In 1955 a Hollywood studio, Universal International Pictures, released a film based on a novel, The Alien Machine, by Raymond F. Jones. The movie was This Island Earth. This film of aliens seeking human assistance to save their doomed planet, would forever change the Hollywood dreamscape with its stunning combination of mesmerizing technical presumptions and embarrassing scientific foibles. It was the canvas upon which decades of fantasy science would evolve from naive space opera scripts into the transcendent mystery of Stanley Kubrick’s 2001 A Space Odyssey. Who then could have dreamed that Dr. Mitchum’s childlike Interociter would evolve into the miscreant HAL 9000 computer or that Dave himself would awaken as the Starchild. This body of work represents everything from the “Krell” of Forbidden Planet to the Ro-man of Robot Monster. From “The Creature Walks Among Us”, Which do we chose, “The jungle or the Stars?” This tribute to the films attempts to provide a few basic facts, links to detailed information, a springboard to viewing the films and sources for the original poster art. The last words from Howard Hawk’s “The Thing From Another World”, “Keep Watching the Skies!”