Amazing Movie Posters

A spaceship from another world crashes in the Arizona desert, and only an amateur stargazer and a schoolteacher suspect alien influence when the local townsfolk begin to act strange. Director: Jack Arnold Writers: Harry Essex (screenplay), Ray Bradbury (story) Stars: Richard Carlson, Barbara Rush, Charles Drake

A young boy learns that space aliens are taking over the minds of earthlings. Director: William Cameron Menzies Writer: Richard Blake (screenplay) Stars: Helena Carter, Arthur Franz, Jimmy Hunt

Two newspaper reporters battle a plot by the evil Dr. Grood to conquer the world. Director: Spencer Gordon Bennet (as Spencer G. Bennet) Writers: George H. Plympton (story), Arthur Hoerl (story) Stars: Judd Holdren, Vivian Mason, Michael Fox

A family's efforts to move out of a slum area into a better neighborhood is hampered when their son is accused of the murder of a local blind beggar. Director: Jack Arnold Writers: Ray Buffum (screenplay), Ray Buffum (story) Stars: Harvey Lembeck, Joyce Holden, Glenda Farrell

Scientist Clayton Forrester (Gene Barry) and Sylvia Van Buren (Ann Robinson) are the first to arrive at the site of a meteorite crash. Soon after, an alien war machine emerges and begins killing at random. The Marines are called in, but they're no match for the aliens' force field. Forrester and Van Buren, however, are able to wound one of the creatures and procure a sample of its blood. They take it to Los Angeles where they hope, through testing, to be able to discover the aliens' weakness. Initial release: July 29, 1953 Director: Byron Haskin Adapted from: The War of the Worlds Adaptations: War of the Worlds (1988) Story by: H. G. Wells

A Canadian Mountie thwarts an enemy plot to establish missile bases in the frozen North. Feature version of a serial. Initial release: 1953 Director: Franklin Adreon Budget: 172,795 USD Screenplay: Ronald Davidson Music composed by: Stanley Wilson