Film History of the 1. The Cold War Era and Its Influence on Science Fiction.
Films: Science. fiction films, horror films, and fantasy films (flavored with Cold War. It won an Oscar for Best Special Effects. Another popular hit was Robert Wise's intelligent and.
The Day the Earth Stood Still (1. Emerging from the strange. Klaatu and robotic assistant Gort - with a clear. Byron Haskin's The War of the Worlds (1. George Pal- produced film) was adapted from H. G. Wells' 1. 89. 8 book. Martian invasion that was finally defeated by lowly bacterial.
Earth. vs. The Flying Saucers (1. Washington. Monument and the Capitol Building by alien spacecraft, with special effects. Ray Harryhausen. Christian. Nyby's classic sci- fi/monster film The Thing (From Another World) (1. James Arness from TV's famed Gunsmoke). North Pole's Arctic. The first in a long series of Britain's Hammer.
Studios low- budget, horror films was the internationally- successful The. Quatermass Experiment (1. At the other end of the spectrum of 'serious'. Ed Wood's campy, hilarious classic Plan 9 From. Outer Space (1. 95. The. first of 1. 95.
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Beast from 2. 0,0. Fathoms (1. 95. 3). The science- fiction. Them! Don Siegel's unforgettable.
Invasion of the. Body Snatchers (1. Communism) to replace humans with emotionless duplicate pods. The original sci- fi horror- film The Fly (1. The film led. to an American release a few years later (Godzilla - King of the Monsters. English. and recutting (removing all political content), and starring American. Raymond Burr (before gaining fame for Perry Mason) as reporter.
Steve Martin. Other science fiction monsters would soon follow from. Honda and producer Tomoyuki Tanaka, such as Rodan (1. Ghidrah (a three- headed monster), and Mothra. The two did not make another Godzilla.
King Kong vs Godzilla (1. Tokyo. Godzilla also fought against.
Mothra in Godzilla vs. Mothra (1. 96. 4), and against a 3- headed monster. Gidrah in Monster Zero (1. Ghidrah, The Three- Headed. Monster (1. 96. 5)).
The Cold War Era and Its Influence on Science Fiction Films: Science fiction films, horror films, and fantasy films (flavored with Cold War paranoia) flourished and.
The ultimate monster film was Honda's Destroy. All Monsters (1. 96. Earth's giant monsters (Godzilla. Rodan, Mothra, Angilas and Minya) threatening the cities of the world.
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The Godzilla monster would later return in. Gojira (1. 98. 4) (aka Godzilla 1. The Legend. is Reborn) - a remake of the 1. Godzilla. vs. Destoroyah (1. Godzilla. 2. 00. 0 (1.
Japanese Godzilla movie since the 1. US theatrical release). The ultimate films in. US series were Roland Emmerich's big- budget Godzilla (1. Anniversary film Godzilla: Final Wars (2. Disney's Feature- Length Animations and All- Live Feature Films: Disney Studios returned to feature- length 'story' animations this decade. Cinderella (1. 95.
The rags- to- riches story told. Fairy Godmother, a glass slipper. Lucifer, and a pumpkin that turned into a riding carriage. Another popular animated feature, Peter. Pan (1. 95. 3), was based on Sir J.
Barrie's fantasy book, with trademark. Tinkerbell (legendarily based on Marilyn Monroe's figure). Captain Hook. Disney's first 3- D cartoon was Melody(1. In 1. 95. 4, Disney began to distribute its films through. Buena Vista Film Distributing. The Lady. and the Tramp (1. Cinema. Scope, and featured a spaniel and mongrel who romantically shared.
To conclude the decade, Disney released. Sleeping Beauty (1. Tchaikovsky. Disney Studios' first all- live action feature film was Treasure. Island (1. 95. 0) - an adventure tale of gold and pirates based on Robert. Louis Stevenson's novel.
They also produced the exciting Jules Verne fantasy. Free The Letters (2015) Online. Captain Nemo (James Mason) and innovative, Academy Award- winning. Richard Fleischer's 2.
Leagues Under the Sea. Its live- action, family film hit, Old Yeller (1. Tommy Kirk. Their final. The Shaggy. Dog (1. Fred Mac. Murray. Fairy tales, such as The Ugly Duckling, The King's New Clothes. Thumbelina, were creatively blended into RKO Radio's Hans.
Christian Andersen (1. Danny Kaye in the title role as the. Danish writer and storyteller. Greatest Stars of the 5. The biggest box- office stars of the 1.
John Wayne, Bob Hope. Bing Crosby, Betty Grable, James Stewart, Abbott and Costello, Clifton. Webb, Esther Williams, Spencer Tracy, Randolph Scott, the team of Dean. Martin and Jerry Lewis, Danny Kaye, Gary Cooper, Doris Day, Gregory Peck. Susan Hayward, Alan Ladd, Marilyn Monroe, Humphrey Bogart, June Allyson. William Holden, Clark Gable, Glenn Ford, Marlon Brando, Grace Kelly, Burt. Lancaster, Glenn Ford, Kim Novak, Frank Sinatra, Jane Wyman, Yul Brynner.
Cary Grant, Debbie Reynolds, Pat Boone, Elvis Presley, Elizabeth Taylor. Brigitte Bardot, and Rock Hudson. James Stewart: Studio control of stars significantly eroded when James Stewart signed a precedent- setting independent (or free- lance) contract to share in the box- office profits (4.
Anthony Mann western Winchester '7. Harvey (1. 95. 0). In fact, for all his Universal Studios films (including Bend of the River (1. The Far Country (1.
Stewart took no salary in exchange for a large cut of the profits - - a very lucrative deal. As a result, he earned increasingly high salaries, became a pioneer of the percentage deal (a performer accepted a reduced or non- existent salary in exchange for a percentage of the box office profits), and was the industry's top box- office star by mid- decade.
For Winchester '7. Stewart earned $6. Audrey Hepburn and Elizabeth Taylor: 2. Audrey Hepburn became a star and won the Best Actress Oscar in. William Wyler's captivating comedy/romance Roman. Holiday (1. 95. 3) when she played a princess traveling incognito.
Rome - and falling in love with reporter Gregory Peck. She then starred. Billy Wilder's romantic comedy Sabrina (1. Humphrey. Bogart and William Holden, in Funny Face (1. Fred Astaire. and in the noteworthy drama The Nun's Story (1.
Sister Luke in the Belgian Congo where she meets a handsome. Peter Finch). The lovely, just- married (to hotelier Nicholas Conrad Hilton, Jr.), 1. Elizabeth Taylor appeared in Vincente Minnelli's.
Father of the Bride (1. Toward. the end of the decade, she starred in two Tennessee Williams' adaptations. Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1.
Maggie (the . She soon married the recently- divorced Eddie Fisher (from. Debbie Reynolds) in 1.
March, 1. 96. 4). After. the duo split their partnership in 1. Lewis went solo in the 6.
The Bellboy (1. 96. The Nutty Professor (1. The Golden Age of British Comedy: England experienced a . They were produced by Michael Balcon's Ealing Studios.
The social commentary films. Alec Guinness: In 1.
British film companies (Ealing, Rank, and. London Film Productions- Korda) began to supply their feature films to. US television networks - they were the first films to be made available. A plaque at the studio described what. Ealing Studios had accomplished over almost two decades: . A. few of the prominent actors who would reappear in later installments included. Charles Hawtrey and William Hartnell.
Other British Influences: The. British theatrical work from Oscar Wilde, The Importance. Being Earnest (1.
UK actors Dame Edith Evans, Margaret Rutherford, and Michael Redgrave. UK- born Peter Sellers' popularity was enhanced in the. United States after he starred in Jack Arnold's comedy The Mouse That. Roared (1. 95. 9). John Osborne's groundbreaking, popular British play. Tony Richardson as Look Back. Anger (1. 95. 9), with Claire Bloom, Edith Evans, and Richard Burton.
This UK film led to a. The famed Universal monster Frankenstein appeared for the. Hammer Studio's version The Curse of. Frankenstein (1. 95.
Terence Fisher, with Peter Cushing. Baron Victor Frankenstein, and Christopher Lee as the Monster. This. film marked the advent of a long cycle of the studio's stylistic gothic. Lee also playing the famed Dracula vampire, as in Fisher's.
Horror of Dracula (1. In the same year as Hitchcock's ground- breaking and disturbing. Psycho (1. 96. 0), master British cinema- maker. Michael Powell made a dark, disturbing and shocking thriller Peeping. Tom (1. 96. 0) in vivid Technicolor, one of the earliest .
It was about a voyeuristic, psychopathic cameraman with a phallic- knife. The film's. tagline was: .