Ranking the 100 Best 1950s Sci-Fi Movies | The Golden Age Countdown

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One hundred films. Ten episodes. The definitive ranking of the greatest 1950s sci-fi movies ever made starts here. From giant lizards crawling over model train sets to leather-clad Martian women abducting Scottish farmers, Part 1 covers #100 through #91 — the films that kept the projectors running at drive-ins across America and made an entire generation fall in love with the weird, the cheap, and the wonderful.
This opening chapter of the Ultimate Guide to 1950s Sci-Fi spans the full range of the atomic age's imagination. The Giant Gila Monster opens the countdown with hot rods, ukulele folk songs, and a Mexican beaded lizard shot with forced perspective crawling over miniatures. Roger Corman's The Beast with a Million Eyes delivers sun-baked desert isolation as an alien possesses every animal in sight. Flight to Mars earns its place as the first colour film about reaching the red planet. The Phantom from 10,000 Leagues wraps atomic paranoia in underwater noir. Teenagers from Outer Space showcases the iconic skeleton ray from a one-man production that poured everything into a dream that never landed. Attack of the Giant Leeches brings trash-bag monster suits and surprisingly nasty swamp drama. Tobor the Great offers a surprisingly warm boy-and-his-robot story decades before The Iron Giant. Missile to the Moon remakes Cat-Women with more monsters and less logic. Devil Girl from Mars delivers the most British response to an alien invasion ever filmed. And Riders to the Stars closes Part 1 with serious-minded astronaut training that quietly helped build the foundation for realistic space cinema. This is where the countdown begins. Nine more parts to go.

#100. The Giant Gila Monster (1959)
#99. The Beast with a Million Eyes (1955)
#98. Flight to Mars (1951)
#97. The Phantom from 10,000 Leagues (1955)
#96. Teenagers from Outer Space (1959)
#95. Attack of the Giant Leeches (1959)
#94. Tobor the Great (1954)
#93. Missile to the Moon (1958)
#92. Devil Girl from Mars (1954)
#91. Riders to the Stars (1954)