The place to look is Phil Hardy's "The Overlook Film Encyclopedia of Science Fiction" (Overlook Press, 1994) or its first edition "Science Fiction: The Film Encylopedia, v. 2" (Morrow; NY, 1984). It has entries for nearly every SF film in the 50s, with lots of pictures. Jesse Kalin On Apr 8, 2004, at 3:57 AM, david tetzlaff wrote: > I'm trying to identify a sci-fi movie i saw as a child in the early > 1960 at a saturday matinee. It was probably made in the 1950s. My > memory is that it had a name simialr to 'Invaders from Mars' but it > is not that film (Menzies, 1953). I think the plot was very similar, > though: people transformed one by one into zombies, with some > telltale mark, only one person recognizes it (I think also a child), > etc. However, my memory is that this film was in black and white, had > more naturalitic acting than 'Invaders from Mars.' and as I recall, > the invaders were hiding out some secret process in a chemical plant > or refinery, and near the end of the film the place blows up and > there's a blob-like thingie or two terrorizing the humans at that > point. > > So does anyone remember a movie like this? Can anyone recommend a > source/method for trying to dig up stuff like this. > > ---- > Online resources for film/TV studies may be found at ScreenSite > http://www.ScreenSite.org > ---- Online resources for film/TV studies may be found at ScreenSite http://www.ScreenSite.org