Hollywood in the Atomic Age: Monsters! Martians! Mad Scientists!

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Hollywood in the Atomic Age: Monsters! Martians! Mad Scientists!

"You will never be able to forget…"

2021

1h 58m

4.7(3 votes)

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A comprehensive story of Hollywood's horror and science fiction films of the 1950s, told by the people who made them.

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48 members

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Julie Adams

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Ron Adams

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Richard Anderson

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James Best

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Pat Boone

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Bob Burns

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Terry Castle

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Phyllis Coates

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Lisa Davis

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Robert Dix

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Richard Erdman

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David Frankham

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Diana Gemora

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Billy Gray

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Coleen Gray

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Brett Halsey

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David Hedison

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Kathleen Hughes

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Jimmy Hunt

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James Karen

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Paul Lukather

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Paul Mantee

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Joyce Meadows

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Ib Melchior

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Ken Miller

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Laurie Mitchell

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Terry Moore

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Scotty Morrow

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Caroline Munro

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Hugh O'Brian

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William Phipps

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Victoria Price

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Ann Robinson

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William Schallert

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Laura Sobell

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Peggy Webber

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John Agar

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Samuel Z. Arkoff

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Jack Arnold

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Ricou Browning

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John Carradine

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Roger Corman

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Bert I. Gordon

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Russell Johnson

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Boris Karloff

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Pamela Lincoln

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Vincent Price

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Arianne Ulmer

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