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Director:

David MacDonald

Writers:

James Eastwood (writer)
John C. Mather (play)

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Release Date:

27 April 1955 (USA) more

Genre:

Sci-Fi more

Tagline:

Invasion from Outer Space!...Sights too weird to imagine! Destruction too monstrous to escape! more

Plot:

An uptight, leather-clad female alien, armed with a raygun and accompanied by a menacing robot, comes... more | add synopsis

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British take on early sci-fi more (19 total)


Cast

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Hugh McDermott ... Michael Carter
Hazel Court ... Ellen Prestwick
Peter Reynolds ... Robert Justin, alias Albert Simpson
Adrienne Corri ... Doris
Joseph Tomelty ... Prof. Arnold Hennessey
Sophie Stewart ... Mrs. Jamieson
John Laurie ... Mr. Jamieson
Patricia Laffan ... Nyah
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Additional Details

Runtime:

USA:77 min

Country:

UK

Language:

English

Aspect Ratio:

1.66 : 1 more

Sound Mix:

Mono (Western Electric Recording)

Certification:

USA:Approved (certificate number not listed) | Sweden:15


Fun Stuff

Trivia:

This film is listed among The 100 Most Amusingly Bad Movies Ever Made in Golden Raspberry Award founder John Wilson's book THE OFFICIAL RAZZIEŽ MOVIE GUIDE. more

Goofs:

Revealing mistakes: When the "indestructable" robot Chanti leaves the spaceship, a close-up of his feet reveals paint scraping off where the joints of the suit and the boots meet. more

Quotes:

Michael Carter: Mrs. Jamieson, may I introduce your latest guest. Miss Nyah. She comes from Mars.
Mrs. Jamieson: Oh, well, that'll mean another bed.
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Movie Connections:

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14 out of 15 people found the following comment useful.
British take on early sci-fi, 29 August 2005
Author: asinyne from United States

At first you may think this is another fifties low budget sci-fi saga, the type Hollywood churned out by the truckloads(and still do.) The big difference here is the fact that its actually a brit production and that makes it rather rare. The English take their movie making seriously(sometimes to seriously) so the production values, writing, lighting, etc. are a notch above that of the typical Hollywood production.

The wildest thing about the movie is the alien babe who is pretty darn sexy in that freaky outfit she wears. The biggest negative is probably the robot who must have been made out of an old refrigerator. However, to the robots credit he has a cool disintegration ray. First his head lights up , a beam of light shoots out and anything it hits glows then disappears leaving only a bit of smoke. This is by far the best special effect and this technique showed up later on many American sci-fi shows including THE INVADERS and STAR TREK. As i recall from my childhood, the aliens glowing and disappearing after being killed was the coolest thing about THE INVADERS. The robot appears to be really huge also and that alone might have scared the bejesus out of its audience back in the day.

I can imagine that back in the fifties most people who put down their change to see THE DEVIL GIRL FROM MARS left feeling they got their money's worth and then some. Its still pretty entertaining. Better than most from that era no doubt!!!

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