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This Island Earth

6.0

Released June 01, 1955Runtime 1h 25min

2½ Years in the Making!

Aliens have landed and are hiding on Earth, but need Earth’s scientists to help them fight an inter-planetary war.

Genres

Science Fiction

Adventure

Horror

Production Companies

Universal Pictures

Production Countries

United States of America

Finances

Budget: $800,000
Revenue: $1,700,000
Profit/Loss: $900,000

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Cast

Rex ReasonDr. Cal Meacham

Faith DomergueDr. Ruth Adams

Jeff MorrowExeter

Lance FullerBrack

Robert NicholsJoe Wilson

Russell JohnsonSteve Carlson

Douglas SpencerThe Monitor of Metaluna

Richard DeaconSpacecraft Pilot

Regis PartonMutant

Karl Ludwig LindtDr. Adolph Engelborg

Robert B. WilliamsWebb

Coleman FrancisExpress Deliveryman

Crew

Joseph M. NewmanDirector

Franklin CoenScreenplay

Raymond F. JonesStory

George CallahanScreenplay

William AllandProducer

Clifford StineDirector of Photography

Virgil W. VogelEditor

Alexander GolitzenArt Direction

Richard H. RiedelArt Direction

Russell A. GausmanSet Decoration

Julia HeronSet Decoration

Rosemary OdellCostume Design

Joan St. OeggerHairstylist

Bud WestmoreMakeup Artist

Roswell A. HoffmannVisual Effects

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Reviews

Captures the fear of the atomic age perfectly. Carl Meacham is an atomic scientist, who after passing a cunning test, gets invited to work at a top secret lab out in Georgia by the rather odd looking man known as Exeter. The project is apparently in the cause of finding world peace, and once arr...

I remember watching this film on television in the 70s and loving it. Whilst I'm not quite so impressed by it now, it is still quite a clever sci-fi yarn about an alien species, themselves under dire threat of extinction, who come to earth to assemble a team of scientists to help save their planet ...