Essay - Have Rocket, Will Travel

Have Rocket, Will Travel: SF Cinema, Stooges Style
by William I. Lengeman III
Internet Review of Science Fiction

The year 1959 more or less marked the end of not one, but two eras, and the beginning of another. The Fifties were a fruitful decade for the genre of science fiction film. Among the high points were The Day The Earth Stood Still, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Forbidden Planet, and big-budget adaptations of Jules Verne (Journey to the Center of the Earth) and H.G. Wells (War of the Worlds), to name just a few of the more notable cinematic works of SF that graced the decade.

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