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1959 in science fiction
The year 1959 was marked, in science fiction, by the following events.
Births and deaths
Births
Deaths
Literary releases
First editions
Short stories
Juveniles
Movies
| Title
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Director
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Cast
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Country
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Subgenre/Notes
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| The 30 Foot Bride of Candy Rock |
Sidney Miller |
Lou Costello, Dorothy Provine, Gale Gordon |
United States |
Comedy
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| 4D Man |
Irvin Shortess Yeaworth Jr. |
Robert Lansing, Lee Meriwether, James Congdon |
United States |
Action Horror Romance Thriller
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| The Angry Red Planet |
Ib Melchior |
Gerald Mohr, Les Tremayne, Nora Hayden |
United States |
Adventure Horror
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| The Atomic Submarine |
Spencer Gordon Bennet |
Arthur Franz, Dick Foran, Brett Halsey |
United States |
Thriller
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| Attack of the Giant Leeches |
Bernard Kowalski |
Jan Shepard, Gene Roth, Yvette Vickers |
United States |
Horror
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| Battle Beyond the Sun |
Mikhail Kozyry |
Aleksandr Shvorin, Ivan Pereverzhev |
Soviet Union |
Adventure
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| Battle in Outer Space (a.k.a Uchû sai sensô) |
Ishirō Honda |
Ryō Ikebe, Koreya Senda |
Japan |
Action
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| Caltiki – The Immortal Monster (a.k.a Caltiki, il mostro immortale) |
Riccardo Freda, Mario Bava |
John Merivale,Didi Perego,Gérard Herter,Giacomo Rossi-Stuart |
Italy |
Horror
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| The Cosmic Man |
Herbert Greene |
Bruce Bennett, John Carradine, Angela Greene |
United States |
Adventure Thriller [1]
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| First Man into Space |
Robert Day |
Marshall Thompson, Marla Landi, Bill Edwards |
United Kingdom |
Drama Horror [2]
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| The Giant Gila Monster |
Ray Kellogg |
Don Sullivan, Lisa Simone, Fred Graham |
United States |
Horror Thriller
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| Have Rocket, Will Travel |
David Lowell Rich |
Jerome Cowan, Anna-Lisa, Curly Joe DeRita |
United States |
Comedy Family
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| The Head (a.k.a Die Nackte und der Satan) |
Victor Trivas |
Michel Simon, Horst Frank, Christiane Maybach |
West Germany |
Horror [3][4]
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| The Incredible Petrified World |
Jerry Warren |
John Carradine, Phyllis Coates, Robert Clarke |
United States |
Action Adventure Thriller
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| Invisible Invaders |
Edward L. Cahn |
John Agar, Jean Byron, Philip Tonge, Robert Hutton, John Carradine |
United States |
Horror
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| Journey to the Center of the Earth |
Henry Levin |
Pat Boone, James Mason, Arlene Dahl, Diane Baker |
United States |
Adventure Family Fantasy Romance
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| The Killer Shrews |
Ray Kellogg |
James Best, Ken Curtis, Ingrid Goude |
United States |
Horror
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| The Manster |
George Breakston, Kenneth G. Crane |
Peter Dyneley, Jane Hylton, Satoshi Nakamura, Terri Zimmern |
Japan
United States |
Horror (released in U.S. in 1962)[5][6][7]
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| The Man Who Could Cheat Death |
Terence Fisher |
Anton Diffring, Christopher Lee |
United Kingdom |
Drama Horror [nb 2]
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| The Monster of Piedras Blancas |
Irvin Berwick |
Les Tremayne, Forrest Lewis, John Harmon |
United States |
Horror
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| Nebo Zovyot (a.k.a Battle Beyond the Sun) |
Mikhail Karyukov, Aleksandr Kozyr |
Ivan Pereverzev |
Soviet Union |
Adventure
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| On the Beach |
Stanley Kramer |
Gregory Peck, Ava Gardner, Fred Astaire |
United States |
Drama Romance
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| Plan 9 from Outer Space |
Edward D. Wood Jr. |
Bela Lugosi, Mona McKinnon, Gregory Walcott, Vampira |
United States |
Horror
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| Return of the Fly |
Edward Bernds |
Vincent Price, Brett Halsey, John Sutton |
United States |
Drama Fantasy Horror
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| Invasion of the Animal People (a.k.a Terror in the Midnight Sun) |
Virgil W. Vogel |
Bengt Blomgren, John Carradine |
United States
Sweden |
Horror
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| Teenagers from Outer Space |
Tom Graeff |
David Love, Dawn Anderson, Harvey B. Dunn |
United States |
Horror Thriller
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| The Tingler |
William Castle |
Vincent Price, Judith Evelyn, Darryl Hickman |
United States |
Horror [8]
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| The Giant Behemoth (a.k.a. Behemoth, the Sea Monster or The Behemoth) |
Eugène Lourié, Douglas Hickox |
Gene Evans, André Morell |
United States |
Horror
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| The Ugly Duckling |
Lance Comfort |
Bernard Bresslaw, Jon Pertwee, Reginald Beckwith |
United Kingdom |
Comedy
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| The Wasp Woman |
Roger Corman |
Susan Cabot, Anthony Eisley, Barboura Morris, Michael Mark, Bruno Ve Sota |
United States |
Horror
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| The World, the Flesh and the Devil |
Ranald MacDougall |
Harry Belafonte, Inger Stevens, Mel Ferrer |
United States |
Drama Romance
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Awards
See also
Notes
References
- ^ Horwath, Alexander; Elsaesser, Thomas; King, Noel (2004). The last great American picture show: new Hollywood cinema in the 1970s. Amsterdam University Press. pp. 168–169. ISBN 90-5356-631-7.
- ^ Pomerance, Murray (2004). Bad: Infamy, Darkness, Evil, and Slime on Screen. SUNY Press. pp. 50–51. ISBN 0-7914-5940-3.
- ^ Frayling, Christopher (2005). Mad, bad and dangerous?: the scientist and the cinema. Reaktion Books. p. 27. ISBN 1-86189-255-1.
- ^ Mannikka, Eleanor (2008). "The Head". Movies & TV Dept. The New York Times. Archived from the original on 2008-10-19. Retrieved 2009-04-07.
- ^ Hogan, David J. (1997). Dark Romance: Sexuality in the Horror Film. McFarland. p. 13. ISBN 0-7864-0474-4.
- ^ Erickson, Hal. "The Manster". AllMovie. Retrieved 2009-06-25.
- ^ "双頭の殺人鬼 : 作品情報".
- ^ "The Tingler (1959) - William Castle | Synopsis, Characteristics, Moods, Themes and Related | AllMovie".
- ^ "1959 Hugo Awards". World Science Fiction Society. 26 July 2007. Archived from the original on 2011-05-07. Retrieved 2010-04-19.
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