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I've decided that my new DVD collection vice should be collecting British science fiction films from the 50s and 60s. Recent additions include Woman Eater and Earth Dies Screaming (good print on Sky at the moment). Having been a fan of these films since the early 70s I'm nevertheless surprised that titles crop up that I've never heard of. Today from Amazon I've ordered Devil Girl From Mars and The Strange World of Planet X, I'd never heard of either of them before. What else is out there on DVD or not?

Many thanks in advance

noglea

I suppose obvious additions to your collection would be the three Quatermass films and the two Daleks films.

Rob Compton

Devil Girl from Mars is an amazing(ly funny) film!

rgds
Rob

DB7

Was the subject of an earlier site poll here:
http://www.britmovie.co.uk/forums/br...tion-film.html

I particularly enjoy those 50's and 60's b-movies like The Night Caller and especially Unearthly Stranger.

penfold

Or indeed the BBC originals of the Quatermass films, available on DVD...

Bit of a Bay Window, what??

Pip

Thanks for the opportunity to put in a plug for Village of the Damned (1960), a good interpretation of John Wyndham's The Midwich Cuckoos novel (the only major flaw being a shortfall in the number of creepy kids). Then there was the 1963 sequel Children of the Damned (I don't believe this was based in any way on John Wyndham's unfinished and unpublished sequel novel Midwich Main).

I am reluctant to suggest the duff 1962 Day of the Triffids but some people like it - maybe they haven't read the excellent book?

Pip
aka John Wyndham bore!

PS - all three films mentioned available on retail DVDs.

Dave Rattigan

Quatermass and the Pit (1967) is one of my favourite British sci-fis. I love Terence Fisher's The Earth Dies Screaming, and also recommend his two other sci-fis from the same era: Island of Terror (1965) and Night of the Big Heat (1968). They are both available on DVD from DD Video.

PS68060

I think I saw it on telly once, when I was at school in the eighties.

"Oh! Pete!"

Sgt Dudfoot

The Day The Earth Caught Fire is a superb film and deserves to be in your collection.

Gaumont

And here are a few more...

Spaceways
Four Sided Triangle
The Trollenberg terror (AKA the Crawling Eye)
The Abominable Snowman
Konga
Gorgo
Behemoth the Sea Monster

Hope that helps!
Gaumont

Shadwell

Have to agree with "The Day The Earth Caught Fire." Absolutely superb film and should be in everyones DVD collection!

clitheroekid

Four Sided Triangle has its moments....

MarcMorris

The good, the bad and the ugly ;-)

1952 Four Sided Triangle Terence Fisher
1952 Spaceways Terence Fisher
1953 Quatermass Experiment, The Rudolph Cartier
1954 Devil Girl from Mars David Macdonald
1954 Nineteen Eighty-Four Rudolph Cartier
1954 Stranger from Venus, The Burt Balaban
1955 Atomic Man, The Ken Hughes
1955 Gamma People, The John Gilling
1955 Quatermas II: A Serial in Six Parts Rudolph Cartier
1955 Quatermass Experiment, The Val Guest
1956 Fire Maidens from Outer Space Cy Roth
1956 X the Unknown Leslie Norman
1957 Quatermass 2 Val Guest
1957 Quatermass and the Pit Rudolph Cartier
1957 Strange World of Planet X, The Gilbert Gunn
1958 Behemoth the Sea Monster Douglas Hickox & Eugene Lourie
1958 Fiend Without a Face Arthur Crabtree
1958 First Man into Space Robert Day
1958 Trollenberg Terror, The Quentin Lawrence
1960 Village of the Damned Wolf Rilla
1961 Day the Earth Caught Fire, The Val Guest
1961 Gorgo Eugene Lourie
1961 These are the Damned Joseph Losey
1962 Brain, The Freddie Francis
1963 Children of the Damned Anton Leader
1963 Day of the Triffids, The Steve Sekely
1963 Unearthly Stranger John Krish
1964 Dalek Invasion of Earth, The Richard Martin
1964 Earth Dies Screaming, The Terence Fisher
1964 First Men in the Moon Nathan Juran
1964 Konga John Lemont
1965 City Under the Sea, The Jacques Tourneur
1965 Dr. Who and the Daleks Gordon Flemyng
1965 Gonks Go Beat Robert Hartford-Davis
1965 Night Caller, The John Gilling
1966 Brides of Fu Manchu, The Don Sharp
1966 Daleks' Invasion Earth 2150 A.D. Gordon Flemyng
1966 Frozen Dead, The Herbert J. Leder
1966 Invasion Alan Bridges
1966 Island of Terror Terence Fisher
1966 One Million Years B.C. Don Chaffey
1966 Projected Man, The Ian Curteis
1967 Night of the Big Heat Terence Fisher
1967 Quatermass and the Pit Roy Ward Baker
1967 They Came from Beyond Space Freddie Francis
1968 2001: A Space Odyssey Stanley Kubrick
1968 Lost Continent, The Michael Carreras
1969 Body Stealers, The Gerry Levy
1969 Journey to the Far Side of the Sun Robert Parrish
1969 Moon Zero Two Roy Ward Baker
1969 Zeta One Michael Cort

Automotivehistorian

Gonks Go Beat has some marvellous convertible cars that are driven up and down a disused? airfield runway and include a Chevrolet Corvette, an Austin-Healey 3000 Mk III, and the rarest of the lot, a 1965 Chevrolet Impala, right hand drive, assembled in Canada. It's worth it for the car scene alone! Oterwise a weird film I thought!

Aaryk Noctivagus

Warning, they are Pan and Scanned rather than original ratio.