1950s Science Fiction Movies Everyone Can Love

[@mdcampbell7360]

Disney's 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea was one of my favorite sets of ViewMaster reels when I was a kid. I loved that giant squId. 🤣

[@terrytalksmovies]

That's a hell of a lot of calamari.

[@mdcampbell7360]

@@terrytalksmovies Damn straight! 🤣

[@mantroid]

Love those ViewMasters with their depth and 3-d like pictures!

[@keithf_]

The 1950s might just be my favourite decade for science fiction movies. Forbidden Planet, The Day The Earth Stood Still, This Island Earth, Invasion Of The Body Snatchers, The Incredible Shrinking Man, The Quatermass Experiment etc etc. Terrific movies one and all

[@terrytalksmovies]

They were!

[@ActionPanda-g5n]

Just watched Aussie Rod in an episode of the Twilight Zone 1960, he did a fine job as an American astronaut.

[@terrytalksmovies]

He had great range as an actor. Drama, comedy, action. Very underrated.

[@keithf_]

I've not actually seen '20000 Leagues' all the way through. Next time it's on TV I'm gonna watch it. Never ever seen 'World Without End' though. Got a bit of a soft spot for Rod Taylor as an actor. He starred in two movies I love, 'The Birds' and 'The Time Machine', and 'Time Machine' contains one of my absolute favourite scenes in ANY science fiction movie. The scene where George first wanders from his machine having travelled to WW1-era London, and where he learns about the fate of his friend Filby. The scene hits like a kick in the guts, both for George and for the viewer, with the notion that time travel might NOT be the enjoyable thrill ride one might think. The scene is beautifully played by Taylor & Young, and I never tire of seeing it. PS For you Terry, and anyone else out there who might be contemplating it ... if you're planning a time machine trip to the future, make your destination the far future rather than the near future, to save learning some stuff about people you know in the present day.

[@terrytalksmovies]

Rod Taylor was such an underrated actor. Even in a comedy like Sunday In New York he was terrific. I could go to the near future, pick up a few Lotto results and a bit of share info then dart back and clean up.

[@keithf_]

@@terrytalksmovies Oh ... FFS I never thought of that. Smart idea !

[@boomerdoug4242]

Nice movie choices Terry. "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea" has a real charm to it. Although as good as Kirk Douglas is ( showing a welcome lighter side to his persona) I always fast forward his singing scene. Special effects are excellent and production values are beautiful.

[@terrytalksmovies]

It also has that rich 1950s technicolor which popped much more than later technicolor.

[@JohnMinehan-lx9ts]

I liked his singing (but he has a flat, North East NTS accent like mine).

[@fje6902]

I remember seeing 20000 Leagues as a kid as part of a double feature with Tora Tora Tora. Thinking about it now, League of Extraordinary Gentlemen wasn't a good film, but they did get a Bollywood actor to play Nemo.

[@terrytalksmovies]

Yep. That was one of the good things about The League. The graphic novels are so much better.

[@Dontuween]

"Both 20,000 Leagues" & "Tora! Tora! Tora!" were directed by Richard Fleischer, whom I always thought was an underrated filmmaker. He also helmed "Fantastic Voyage".

[@georgemulligan5150]

One of the benefits of Disney's success with 20000 leagues was a revived interest in the works of Jules Verne and H.G Wells . Without 20000 leagues we of never had the "Time Machine", Around the world in 80 days, " The first men in the moon" or "Mysterious Island".

[@timeliebe]

@@terrytalksmovies - well, there was no way Sean Connery was going to play Alan Quatermain as an ancient, often-pathetic dipsomaniac like in the graphic novel, and they wouldn't have hired Connery if they'd wanted that. I admit, I loved Moore's idea of Moriarty as both a master criminal AND as "M" of the British Secret Service, and my inner Sherlockian laughed when one of the League suggested that Sherlock Holmes died because Mycroft ate him! I...kind of liked THE LEAGUE OF EXTRAORDINARY GENTLEMEN movie, or at least I found it entertaining enough as an in-flight movie on the endless flight from Los Angeles to Sydney, Australia.

[@BarryHart-xo1oy]

Quite true.

[@john-r-edge]

Good vid. Thoughtful take on Disney. Request - a future Scifi saturday themed around the opening song from The Rocky Horror Picture Show - "Science Fiction Double Feature". The song references a bunch of 1950s films. Well known: The Day the Earth Stood Still, Forbidden Planet, King Kong - plus others. Your audience will not insist you cosplay as FranknFurter, but channelling The Criminologist (played by Charles Gray) would be appreciated. Dammit Janet!!

[@terrytalksmovies]

Probably not going to happen. I'd rather deeper dive into two or three movies instead of briefly namechecking a bunch of them. 😀

[@Dontuween]

"20.000 Leagues", I believe was Disney's first feature in widescreen. In fact, very few Disney features at that time were shown in widescreen. The two others that I can only think of were the animated "Sleeping Beauty" and the live action "Swiss Family Robinson".

[@terrytalksmovies]

It looks choice in widescreen and that saturated technicolor of the time is delicious.

[@willieluncheonette5843]

Invasion of the Body Snatchers IMO is the best. Works on so many levels and Don Siegel's direction is superb.

[@terrytalksmovies]

It's good but I try never to compare the quality of very different movies. There seems no point. Cinema ain't a sport for me.

[@willieluncheonette5843]

@@terrytalksmovies Everyone has their own taste for sure. . If I didn't compare quality and sort out what I think is best and what my favorites are I would be just like a bowl of Jello--all over the place with no center. I usually don't like to use the word "best" but in this case, sorry, I think it's the best in the 50's. Maybe there's no point for you personally which is certainly fine. But as a filmmaker and critic myself, I really enjoy comparisons.

[@Skaramine]

I enjoy 20K Leagues (mainly because I don't remember the cannibal scenes), and feel like Master of the World would be an amazing double feature. In fact, I was under the impression that it, like Mysterious Island was a sequel, but Robur the Conqueror was a different "villain. "

[@terrytalksmovies]

Master of the World is a fun movie. It would've been better with a bigger budget, though.

[@fembotheather3785]

Disney did a great job with The Scarecrow of Romney Marsh.

[@terrytalksmovies]

That was shown as a TV multiparter if I remember correctly.

[@fembotheather3785]

@@terrytalksmovies That's how I saw it. They released it theatrically in Europe.

[@creech54]

@@fembotheather3785 Both versions are on the "Disney Treasures" DVD set.

[@brianartillery]

I take it that this is the movie version of 'Doctor Syn', based on the tremendous books by Russell (brother of Sybil) Thorndike? It's good, but I much prefer Hammer's 'Captain Clegg'.

[@fembotheather3785]

@@brianartillery There was a movie called "Dr Syn", based on the same character made in the 40s which I haven't seen. There was "Captain Clegg" with Peter Cushing, made right about the time Disney made theirs. The Disney version stars Patrick McGoohan as Dr Syn. It's among my favorite Disney movies.

[@evilpixie96]

when i was travaling, i found my self one night bare footed on the street in havey bay, talking to my mum on the phone who was back in blighty, when i steped on a twig with a snaping sound, looking down at the twig it tool a moment for my brain to register what i was looking at, a very unlucky now 4 legged spider bigger than my bare foot i screamed like a little girl and hoped of down the street. in other news just watched the french animation 'Mars Express' at a mates house with my mate doing the genral translation, language barrier not withstanding i think it was good solid sf

[@terrytalksmovies]

Thanks for the tip. I once accidentally touched a Huntsman spider while turning an outdoor light on in the dark. With the legs it was the size of a dinner plate.

[@KarlBunker]

>"I screamed like a little girl ..." Ha ha -- personally, I think I would have screamed _and fainted_ like a little girl.

[@BarryHart-xo1oy]

That’s a rather terrifying and grotesque story.

[@RamZar50]

The 1950s gave us two entertaining Jules Verne movies: - 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954) - Journey to the Center of the Earth (1959) I’ve watched each a good half dozen times. My favorite sci-fi movies from the 1950s are: - The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951) - Forbidden Planet (1956)

[@terrytalksmovies]

Journey To The Centre of the Earth doesn't hit for me for some reason. The others are all great.

[@BeoZard]

In novel 20,00 Leagues Under the Sea, Nemo was vaguely ethnic and was a representation of the Un-nationed people displace by the machinations of the European Powers. In Mysterious Island he was clearly identified as Indian.

[@dlee827]

Verne's original idea was to make Nemo Polish and the ships he sunk Russian. It was apparently the fact that his previous books sold so well in Russia that made him change his mind.

[@BarryHart-xo1oy]

You are right-l read “20,000 Leagues under the Sea” some years ago and l recall that the novel didn’t really specify Nemo’s ethnicity.

[@kaboombox1581]

World Without End, so of it’s time, right down to the awesome Pulp Sci-fi Poster.

[@terrytalksmovies]

Yep. Peak 1950s.

[@phyllisbronock2745]

We rewatched "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea" a month ago and enjoyed it. A good old fashioned escapist romp. As for Midwestern conservatism, it is known that Walt Disney met and developed a friendship with Ray Kroc, who bought out the McDonald brothers in 1961 to reinvent the synthefood business when the two of them enlisted in the Red Cross ambulance corps during World War One. Later, the two embarked on some cross fertilizing business ventures. Speaking of underground civilizations, one particularly cheesy version of that plot I remember is a western themed photoplay starring Gene Autry, "The Phantom Empire" 1935. Mount Shasta Mu survivors meet the Wild West? Stay very safe.

[@terrytalksmovies]

The Phantom Empire is a weird little serial. Neither fish nor fowl.

[@Laceykat66]

Great post as usual. I have never seen anything sparkling in World Without End. I love 50s sci-fi but this one just did not seem to have any adults looking over it. Like you said, not memorable. I have loved 20.000 Leagues. one of the first live-action Disney films. I love the style of the Nautalis and fantasized if I even made a spaceship Nemo's cabin would be the one I copied as my own. (Hey, give me a break, I was young 🤩). While I agree with your "Capt. Nemo" take I have to admit that James Mason's personality overcomes any problems you have listed. He is, of course, the same character here as in Journey to the Center of the Earth and even The Last of Shiela, but it fits in all those cases. I get a feeling of deeper complexity in his character than other actors who have taken on the role (See Herbert Lom in Mysterious Island).

[@terrytalksmovies]

Herbert Lom was always a great addition to any movie. He had gravitas.

[@guy_incognito]

Great episode, Terry. World Without End preceded Beyond The Time Barrier (Edgar Ulmer),. If you haven't seen it, track it down. It was one of those films that played during school holidays in the late sixties and early seventies. In story and theme they're very similar (most of those movies were), but the endings are quite different.

[@terrytalksmovies]

I have Beyond The Time Barrier on DVD. It uses great found locations.

[@BrooksWachtel]

The reshoot of the squid sequence during a storm, at night and with the Nautilus listing was suggested by screenwriter Earl Felton.

[@terrytalksmovies]

Always listen to the writer. 😀

[@BrooksWachtel]

@@terrytalksmovies Alas, they seldom get the credit they deserve.

[@brettcoster4781]

Good review, especially of 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea which I watched for the first time just a month or so ago. Found it very good and you're very right about Kirk Douglas and Peter Lorre really working well together. I also watched the 1916 film of 20,000 Leagues a week or so ago (Early Universals Vol 2 by Eureka) and that was surprisingly good. It actually combined lots of Mysterious Island, the sequel to 20,000 Leagues, and other stuff not included in either book so the story chopped and changed a bit. Its submarine looked great but not nearly as good as the later version. It was part Tardis too, fitting more and bigger rooms on the inside than you'd reckon from how big it was on the outside. But it was also one of the first films shot underwater, let alone a feature-length movie, and Nemo was actually an Indian character, though done in black-face by an Irish actor. Very worthwhile watch.

[@terrytalksmovies]

The movie version of Mysterious Island is pretty poor apart from the Harryhausen effects. None of the characters really hit for me.

[@BarryHart-xo1oy]

I need to track down the 1916 movie-it sounds fascinating.

[@unclepatrick2]

My father almost never took us to movies . 20,000 leagues was one of the exceptions.

[@terrytalksmovies]

Glad you have good memories of it. 😀

[@rogerrendzak8055]

Good emphasisization, on these films. Have 'World Without End', as part of my collection. And BTW, you're correct; Disney (and their attitude) blows😒!!! Disney material leaves a bad taste, in your mouth?? Everytime after viewing a Disney pic, I gotta brush my teeth, and gargle with disinfectant😝😁!!! Cheers from South Jersey, USA👍!!!

[@terrytalksmovies]

Thanks, Roger! Yeah, Disney has always been the obnoxious cousin of movie studios. That insistence on cultural imperialism doesn't sit well with people from other countries at times.

[@williamblakehall5566]

WWE and Leagues are solid fun. (Live action Disney was nicely parodied in the Joe Dante movie Matinee.) We nerds grew up wanting to BE James Mason as Captain Nemo. Thanks, Ter.

[@terrytalksmovies]

I'd rather be Ned Land with the street ladies. 😉

[@jeffmartin1026]

I am a fan of World Without End as a just-fun-to-watch film. Rod Taylor is definitely one of the fun reasons. 20,000 Leagues is quite the same for me, with Peter Lorre being the reason to watch it. I will watch either of them if I run across them, but neither are ones that I would go looking for.

[@terrytalksmovies]

Peter Lorre was great at reacting to the dialogue of others. Watching him do that is always a joy.

[@jeffmartin1026]

@@terrytalksmovies I just watched The Mask of Dimitries for the first time. Lorre and Greenstreet totally steal that film.

[@damianmagee1581]

Great choices. Long time I saw that film that had Rod Taylor, totally with you about Rod. And of course Peter Lorre and Kirk. Any film good or bad features Peter Lorre he just brilliant. In his biography Kirk going to sue Disney after filming his two young sons were looking at the set and at Disneyland, he told them its ok film me,but not my family especially my children.

[@terrytalksmovies]

Fair enough too. Keep the kids out of it unless the parents approve.

[@BarryHart-xo1oy]

As to Terry’s idea that nuclear missiles would be a better kind of weaponry than a nuclear submarine,Captain Nemo would probably have to build a bunch of missiles,which would probably entail using significantly more materials than one submarine.Also,from an environmental perspective,nuclear missiles would be excessively destructive,as they generate tremendous light and heat,together with the very dangerous fallout resulting from nuclear explosions.

[@terrytalksmovies]

Not even missiles. Just ship the nukes in crates and have a clockwork fuse.

[@nealepaterson3496]

It's a funny thing, Disney live action films, back in the day. As a child, the animated films were the absolute gold standard of entertainment, even the not so good ones, and yet being dragged along to the live actioners seemed like some form of punishment. 20,000 Leagues was certainly the exception, as you say. (I do recall seeing The Scarecrow on TV as a very young child and absolutely sh*tting myself because of the scary masks, all of which would be highly suitable for serial killers in 80s slasher movies - what a strange, dark, clumsy, intense children's series...) I have a soft spot for The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. It tanks disastrously after a strong opening, but I watched it with my son years ago and it brings back fond memories. And I love Richard Roxburgh as a bad Hollywood villain in a misguided adaptation of a classic. Thinking about it just now it might have been better if they'd let David Hemmings play the lead instead - he'd have had no issue with playing Quartermain as a drug-addled wreck...

[@terrytalksmovies]

The League is fun as long as you don't read the graphic novels. I just wish Connery's last role was a better one.

[@mybachhertzbaud3074]

All 50's sci-fi is great as long as you have a sense of humor.😁

[@terrytalksmovies]

... or if you self-medicate.

[@mybachhertzbaud3074]

There are some I believe where that is mandatory.😜

[@williamthompson286]

Hugh Marlowe was also in Earth Vs The Flying Saucers and The Day The Earth Stood Still. Significantly both are movies that have "earth" in the title. All his best acting was done while holding a pipe.The preferred tobacco addiction accoutrement of scientists everywhere. Kirk's(Ned Land) disgust of the seafood offered him at Nemo's table makes him a perfect surrogate for the unadventurous conservative American audiences of the 50s.

[@terrytalksmovies]

The food sounded interesting to me. 😀

[@andreaslermen2008]

I grown-up in a small city, so our cinema never had the top movies within the first 4 weeks. To fill this,. they showed at Sundays often older movies. So I had the chance, to watch 20000 Leagues on the big screen. For a 7 or 8 years old, that movie was very impressing. Watched a very disturbing movie yesterday. I got hooked to "Climax" (with Sofia Boutella) by a awesome dance choreography, but that movie takes a very dark turn in the second half.

[@unclepatrick2]

I was a military brat . I lived on a base in Japan . The base theater would show films for kids on Saturday Afternoon . Our mother dropped us off and would go shop and gossip. Disney live action films were very popular .

[@terrytalksmovies]

Recommended or not?

[@terrytalksmovies]

There were so many bad Disney live action movies in the 1960s. I'm still scarred.

[@unclepatrick2]

@@terrytalksmovies not denying Disney had some bad movies in the 60’s and 70’s The Kirk Russel college films are the first that come to mind The Disney Babe in toy land is another .

[@andreaslermen2008]

​@@terrytalksmovies Climax is worth a watch, but it ticks every box in content warning. The script was just 5 pages and it is a kind of "let the camera run and see what will happen" experimental movie. Very surreal and violent, I'm still surprised that this film got a 16 rating here in Germany. You will hate every character! kzbin.info/www/bejne/kJCbY3WcrLd7p5Y I went to few reviews, I think it is worth a second watch, since there is a lot of hidden details, you can watch in the first time, even it is disturbing like hell.

[@rsacchi100]

I wonder if the crash scene in "Word Without End" was also used in other movies. Atomic bombs in 20,000 leagues? In the movie Captain Nemo was using his sub as a precision weapon, warships and ships carrying nitrate. An atomic bomb isn't a precision weapon. There are also other complications with building an atomic arsenal. There are only a few fisionable materials. It's not a thermo nuclear submarine, which is even beyond today's technology.

[@terrytalksmovies]

Nemo blew up his island base with a nuke.

[@brewstergallery]

Hey Terry from Ned and Janet in Spain. Thanks for this review. World Without End is such a time capsule and a classic Man fantasy : Our era is long dead, so no guilt over wives and girlfriends who are dust, the new world is no competition for our manliness and full of responsive showgirls in mini tunics and stilettos. There are mutated spiders and insane trog people but hey we're Americans so we have this under control....

[@terrytalksmovies]

Yep there's a bit of that Analog Magazine gung ho to the movie.

[@palmercolson7037]

10,000 Leagues Under The Sea is another old movie that I need to catch up on. I have seen multiple times the movie linked to it, Mysterious Island. I think this may be the fault of Disney to some degree. I don't think they let the movie (and others) be shown unless it is on a Disney channel. Later on, when I looked for any VCR tape or DVD to watch from a store, the movie was in the rental section reserved for children. After all, it's a Disney movie, it must be for kids.

[@terrytalksmovies]

20,000 League is rewatchable.

[@fembotheather3785]

The ending of 20000 leagues under the sea IMO actually works better than the one in the book.

[@terrytalksmovies]

You're right but it's still a death cult kinda ending.

[@jsl151850b]

@@terrytalksmovies *Atomic energy to be rediscovered "in God's good time"?*

[@Nedski42YT]

The bazooka "ammunition" from 1956's World Without End were used as some kind of control rods in 1958's Queen of Outer Space. See the scene near the end of the movie in the control room of the Venusian super weapon that is to destroy the Earth. They don't make them like they used to!

[@terrytalksmovies]

I love re-used props.

[@sidmarx7276]

Tragedy in 1950's cosmetics: What happened to Helena Rubinstein? Max Factor, that's what.

[@terrytalksmovies]

*boom tish*

[@brewstergallery]

Oh yeah...what you said about Hugh Marlowe is spot on. He was the plank everyone had to work around. He is absolutely amateurish in the Day The Earth Stood Still. One exception was his role in All About Eve, he seemed to be trying. Probably out of fear of the wrath of Bette and Mankiewicz too.

[@terrytalksmovies]

Even in All About Eve, Marlowe pales beside George Sanders.

[@brewstergallery]

@@terrytalksmovies The difference between a plank and a wide open majestic sea

[@timeliebe]

I have enjoyed WORLD WITHOUT END the several times I've seen it, partly for its mix of Fifties earnest SF and...hilariously outdated Fifties attitudes, especially the astronauts' towards the beautiful miniskirted women Of The Far Future! As you said, Terry, Jaffe (the slightly weaselly-looking, quasi-comic relief guy) is really broken up about never seeing his wife and child again...for a few minutes, or until they discover the advanced underground society with the hubba-hubba redhead who decides she'd love to make him forget all about his long-dead family, and start a new one with her.... I-don't remember Rod Taylor having a British or Australian accent, or enough of one to stick in my mind! I thought he sounded like he always sounded, Midlantic-which worked for both his educated businessman roles and hunky roughneck hero ones. The first time you called him "a local boy", Terry, I was like "Rod Taylor's Australian?"

[@terrytalksmovies]

Wow! Yep, Rod Taylor and I were born about 10 kilometres and a number of years apart.

[@chrisleach3958]

I don’t think Disney has ever had an original idea. Even steamboat Willy was stolen from Felix the cat

[@terrytalksmovies]

Three Caballeros and Saludos Amigos were imaginative and original but Disney himself didn't think them up.

[@BarryHart-xo1oy]

Thank you for pointing this out.

[@keith2366]

I loved Disney live action films. 20,000 Leagues, Treasure Island, Darby O'Gill, Pollyanna, Swiss Family Robinson, Scarecrow of Romney Marsh. As for James Mason, I agree 100%. I love James Mason but he doesn't work as Captain Nemo.

[@terrytalksmovies]

Disney live action dived off a cliff starting with Moon Pilot.

[@TheVid54]

The better Jules Verne movie with James Mason was 1959's JOURNEY TO THE CENTER OF THE EARTH. The better CinemaScope 50's sci-fi camp movie was QUEEN OF OUTER SPACE, where Zsa Zsa Gabor far outshines Rod Taylor in your pick. If you're into Rod Taylor, you should check out COLOSSUS AND THE AMAZON QUEEN, a peplum where he's the comic relief for his "bromantic" buddy Ed Fury.

[@terrytalksmovies]

There's also Seven Seas To Calais where he co-starred with another Australian actor, Keith Michell.

[@brunozeigerts6379]

Both 20000 Leagues under the Sea and In Search of the Castaways were written by Jules Verne. So... how much of the attitudes to natives derived from the book and how much was Disney's perception... I couldn't say. It's been decades since I read 20000 Leagues and I never read In Search of the Castaways... but the perception of primitives as cannibals was common at the time the books were written.

[@terrytalksmovies]

As opposed to the Europeans who just killed people and left them to rot during the Imperial Era.

[@brianartillery]

The Nemo of the (and I loved the comic books and graphic novels so I can say ) deeply flawed 'League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen' movie, is, for me, the definitive Nemo. The rocket from 'World Without End' looks suspiciously like the space ark from the superb 'When Worlds Collide', to me. Both movies are a lot of fun, though.

[@terrytalksmovies]

Yep I'm told the rocket is a well-used one.

[@d.bcooper7819]

Two excellent movies!

[@terrytalksmovies]

Thanks! Have a great weekend.

[@mrlondellsgroovymovies]

I've always liked "World Without End" - a great late-night sci-fi schlockfest that puts you to sleep as the end credits roll. 20K Under the Sea, is a classic-an Essential. Every collection should have it in a place of honor. It's funny how we see Disney with different eyes. Everything you suggest they do to improve it has - IMHO - ruined it. It's always been kid-friendly, and that is what Walt meant it to be.

[@terrytalksmovies]

Walt has been dead for sixty years (almost). The world has moved on.

[@mrlondellsgroovymovies]

@@terrytalksmovies And the people in charge of his legacy are killing it. I wonder if you can bury it along side him?

[@taker68]

The Time Travelers is an OK film but the ending really wowed me as a kid. Some on YT are constantly yelling about Disney being "too woke." I saw 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea as a kid on TV and loved it although I later learned how different from Verne's novel it is, like Nemo is supposed to be an Indian prince. I read many of Wells' books but never got around to Verne. Did see many Verne adaptations like Master of the World which is 20,000 Leagues redone as an airship.

[@terrytalksmovies]

Any time anyone says 'woke' unironically, feel free to dismiss what they say. 😀

[@phrynejames5713]

Looking forward to the next one!

[@terrytalksmovies]

LOL

[@phrynejames5713]

​@@terrytalksmovies feel free to mention me by name, it's my own fault lol

[@themorn2112]

I really enjoyed watching 20K leagues under the sea. On a related front i would like your take on another Jules Vernes novel (Robur the Conqueror/Master of the World) movie "Master of the World" starring Vincent Price.

[@terrytalksmovies]

Also starring Charles Bronson!

[@clangerbasher]

Yes Disney and Marvel IP's are earning tonnes of money aren't they? Huge audiences. And so much acclaim on line too.

[@terrytalksmovies]

Long term, Marvel made beaucoup profits. Disney makes more money on the merch and amusement parks than the movies these days.

[@adambenton9673]

I have complicated feelings about Disney too, I hope to tell you about it some day

[@terrytalksmovies]

It's problematic and influential, which is always an annoying combination.

[@garfieldsmith332]

Agree both films are enjoyable. Snagged a bluray of When Worlds Collide last summer after trying to find it for years. Entertaining film from the 50s, just need to ignore some of the overtones or messages in the film. Saw 20,000 Leagues at the theater on a rerelease and still enjoy the film. However enjoy it for the special effects, especially all scenes with the Nautilus. And also because it is the best adaption of the Verne novel I have seen. Yes Peter Lorre is great in it. There is a video about the making of the film and the not so good squid scenes is on you tube. Not a big Disney fan as well. I was also shuffled off to the theater to see Disney live and animated films. no matter what. . Apparently in the first drafts of the Verne novel, Nemo was Polish and his family was killed by the Russians. His publisher asked him to change the character so as not to disrupt sales of the novel in Europe. Politics even back then.

[@terrytalksmovies]

Yep but I think the Indian Prince angle is much cooler and it has played better in the modern era than the other option.

[@garfieldsmith332]

@@terrytalksmovies Agree. In most of the adaptions he has no known nationality. Same with Mysterious Island.

[@RSEFX]

Also liked Christophe Dark's portrayal and Nelson Leigh's ability to lend some gravitas to some fairly standard 50's sf-background. In fact, cast generally pretty good in my opinion, Btw, there isn't anything (other than the model ship) from FLIGHT TO MARS. FTM helped launch the film with the idea of using stock footage from it (typical rather dumb studio-head reason to make a film) but nothing was actually used. (That model was used in few other films too).

[@terrytalksmovies]

It's a very iconic shape. Hopefully it eventually went to a good home.

[@creech54]

Love the Monogram rocket! Also used in "It! The Terror", "Queen of Outer Space", etc.

[@aengusmacnaughton1375]

Terry -- are you wearing a white t-shirt to hide your Spiderman pajamas????

[@aengusmacnaughton1375]

Aha -- somehow the camera view has widened a bit -- looks like a hockey jersey! Hockey? Did you move to Canada?

[@terrytalksmovies]

It's a shirt with the Welsh flag on it to honour my ancestors.

[@glenhayman8722]

would love to have your opinion of the other steam punk disney island at the top of the world

[@terrytalksmovies]

I mentioned it in an old video. Boring because the lead actor David Hartman was dull as lead.

[@Mark-lx6xj]

Is that a Cardiff Devils shirt you're wearing?

[@terrytalksmovies]

Iechyd da! Just a Welsh flag one, boyo! 😀😉

[@RSEFX]

Just my opinion, of course.: I LOVE the title WORLD WITHOUT END. It was a brave choice to move away from cheap-sounding, blatantly , obvious kind of title so common to SF films of that era ( Very evocative I thought when I was an 8-year old kid seeing ads for it on TV and in the paper when it originally came out. (The original shooting title was FLIGHT TO THE FUTURE...appropriate but.....zzzzzzz.) I have the director's diary from the time. One thing he was really upset about was the mechanism that made the legs and mandibles work on the spider broke down, and, on an 11 day super-tight shooting schedule, it was not remotely possible, he later said, to try to fix it. It was pretty bad regardless, not helped by the gaudy paint job!---blue with red-eyes! I guess that's what was wanted in a Technicolor movie!---but ill-advised. Ugh. Some of the "mutates" have two eyes, a couple of them stacked on top of each other rather than sid-by-side, an idea that really spooked me when I first saw the film. Bernds worked on LOS HORIZON, which was some of his inspiration for this film. A few scenes in it are paraphrased in WWE. Thanks for covering it though. Often overlooked. Always welcome time watching your videos. Especially when you cover something a bit more "off-road". Cheers!

[@terrytalksmovies]

The colours of the spiders are a little WTF too. Very primary colour.

[@brunozeigerts6379]

Maybe Michael Ansara would have been a better choice for Nemo. I'm not sure how well known he was at the time. He was in Abbot and Costello meet the Mummy... as a henchman. He would have been better case as the lead villain.

[@terrytalksmovies]

How about Boris Karloff? He had Indian ancestry.

[@brunozeigerts6379]

@@terrytalksmovies Good one... didn't know he had Indian ancestry. He was better known at the time, I believe.

[@gigigalaxy1395]

Thanks for your support of the gay community . I live in New York State & we have big spiders too.

[@terrytalksmovies]

I always will support LGBTQIA+ people, @gigigalaxy1395. Spiders don't worry me, capitalists do.

[@grantman7181]

even though kirk Douglas when drunk asked my mum out on a date in England she still took me to 2000 leagues a a my first movie date with my mum I throughly enjoyed it a month later she took me to Jaws

[@terrytalksmovies]

The 'when drunk' part is very unflattering. 😀

[@RSF-DiscoveryTime]

Like 50s sci-fi? Here's a few: Abbott And Costello Go To Mars (1953) Attack Of The Crab Monsters (1957) Attack Of The Giant Leeches (1959) Attack Of The Puppet People (1958) Battle Beneath The Earth (1967) Battle Beyond The Sun (1959) Battle In Outer Space (1959) Beast From Haunted Cave (1959) Beginning Of The End (1957) Captive Women (1952) Cat Women Of The Moon (1953) Conquest Of Space (1955) Creature From The Black Lagoon (1955) Creature With The Atom Brain (1955) Cult Of The Cobra (1955) Curse Of The Faceless Man (1958) Day The World Ended (1955) Destination Moon (1950) Devil Girl From Mars (1954) Donovans Brain (1953) Earth Vs The Flying Saucers (1956) Earth Vs The Spider (1958) Fiend Without A Face (1958) Fire Maidens Of Outer Space (1956) First Man Into Space (1959) Flight To Mars (1951) Flying Disc Man From Mars (1950) serial Frankenstein 1970 (1958) Frankenstein' Daughter (1958) From Hell It Came (1957) From The Earth To The Moon (1958) Return Of The Fly (1959) The Abominable Snowman (1957) The Alligator People (1959) The Amazing Colossal Man (1957) The Angry Red Planet (1959) The Astounding She-Monster (1957) The Atomic Submarine (1959) The Beast From 20000 Fathoms (1953) The Black Scorpion (1957) The Blob (1958) The Brain Eaters (1958) The Brain From Planet Arous (1957) The Bride And The Beast (1958) The Colossus Of New York (1958) The Cosmic Man (1959) The Creature Walks Among Us (1956) The Cyclops (1957) The Day The Earth Stood Still (1951) The Deadly Mantis (1957) The Fly (1958) The Flying Saucer (1950) The Gamma People (1956) Ghost Of Dragstrip Hollow (1959) The Giant Behemoth (1959) The Giant Gila Monster (1959) Godzilla (1954) Gog (1954) Half Human (1957) Have Rocket Will Travel (1959) The Hideous Sun Demon (1958) The H-Man (1958) I Married A Monster From Outer Space (1958) The Incredible Petrified World (1959) The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957) Invaders From Mars (1953) Invasion Of The Animal People (1959) Invasion Of The Body Snatchers (1956) Invasion Of The Saucermen (1957) It Came From Beneath The Sea (1955) It Came From Outer Space (1953) It Conquered The World (1956) It The Terror From Beyond Space (1958) I Was A Teenage Frankenstein (1957) Journey To The Center Of The Earth (1958) The Killer Shrews(1959) Killers From Space (1954) King Dinosaur (1955) Kronos (1957) The Land Unknown (1957) Lost Continent (1951) The Lost Missile (1958) Missile To The Moon (1958) Monster From The Ocean Floor (1954) Monster On The Campus (1958) Night Of The Demon (1957) Night Of The Ghouls (1959) Nineteen Eighty-Four (1954) Not Of This Earth (1957) One Step Beyond TV series (1959) On The Beach (1959) Phantom From Space (1953) Plan 9 From Outer Space (1958) Planet Outlaws (1953) Project Moonbase (1953) Quatermass 2 (1957) Queen Of Outer Space (1958) Return Of The Fly (1959) Revenge Of The Creature (1955) Robot Monster (1953) Rocket Attack USA (1958) Rocketship X-M (1950) Satellite In The Sky (1956) Science Fiction Theater TV series (1955) Spaceways (1953) Tarantula (1955) Target Earth (1954) Teenagers From Outer Space (1959) Terror In The Midnight Sun (1959) Them (1954) The Magnetic Monster (1953) The Man From Planet X (1951) The Man In The White Suit (1951) The Manster (1959) The Mole People (1956) The Monolith Monsters (1957) The Monster Of Piedras Blancas (1959) The Monster That Challenged The World (1957) The Mysterians (1957) The Neanderthal Man (1953) The Night The World Exploded (1957) The Phantom From 10,000 Leagues (1955) The Quatermass Experiment (1955) The Robot Vs The Aztec Mummy (1958) The She-Creature (1956) The Snow Creature (1954) The Strange World Of Planet X (1958) The Trollenberg Terror (1958) The Twilight Zone TV Series (1959) The Twonky (1953) This Island Earth (1955) Tobor The Great (1954) Unknown Terror (1957) Unknown World (1951) Voodoo Woman (1957) Warning From Space (1956) War Of The Colossal Beast (1958) War Of The Satellites (1958) War Of The Worlds (1953) Wasp Woman (1959) When Worlds Collide (1951) Womaneater (1958) World Without End (1956) X The Unknown (1956) Zombies Of The Stratosphere (1952) Nineteen Eighty-Four (1956) 4D Man (1959) The 7th Voyage Of Sinbad (1958) 20 Million Miles To Earth (1957) The 27th Day (1957) The 30-Foot Bride OF Candy Rock (1959) 1000 Years From Now (1952) a.k.a. "Captive Women" 1984 (1956) 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea (1954) Can't think of any more but they should turn up with time!

[@terrytalksmovies]

Thanks for the list.

[@moonpawooe7134]

Wonderful love your voice it's gravelly

[@terrytalksmovies]

Thanks so much. 😉

[@SkepticalSteve01]

Māori not big on cannibalism? Mate, how dare you? My great-great-great grandfather, formerly a resident of Mokoia, was _eaten_ by Hongi Hika and his Ngapuhi bastards back in the early 19th C. Admittedly it was partly in revenge for us Mokoia Arawa eating Hika’s loudmouth nephew a few years before, but that was justifiable because Hongi’s nephew was a prick and besides, after we’d scoffed all the moa in Aotearoa it was impossible to get a decent steak if you didn’t carve it off the bum of a neighbouring tribesman. Anyway, Māori were great cannibals until the Pākehā showed up with sheep and cattle and pigs and religion and stuff, which is why my great-great grandmother turned Catholic and married an Irishman. Reckon I must catch up with In Search of the Castaways now that you’ve mentioned it. We don’t get much Long Pig around here these days, but I did have a couple of nice pork chops for dinner last night.

[@terrytalksmovies]

I sit corrected. I suppose they had to eat something when they ran out of moas. 😉

[@BarryHart-xo1oy]

I like the fact that Terry will bring up political and social issues and phenomena,like Western imperialism,white supremacy,Christian nationalism and racism.

[@terrytalksmovies]

So do I.

[@JohnMinehan-lx9ts]

Rod Taylor could do an American accent or a British accent capably. I don't mean to be offensive but I have found people from England who have lived in the US for years tend to have an accent something like an Australian accent. World Without End is, I think, the basis for The Time Travelers (1964) and Journey to the Center of Time (1967).

[@terrytalksmovies]

I've heard the accent on Brit ex-pats. It's more trans-atlantic than Australian. 😀😉

[@JohnMinehan-lx9ts]

@@terrytalksmovies Understand, I'm an American and probably don't have the "Ears" for it! (Although, I have family there, you can probably guess why . . . .)

[@richardhart9204]

Sorry Terry. I gave you some duff information about The Boys. It’s streaming right now, not from the 28th.

[@terrytalksmovies]

I'm watching it this afternoon. 😀

[@maxpayne2574]

IMO almost all art films, music, paintings et al are inspired by past work. If every piece of art had to be totally original nothing new could be done. The decedent's of Georges Méliès would own the rights to space travel films.

[@terrytalksmovies]

Yes but the Disney conglomerate is particularly guilty of stealing IP from others. The Lion King/ Kimba The White Lion situation is particularly shitty.

[@unclepatrick2]

Terry, have you seen Island at the Top of the World ?

[@terrytalksmovies]

Yep. It's crook. The matte paintings are horrible and the protagonist is boring AF.

[@unclepatrick2]

@@terrytalksmovies we have to agree to disagree on Island . I love it as a kid and while as an Adult I can see it problems ,it still a fun movie . I will admit that David Hartmen was bad in the movie ( He never really be good in anything ) Donald Sindon as Sir Ross is an interesting character and fun to walk .Jacques Marlin take comic release character and make him as more human character. Even Mako , who Eskimo character portrayal is racist , has a minor character arch as he goes from a coward who ran , to a man who fights for his friend . Most older movies mattes painting do not hold up in this age of blue ray and high definition TV. Even classic like Mary Poppins and the Black hole , suffer from from obvious matte work . And it not just Disney . You can tell the matte work on classic films like North By Northwest , Planet of the Ape with the Statue of Liberty and Logan Run with the freezer and the plant covered Washington DC

[@PuncherOfAbs]

You have to admit that the make up from the 50s and 60s is outstanding

[@terrytalksmovies]

Frocks and makeup were first class.

[@captlazer5509]

American Imperialism? Just recently, MIT physicists think they found some Dyson Spheres around 7 different stars. We ain't in charge of jack s--t. lol I know your 70's Disney pain, Terry. The Computer Who Wore Tennis Shoes, Gus, Escape From Witch Mountain. It was not my taste either as a kid, always a bag of disappointment. Thou I still say The Black Hole, is entertaining and has a much darker take on 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea. Unexpected from a Disney film.

[@terrytalksmovies]

Potential dyson spheres at this stage. The Black Hole where Yvette Mimieux says her father's ship was searching for 'habitable life'? 😉😀

[@captlazer5509]

@terrytalksmovies Norman Bates gets buzz sawed by Maximilian. There's your habital life lol

[@katmandoism]

This island earth is a great sifi movie.

[@terrytalksmovies]

It is.

[@pipe2devnull]

20000 Under the Sea (1954) is on KZbin. I recently watched it. Rura Pente prison is also the Klingon Prison asteroid that Captain Kirk is sent to. DisneyW.orld used to have a ride where one can ride the Nautilus is a large pond and go underwater. As a teen I really enjoyed that

[@terrytalksmovies]

We never had the ride option here. 🙁

[@jsl151850b]

2:34 *21st?*

[@terrytalksmovies]

Nope. That tombstone is an old one. The narrative says the apocalypse happened in the 22nd Century.

[@imaginationaryman7995]

League of Extraordinary Gentlemen did Nemo better. Thank you for the nostalgia,

[@terrytalksmovies]

My pleasure.

[@iainmulholland2025]

Pity about the Kirk Douglas rape of Natalie Wood when she was 15. Strange how he never went to prison. You can tell I don't like him.

[@terrytalksmovies]

No famous woman and few other women would put themselves through a 1950s rape trial.

[@williamwilson5127]

Walt Disney had some successful ideas and did a few interesting things, but in his most basic form he was a horrible, racist, sexist and vindictive piece of crap. Even as a young child, I never liked Disney's cartoons. They always seemed stupid and/or cruel. 20,000 Leagues is a good movie, but I think with the budget and A list people involved Disney couldn't take too many risks by stamping his personal preferences all over the film. In the mid 50s Disney wasn't an empire yet, Disneyland didn't open until July 1955.

[@terrytalksmovies]

Disney was the Elon Musk of mid-20th Century entertainment.

[@fernandogarajalde4066]

4:46 IMO this movie explores the dominance of women in an LGBTQ+ future society. 😎🌈🌎🛸

[@terrytalksmovies]

Nah. Women don't want to be dominant they just want men to a) be fair and b) not be pricks.

[@WilliamBeam-p5k]

How can you make a great subject so BOOORING !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@terrytalksmovies]

It's easy. I just imagine the way you make love and emulate it.

[@PuncherOfAbs]

It’s still not a far cry from Flash Gordon. And that it’s using a very Tarzan template

[@terrytalksmovies]

Yep

[@PuncherOfAbs]

do you think yul Brenner would have been a better pic for Captain Nemo?

[@terrytalksmovies]

That's a better option.