OllieTSB Posted January 9, 2015 Share Posted January 9, 2015 Help! I've forgotten the name of this familiar '50s film, and even the star. (I was thinking it was Arthur Franz but no...) Scenario: a rescue ship is sent to somewhere - a distant planet? The moon? - to save a previous rocketship's crew. But they're all dead except for the Star Of Our Film, and the rescue crew believe the sole survivor has killed his shipmates. (Oh boy - all those Hershey Kisses just for me!!) The rescue ship takes off, but the Alien Monster is aboard, in a lower deck and starts killing this crew. This consumes most of the film - the voyage back to Earth, and the eventual discovery of mutilated bodies and then the our costumed Monster. The Rescue Crew bolts hatches, and someone battles the monster with a blow-torch, while someone else does a space-walk to try to sneak in behind the monster. What's the name of this film? Definitely '50s. The set is pure '50s Spaceship Interiors, too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kid Dabb Posted January 10, 2015 Share Posted January 10, 2015 This is : It! The Terror From Beyond Space (1958) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It!_The_Terror_from_Beyond_Space Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OllieTSB Posted January 10, 2015 Author Share Posted January 10, 2015 That's it... er IT. I finally remembered the name of the only 'face' I could recall - Dabbs Greer. One of those character actors that littered film and TV from 1949 into the 2000s. I keep hoping the REAL advancement in digitizing American entertainment will be to allow me to put a cursor on someone's face in any film or TV show and have their IMDB page popup if I click on it. (IMDB used to be good with a Keyword Index, but "stowaway-alien", "alien-on-rocketship", "murder-in-space" none of that produced any results. They must be overhauling their databases or indexes... or chucking it all. "Let's make our database less useful-!" Yeah... typical...) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kid Dabb Posted January 10, 2015 Share Posted January 10, 2015 Cool. This has always been a favorite of mine and it hasn't been broadcast to the point of viewer burn-out... yet. First saw it at my local theater in a double-bill with..? can't recall. Might have been Robinson Crusoe on Mars. Great stuff on the big screen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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