1959 in science fiction

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The year 1959 was marked, in science fiction, by the following events.

Contents

Births and deaths

Births

Deaths

Literary releases

First editions

Short stories

Juveniles

Movies

TitleDirectorCastCountrySubgenre/Notes
The 30 Foot Bride of Candy Rock Sidney Miller Lou Costello, Dorothy Provine, Gale Gordon United StatesComedy
4D Man Irvin Shortess Yeaworth Jr. Robert Lansing, Lee Meriwether, James Congdon United StatesAction Horror Romance Thriller
The Angry Red Planet Ib Melchior Gerald Mohr, Les Tremayne, Nora Hayden United StatesAdventure Horror
The Atomic Submarine Spencer Gordon Bennet Arthur Franz, Dick Foran, Brett Halsey United StatesThriller
Attack of the Giant Leeches Bernard Kowalski Jan Shepard, Gene Roth, Yvette Vickers United StatesHorror
Battle Beyond the Sun Mikhail Kozyry Aleksandr Shvorin, Ivan Pereverzhev Soviet UnionAdventure
Battle in Outer Space (a.k.a Uchû sai sensô) Ishirō Honda Ryō Ikebe, Koreya Senda JapanAction
Caltiki – The Immortal Monster (a.k.a Caltiki, il mostro immortale) Riccardo Freda, Mario Bava John Merivale, Didi Perego, Gérard Herter, Giacomo Rossi-Stuart ItalyHorror
The Cosmic Man Herbert Greene Bruce Bennett, John Carradine, Angela Greene United StatesAdventure Thriller [1]
First Man into Space Robert Day Marshall Thompson, Marla Landi, Bill Edwards United KingdomDrama Horror [2]
The Giant Gila Monster Ray Kellogg Don Sullivan, Lisa Simone, Fred Graham United StatesHorror Thriller
Have Rocket, Will Travel David Lowell Rich Jerome Cowan, Anna-Lisa, Curly Joe DeRita United StatesComedy Family
The Head (a.k.a Die Nackte und der Satan) Victor Trivas Michel Simon, Horst Frank, Christiane Maybach West GermanyHorror [3] [4]
The Incredible Petrified World Jerry Warren John Carradine, Phyllis Coates, Robert Clarke United StatesAction Adventure Thriller
Invisible Invaders Edward L. Cahn John Agar, Jean Byron, Philip Tonge, Robert Hutton, John Carradine United StatesHorror
Journey to the Center of the Earth Henry Levin Pat Boone, James Mason, Arlene Dahl, Diane Baker United StatesAdventure Family Fantasy Romance
The Killer Shrews Ray Kellogg James Best, Ken Curtis, Ingrid Goude United StatesHorror
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]
The Man Who Could Cheat Death Terence Fisher Anton Diffring, Christopher Lee United KingdomDrama Horror [nb 2]
The Monster of Piedras Blancas Irvin Berwick Les Tremayne, Forrest Lewis, John Harmon United StatesHorror
Nebo Zovyot (a.k.a Battle Beyond the Sun) Mikhail Karyukov, Aleksandr Kozyr Ivan Pereverzev Soviet UnionAdventure
On the Beach Stanley Kramer Gregory Peck, Ava Gardner, Fred Astaire United StatesDrama Romance
Plan 9 from Outer Space Edward D. Wood Jr. Bela Lugosi, Mona McKinnon, Gregory Walcott, Vampira United StatesHorror
Return of the Fly Edward Bernds Vincent Price, Brett Halsey, John Sutton United StatesDrama Fantasy Horror
Invasion of the Animal People (a.k.a Terror in the Midnight Sun) Virgil W. Vogel Bengt Blomgren, John Carradine United States
Sweden
Horror
Teenagers from Outer Space Tom Graeff David Love, Dawn Anderson, Harvey B. Dunn United StatesHorror Thriller
The Tingler William Castle Vincent Price, Judith Evelyn, Darryl Hickman United StatesHorror [8]
The Giant Behemoth (a.k.a. Behemoth, the Sea Monster or The Behemoth) Eugène Lourié, Douglas Hickox Gene Evans, André Morell United StatesHorror
The Ugly Duckling Lance Comfort Bernard Bresslaw, Jon Pertwee, Reginald Beckwith United KingdomComedy
The Wasp Woman Roger Corman Susan Cabot, Anthony Eisley, Barboura Morris, Michael Mark, Bruno Ve SotaUnited StatesHorror
The World, the Flesh and the Devil Ranald MacDougall Harry Belafonte, Inger Stevens, Mel Ferrer United StatesDrama Romance

Awards

See also

Notes

  1. First published in Dynamic Science Fiction in August 1953.
  2. Remake of The Man in Half Moon Street .

References

  1. 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.
  2. Pomerance, Murray (2004). Bad: Infamy, Darkness, Evil, and Slime on Screen. SUNY Press. pp. 50–51. ISBN   0-7914-5940-3.
  3. Frayling, Christopher (2005). Mad, bad and dangerous?: the scientist and the cinema. Reaktion Books. p. 27. ISBN   1-86189-255-1.
  4. Mannikka, Eleanor (2008). "The Head". Movies & TV Dept. The New York Times . Archived from the original on 2008-10-19. Retrieved 2009-04-07.
  5. Hogan, David J. (1997). Dark Romance: Sexuality in the Horror Film. McFarland. p. 13. ISBN   0-7864-0474-4.
  6. Erickson, Hal. "The Manster". AllMovie. Retrieved 2009-06-25.
  7. "双頭の殺人鬼 : 作品情報".
  8. "The Tingler (1959) - William Castle | Synopsis, Characteristics, Moods, Themes and Related | AllMovie".
  9. "1959 Hugo Awards". World Science Fiction Society. 26 July 2007. Archived from the original on 2011-05-07. Retrieved 2010-04-19.