or the Time Machine. Perhaps it's easier for us to see this. In a way the more realistic Things to Come has dated more than the fantastical Metropolis. I love both
kevin_cambs_uk
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One of my all
Time faves
The spaceship that is so huge and empty inside and yet weight is so critical!
Still love it!
Richard A Thackeray
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'Ditto'
Day The Earth Stood Still was an absolutely brilliant film, I used to have the paperback of it, gutted when I lost it
An odd film, which used to freak me out, when I was a kid (8 year old??)
I've still go some Cramps vinyl!!In fact any film the Cramps ever sang about !!!
Yes, original Godzilla, Forbidden Planet (excellent film, & based on an old English idea)
On a moer supernatural note; Night of The Demon really scared me as a kid (again, aged 8 9 - 10
jefmcg
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Well, sort of. It's The Tempest.
Agreed, excellent film, and very weird to watch Leslie Nielsen playing a serious character, and the love interest if you've only seen him in comedies.
Richard A Thackeray
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Profpointy
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I suspect not a Theramin. The sound track was by Louis and Bebe Barron, who, I believe were very much of the oscillators and tape-look school of music, rather than instruments like the Theramin
I recommend the record Sonic Sci-fi, which is the Barron's music for Forbidden planet, and Bernard Herman's Day the Earth Stood still music, plus a fair few extras from both.
Regarding the Tempest link, I must admit it's a bit tenuous plot wise. Presumably the robot is Ariel, and Prospero the mad scientist, but the whole them is very different.
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Bernard Herman threw everything at The Day the Earth Stood Still soundtrack. Quite a bit of Theramin in that one. Fine suite of music, considering science fiction movies weren't really taken all that seriously over here at the time.
jefmcg
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Well, there's also Miranda and Caliban. It's more "inspired by" than "based on"
