The Man from Planet X (1951)

Calificación de los usuarios:

5.6/10   

Director:

Edgar G. Ulmer

Escritores:

Aubrey Wisberg (written by) and
Jack Pollexfen (written by)

Fecha de Lanzamiento:

27 abril 1951 (USA)

Género:

Horror | Romance | Ciencia-Ficción

Frase comercial:

The WEIRDEST Visitor the Earth has ever seen!

Plot:

To study a rogue planet heading for a near-miss with Earth, Prof. Elliot sets up an observatory on the foggy moors of a remote Scottish island...

Plot Keywords:

Planet | Scientist | Reporter | Island | Scotland

Comentarios de los usuarios:

A cult movie about alien contact

Reparto

Robert Clarke	...	John Lawrence
Margaret Field	...	Enid Elliot
Raymond Bond	...	Professor Elliot
William Schallert	...	Dr. Mears
Roy Engel	...	Tommy the Constable
David Ormont	...	Inspector Porter
Gilbert Fallman	...	Dr. Robert Blane
Tom Daly
June Jeffery	...	Wife of Missing Man

También conocida como:

El ser del planeta X (Spain) [es]

Duración:

70 min

País:

USA

Idioma:

Inglés

Color:

Negro y Blanco

Relación de Aspecto:

1.37 : 1

Sonido:

Mono (Western Electric Recording)

Clasificación:

Australia:G | USA:Approved (PCA #15073) | Sweden:15

Locaciones de Filmación:

Hal Roach Studios - 8822 Washington Blvd., Culver City, California, USA

Compañía:

Sherrill C. Corwin Productions

Trivialidades:

To stretch his meager budget, director Edgar G. Ulmer was able to use sets from the big-budget epic Joan of Arc (1948).

Errores:

Continuidad: When the alien's gas regulator begins to malfunction when he first confronts Lawrence and Elliott, he tries to turn the knob on his suit while standing up. But the close-up of him trying to turn the knob is an insert shot of a scene late in the film, when he is lying on the ground and again attempting to turn the knob back on.

Citas:

Professor Elliot: Your statement has the tinge of fantasy.

Conexiones de Película:

Referenced in Young, Hot 'n Nasty Teenage Cruisers (1977)

A cult movie about alien contact

"The Man of Planet X" (1951 - 70 minutes), is a delicious cult of science fiction directed by Edgar G. Ulmer from the story of Aubrey Wisberg and Jack Pollexfen, and with the main actors: Robert Clarke, Margaret Field, Raymond Bond and William Schallert. Professor Elliot (Raymond Bond) works in an observatory in the Scottish island of Burray and discovers a new planet in the Solar System, Planet "X". The route of the enigmatic celestial body will pass quite near the planet Earth. John Lawrence (Robert Clarke), an American journalist friend of Elliot, goes to the island to get information about the unusual fact and finds Dr. Mears there (William Schallert), an unscrupulous scientist and his disaffection. The professor Elliot's daughter, Eunid (Margaret Field), is the first one to see a stranger alien spaceship and its occupant, after having her car damaged in a road with much fog, at night. The mysterious space traveler makes contact with professor Elliot and his friends and will use a device to control their minds. Is the visitor friendly? What are his intentions? What is his relationship with Planet "X"?