The Trollenberg Terror (1958)
Aug 19, 1999Alien Invasion
Modestly effective British entry into the 1950s alien invasion genre with people fighting invaders on a Swiss mountainside
Janet Munro
Darby O’Gill and the Little People (1959)
Jan 6, 2002Disney Leprechaun Film
This leprechaun fantasy is one of the best and most underrated live-action films Disney ever made. The effects are at a peak of the era and the film plays with a sublime charm that proves absolutely winning
The Day the Earth Caught Fire (1961)
Feb 13, 2009The End of the World
Classic British end of the world movie that presents with enormous conviction a fundamentally implausible scenario in which nuclear tests tilt the Earth off its axis causing a massive heatwave and the attempts to right it