Space Master X-7 (1958)

Director:

Edward Bernds

Writers:

George Worthing Yates (original screenplay) and
Daniel Mainwaring (original screenplay)

Release Date:

June 1958 (USA)

Genre:

Sci-Fi | Horror

Tagline:

Satellite Terror Strikes The Earth!

Plot:

A space probe returns to Earth covered with a strange fungus. The fungus is accidentally tinged with...

Plot Keywords:

Blood Rust | Unmanned Spaceship | Missing Woman | Part Narrated | Scientist Hero

Cast

Bill Williams	...	John Hand
Lyn Thomas	...	Laura Greeling
Robert Ellis	...	Pvt. Joe Rattigan
Paul Frees	...	Dr. Charles T. Pommer
Rhoda Williams	...	Stewardess Archer
Joan Barry	...	Jean Meyers, a brunet
Carol Varga	...	Elaine Frohman
Thomas Browne Henry	...	Prof. West
Thomas Wilde	...	Collins
Fred Sherman	...	Mr. Morse, Hotel Manager
Gregg Martell	...	Jim Dale, plane engineer
Jess Kirkpatrick	...	Pilot Vaccarino
Court Shepard	...	Battalion Fire Chief Hendry
Moe Howard	...	Retlinger, the Cab Driver
Al Baffert	...	Plane passenger

Runtime:

71 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Black and White

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

USA:Approved

Company:

Regal Films

Trivia:

20th Century Fox used this low budget film as a co-feature for their blockbuster release The Fly (1958) in the United States. Twentieth Century Fox did not put this into a television syndication package. The film has remained almost unseen in the U.S. since its theatrical run.

Goofs:

Revealing mistakes: Laura moves the TV unit in the hotel room a bit when she turns it off, but the picture on the TV doesn't move at all, as it was inserted afterward.

Age and era make a difference

As a child I spent the summers with my grandparents in northern New Jersey. In the summer of 1959 the parents of a friend of mine were taking him to see a movie at a drive-in and I was invited,which movie didn't matter to me, just a chance to see a movie was great. The movie was Space Master X-7 and as child of 11 it scared the heck out of me (my mental film vault still has a has a clip of the scientist being absorbed by the fungus). That was the 1950's, cold war, Castro and all, traveling to outerspace was still a dream. A child of 11 today would find the movie laughable and the effects lame, but in the dark of a summer night in 1959 the movie had its effect.