Films like The Thing From Another World and Invasion of the Body Snatchers played on fears of the time, influenced by the space race and the aftermath of the Second World War. The 1950s produced ...

These can all count themselves as some of the best B-movies of the 1950s, with the better ones coming close to A-grade ...

The movie also wanted to show characters ... Perhaps for that reason, space scenes throughout the 1950s and 1960s frequently relied on the audience's suspension of disbelief.