Classic Movie World

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Includes:Dr. Cyclops (1940) Tarantula (1955) Cult of the Cobra (1955) The Mole People (1956) The Deadly Mantis (1957) The Land Unknown (1957) The Monolith Monsters (1957) The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957) Monster on the Campus (1958) The Leech Woman (1960) Dr. Cyclops The first Technicolor horror film since Mystery of the Wax Museum, Dr. Cyclops was directed by Ernest Schoedsack, of King Kong fame. Albert Dekker chews the scenery as mad scientist Dr. Thorkel, who has developed a process …

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Explore distant planets with this sci-fi set of B-movie classics. ALIEN WORLDS includes THE ALPHA INCIDENT; ASSIGNMENT: OUTER SPACE; ATTACK OF THE MONSTERS; BATTLE OF THE WORLDS; COSMOS: WAR OF THE PLANETS; DESTROY ALL PLANETS; FIRST SPACESHIP ON VENUS; THE INCREDIBLE PETRIFIED WORLD; KILLERS FROM SPACE; THE PHANTOM PLANET; PLANET OUTLAWS; ROCKY JONES, SPACE RANGER: CRASH OF THE MOONS; ROCKY JONES, SPACE RANGER: MENACE FROM OUTER SPACE; SANTA CLAUS CONQUERS THE MARTIANS; TEENAGERS FROM OUTER SPACE; THEY; THEY CAME FROM BEYOND SPACE; VOYAGE TO THE PLANET OF PREHISTORIC WOMEN; VOYAGE TO THE PREHISTORIC PLANET; and WARNING FROM SPACE.

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All of Washington, D.C., is thrown into a panic when an extraterrestrial spacecraft lands near the White House. Out steps Klaatu (Michael Rennie, in a role intended for Claude Rains), a handsome and soft-spoken interplanetary traveler, whose “bodyguard” is Gort (Lock Martin), a huge robot who spews forth laser-like death rays when danger threatens. After being wounded by an overzealous soldier, Klaatu announces that he has a message of the gravest importance for all humankind, which he will deliver only when all the leaders of all nations will agree to meet with him. World politics being what they are in 1951, Klaatu’s demands are turned down and he is ordered to remain in the hospital, where his wounds are being tended. Klaatu escapes, taking refuge in a boarding house, where he poses as one “Mr. Carpenter” (one of the film’s many parallels between Klaatu and Christ).  Klaatu arranges for the world to “stand still” — he shuts down all electrical power in the world, with the exception of essentials like hospitals and planes in flight.

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Beginning with a documentary style that immediately hooks the viewer, THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL, based on the Harry Bates short story Farewell to the Master, becomes as much a human interest story as it does a sci-fi B-movie classic. The film soberly depicts the arrival of an alien dignitary, Klaatu (Michael Rennie), who has come to earth with his deadly robot, Gort (Lock Martin), to deliver the message that earthlings must stop warring among themselves–or else. After being shot at by ignorant, panicky military guards, Klaatu is brought to a Washington, D.C., hospital, where he begs a sympathetic but frank Major White (Robert Osterloh) to gather all the world’s leaders so he can tell them more specifically what he has come 250 million miles to warn them about. Losing patience, Klaatu slips into the human world, adapting a false identity and living at a boarding house where he meets a smart woman with a conscience, Helen Benson (Patricia Neal), and her inquisitive son, Bobby (Billy Gray). Both mother and son soon find themselves embroiled in the complex mystery of Klaatu, his message, and the government’s witch hunt for the alien. Made during the cold war–when Americans were obsessed with the destructive capabilities of the atomic bomb–THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL, thanks to its beautiful pacing, excellent dialogue, and haunting score by Bernard Herrmann, is still a treat for contemporary audiences.

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