It is to laugh - SciFi Posters from the past - mostly the 50s

[3825-87867]

Back when most cost a dime to fifty cents for entertainment to keep you from sleeping at night!

[SWBTATTReg]

1. Neat, neat, neat! And I saw some posters that I've never seen before. Someone has got a pretty dang nice collection!

[Permanut]

2. I have most of these on DVD, have watched them many times..

Lots of cool trivia about these classics -

Steve McQueen was 27 when he played a teenager in "The Blob".

Ray Harryhausen did the special effects for Earth vs. the Flying Saucers", a masterpiece of stop action from 1956.

Clayton Moore (The Lone Ranger) played a bad guy in "Radar Men From the Moon".

[eppur_se_muova]

11. Russel Johnson (The Professor on "Gilligan's Island") is listed on three of those posters.

Attack of the Crab Monsters, It Came from Outer Space, This Island Earth.

Lots of other well-known names (James Arness, Zsa Zsa Gabor). I have no idea who John Agar is/was, but he shows up a few times.

Adam West played an Air Force astronaut who crashed into the surface of Mars and died in "Robinson Crusoe on Mars".

Thanks to MIT's Lecture Series Committee's annual SF (all night) marathons.



ETA: Missed "Buster" Crabbe (who also played Buck Rogers and Tarzan) as Flash Gordon.

[dchill]

3. I love them all - the posters and the movies!

That was my youth.

[WestMichRad]

4. Great set of posters, thanks!

What about this one?

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=jane+fonda+barbarella+movie+poster&t=h_&iar=images&iax=images&ia=images&iai=https%3A%2F%2Fc8.alamy.com%2Fcomp%2FPM7RP3%2Fjane-fonda-barbarella-1968-poster-file-reference-31386-428tha-PM7RP3.jpg
(Sorry I don’t know how to post images on DU.)

[3825-87867]

10. Yeah, forgot Jane...

Must be that old age memory thing. But not to worry, I have that one, also, just no room to up load right now.
Here you go.

[intheflow]

5. I am so glad I decided to click on this thread!

So many excellent and excellently bad movies and artwork. V tv show tripped me out in my teens. THEM cracked 10yo Me up as I watched on a small b&w tv in the kitchen. I have seen 21 of these, but almost all the artwork was familiar because I work in a public library and have seen them on dvd. 😂

[slightlv]

6. One of my most favorite memories as a kid

is watching these 1950's SciFi movies on Saturdays with my Dad. Sometimes, they'd come on late at night, and Daddy would ask "you wanna shut eye?" That was my cue to climb up on the sofa in front of the TV with him, and gently fall asleep with his strong arm around me and Sci Fi echoing in the background.

Amazing collection!!!!!! I'm amazed you found a poster for the Monolith Monsters. Heck, I'm amazed anyone besides me even remembers it! I'm going to have to go hunt it to watch it. It scared me as a young kid. doubt it today, tho! (LOL)

One I didn't see, which also got me going as a kid was "Day of the Triffids"... remember that one?

[BOSSHOG]

7. Wonderful trip down memory lane, thanks

I remember Saturday afternoon double features for a quarter in the early 60s. Movies so bad they were good. Try to measure the scale of the 50 foot woman. I’d say that pic makes her about 200 feet tall. And the special effects were hilarious. Her hand was like a deflated balloon. Great stuff.

[marked50]

8. I have seen 34 of these 50. Guess I have more work to do. Thx. N/t

[3825-87867]

9. Got you by 7!

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Some are more difficult to find, but there are "news" ways!
Can't add! That should have been 7! Duh!

[eppur_se_muova]

12. Lots of unconscious women being toted around -- some by monsters, some by robots, some by macho heros.

My favorite was the one being carried by an astronaut in full space suit, in zero-G and presumably the vacuum of space. I guess he was just disposing of the body.

[GiqueCee]

13. It's surprising...

... how many big names got their start in B movies! Lloyd Bridges, Steve McQueen, James Arness, Hugh O'Brien, Chuck Connors, Leslie Nielsen, to mention just a few familiar names on these one-sheets.

I saw a some of the old ones in the theater as a kid on rainy Saturday afternoons, and "B" is being generous!