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Films with theme "Comedy science fiction films", sorted by production date
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Village of the Giants (1965)
, 1h21Directed by Bert I. Gordon
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction
Themes Films about animals, Films about music and musicians, Films based on science fiction novels, Comedy science fiction films, Films about cats, Musical films, Mise en scène d'un mammifère
Actors Tommy Kirk, Johnny Crawford, Beau Bridges, Ron Howard, Joy Harmon, Robert Random
Village of the Giants takes place in fictional Hainesville, California. After crashing their car into a roadblock during a rainstorm, a group of partying, big-city teenagers (Fred, Pete, Rick, Harry, and their girlfriends Merrie, Elsa, Georgette and Jean) first indulge in a vigorous, playful mud-wrestling fight, then hike their way into town. Fred remembers meeting a girl from Hainesville named Nancy, and they decide to look her up.
, 1h28Directed by Norman Taurog
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Comedy, Action, Spy, Comic science fiction
Themes Spy films, Comedy science fiction films, Robot films
Actors Vincent Price, Frankie Avalon, Dwayne Hickman, Fred Clark, Susan Hart, Jack Mullaney
Price plays the titular mad scientist who, with the questionable assistance of his resurrected flunky Mullaney, builds a gang of female robots who are then dispatched to seduce and rob wealthy men. (Goldfoot's name reflects his and his robots' choice in footwear.) Avalon and Hickman play the bumbling heroes who attempt to thwart Goldfoot's scheme. The film's climax is an extended chase through the streets of San Francisco.
, 1h21Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Comedy, Fantasy, Action, Adventure, Comic science fiction
Themes Space adventure films, Films about music and musicians, Christmas films, Mars in film, Comedy science fiction films, Films about extraterrestrial life, Musical films, Martiens, Space opera, Films about extraterrestrial life, Santa Claus in film, Robot films
Actors Bill McCutcheon, Pia Zadora, Vincent Beck, Ned Wertimer
The story involves the people of Mars, including Momar ("Mom Martian") and Kimar ("King Martian"). They're worried that their children Girmar ("Girl Martian") and Bomar ("Boy Martian") are watching too much Earth television, most notably station KID-TV's interview with Santa Claus in his workshop at the North Pole. Consulting the ancient 800-year-old Martian sage Chochem (a Yiddish word meaning "genius"), they are advised that the children of Mars are growing distracted due to the society's overly rigid structure; from infancy, all their education is fed into their brains through machines and they are not allowed individuality or freedom of thought.
Tintin and the Blue Oranges (1964)
, 1h36Directed by Philippe Condroyer
Origin France
Genres Science fiction, Comedy, Action, Adventure
Themes Films about animals, Comedy science fiction films, Films about dogs, Tintin films, Children's films, Mise en scène d'un mammifère, Mise en scène d'une plante
Actors Jean-Pierre Talbot, Jean Bouise, Ángel Álvarez, Jean-Pierre Zola, Jenny Orléans, Félix Fernández
Professor Calculus on (B&W) TV broadcasts an appeal to help end world hunger. He receives many letters and parcels and among them a blue orange which can grow in desert conditions (and glows in the dark) from Professor Zalamea, but no letter of explanation. That night, two thieves break into Marlinspike Hall and steal the blue orange. With no other choice, Calculus with Tintin, the Captain and Snowy go to Valencia (filmed in Burjassot, in Simat de la Valldigna at the Monastery of Santa María de la Valldigna, Gandia and Xàtiva).
Pajama Party (1964)
, 1h22Directed by Don Weis
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Comedy, Musical theatre, Musical, Romance, Comic science fiction
Themes Comedy science fiction films, Films about extraterrestrial life, Films about extraterrestrial life
Actors Tommy Kirk, Annette Funicello, Elsa Lanchester, Jody McCrea, Harvey Lembeck, Buster Keaton
Teen aged Martian intelligence officer 006, named Gogo (Tommy Kirk), is sent to Earth wearing an usher's uniform to prepare the way for a Martian invasion. The first earthling he meets, Aunt Wendy (Elsa Lanchester), is an eccentric widow who runs a dress shop. She has Gogo, now calling himself George, get dressed in a swimsuit and sends him to the beach. There he meets her nephew, Big Lunk (Jody McCrea), who enjoys volleyball but has little interest in romance, which is frustrating for his girlfriend Connie (Annette Funicello).
The Flying Saucer (1964)
, 1h34Directed by Tinto Brass
Genres Science fiction, Comedy, Fantasy
Themes Space adventure films, Mars in film, Comedy science fiction films, Space opera
Actors Alberto Sordi, Silvana Mangano, Monica Vitti, Eleonora Rossi Drago, Liana Del Balzo, Carlo Mazzarella
Le film raconte, avec un premier documentaire découpé puis comme une comédie italienne, l'arrivée d'un groupe d'étrangers dans un village de la Vénétie profonde: une enquête des Carabinieri révélera une folie latente répandue dans la population du village qui peu de choses ont à voir avec les extraterrestres.
Son of Flubber (1963)
, 1h40Directed by Robert Stevenson, Joseph L. McEveety, Tom Leetch, Arthur J. Vitarelli
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Comedy, Romance, Comic science fiction
Themes Films about education, Comedy science fiction films, Children's films
Actors Fred MacMurray, Nancy Olson, Keenan Wynn, Ed Wynn, Elliott Reid, Tommy Kirk
Professor Ned Brainard's discovery of Flubber has not quite brought him or his college the riches he thought. The Pentagon has declared his discovery to be top secret and the IRS has slapped him with a huge tax bill, even if he has yet to receive a cent. He thinks he may have found the solution in the form of "Flubbergas," (the "son" of Flubber) which can change the weather. His wife Betsy becomes fed up with all the stress and starts separating from him, and the professor's old rival Shelby starts trying to woo her again. Brainard's experiments continue, by making it rain inside people's houses, as well as in Shelby's car too while he's driving, which causes him to get into an accident with a police car. It also helps Medfield College's football team to win a game, but it also has one unfortunate side effect: It shatters glass, which eventually places Brainard on the lam. At home, his wife Betsy is jealous of the attention lavished on him by an old high school girlfriend. On trial, Ned's future seems hopeless, until a farmer shows the court that his crops grew extra large because of Ned's experiment, which the farmer names "Dry Rain", and the professor is acquitted, and he and Betsy are reunited.
The Nutty Professor (1963)
, 1h47Directed by Jerry Lewis
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance, Comic science fiction
Themes Films about education, Comedy science fiction films
Actors Jerry Lewis, Stella Stevens, Kathleen Freeman, Gary Lewis, Elvia Allman, Milton Frome
Professor Julius Kelp is a nerdy, unkempt, buck-toothed, accident-prone, socially inept university professor whose experiments in the classroom laboratory are unsuccessful and humorously destructive. When a football-playing bully humiliates and assaults him, Kelp decides to "beef up" by joining a local gym. Kelp's lack of physical prowess prompts him to invent a serum that turns him into the handsome, extremely smooth, cool, and obnoxious girl-chasing hipster, Buddy Love.
Omicron (1963)
, 1h42Directed by Ugo Gregoretti
Origin Italie
Genres Science fiction, Comedy
Themes Comedy science fiction films
Actors Renato Salvatori, Rosemary Dexter, Ugo Gregoretti
Moon Pilot (1962)
, 1h38Directed by James Neilson, Joseph L. McEveety
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Comedy, Comic science fiction
Themes Space adventure films, Sur la Lune, Comedy science fiction films, Political films, Space opera, Children's films
Actors Tom Tryon, Edmond O'Brien, Brian Keith, Dany Saval, Tommy Kirk, Bob Sweeney
Astronaut Capt. Richmond Talbot inadvertently volunteers to make the first manned flight around the moon. He is ordered to keep the upcoming moon flight a secret, even from his family. Due to the classified nature of the mission, he is placed under the watchful eye of several national security agencies.
Man in Outer Space (1962)
Directed by Oldřich Lipský
Genres Science fiction, Comedy, Comic science fiction
Themes Comedy science fiction films
Actors Miloš Kopecký, Josef Hlinomaz, Otomar Krejča, Lubomír Lipský, Vladimír Menšík
The Road to Hong Kong (1962)
, 1h31Directed by Norman Panama, Melvin Frank
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Science fiction, Comedy, Musical, Romance
Themes Films about films, Spy films, Films about music and musicians, Films about Tibet, Transport films, Films about automobiles, Comedy science fiction films, Musical films, Road movies, Buddy films
Actors Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, Joan Collins, Robert Morley, Walter Gotell, Dorothy Lamour
The story is told in flashback as Diane (Joan Collins) explains to American Intelligence how transmissions from passengers picked up from a missile to the moon are by Americans rather than Russians.
The Three Stooges in Orbit (1962)
, 1h27Directed by Edward Bernds
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Comedy, Adventure, Comic science fiction
Themes Space adventure films, Comedy science fiction films, Films about extraterrestrial life, Space opera, Buddy films, Films about extraterrestrial life
Actors Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Joe DeRita, Emil Sitka, Carol Christensen, Edson Stroll
The Stooges are TV actors who are trying to sell ideas for their animated television show The Three Stooges Scrapbook. Unfortunately, their producer does not like anything. He gives the boys ten days to come up with a gimmick or their show will be canceled. In the meantime the Stooges lose their accommodation when they are caught cooking in their room because Curly-Joe turned up the TV-disguised refrigerator way too loud. The only affordable accommodation that will allow cooking is found in an advertisement in a newspaper. The home belongs to Professor Danforth (Emil Sitka) and it resembles a castle.
, 1h10Directed by Bruno VeSota
Genres Science fiction, Comedy, Comic science fiction
Themes Comedy science fiction films
The film opens with a parody credit of “R.I. Diculous Presents.” Private Philbrick and Private Penn are stuck in monotonous assignments at Fort Nicholson, a U.S. Army base near the Nicholson Mesa. The privates are assigned to a scouting mission that requires the inspection of a newly discovered cavern that was located near the base. Philbrick and Penn are part of an expeditionary squadron, but become separated from their fellow soldiers. The privates are attacked by seven-feet-tall vegetable-like creatures that take them into the cavern, which is actually an alien base commanded by two statuesque women from the planet Kalar. The alien women, Dr. Puna and Professor Tanga, reveal that they arrived on Earth with the goal of conquering the planet. Philbrick and Penn find that their fellow soldiers have been placed in suspended animation by the aliens. Philbrick eventually discovers that kissing Puna leaves her temporarily powerless, allowing him and Penn to escape from the cavern and its inhabitants. After an encounter with a hostile American Indian band, the two soldiers race back to their base to rally a defense of the Earth against the Kalar aliens. They succeed in saving the Earth by prematurely launching the alien spaceship, but are captured by the aliens. However, Puna convinces Tanga not to kill them as they have no way of returning home now and they need to rely on the two soldiers. Tanga accepts this, kisses Penn and the sparks fly. At the end of the film, the soldiers receive medals for their actions and they drive away with the aliens, now their wives.
The Absent-Minded Professor (1961)
, 1h37Directed by Robert Stevenson
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Comedy, Comic science fiction
Themes Films about education, Sports films, Comedy science fiction films, Basketball films, Children's films
Actors Fred MacMurray, Nancy Olson, Keenan Wynn, Leon Ames, Wally Brown, Elliott Reid
Professor Brainard (pronounced BRAY-nerd) is an absent-minded professor of physical chemistry at Medfield College who invents a substance that gains energy when it strikes a hard surface. This discovery follows some blackboard scribbling in which he reverses a sign in the equation for enthalpy to energy plus pressure times volume. Brainard names his discovery Flubber, which is a portmanteau of "flying rubber." In the excitement of his discovery, he misses his own wedding to Betsy Carlisle, not for the first time. Subplots include another professor wooing the disappointed Miss Carlisle, Biff Hawk's ineligibility for basketball due to failing Brainard's class, Alonzo Hawk's schemes to gain wealth by means of Flubber, the school's financial difficulties and debt to Mr. Hawk, and Brainard's attempts to interest the government and military in uses for Flubber.