SCIFI MOVIE MARATHON - TCM: SCHEDULE THURSDAY, JUNE 29, 2012
06:00 AM The Time Machine (1960)
This smashing science-fiction adaptation of H.G. Wells's famous novel has more creativity in every frame than most latter-day rip-offs have in their entirety. Rod Taylor plays George, an inventor who confounds his contemporaries in Victorian England by unveiling his new time machine. His friends think he's lost his mind, but after they leave, George takes off in his machine, whizzing through time but not through space. Therefore, all of his adventures take place in the same general area of England but at various points in history. Oscar-winning special effects.
Cast includes Rod Taylor, Alan Young, Yvette Mimieux, Sebastian Cabot, Tom Helmore, Whit Bissell, Doris Lloyd.
08:00 AM Village Of The Damned (1960)
A very frightening adaptation of the John Wyndham novel about a small English village that becomes the victim of unfriendly aliens. During a 24-hour period all the inhabitants of Midwich are put to sleep, waking to find a dozen of the women pregnant. When these babies are born, their mothers love them as if they were conceived under normal circumstances. However, all of these children look the same, with bright blond hair. They are also possessed of superior intelligence and telekinetic powers.
Cast includes George Sanders, Barbara Shelley, Martin Stephens, Michael Gwynn, Laurence Naismith, Richard Warner, Jenny Laird, Sarah Long.
09:30 AM The Manster (1962)
A mad scientist turns a reporter into a two-headed killer.
Cast includes Peter Dyneley, Jane Hylton, Satoshi Nakamura .
10:45 AM The Snow Devils (1965)
Abominable snowmen survivors from the distant planet Aytia plan to upset the meteorological balance of Earth, but the heroics of a couple of explorers prevent this doomsday from occuring. Aliens plot to freeze the Earth as a replacement for their doomed home planet.
Cast includes Isarco Ravaioli, Freddy Hagar, Enzo Fiermonte.
12:30 PM War of the Planets (1965)
Martians with mind-control powers attempt to take over the earth.
Cast includes Franco Nero, Tony Russel, Massimo Serato.
02:15 PM The Wild, Wild Planet (1965)
Space amazons control the Earth by shrinking its leaders.
Cast includes Tony Russel, Lisa Gastoni, Massimo Serato.
04:00 PM Five Million Years To Earth (1968) (NOTE: also known as Quatermass and the Pit]
Subway excavations unearth a deadly force from beyond space and time.
Cast includes James Donald, Andrew Keir, Barbara Shelley, Julian Glover.
05:45 PM The Green Slime (1969)
A mysterious fungus invades a space station and turns the inhabitants into monsters.
Cast includes Robert Horton, Richard Jaeckel, Luciana Paluzzi.
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