For starters, re SciFi films, try the following:
	original "Thing" (51)--female lead is assistant/secretary to main 
scientist; in Carpenter's remake, there are no women--anomalously for 
the time, 1982--(except a chess computer voice) at the polar 
station	"Beast from 20,000 Fathoms" (54)--woman is assistant to 
palentologist
	"Them" (54)--science team is a father/daughter, both full scientists
	"Invaders from Mars" (53)--The person who first believes the boy is 
the school nurse/psychologist?
	There is a neat British film in which the main scientist is a woman 
and mathematician: "Spaceways" (53)

Two later films: "Colossus: The Forbin Project" (70) and "The Andromeda 
Strain" (71).

If you want to see things at their absolute worst, try "Project 
Moonbase) (53).
	
Jesse Kalin

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