This is a fun movie. The cast and especially the stars are a bit stolid and stereotyped (I'm a Marshall Thompson fan but even I will admit to his acting inadequacies), but the plot does maintain a certain level of suspense.
Ray "Crash" Corrigan does a tolerable job as the somewhat illogical monster...he's definitely not the Alien from Ridley Scott's movie...you can tell he's just a guy in a suit. He does a better job than Kim Spaulding, the commander of the rescue ship, who's one-faceted character makes Marshall Thompson seem like Olivier. Most of the supporting cast, especially Dabs Greer, come off much better. They make the most of their limited lines and actually attempt to act (at least in as much as their limited and stereotypical characters allow them too).
Think of "Alien" done in the fifties and you've got this movie...though try not to laugh at the beginning when it celebrates the first manned Martian spaceship landing in 1973.
Ray "Crash" Corrigan does a tolerable job as the somewhat illogical monster...he's definitely not the Alien from Ridley Scott's movie...you can tell he's just a guy in a suit. He does a better job than Kim Spaulding, the commander of the rescue ship, who's one-faceted character makes Marshall Thompson seem like Olivier. Most of the supporting cast, especially Dabs Greer, come off much better. They make the most of their limited lines and actually attempt to act (at least in as much as their limited and stereotypical characters allow them too).
Think of "Alien" done in the fifties and you've got this movie...though try not to laugh at the beginning when it celebrates the first manned Martian spaceship landing in 1973.