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Title | Director | Cast | Country | Subgenre/Notes |
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The Ape | William Nigh | Boris Karloff, Maris Wrixon, Gene O'Donnell | USA}} |
Before I Hang | Nick Grinde | Boris Karloff, Evelyn Keyes, Bruce Bennett | USA}} |
Black Friday | Arthur Lubin | Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, Stanley Ridges, | USA}} |
The Devil Bat | Jean Yarborough | Bela Lugosi | USA}} |
Dr. Cyclops | Ernest B. Schoedsack | Albert Dekker, Janice Logan, Thomas Coley | USA}} |
Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe | Ford I. Beebe, Ray Taylor | Harry C. Bradley, Larry "Buster" Crabbe, Shirley Deane | USA}} | Serial film |
The Invisible Man Returns | Joe May | Cedric Hardwicke, Vincent Price, Nan Grey, John Sutton | USA}} |
The Invisible Woman | Edward Sutherland | Virginia Bruce, John Barrymore, John Howard, Charlie Ruggles | USA}} |
Mysterious Doctor Satan | Jon English, William Witney | Edwin Stanley, C. Montague Shaw | USA}} | Serial film |
Son of Ingagi | Richard Kahn | Zack Williams, Laura Bowman, Spencer Williams | USA}} |
Weltraumschiff 1 startet ... (i.e. Spaceship I takes off) | Anton Kutter | Carl Wery, Fritz Reiff, Rolf Wernicke | Nazi Germany}} |
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Title | Director | Cast | Country | Subgenre/Notes |
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The Devil Commands | Edward Dmytryk | Boris Karloff, Richard Fiske, Amanda Duff, Anne Revere | USA}} |
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde | Victor Fleming | Spencer Tracy, Ingrid Bergman, Lana Turner, Donald Crisp | USA}} |
Tainstvennyy ostrov (Mysterious Island) | Eduard Penclin | Alexej Krasnopolsky, Pavel Kiyansky, Nikolai Komissarov, Yuri Grammatikati, Andrey Andriyenko-Zemskov | USSR}} | adaptation of the 1874 novel by Jules Verne |
Man Made Monster | George Waggner | Lionel Atwill, Lon Chaney, Jr., Anne Nagel, Frank Albertson | USA}} |
Monster and the Girl | Stuart Heisler | Ellen Drew, Robert Paige, Paul Lukas | USA}} |
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Title | Director | Cast | Country | Subgenre/Notes |
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Bowery at Midnight | Wallace W. Fox | Bela Lugosi, John Archer | USA}} |
The Corpse Vanishes | Wallace W. Fox | Bela Lugosi, Luana Walters, Tristram Coffin, Elizabeth Russell | USA}} |
Dr. Renault's Secret | Harry Lachman | J. Carrol Naish, John Shepperd, Lynne Roberts | USA}} |
Invisible Agent | Edwin L. Marin | Ilona Massey, Jon Hall, Peter Lorre, Cedric Hardwicke | USA}} |
The Mad Monster | Sam Newfield | Johnny Downs, George Zucco, Anne Nagel, Reginald Barlow | USA}} |
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Title | Director | Cast | Country | Subgenre/Notes |
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The Ape Man | William Beaudine | Bela Lugosi, Wallace Ford, Louise Currie | USA}} |
The Mad Ghoul | James Hogan | David Bruce, Evelyn Ankers, George Zucco | USA}} |
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Title | Director | Cast | Country | Subgenre/Notes |
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The Invisible Man's Revenge | Ford Beebe | Jon Hall, John Carradine, Evelyn Ankers | USA}} |
The Lady and the Monster | George Sherman | Vera Ralston, Richard Arlen, Mary Nash, Sidney Blackmer | USA}} |
The Monster Maker | Sam Newfield | J. Carrol Naish, Ralph Morgan, Tala Birell | USA}} |
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Title | Director | Cast | Country | Subgenre/Notes |
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Manhunt of Mystery Island | Spencer Gordon Bennet, Yakima Canutt, Wallace A. Grissell | Linda Stirling, Harry Strang, Tom Steele | USA}} | Serial film |
The Man in Half Moon Street | Ralph Murphy | Nils Asther, Helen Walker | USA}} |
The Monster and the Ape | Howard Bretherton | Robert Lowery, Ralph Morgan, George Macready | USA}} | Serial film |
The Purple Monster Strikes | Spencer Gordon Bennet, Fred C. Brannon | Linda Stirling, Ken Terrell, Mary Moore | USA}} | Serial film |
Strange Holiday | Arch Oboler | Griff Barnett, Claude Rains, Barbara Bates, Tommy Cook, Paul Hilton | USA}} | [1][2] |
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Title | Director | Cast | Country | Subgenre/Notes |
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The Crimson Ghost | Fred C. Brannon, William Witney | Forrest Taylor, Dale Van Sickel, Linda Stirling, Charles Quigley | USA}} | Serial film |
The Flying Serpent | Sam Newfield | George Zucco, Ralph Lewis, Hope Kramer | USA}} | Mad scientist |
The Mysterious Mr. M | Lewis D. Collins, Vernon Keays | Richard Martin, Pamela Blake, Dennis Moore | USA}} | Serial film |
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Title | Director | Cast | Country | Subgenre/Notes |
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The Black Widow | Spencer Gordon Bennet, Fred C. Brannon | Bruce Edwards, Virginia Lee, Carol Forman, Anthony Warde | USA}} | Serial film |
Brick Bradford | Spencer Gordon Bennet, Thomas Carr | Kane Richmond, Rick Vallin | USA}} | Serial film |
Jack Armstrong | Wallace Fox | John Hart, Pierre Watkin | USA}} | Serial film |
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Title | Director | Cast | Country | Subgenre/Notes |
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Chemistry and Love | Arthur Maria Rabenalt | Hans Nielsen, Tilly Lauenstein, Ralph Lothar | East Germany}} | Comedy |
Counterblast | Paul L. Stein | Mervyn Johns, Robert Beatty, Nova Pilbeam | UK}} | [3][4] |
Krakatit | Otakar Vávra | Karel Höger | Czechoslovakia}} |
Unknown Island | Jack Bernhard | Virginia Grey, Richard Denning, Barton MacLane | USA}} | [5] |
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Title | Director | Cast | Country | Subgenre/Notes |
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Bruce Gentry | Spencer Gordon Bennet, Thomas Carr | Tom Neal | USA}} | Serial film |
King of the Rocket Men | Fred C. Brannon | Tristram Coffin, Mae Clarke | USA}} | Serial film |
Mighty Joe Young | Ernest B. Schoedsack | Terry Moore, Ben Johnson, Robert Armstrong | USA}} |
The Perfect Woman | Bernard Knowles | Patricia Roc, Stanley Holloway, Nigel Patrick | UK}} | [6] |
1. ^{{cite web | first=Hal | last=Erickson | work=The New York Times | url=https://movies.nytimes.com/movie/111931/Strange-Holiday/overview | title=Strange Holiday (1945) | accessdate=2009-06-10}} This film saw a limited release in 1945 then a general release 1946.
2. ^{{cite book | first=Gregg | last=Rickman | year=2004 | page=131 | title=The science fiction film reader | publisher=Hal Leonard Corporation | isbn=0-87910-994-7}}
3. ^{{cite web | first=Hal | last=Erickson | title=Counterblast (1948) | publisher=The New York Times | url=https://movies.nytimes.com/movie/11145/Counterblast/overview | accessdate=2009-05-15}}
4. ^{{cite book | first=John | last=Brosnan | year=1978 | title=Future Tense: the Cinema of Science Fiction | page=69 | publisher=Macdonald and Jane's | isbn=0-354-04222-X }}
5. ^{{cite book | first=Roy | last=Kinnard | year=1988 | title=Beasts and Behemoths: Prehistoric Creatures in the Movies | page=52 | publisher=Rowman & Littlefield | isbn=0-8108-2062-5 }}
6. ^{{cite book | first=I. Q. | last=Hunter | year=2002 | title=British Science Fiction Cinema | page=58 | publisher=Routledge | isbn=0-203-00977-0 }}
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