# Favorite Sci-Fi film of 1956? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 1, 2007, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-sci-fi-film-of-1956/421100 "2007-10-01T01:43:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2007, 12:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-sci-fi-film-of-1956/421100/21 "2007-10-01T12:32:59Z")
[QUOTE=CalMeacham] You mean besides the OP? [/QUOTE] D’oh! I read the OP. I really did. Just not lately. Fine, then. How about the 1956 [1984](http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0048918/)? ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2007, 12:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-sci-fi-film-of-1956/421100/22 "2007-10-01T12:37:19Z")
> [@](#): > > Day of the Triffids Not a 1956 film – it came out in 1962: [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0055894/](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0055894/) > [@](#): > > Fine, then. How about the 1956 1984? Interesting as an artifact. I couldn’t get uinto it. Reportedly, the British version ends with Winston Smith and Julia refusing to submit, dying in a hail of bullets. Even the IMDB repeats this. But I’ve never seen that version, and wonder if this story is like that Godzilla Loses/King Kong loses thing in King Kong vs. Godzilla (that is, not true). In any event, the 1984 remake is lots better. (And the 1981 Day of the Triffids is lots better, too.) ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2007, 1:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-sci-fi-film-of-1956/421100/23 "2007-10-01T13:23:23Z")
[QUOTE=spoke-] How about a shout-out for [The Quatermass Experiment (a/k/a The Creeping Unknown)](http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0049646/), released in the US in '56. [/QUOTE] That’s the movie I was originally looking for in Netflix, but it doesn’t seem to be available. I remember the creepy scene where the guy is walking along a wall, leaving a streak with his mutated(?) arm. ---
**Author:** ![chowder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/977dab/32.png) [@chowder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chowder)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2007, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-sci-fi-film-of-1956/421100/24 "2007-10-01T16:06:28Z")
Maybe the cheesiest was “Plan 9 from Outer Space” ---
**Author:** ![Walloon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/fbc32d/32.png) [@Walloon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walloon)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2007, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-sci-fi-film-of-1956/421100/25 "2007-10-01T16:20:00Z")
Not a 1956 release. ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2007, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-sci-fi-film-of-1956/421100/26 "2007-10-01T16:48:40Z")
Gotta go with (the terrific) _Forbidden Planet_ also, but that’s because [my favorite SciFi film of the 50s](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0050539/) didn’t premiere until Feb. 1957. ---
**Author:** ![ouryL](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ouryl/32/6067_2.png) [@ouryL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ouryL)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2007, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-sci-fi-film-of-1956/421100/27 "2007-10-01T22:23:19Z")
[QUOTE=blondebear] Inspired by the DVD I’m watching tonight: “_X The Unknown_”. Fun flick, but my choice is _“Earth Vs The Flying Saucers”_. [/QUOTE] Next time you watch “_X The Unknown_”. remember that it was originally a rejected script for the Quartermas series. :eek: [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-sci-fi-film-of-1956/421100.md?page=1)