This Island Earth (1955)

Calificación de los usuarios:

5.6/10   

Director:

Joseph M. Newman

Escritores:

Raymond F. Jones (story)
Franklin Coen (screenplay) ...

Fecha de Lanzamiento:

1 junio 1955 (USA)

Género:

Ciencia-Ficción

Frase comercial:

The supreme excitement of our time!

Plot:

Aliens come to Earth seeking scientists to help them in their war.

Plot Keywords:

Scientist | Alien | Kidnapped | Flying Saucer | Doctor

Premios:

1 win & 1 nomination

Comentarios de los usuarios:

WHAT'S THE PROBLEM?

Reparto

Jeff Morrow	...	Exeter
Faith Domergue	...	Dr. Ruth Adams
Rex Reason	...	Dr. Cal Meacham
Lance Fuller	...	Brack
Russell Johnson	...	Steve Carlson
Douglas Spencer	...	The Monitor of Metaluna
Robert Nichols	...	Joe Wilson
Karl Ludwig Lindt	...	Dr. Adolph Engelborg (as Karl L. Lindt)
listado alfabético del resto del reparto:
Charlotte Lander	...	Metaluna woman at decompression console

También conocida como:

Regreso a la Tierra (Spain) [es]

Duración:

87 min

País:

USA

Idioma:

Inglés

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Relación de Aspecto:

2.00 : 1

Sonido:

Mono (Perspecta Sound encoding) (Western Electric Recording)

Clasificación:

Finland:K-16 | West Germany:12 | UK:PG

Compañía:

Universal International Pictures (UI)

Trivialidades:

Most of the sound effects, the ship, the interociter, etc are simply recordings of radio teletype transmissions picked up on a short wave radio played at various speeds.

Errores:

Continuidad: The dirt stains on Faith Domergue's blouse, picked up from the lake, change pattern in several scenes afterwards.

Citas:

[a mysterious catalog is delivered]
Dr. Cal Meacham: This isn't paper, it's some kind of metal!
[reads]
Dr. Cal Meacham: "Iterociter incorporating planetary generator. Iterociter with voltarator. With astroscope."
Joe Wilson: Here's something my wife could use in the house. An "iterociter incorporating an electron sorter."
Dr. Cal Meacham: Oh, she'd probably gain 20 pounds while it did all the work for her. You know, Joe, according to this, there's no limit to what it can do. Laying a 4-lane highway at the rate of a mile a minute would be a cinch.
Joe Wilson: Cal... maybe we've been working too hard.
[...]

Conexiones de Película:

Referenced in "Amazing Stories: Remote Control Man (#1.10)" (1985)

Banda de Sonido:

Eine Kleine Nachtmusik (Movement 2)

WHAT'S THE PROBLEM?

Guess I'll have to watch MYSTERY SCIENCE THEATER 3000: THE MOVIE to find out what is so bad about THIS ISLAND EARTH. The film is intriguingly plotted, beautifully photographed, and has excellent (even by contemporary standards) art direction, costume design and special effects. So what if Rex Reason sounds as if he was dubbed (he always sounds that way), and some of the other performances seem a bit stilted. The Metaluna Mutant was the most memorable outer space monster until ALIEN.

I can only recall one technical error in the film. After the interociter (communicator) has been reduced to molten metal, Rex Reason picks up a Geiger counter and says, "It's no longer radioactive." There IS no set up for this (i.e., when it proved to be radioactive).

I'd certainly rate this film in the top ten of the best science fiction films of the fifties (probably in the top five). It's philosophical, exciting and well made.