Film Festival: William Inge As Picnic (1956) opens, a young man (William Holden) rides into town on a boxcar in the early morning. He’s dusty and dirty and he cleans himself up in the mill race. He wanders through the backyards and picks a back door to knock on. Mrs. Potts offers him food, after…
1956
Lisa’s Home Bijou: Earth vs. the Flying Saucers
Film Festival: Science Fiction in the 1950s Earth vs. the Flying Saucers (1956) was the first movie that Ray Harryhausen used stop motion animation on flying saucers. Alien invasion films became a staple during the 1950s and this film is a classic! “As a result, headquarters of the Hemispheric Defense Command in Colorado Springs issued…
Lisa’s Home Bijou: Forbidden Planet
Film Festival: Science Fiction in the 1950s Forbidden Planet (1956) was the first big budget sci-fi film. Rather than aliens invading the earth or monsters from nuclear testing, this film takes place completely on another planet, Altair IV. The score was composed electronically by a couple from Greenwich Village and makes for some very eery…