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Hugh Marlowe..."World Without End", "The Day the Earth Stood Still",
"Seven Days in May"...really makes this fifties classic "work", on an credible acting level, that elevates the film, from others of it's kind. Of course, Ray Harryhausen helps alot too, with his Flying Saucer, and genuinely threatening, and stylized Saucermen designs.Morris Ankrum, great character actor of many a sci-fi film...and another Army General, as he was in "Invaders From Mars", and see also "Red Planet Mars", "From Earth To The Moon", "Rocket Ship XM"...also brings a great reality and urgency to the script, that makes it special too.
The whole thing is so believable and real.
Highly recommended !!!!
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A few years ago I had a sudden realization that Earth Vs. The Flying Saucers must be my favorite movie based on the number of times I've seen it (dozens, including once in a theater) and my willingness to watch it again whenever it shows up on AMC. The acting is solidly professional and the script doesn't insult the viewer's intelligence. Harryhausen's effects must have been astonishing in 1956 and still look good today (which machines seem more truly alien: Harryhausen's flying saucers or anything in Attack of the Clones ?). There are some genuinely creepy moments in Earth Vs. The Flying Saucers too such as the scene when Dr. Marvin first sees the flying saucer sitting on the shore of Chesapeake Bay at dawn. It's a wonderfully well done and entertaining movie made by people who actually cared about what they doing (as opposed to the talentless hacks making so many movies today) and did the best they could within the limits of the B budget. I see that Earth Vs. The Flying Saucers was just released on DVD, I guess Amazon will be vacuuming more money out of my wallet today.
You said that Harryhausen's effects must have been astonishing in
1956...they were, I can testify to that firsthand as I saw it and
many others on their initial releases, ditto for Forbidden Planet,
20 Million Miles to Earth and many others. First film I ever
saw in a movie theater was War of the Worlds in 1953 at age 5 -
well I missed much of the film since I'd hid under the seat in abject horror! The
effects of these films still amaze and mesmerize me as an adult,
over and over! - AH
You have to see the DVD...with great features like a short interview with director, Joe Dante, a documentary "The Harryhausen Chronicles", a featurette on the film, and one from the fifties about "This is Dynamation"...that's the great one!Check it out !
Ah yes, HUGE Marlowe... one of the greats... right up there with Whit Bissel... surely one of the finest actors of all time *cough cough*I particularly like the scene in "Earth vs. the Flying Saucers" when ol' HUGE trys on the alien's space helmet... first of all, he's got his pants pulled so high up that he has to pull down his zipper just to say "hello"... then he pops that penis-shaped helmet on his head and starts clumping around the lab like an animated version of Frankenstein's willy.... truly a classic moment in the history of science fiction.
BTW, I've always wondered.... since those aliens wear penis-shaped helmets, does that mean they only have one eye?
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