Turner Classic Movies-Sci-Fi Day! Man from Planet X & others!

If you get Turner Classic Movies, this just on. Sorry for the late post.

Classic old 1950s B&W sci-fi.

From AOL tv listings:
The Man From Planet X
90 Min. 06:00AM Thu., Jul 24
TCM

An alien asks earthlings (Robert Clarke, Margaret Field, Raymond Bond) for help and gets blasted by bazookas.





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Next up on Turner Classic Movies: (not everyone gets this channel, check your local lisings)

Riders to the Stars!

Another Classic!

Don't miss this one folks. It's in color and is VERY rarely shown.



From my AOL tv grid listing
Riders to the Stars
90 Min. 07:30AM Thu., Jul 24
TCM

A team of astronauts is assembled to bring a meteor back to Earth from the depths of outer space.



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Plan 9 From Outer Space
90 Min. 09:00AM Thu., Jul 24
TCM

Filmmaker Ed Wood Jr.'s laughable tale of alien invaders and resurrected corpses in the San Fernando Valley.





(Doubt this is the colorized version)



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It Came From Beneath the Sea
90 Min. 10:30AM Thu., Jul 24
TCM , CC

Scientists (Faith Domergue, Donald Curtis) and a submarine commander (Kenneth Tobey) bomb, zap and inflame a giant octopus invading San Francisco.

The Brain Eaters
75 Min. 04:30AM Sat., Jul 26
AMC

Hairy creatures drill to the earth's surface in an odd craft and latch onto the backs of human necks.

The Brain Eaters (1958)
From IMdB.com

The producers of this movie were sued by Robert A. Heinlein, who claimed the plot stole several elements of his novel, "The Puppet Masters". The suit was settled out of court.

I saw this movie at a theater in Pittsburgh in 1958-9 and remember the experience to this day. Back then theaters were big and coloful and a real experience. Everything was larger than life from the trailers to the previews.

Ahh the '50s. Now there was an era.

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They Came From Beyond Space
90 Min. 5:15PM
TCM

Spacemen need slaves on the moon. It's up to physicist (Robert Hutton) and his girlfriend (Jennifer Jayne) to save the world from domination.



**ATS fans - watch for the famous Tinfoil hat (kitchen Collander) scene** (at about 63 min into the broadcast incl commercials)


Quotes (Imdb.com):

Dr. Curtis Temple: Why that's impossible! No propulsion system on Earth could possibly send a rocket to the Moon and back in 24 hours.
Richard Arden: The system we employ was not created on Earth.

This British sci-fi film from the 60s is like most, quirky and fun. In addition there's pretty good story here as they keep the viewer in suspense as to their motives.

Director Freddie Francis won two Oscars, having worked uncredited on Day of the Triffids a classic. He's worked as cinematographer on a number of great films, Elephant Man, French Lieutenant's Woman, Glory, Cape Fear. He was also the Director on five episodes of a West German Cult TV show Star Maidens.



You just have time to pop up some kernels. Sorry for the late posting. Hope you get TCM - there's more to follow this afternoon. Stay tuned for more Badge-0-Wan Kenobi's Classic Sci-Fi and Fantasy Movie Writeups.





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The Killer Shrews
75 Min. 6:45PM
TCM

Captain (James Best) and his girlfriend (Ingrid Goude) find dog-sized Soricidae Soricomorpha on an island where a mad scient (Baruch Lumet) does genetic experiments.

Who hasn't been both scared and titillated as a kid watching this B&W classic starring 1957 Miss America in a supporting role on late night 'shock theater' shows?

Though a colorized version was released in 2007 (part of a Giant Gila Monster double feature), the B&W version is probably creepier.

Director Ray Kellogg also did the companion piece to this which played in Drive in Theaters - The Giant Gila Monster (1959).
He also did The Green Berets with John Wayne in the late '60s (1968)



Trivia: (IMdB.com:

o This film and its companion piece, The Giant Gila Monster (1959), marked the directorial debut of veteran special effects man Ray Kellogg.

o Coon dogs were used to play the killer shrews.

IMdB.com
Quotes:

Jerry Farrell: Looks like a rat, smells like a skunk - some call them bone-eaters.

**MS3K Quotes

"Honey? I think we have puppets in the basement again."
"Glove Puppets?"
"Well, they're under the stairs, so I don't think they're marionettes."

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Ed Wood gets mocked, but he really did love movie making.

I prefer TCM to AMC since AMC started airing commercials. I hope they keep TCM a decent classic movie channel.