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Il pianeta degli uomini spenti (1961)
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March 1963 (USA) morePlot:
A runaway asteroid dubbed "The Outsider" mysteriously begins orbiting the Earth and threatens it with lethal flying saucers. full summary | add synopsisUser Comments:
Tries to be intelligent SF, but... moreCast
(Complete credited cast)| Claude Rains | ... | Professor Benson | |
| Bill Carter | ... | Cmdr. Bob Cole | |
| Umberto Orsini | ... | Dr. Fred Steele | |
| Maya Brent | ... | Eve Barnett | |
| Jacqueline Derval | ... | Mrs. Collins | |
| Renzo Palmer | ... | Barrington | |
| Carlo D'Angelo | ... | General Varreck (as Carlo d'Angelo) | |
| Carol Danell | ... | Cathy Cole | |
| Jim Dolen | ... | Boyd | |
| Joe Pollini | ... | Pat (as Joseph Pollini) | |
| John Stacy | ... | Dr. Cornfield | |
| Aldo D'Ambrosio | ... | United Commission Member | |
| Massimo Righi | ... | Lewis Boyd | |
| Giuliano Gemma | ... | Moran | |
| Annamaria Mustari | (as Anna Maria Mustari) |
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Battle of the Worlds (USA) (dubbed version)Guerre planetarie (Italy)
Planet of the Lifeless Men
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USA:84 min | Italy:93 minCountry:
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USA:UnratedFun Stuff
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Continuity: When the astronauts walk on the surface of "The Outsider" in a location shot, they are seen from behind and none of them are wearing a blue helmet. When they are inside the cave, an obvious studio shot, the commander is seen wearing a vivid blue helmet. When they leave the cave and the story cuts back to the return trip back to the space ship, the blue helmet has again disappeared. moreQuotes:
Mrs. Collins: [Reacting to the commotion in the observatory] What's happening, Reynolds?George Reynolds: Something terrible!
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The one problem with Battle of the Worlds is that it tries to be a lot of things and doesn't quite pull any of them off. It tries to be a regular Italian space opera. It tries to be intelligent science fiction. Claude Rains definitely tries to make it a monodrama.
Unfortunately, the script doesn't let it be any of these things, and Claude's overacting makes you almost want to take a swing at the poor guy...I'm hoping that he had a good time while he did this movie (since it was really his last film), because it really was fun to watch him in this movie. His performance as a cantankerous, pajama-wearing, genius of a hermit who can answer any problem through calculus just didn't help things, and his character's attitude toward everything that wasn't math or himself make me wonder why his co-workers didn't lock him up in a rubber room.
The effects are a little on the loq quality side, even considering the general quality of Italian Sci-Fi movie SFX, but they don't really detract that much from the movie.