Help me identify an old movie.

[hooligan machinist]

 Once upon a time i watched an old black and white film about an alien come to earth in a bullet shaped ship.
  All i can remember is a scene where a woman sneeks up to the ship/capsule at night to look into the only portal. And that the creature inside could only come out in a heavily fortified enviro suit.
  For some strange reason this movie scared the bejesus out if me. Probably because i was maybe 13 or 14 at the time.
B-movie buffs, help me out here. I would like to see this one again if i can find it.

[Charlief]

Plan 9 from outer space?

Day the earth stood still?

[hooligan machinist]

Nope, not it. Sorry.
Dig deeper, but you may have the time frame about right. Not sure how old it was when i saw it.

[RAT900]

It Came From Uranus?   sorry couldn't resist  

Have you slogged through this list?    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_science_fiction_films:_1950s

I found one I saw as a kid in the 1950's while in Saudi Arabia....20 Million Miles From Earth


They used to hang a tarp up on the fence surrounding the basketball court in the Aramco compound ......at night outside and play movies

That one seriously creeped me out as a kid because the night time sky in the desert was an incredible close-up show, in and of itself....

I remember the desert sky gave you a distinct sense that you were no longer on the ground looking out at the distant sky/universe.....it was not something "out there".....

there was an immediate awe-inspiring quality of closeness to the cloudless arid sky...the distance was gone

it had a way of showing you that you were part of it...you were actually in "Space" traveling in the middle of it......

floating through Space while standing on the surface of some object  

watching an impossible number of stars, constellations, the incredible busyness and activity...comets, meteors zipping about

a moon so large you felt you could jump up or lean out and almost touch it

how tiny you were in the face of it

and yet still how important you were because you were getting to see and feel all of it

and be part of it

[Speedbag]

Plan 9 from outer space?

If "Plan 9" scared you, at any age, you have much deeper and serious issues. 

[IZ]

People in those days didn't know any better Speed. They were terrified when they heard War of the Worlds on the radio and thought it was real.

:p

[LMT]

I need help with an old movie too.

It was around 1968 to 1971.  I was spending the night at my grandmothers and have always remembered a clip form a movie on TV.

A man is walking away from a Ferris wheel and is on fire. It is dark and that is all I remember. I have always wondered what movie that was. May have been a tv show, not sure.

[Bick]

A man is walking away from a Ferris wheel and is on fire. It is dark and that is all I remember. I have always wondered what movie that was. May have been a tv show, not sure.

This one?
1941, The Sinking of the Ferris Wheel.wmv

(maybe a decade later)

[Langanobob]

People in those days didn't know any better Speed. They were terrified when they heard War of the Worlds on the radio and thought it was real.

:p

When I was a little kid I went with some friends to the local cinema and watched something called "The Creature with the Atom Brain"  It was so scary I went and hung out in the theatre lobby, occasionally getting up the nerve to sneak a peak at the screen.

That movie stuck in my head ever since and last year I rented the DVD with one of the "kids" I watched it with the first time.  The second time around it was one of the dumbest and silliest movies I've ever seen and I can't imagine anyone at any age getting scared from it.

[Speedbag]

When I was a kid one of the TV channels used to air all sorts of old horror/monster movies, and my Dad and I would watch them every weekend. Some of them freaked me out.

The original "The Fly" was one.

No doubt all that early exposure to bizarre flicks had an effect on how I turned out. 

[hooligan machinist]

 Just remembered,
When she was looking inside there was the usual/expected green glow.
And when she glanced away for a second and then turned back to look again, IT was staring back at her from the inside.

[derby]

Once upon a time i watched an old black and white film about an alien come to earth in a bullet shaped ship.

Just remembered,
When she was looking inside there was the usual/expected green glow.

[hooligan machinist]

 It is possible that my mind added the green over the years.
The interior was illuminated.
How's that D?

[RAT900]

actually I recall that they did manually add color to B&W films in some instances

for the decades going back to the early 20th century

so it is possible that the green was actually there

[gojira]

Just remembered,
When she was looking inside there was the usual/expected green glow.
And when she glanced away for a second and then turned back to look again, IT was staring back at her from the inside.

This scene is actually very familiar to me. My bro was a HUGE sci-fi buff growing up and the TV was always glued to these movies. I'll remember it in some spontaneous moment. Stand by.