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This Island Earth
Aliens have landed and are hiding on Earth, but need Earth’s scientists to help them fight an inter-planetary war.
1955 · Directed by Joseph M. Newman · 85 min · Science Fiction · Adventure · Horror · 11 frames
Tagline
2½ Years in the Making!
Crew
- Screenplay: Franklin Coen, George Callahan
- Cinematography: Clifford Stine
- Edited by: Virgil W. Vogel
- Produced by: William Alland
Cast
- Rex Reason as Dr. Cal Meacham
- Faith Domergue as Dr. Ruth Adams
- Jeff Morrow as Exeter
- Lance Fuller as Brack
- Robert Nichols as Joe Wilson
- Russell Johnson as Steve Carlson
- Douglas Spencer as The Monitor of Metaluna
- Karl Ludwig Lindt as Dr. Adolph Engelborg
- Regis Parton as Mutant (uncredited)
- Richard Deacon as Pilot (uncredited)
Production
- Country: United States of America
- Language: English
- Studios: Universal Pictures
- Budget: $800,000
- Box office: $1,700,000
- Themes: spacecraft, flying saucer, extraterrestrial technology, mutant, nobel prize, space travel, georgia, resettlement, alien, nuclear scientist
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