I’m about to start writing a dissertation on the influence of the red scare on 1950s Hollywood Sci-Fi cinema. I’ve got the obvious ones down (Invasion of the Body Snatchers, The Thing from Another World, Destination Moon, etc…) but I was hoping you folks might know a few more obscure titles dealing with the fear of communism or containing general McCarthyist themes that I could check out.
Cheers…

Cat Woman of the Moon

What about "Attack of the brain eaters" (think that was a '50's one). Oh sod it just take any 1950's sc fi film. I did a media course way back when I was young and one of the terms focused on this very subject. It concluded to confirm that pretty much every one of them films was an adaptation of the fight against the communists. As you probably know they were all designed to help persuade the USA (and the now classed "western world") that communists were evil and the USA way is the best way! They didn't make it hard to see the comparism between the "aliens" and the good ol' US of A. Kind of an ironic message realy!