You guys would enjoy an interview in this show with "Mr. Lobo", an awesome b-movie host and all around expert on these types of old movies.....
http://www.herpnation.com/audio/the-dan ... gory=audio
BillMcGighan wrote:
That is too funny.....
I saw it in the theater when I was 11 years old. (1959)
This and other 50s movies, centered around the effects of radiation in the dawning of the atomic age, were the cheesy horror films, targeted to teens, of that decade.
They would be analogous to, and rival the stupidity of, the blood and guts horror films of the 80s and 90s, the current vampire films, reaching a crescendo today with political debates! 
However, to a kid where the natural world was just opening its doors in the 50s, I learned all I needed to know on zoological topics from movies like:
Insects
Them! - Giant ants (1954)
Beginning of the End - Giant Grass Hoppers (1957)
The Deadly Mantis - Giant Praying Mantis (1957)
Mothra – Giant Moth (1961)
Misc. other inverts
It Came from Beneath the Sea – Giant Octopus (1955)
The Black Scorpion - Giant Scorpion, of course (1957)
Tarantula – (1955)
Attack of the Giant Leeches (1959)
Vertebrates were represented too with reptiles:
My very first movie of this genre (5 years old) -
The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms - dinosaur (1953)
Godzilla – T-Rex (1954)
Rodan – a giant, flying, dinosaur-type monster (1956)
The Giant Behemoth - Paeleosaurus (1959)
The Giant Gila Monster – which funny enough had the incident occurring in Texas!!! (1959)
Even birds and mammal got some screen time with:
The Giant Claw – a goofy looking giant bird(1957)
The Killer Shrews - (1959)
The ‘60s Reptile TV became more documentary-ish, thank goodness.
There was even an “NBC Children’s Theater” TV special in 1968ish with Karl Kauffeld in it as a paleontologist. I think it was called “The Enormous Egg”.
Statistics: Posted by Scott Waters — September 6th, 2012, 10:50 pm