Forbidden Planet (1956)

Forbidden Planet (1956) is a science fiction mad scientist classic 50s robot and monster outer space adventure movie based on a play and in its way an acme of the day as only in Henry Luce's America could it be quite normative and unquestioned to describe space exploration, as the voiceover does, as 'the process of conquest and colonisation', distasteful and camp male meathead dream opera magna landmark space thriller cinematographic classic and pioneering superior sound effect keystone one of a kind enduring id versus ego genre defying movie in which Dr. Morbius gives a description of the Krell race, particularly regarding how many shafts there were, their size, and the machines only for a red monster (alive only because of Morbius' thoughts) to come down the valley to the electro-field and kill one of the crew members, directed by Fred M. Wilcox from a script by Cyril Hume that was based on a film story by Allen Adler and Irving Block, and starring Walter Pidgeon, Anne Francis, and Leslie Nielsen, and shot in Eastmancolor and CinemaScope.

Blackboard Jungle (1955)

The Blackboard Jungle (1955) is the ultimate mid-1950s juvenile delinquent scare movie and features Glenn Ford in one of his best roles as a teacher in a violent urban school for boys. 

Within The Blackboard Jungle (1955) are both significant lies and truths, as well as discussion of racism underpinned by the thin air of misogyny, and an uncomfortable sexism which is constant enough to form an almost separate movie. Unlike in noir in toto, and this is not noir, there are no interesting roles for women in this man's, man's, man's, man's movie.