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Subgenre Sampler

 
Destination MoonDestination Moon (1950)
Dir. Irving Pichel
Feat. John Archer, Warner Anderson, Dick Wesson
Prescient sci–fi film that deals with the practical scientific and engineering challenges of space travel and to speculate on what a manned…
Rocketship X-MRocketship X-M (1950)
Dir. Kurt Neumann
Feat. Lloyd Bridges
Lloyd Bridges leads a bunch of wisecracking astronauts to the moon, only they get diverted to Mars! Prototype sci–fi cheapie rolls out the…
Purple Monster Strikes, ThePurple Monster Strikes, The (1946)
Dir. Spencer Gordon Bennet, Fred C. Brannon
Feat. Dennis Moore, Roy Barcroft, Linda Stirling
Charmingly hokey serial with a shape–shifting martian out to steal our best scientific secrets setting the stage for an alien invasion.
Superman (TV Series)Superman (TV Series) (1941-1943)
After being invented by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, then debuting as an 'Action Comics' superhero, Superman went on to become an animated movie…
Flash Gordon SerialFlash Gordon Serial (Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe) (1940)
Dir. Ford Beebe
Feat. Larry "Buster" Crabbe, Carol Hughes, Charles Middleton
One of the early Flash Gordon serials, which enthralled audiences in the 1940s. Here Flash must battle Ming the Merciless who has unleashed the…
Buck Rogers- Original Complete SeriesBuck Rogers- Original Complete Series (1939)
Feat. Henry Brandon, Jackie Moran, Jack Mulhall
Beloved classic series about a heroic pilot and his young passenger who crash–land on a mountaintop where a mysterious gas puts them into a…
Things to ComeThings to Come (1936)
Dir. William Cameron Menzies
Feat. Ralph Richardson, Raymond Massey, Edward Chapman
Mind–boggling visualisation of a 21st century utopia, with ant–like humans inhabiting monolithic structures on towering, ten–acre…
Phantom Empire, ThePhantom Empire, The (1935)
Feat. Gene Autry, Frankie Darro, Smiley Burnette
Oddball children's serial from the thirties has singing cowboy Autry discovering the last remaining inhabitants of the lost continent of Mu living…
SheShe (1935)
Dir. Irving Pichel, Lansing C. Holden
Feat. Randolph Scott, Helen Gahagan, Helen Mack
Influential, special effects laden fantasy from KING KONG producer Merian C. Cooper about a beguiling, 500–year–old woman as ruler of a…
Vanishing Shadow, TheVanishing Shadow, The (1934)
Dir. Lew Landers
Feat. Onslow Stevens, Walter Miller, Ada Ince
12–episode sci–fi serial about an electrical engineer and a mad scientist who attempt to take down a corrupt politician with a device…

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