The War of The Colossal Beast:
“We can’t leave him exposed to the weather, even if he is a giant!”
From Fiend Without a Face (1958)
Prof. R. E. Walgate: “What have I unleashed?”
This one is actually decently scary despite the B-movie trappings, in case you haven’t seen it.
From Queen of Outer Space (1958)
Lt. Larry Turner: “If I see any of those little green men, I’ll faint. The sound of my body falling will wake you up.”
Capt. Neal Patterson: “Nah, I wouldn’t worry. The fire ought to keep 'em away.”
Prof. Konrad: “Perhaps this is a civilization that exists without sex.”
Lt. Larry Turner: “You call that civilization?”
Prof. Konrad: "Frankly, no. "
- What a year!
Indeed, I wish I hadn’t left my special edition DVD back at my parents.
I can’t think of any myself off the top of my head, one of my favourite scenes from Them! is wordless, as the little girl silently rises from her stupor on hearing the ants shrieking out in the deset.
"He learned almost too late that man is a feeling creature… and because of it, the greatest in the universe. He learned too late for himself that men have to find their own way, to make their own mistakes. There can’t be any gift of perfection from outside ourselves. And when men seek such perfection… they find only death… fire… loss… disillusionment… the end of everything that’s gone forward. Men have always sought an end to the toil and misery, but it can’t be given, it has to be achieved. There is hope, but it has to come from inside, from Man himself. "—Paul Nelson, It Conquered The World
“Go on! Try your intellect on me! You think you’re going to make a slave of the world? I’ll see you in hell first!” [rifle fire]—Claire Anderson (Beverly Garland), It Conquered the World
Don’t forget Attack of the 50-Foot Woman
“Meat hooks, four lengths of chain, forty gallons of plasma, and an elephant syringe.”
From War of the Colossal Beast
Joyce Manning (whose brother Glenn had become an 80 foot tall giant in The Amazing Colossal Man, upon hearing that an 80 foot tall giant is on the loose): Glenn is 80 feet tall!
And this exchange that’s so good, it’s the basis of the name of a bad movie website:
Dr Hugo Wagner: But you’re sacrificing a human life!
Dr Alfred Brandon: Do you cry over a guinea pig? This boy is a free police case. We’re probably saving him from the gas chamber.
Dr Hugo Wagner: But the boy is so young, the transformation horrible–
Dr Alfred Brandon: And you call yourself a scientist! That’s why you’ve never been anything more than an assistant!
-----“I Was A Teenage Werewolf” (1957)
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Can we include MST3K / Rifftrax et. al. enhanced quotes?
Plan 9: “You can watch it on the televisor screen.”
[Later the screen gets shot.]
Riff: No! Not the televisor! Now I can’t watch the tonighter show!
From Them!: “I don’t have time to give a quick course in insect pathology, Bob!” followed, in our family at least, by the non-movie line “…if that really is your name…”