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To: mountn man

I must have imagined it?
If they don’t have listed below??

https://www.filmsite.org/disasterfilms.html
Nuclear Holocaust Disaster Survival: Five (1951)
Vegetable-Based Alien Organism Found in Arctic: The Thing (From Another World) (1951) - remade in 1982
Aliens With Message of Peace: The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951) - remade in 2008
Otherworldly Alien Visitor: The Man From Planet X (1951)
Threat of Plane Crash: No Highway in the Sky (1951, UK)
Planetary Impact Between Earth and Rogue Planet: When Worlds Collide (1951)
Communist A-Bomb Attack Upon US: Invasion USA (1952)
Civil Unrest After Fake Messages From Russian-Influenced Man About Utopia on Mars: Red Planet Mars (1952)
Red Planet Invasion: Invaders From Mars (1953)
Martian Invaders from H.G. Wells: The War of the Worlds (1953), remade as War of the Worlds (2005)
Amphibious, Fire-breathing Monster Brought to Life by Nuclear Testing: Godzilla: King of the Monsters (1954), and Gojira (1954, Jp.)
The High and the Mighty - 1954Loss of Airplane Engine During Trans-Pacific Flight: The High and the Mighty (1954), a precursor to later airplane disaster films
Alien Crash-Landing in Arizona Desert: It Came From Outer Space (1954)
Radioactive Giant Ants: Them! (1954)
Extra-terrestrials Kidnap American Scientists: This Island Earth (1955)
Survival After a Nuclear Attack: Day the World Ended (1956), remade as In the Year 2889 (1966)
Malevolent Pod-Creatures Take Over Human Bodies: Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956) - remade in 1978, 1993 and 2007
Giant Pterodactyl On the Loose: Rodan (1956, Jp.)
Alien Invasion and Attack by Flying Saucer-Spacecraft: Earth vs. The Flying Saucers (1956)
Giant Carnivorous Praying Mantis: The Deadly Mantis (1957)
Alien Meteorites Grew (When Exposed to Water) and Caused Human Petrification: The Monolith Monsters (1957)
Major Quakes Impending - Caused by Strange Killer Rock (Element 112): The Night the World Exploded (1957)
Murderous Stowaway Life Form on Manned Mission to Mars: It! The Terror From Beyond Space (1958)
Imperiled Ocean Liner: A Night to Remember (1958), a documentary-like chronicling of the Titanic disaster when the ocean vessel hit an iceberg
End-of-World Tale - Meteors On Collision Course With Earth: The Day the Sky Exploded (1958, Fr/It.)
Post-Apocalyptic Tribal Society: Teenage Cave Man (1958)
Giant Texan Lizards: The Giant Gila Monster (1959)
Survivors of Nuclear Devastation (WWIII) Awaiting End in Australia, As Radiation Drifted South: On the Beach (1959)
Sole Survivors in a World Decimated by Radioactive Cloud: The World, The Flesh, and the Devil (1959)


20 posted on 02/21/2019 6:25:53 PM PST by DUMBGRUNT ("The enemy has overrun us. We are blowing up everything. Vive la France!")
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To: DUMBGRUNT

What a great list of some of the ‘50s movies of the genre!

As an 8-15 y/o then, I saw many of those and lots of others.


46 posted on 02/22/2019 3:04:39 AM PST by octex
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