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- DirectorIrvin S. Yeaworth Jr.StarsRobert LansingLee MeriwetherJames CongdonA scientist discovers a formula enabling him to pass through solid surfaces, but he also rapidly ages, which forces him to kill humans in order to reverse the aging process by absorbing his victims' energies.
- DirectorBurt BalabanStarsPatricia NealHelmut DantineDerek BondA stranger from Venus lands in Britain and forms a bond with a young American woman. He comes with a warning to Earth's leaders that they must eliminate all nuclear weapons if the peoples of the solar system are to survive.
- DirectorSpencer Gordon BennetStarsArthur FranzDick ForanBrett HalseyShips mysteriously disappear on route across the Arctic Sea, and a specially-equipped submarine is sent to investigate.
- DirectorLesley SelanderStarsMarguerite ChapmanCameron MitchellArthur FranzFive astronauts successfully fly to Mars where they encounter seemingly friendly and advanced inhabitants who harbor covert plans to use their ship to invade Earth.
- DirectorIrving PichelStarsJohn ArcherWarner AndersonTom Powers"Destination Moon", tells the tale of when Doctor Charles Cargraves and retired General Thayer approach Jim Barnes, the head of his own aviation construction firms to help build a rocket that will take them to the moon.
- DirectorFrank TuttleStarsJeff RichardsVenetia StevensonJohn SmithA plane makes an emergency landing on a jungle island inhabited by a scientist and his three nubile young daughters. Complications ensue.
- DirectorRoger CormanStarsRichard GarlandPamela DuncanRussell JohnsonScientists become trapped on a shrinking island with intelligent, murderous giant crabs.
- DirectorRoger CormanStarsRay MillandDiana Van der VlisHarold J. StoneA Roger Corman tale of Dr. James Xavier's devastating experiments on himself and the unforeseen.
- DirectorDavid KramarskyRoger CormanLou PlaceStarsPaul BirchLorna ThayerDona ColeA dysfunctional family operating an isolated date farm in the California desert is threatened by the arrival of an extra-terrestrial.
- DirectorMikel ConradStarsMikel ConradPat GarrisonHantz von TeuffenBoth the CIA and KGB investigate UFOs in Alaska: friend or foe?
- DirectorFred F. SearsStarsKathryn GrantWilliam LeslieTristram CoffinDr. Conway has perfected a machine that predicts earthquakes, and has determined that one will strike California within 24 hours. A computer analysis determines that the entire world would explode within a little more than 28 days.
- DirectorHoward BrethertonStarsRobert LoweryGeorge MacreadyRalph MorganAt the Bainbridge Research Foundation, Professor Franklin Arnold displays his creation the Metalogen Man, a robot, to Professor Ernst and three other colleagues. Shortly afterward, the three associates are killed by Thor (Ray Corrigan, in his for-rent ape suit), a huge ape trained by Ernst, and Arnold, his daughter Babs and Ken Morgan, a representative of the company for whom the robot was made, find it has been stolen. Their 15-chapter search for Thor, the robot and Ernst leads to a series of cliff-hanging adventures as Ernst strives to gain control of the robot and the supply of metalogen needed for its production.
- DirectorEugène LouriéStarsJohn BaragreyMala PowersOtto KrugerA brilliant surgeon encases his dead son's brain in a large robot body, with unintended results...
- DirectorRoger CormanStarsDick MillerSusan CabotRichard DevonAn "unknown force" declares war against planet Earth when the United Nations disobeys warnings to cease and desist in its attempts at assembling the first satellite in the atmosphere.
- DirectorEdgar G. UlmerStarsJohn AgarGloria TalbottArthur ShieldsA young woman discovers she is the daughter of the infamous Dr. Jekyll, and begins to believe that she may also have a split personality, one of whom is a ruthless killer.
- DirectorStuart GilmoreStarsRobert ClarkeMargaret FieldGloria SaundersIn a post-apocalyptic New York City, three tribes of mutants (the Norms, the Mutates and the Upriver people) battle each other to survive.
- DirectorSherman A. RoseStarsRichard DenningKathleen CrowleyVirginia GreyGiant robots from Venus invade Chicago. Stranded in the deserted city are strangers Frank and Nora.
- DirectorEdward BerndsStarsBill WilliamsLyn ThomasRobert EllisA fungus brought from space threatens to grow and spread, devouring everyone in its path.
- DirectorBruno VeSotaStarsEd NelsonAlan Jay FactorCornelius KeefeThe inhabitants of a small Illinois town begin disappearing after a strange cone is found sticking out of the ground nearby.
- DirectorLee SholemStarsCharles DrakeKarin BoothBilly ChapinA young boy-genius befriends his grandfather's robot, designed as a test pilot for space travel and coveted by foreign spies.
- DirectorHerbert S. GreeneStarsJohn CarradineBruce BennettAngela GreeneA spherical UFO proves to contain one alien visitor. How to deal with him? Investigators disagree...
- DirectorHerbert L. StrockStarsRichard EganConstance DowlingHerbert MarshallA security agent investigates sabotage and murder at a secret underground laboratory, home of two experimental robots.
- DirectorKen HughesStarsGene NelsonFaith DomergueJoseph TomeltyA scientist is found floating with bullet and a radiation halo around his body. The radioactivity has put him seven-and-a-half seconds ahead of us in time. He teams up with a reporter to stop his double from destroying his experiments.
- DirectorTerence FisherStarsBarbara PaytonJames HayterStephen MurrayBill and Robin, helped by their childhood friend, Lena, develop a "reproducer" which can exactly duplicate any object. Bill, crushed when Lena marries Robin, convinces her to allow him to duplicate her, so that he may have a copy of her for himself. The experiment, at first deemed a success, seems to have worked only too well as the duplicate, Helen, is such an exact copy that she also loves Robin, not Bill. Bill hopes to rectify the situation with another radical experiment.
- DirectorNorman DawnStarsKasey RogersJames ArnessBill KennedyWhen the American clipper ship "The Queen" is attacked by pirates off the Hebrides in 1830, Mate Kirk Hamilton is injured and must be put ashore at Queensland Colony, Australia, for treatment and recuperation. There, he meets and falls in love with Elaine Jeffries, daughter of the magistrate and all-but-fiancée to rancher Martin Shannon. She also finds herself attracted to Kirk, and a rivalry develops between the two men. Meantime the pirates, led by Captain Hackett, decide to raid the colony and, in the process kidnap Elaine and her friend. Nancy. Kirk, and Shannon lead the pursuit, having not only the romantic triangle to resolve, but the pirates to overcome and, along the way, being stranded on a volcanic island inhabited by dinosaurs.
- DirectorW. Merle ConnellStarsMikel ConradDoris MerrickRichard MonahanDuring World War II, an American bomber pilot is rescued after drifting at sea aboard a raft.
- DirectorFreddie FrancisStarsRobert HuttonJennifer JayneZia MohyeddinScientists investigating an unusual meteor shower in a rural field are possessed by an alien force bent on an ulterior purpose.
- DirectorEdward L. CahnStarsSteven TerrellGloria CastilloFrank GorshinAliens equipped with venomous claws invade a small town but the town's teenage population is mobilized to fight the menace.
- DirectorRobert DayStarsMarshall ThompsonMarla LandiBill EdwardsThe first pilot to leave Earth's atmosphere lands, then vanishes; but something with a craving for blood prowls the countryside...
- DirectorVirgil W. VogelStarsJock MahoneyShirley PattersonWilliam ReynoldsThree men and a woman crash-land in a deep crater in Antarctica, where they find a prehistoric world.
- DirectorJack ArnoldStarsRichard CarlsonBarbara RushCharles DrakeA 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 strangely.
- DirectorDavid L. HewittStarsJohn CarradineRoger GentryVic McGeeIn 1975, four astronauts, Dorothy, Doc, Charlie, and Steve, crash land on Mars when taking readings, with only four days of supplies. They must try to survive on the surface, which is barren except for some canals with huge maggots with fins. After embarking through a golden igneous cavern, braving a storm and finding an unmanned Earth vessel, they discover a golden road which leads them to the unchanging ruins of what was once a beautiful Martian city. The Martians are modeled on the Flatheads of Oz, and their collective consciousness, the "Wizard," forbids them to leave until they perform a very small task.
- DirectorFredric GadetteStarsSeamon GlassThayer RobertsAubrey MartinA deputy sheriff stops motorists on a mountain road after police dispatch reports of a possible nuclear attack.
- DirectorSpencer Gordon BennetStarsJudd HoldrenVivian MasonTed ThorpeTwo newspaper reporters battle a plot by the evil Dr. Grood to conquer the world.
- DirectorYakov ProtazanovStarsYuliya SolntsevaIgor IlyinskyNikolai TsereteliEngineer Mstislav Sergeyevich Los travels to Mars where he leads a popular uprising against the ruling group of Elders with the support of Queen Aelita who has fallen in love with him after watching him through a telescope.
- DirectorRobert D. WebbStarsGuy MadisonVirginia LeithJohn HodiakScientist is sent to investigate a faulty ejector seat, then sent into space to test it, showing an assortment of human weaknesses and strengths. Basically this is about the human predicament and drama, not space.