’50s Sci-Fi Collection

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Four-disc set includes: The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms (1953)Researcher Tom Nesbitt (Paul Christian) was deemed a lunatic for his eyewitness account of a massive dinosaur freed from suspended animation due to atomic testing in the Arctic. He’ll be proven right-to the regret of all-as the behemoth makes it’s way down the eastern seaboard and cuts a path of destruction through the streets of New York. Standard-setting sci-fi thriller, based on a Ray Bradbury story and highlighted by the stop-motion animation of Ray Harryhausen, co-stars Paula Raymond, Cecil Kellaway, Kenneth Tobey, Lee Van Cleef. 79 min. BW/Rtg: NR Them! (1954)Landmark sci-fi classic chronicles how atomic testing in a New Mexico desert results in ordinary ants being mutated into behemoth killing machines. As the enlarged insects wreak murderous havoc across the Southwest, police sergeant Ben Peterson (James Whitmore) teams with FBI agent Robert Graham (James Arness) to stop a pair of queen ants before they can give birth to another generation of terror. With Edmund Gwenn, Joan Weldon. 92 min. BW/Rtg: NR World Without End (1956)A quartet of astronauts on an Earth-to-Mars mission accidentally passes through a time warp and returns home in the year 2058. Once there, they discover that the planet has been devastated by nuclear war and the survivors-listless old men and provocatively garbed young women-are engaged in constant battle with giant spiders, cyclopean mutants and other horrors. Signature sci-fi saga of it’s time stars Hugh Marlowe, Rod Taylor, Nancy Gates, Nelson Leigh, Shirley Patterson. 80 min. C/Rtg: NR Attack Of The 50 Ft. Woman (1958)Allison Hayes cuts one very fine, five-story figure as Nancy Archer, an affluent California housewife who encounters a stranded alien on a deserted highway and is zapped by it’s “growth ray.” Now the beauteous behemoth sets out to make trouble for her philandering husband (William Hudson) and his other women, in this classic sci-fi turkey. Co-stars Yvette Vickers, George Douglas. 66 min. BW/Rtg: NR