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It! The Terror from Beyond Space (1958)
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August 1958 (USA) moreTagline:
It Breathes. It Hunts. It Kills! morePlot:
The first manned expedition to Mars is decimated by an unknown life form...which stows away on the rescue ship. full summary | add synopsisNewsDesk:
Ted's Top 10 Thought They Were Original!(From Icons of Fright. 4 July 2008, 9:14 AM, PDT)
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Good for science-fiction fans. moreCast
(Complete credited cast)| Marshall Thompson | ... | Col. Edward Carruthers | |
| Shirley Patterson | ... | Ann Anderson (as Shawn Smith) | |
| Kim Spalding | ... | Col. Van Heusen | |
| Ann Doran | ... | Dr. Mary Royce | |
| Dabbs Greer | ... | Eric Royce | |
| Paul Langton | ... | Lt. James Calder | |
| Robert Bice | ... | Maj. John Purdue | |
| Richard Benedict | ... | Bob Finelli | |
| Richard Hervey | ... | Gino Finelli | |
| Thom Carney | ... | Joe Keinholz | |
| Ray Corrigan | ... | It |
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On its initial release, the standard co-feature with this film was Curse of the Faceless Man (1958). moreGoofs:
Continuity: After "It" attacks Van Heusen and tears his left boot and foot to shreds, his boot is clearly unscathed when another crew member drags him away from the hatch. moreQuotes:
[first lines]Spokesman at Press Conference: Ladies and gentlemen of the press, as you know the first attempt to send a spaceship to the planet Mars was made six months ago. We knew that that ship, the Challenge 141, had reached its destination. But that's all we knew. Teleradio communication with Mars ceased immediately...
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Reportedly the inspiration for "Alien", this tidy, fairly suspenseful little science-fiction thriller tells the story of the doomed first manned expedition to Mars, which leaves one survivor, Col. Carruthers (Marshall Thompson). A second expedition picks Carruthers up and proceeds to bring him back to Earth, where, as the suspect in the deaths of his crew, he will be court-martialed. However, the REAL culprit, a Martian monster (Ray "Crash" Corrigan), has gotten on board the Earthbound ship and starts killing off the crew one at a time.
Nothing great, but certainly acceptable science-fiction entertainment that for the most part does not waste any time. It merely tells the story in a methodical and straightforward fashion without using any flashy gimmicks. It clocks in at a very compact 70 minutes so even if you don't like it or find it boring you won't have to stick it out for long. The creature may be a standard man-in-costume creation, but it's not a bad one. Ultimately, "It! The Terror From Beyond Space" is fairly good of its type and has a pretty good cast (that's veteran character actor Dabbs Greer, who played the aged Paul Edgecomb in the more recent "The Green Mile", as 'Eric Royce').
I liked it well enough.
6/10