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Phantom from Space

  • 19531953
  • ApprovedApproved
  • 1h 13m
IMDb RATING
4.1/10
1.3K
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7,262
Noreen Nash in Phantom from Space (1953)
HorrorSci-Fi
When an asteroid crashes, the search begins to track down the mysterious aliens.When an asteroid crashes, the search begins to track down the mysterious aliens.When an asteroid crashes, the search begins to track down the mysterious aliens.
IMDb RATING
4.1/10
1.3K
YOUR RATING
POPULARITY
46,566
7,262
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    • Director
      • W. Lee Wilder
    • Writers
      • William Raynor(screenplay)
      • Myles Wilder(screenplay)
    • Stars
      • Ted Cooper
      • Rudolph Anders
      • Noreen Nash
    Top credits
    • Director
      • W. Lee Wilder
    • Writers
      • William Raynor(screenplay)
      • Myles Wilder(screenplay)
    • Stars
      • Ted Cooper
      • Rudolph Anders
      • Noreen Nash
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    • 68User reviews
    • 28Critic reviews
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    Rudolph Anders, Harry Landers, Noreen Nash, Sandy Sanders, and Dick Sands in Phantom from Space (1953)
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    Ted Cooper
    • Hazen
    Rudolph Anders
    Rudolph Anders
    • Dr. Wyatt
    Noreen Nash
    Noreen Nash
    • Barbara Randall
    James Seay
    James Seay
    • Maj. Andrews
    Harry Landers
    Harry Landers
    • Lt. Bowers
    Jack Daly
    • Wakeman
    Dick Sands
    • The Phantom
    Lela Nelson
    • Betty Evans
    Michael Mark
    Michael Mark
    • Watchman
    Tom Daly
    • Charlie
    Steve Acton
    • Operator
    Burt Wenland
    • Joe
    Bert Arnold
    • Darrow
    Sandy Sanders
    Sandy Sanders
    • Policeman
    Harry Strang
    Harry Strang
    • Neighbor
    Jim Bannon
    Jim Bannon
    • Police Sergeant
    Steven Clark
    • Bill Randall
    • (as Steve Clark)
    • Director
      • W. Lee Wilder
    • Writers
      • William Raynor(screenplay)
      • Myles Wilder(screenplay) (story)
    • All cast & crew
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    Storyline

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    Did you know

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    • Trivia
      Phantom from Space (1953) uses stock footage of radar rigs. Some of this stock footage would later reappear in Killers from Space (1954).
    • Goofs
      In the lab, a pair of scissors becomes magnetically attached to the spacesuit, yet only a few moments earlier, when Major Andrews tried unsuccessfully to cut the suit using the scissors, there was no magnetic effect on them at all.
    • Quotes

      Lt. Bowers: I don't care what ya say, but it doesn't make sense to me. Anybody trained in sabotage would stay undercover. This guy's walking around in a monkey suit - killing people!

    • Crazy credits
      Apart from the film's title, all the cast, crew, additional credits and information appear in the closing credits.
    • Alternate versions
      Also available in a colorized version.
    • Connections
      Edited into Muchachada nui: Episode #1.8 (2007)

    User reviews68

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    Top review
    2/10
    The illegal, invisible and exhibitionist alien.
    I generally LOVE low-budget Sci-Fi films from the 1950's, but you have to admit they also made some pretty darn stupid and pointless movies back them! Take this oddity, for example! The opening sequences follow a meteor – at least they all think it is a meteor – whisking over the earth from Alaska to Santa Monica for SIX WHOLE MINUTES! All you hear is a typically 50's narrating voice rambling off coordinates and all you see is a type of rock flying through the sky! Fascinating!! The meteor turns out to be a spaceship and its captain immediately kills two earthlings because they were hostile to him. He then thinks they attacked him because they were afraid of his flamboyant spacesuit, so he takes it off and continues his trip naked. That's alright, though, because he also happens to be invisible. The rest of the film concerns a bunch of dreadfully boring scientists trying to figure out whether this visitor has friendly intentions or not, and by the end of the film we STILL don't know this. I can appreciate a lack of financial means & acting talent in B-cinema, but so much boredom in such a little film is really unforgivable. The people hunting for the alien simply sit around in their offices or laboratories waiting for him to come and pick up the suit he left behind at the scene of his first crimes. There's never any outer space menace or suspenseful sequences of mass hysteria and the conversations these people are having are dull, dull, dull!
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    • Coventry
    • Dec 23, 2006

    Details

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    • Release date
      • May 15, 1953 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • El fantasma del espacio
    • Filming locations
      • Griffith Park, Los Angeles, California, USA
    • Production company
      • Planet Filmplays
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    Technical specs

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    • Runtime
      1 hour 13 minutes
    • Color
      • Black and White
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.37 : 1

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