Keep Watching the Skies: Aliens in the 1950s
Mondays & Tuesdays in August
Three key 1950s sci-fi titles celebrate their 75th anniversaries this year so we take the opportunity to survey the decade’s unique perspectives on visitors from outer space—from UFO incursions, to sinister secret invasions, to cautionary tales, this series runs the gamut!
The Day the Earth Stood Still
- Mon, Aug 3
- Tue, Aug 4
Run Time: 92 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 1951
Double feature with THE THING FROM ANOTHER WORLD • From out of space...A warning and an ultimatum.
The Thing from Another World
- Mon, Aug 3
- Tue, Aug 4
Director: Christian Nyby, Howard Hawks Run Time: 87 min. Format: 35mm Film Release Year: 1951
Starring: Douglas Spencer, James Arness, Kenneth Tobey, Margaret Sheridan, Robert Cornthwaite
Double feature with THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL • Look out … it’s the Thing
The War of the Worlds
- Mon, Aug 10
- Tue, Aug 11
Director: Byron Haskin Run Time: 85 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 1953
Starring: Ann Robinson, Frank Kreig, Gene Barry, Les Tremayne, Lewis Martin
Mighty panorama of Earth-shaking fury as an army from Mars invades!
Earth vs. the Flying Saucers
- Tue, Aug 11
Director: Fred F. Sears Run Time: 83 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 1956
Starring: Donald Curtis, Hugh Marlowe, Joan Taylor, Morris Ankrum, Thomas Browne Henry
Double feature with THE WAR OF THE WORLDS • The terrifying truth about flying saucers!
This Island Earth
- Mon, Aug 17
Director: Jack Arnold, Joseph M. Newman Run Time: 85 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 1955
Starring: Faith Domergue, Jeff Morrow, Lance Fuller, Rex Reason, Robert Nichols
Double feature with FORBIDDEN PLANET • 2½ Years in the Making!
Forbidden Planet
- Mon, Aug 17
Director: Fred M. Wilcox Run Time: 98 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 1956
Starring: Anne Francis, Jack Kelly, Leslie Nielsen, Walter Pidgeon, Warren Stevens
Double feature with THIS ISLAND EARTH • Earthmen on a fabulous, peril-journey into outer space!
It! The Terror from Beyond Space
- Tue, Aug 18
Director: Edward L. Cahn Run Time: 69 min. Format: Digital Projection Release Year: 1958
Starring: Ann Doran, Dabbs Greer, Kim Spalding, Marshall Thompson, Shirley Patterson
Double feature with THE QUATERMASS XPERIMENT • The revelation shocker of things to come!
The Quatermass Xperiment
- Tue, Aug 18
Director: Val Guest Run Time: 82 min. Format: Digital Projection Release Year: 1955
Starring: Brian Donlevy, David King-Wood, Jack Warner, Margia Dean, Richard Wordsworth
Double feature with IT! THE TERROR FROM BEYOND SPACE • You Can't Escape It!
The Man from Planet X
- Tue, Aug 25
Director: Edgar G. Ulmer Run Time: 70 min. Format: Digital Projection Release Year: 1951
Starring: Margaret Field, Raymond Bond, Robert Clarke, Roy Engel, William Schallert
Double feature with IT CAME FROM OUTER SPACE • 75th Anniversary • The WEIRDEST Visitor the Earth has ever seen!
It Came from Outer Space
- Tue, Aug 25
Director: Jack Arnold Run Time: 80 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 1953
Starring: Barbara Rush, Charles Drake, Joe Sawyer, Richard Carlson, Russell Johnson
Double feature with THE MAN FROM PLANET X • Fantastic sights leap out at you!
Invaders from Mars
- Mon, Aug 31
- Tue, Sep 1
Director: William Cameron Menzies Run Time: 78 min. Format: 4K DCP Release Year: 1953
Starring: Arthur Franz, Helena Carter, Hillary Brooke, Jimmy Hunt, Leif Erickson
Double feature with INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS • 4K Restoration • NATURAL or SUPERNATURAL?
Invasion of the Body Snatchers
- Mon, Aug 31
- Tue, Sep 1
Director: Don Siegel Run Time: 80 min. Format: 35mm Film Release Year: 1956
Starring: Carolyn Jones, Dana Wynter, Kevin McCarthy, King Donovan, Larry Gates
Double feature with INVADERS FROM MARS • There was nothing to hold onto - except each other.