Just in case my reference was too cryptic, Edmund Gwenn, who played the scientist in "Them" also played Santa Claus (Kris Kringle) in the classic "Miracle on 34th Street".
Think I've mentioned it before here, but I'm a huge fan of vintage Sci Fi films and have a large collection on my media server. Here's just the beginning of my 1950's playlist.
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That movie "The Flying Saucer" is (IIRC) the first film on the subject and a very odd one that's worth checking out (if you can find it). Cold War drama where a government agent is called out of retirement and teamed up with a beautiful female agent to investigate reports of flying saucers in Alaska. Very low budget film, but not like the ridiculous 50's sci fi. This one is more like an excuse for a (real) Alaska travelogue, filmed on location in a single-camera documentary style in black and white. They go all over Alaska in search of the saucer, meanwhile Russian agents are after them. (Spoiler) Turns out, the saucer was created by a mad scientist from earth who has been flying it around, confounding the US military. Now the agents must stop him from selling the saucer to the Russians!
(We might want to split these posts off into a new thread, getting pretty far off the topic of tick bites now.... )
Yes it's off on a tangent all right! The NJPB forum might need to brach out into science fiction!
Thanks for the movie tip. I've never seen it, but i found it online and i will watch it:
The Flying Saucer: The First UFO Feature Film (1950)
A wealthy American and a Secret Service agent venture into Alaskan territory to find proof of flying saucers before the Soviets do.
On the visible part of your movie list above, i didn't see many of them, at least i don't remember the titles, but "When Worlds Collide" was another one of my favorites. Very exciting. It was based on a book written in 1933. There was a sequel to it called "After Worlds Collide". I don't think that one was made into a movie, but i read the book.
I subscribed to both J. Campbell's "Astounding Science Fiction" and "Fantasy & Science Fiction" magazines in the 50s. I'm still puzzling over Campbell's do it yourself home psionic experiments and the ads for the Rosicrucians in the back of F&SF.
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