A shoddy fifties sci-fi yarn that I've never gotten around to seeing, having heard how terrible it is. It's pretty bad all right, cheaply made and featuring scratchy stock footage and so on, but at least the young Peter Graves (known for the MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE TV series) gave it considerable effort. Graves plays a doctor who goes down in a plane crash and then winds up walking around in a dazed state stealing vital government documents, with an unexplainable surgical chest wound. It turns out in flashback that he'd been abducted and preserved by underground aliens with huge bugged-out ping pong balls for eyes, who want to destroy Earth. Part of their plan is to turn insects and other animals into giants (the effects are dismal), but not if Graves can foil their scheme. This just misses being completely unwatchable due to Graves' valiant character and those silly aliens. *1/2 out of ****
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