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Krel Guest
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Posted: Wed Aug 09, 2017 1:53 pm Post subject: |
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Bud, I LOVE IT! You just need to add the tag line to the label: The Taste Is Out Of This World.
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Bogmeister Galactic Fleet Vice Admiral (site admin)
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Posted: Thu Mar 28, 2019 8:09 pm Post subject: |
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Odd mixture of sf alien invasion thrills and comedy, this is best known nowadays for the featured role by Frank Gorshin, who later became famous as the Riddler on the Batman TV show.
The plot is very similar to next year's The Blob. The young people are privy to the unexpected appearance of an alien threat — little green men — but are met with disbelief by the older generation and the establishment (the police).
This all takes place during one night, so most of the scenes are annoyingly dark. When I first watched this as a little kid, I admit that the alien's hands, with their bio-stingers, creeped me out.
Much of the plot involves a severed alien hand crawling around, usually inside a car. If it injects someone, that person probably will die, or so it seems.
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On the downside, the bulk of this film is pretty slow and just dull. There are numerous scenes, such as with a local farmer, that drag out and seem pointless. The highlight, late in the film, is a confrontation between one of the aliens and a bull.
But this is very low budget and even these scenes do not impress, coming across as silly and laughable. Though the aliens are of short stature, they are tough — bullets do not harm them — and the young folks need to find out their vulnerability to do them in.
There are parallel scenes of an army squad dealing with the landed alien saucer, but these are even more dull.
BoG's Score: 3.5 out of 10
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Eadie Galactic Ambassador
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Posted: Sun Jan 05, 2020 12:47 pm Post subject: |
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The flying saucer:
A model of the flying saucer (no longer available):
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Bud Brewster Galactic Fleet Admiral (site admin)
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Posted: Sun Jan 05, 2020 1:26 pm Post subject: |
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Thank you, Eadie!
That ship is really gorgeous! It's surprising that such a low-budget movie has such a beautifully designed saucer. It's a shame that the movie doesn't include scenes of it approaching Earth and landing in the woods. _________________ ____________
Is there no man on Earth who has the wisdom and innocence of a child?
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Krel Guest
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Posted: Sun Jan 05, 2020 2:50 pm Post subject: |
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The ship was used in a couple of other movies. One in space in a movie who's title I can't recall, and as the alien craft in "The Invisible Invaders".
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scotpens Space Sector Commander
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Posted: Sun Jan 05, 2020 3:12 pm Post subject: |
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Krel wrote: | The ship was used in a couple of other movies. One in space in a movie who's title I can't recall, and as the alien craft in "The Invisible Invaders".
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It made a brief appearance at the beginning of the Outer Limits episode "Controlled Experiment," starring Barry Morse and Carroll O'Connor. |
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Maurice Starship Navigator
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Posted: Tue Jan 07, 2020 1:27 am Post subject: |
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There were some good photos of the original model in the book It Came From Bob's Basement. _________________ * * *
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Krel Guest
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Posted: Tue Jan 07, 2020 3:28 pm Post subject: |
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scotpens wrote: | It made a brief appearance at the beginning of the Outer Limits episode "Controlled Experiment," starring Barry Morse and Carroll O'Connor. |
If it's the scenes showing the saucer in space, then that may have been what I was thinking of.
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Phantom Solar Explorer
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Posted: Sun Mar 29, 2020 9:17 pm Post subject: Invasion of the Saucermen |
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I've seen this a few times (the first in a drive-in around the mid sixties) but I've always by-passed it on Youtube for want of a better copy.
Was unsure I wanted it in my library, but what the hey? It's one of the few science fiction comedies worth re-watching.
Check around on Youtube for Frank Gorshin, one of the best of the stand up comedians and impressionists of the sixties. _________________ What Is Essential Is Invisible |
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alltare Quantum Engineer
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Krel wrote: | I haven't seen this movie, since the late 60s. It is based on the story, "The Cosmic Frame" by Paul W. Fairman. I read the story years ago, so the details are fuzzy. But the title should give you a hint about how the story ends. |
Fairman also wrote "Deadly City", which mutated into the movie "Target Earth". |
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Gord Green Galactic Ambassador
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Posted: Mon Mar 30, 2020 1:50 am Post subject: |
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If nothing else, this movie had one of the BEST posters of the era! Too bad it didn't live up to it....BUT...What the heck...A twelve year old sci-fi geek of the Fifties would be DAMNED not to go to see this at his local Saturday matinee theatre! He would never live it down at recess on Monday!!! _________________ There comes a time, thief, when gold loses its lustre, and the gems cease to sparkle, and the throne room becomes a prison; and all that is left is a father's love for his child. |
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Krel Guest
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Posted: Mon Mar 30, 2020 12:12 pm Post subject: |
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alltare wrote: | Krel wrote: | I haven't seen this movie, since the late 60s. It is based on the story, "The Cosmic Frame" by Paul W. Fairman. I read the story years ago, so the details are fuzzy. But the title should give you a hint about how the story ends. |
Fairman also wrote "Deadly City", which mutated into the movie "Target Earth". |
If you've never read the story, there is a link to it in the "Target Earth" thread.
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Bud Brewster Galactic Fleet Admiral (site admin)
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Posted: Sat Nov 19, 2022 5:36 pm Post subject: Re: Invasion of the Saucermen |
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Phantom wrote: | Was unsure I wanted it in my library, but what the hey? It's one of the few science fiction comedies worth re-watching. |
I've never much enjoyed this one, and I don't think a better copy would help . . . _________________ ____________
Is there no man on Earth who has the wisdom and innocence of a child?
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