
Here is a trio of terrific 1950s B-movie sci-fi trailers, beginning with the original trailer for Teenagers from Outer Space (1959). Warner Bros. bought this radically low-budget howler for the bottom half of a double bill topped by the release of the sequel to Godzilla. Next up is the trailer for what appears to be a fun - but lost or missing - sci-fi jewel called The Cyclops (1957) Director/writer Bert I. Gordon first scared audiences in June 1957 with The Beginning of the End, about an army of giant grasshoppers. Gordon followed this with The Cyclops the same summer. The plot involves a gigantic 25-foot tall, radiation-poisoned, one-eyed irritable man with issues he demands be addressed. This was followed in 1958 by Gordon's Amazing Colossal Man and War of the Colossal Beast. Lastly, Richard Denning heads the cast in Target Earth (1957) where an army of alien robots threatens mankind. After hiring the actors, the low production budget funded only one robot costume for the whole movie. The promised army of robots had to be the same robot in each robot scene.
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