Des roches provenant d'une météorite, qui grossissent au contact de l'eau, menacent une communauté endormie du désert du sud-ouest.Des roches provenant d'une météorite, qui grossissent au contact de l'eau, menacent une communauté endormie du désert du sud-ouest.Des roches provenant d'une météorite, qui grossissent au contact de l'eau, menacent une communauté endormie du désert du sud-ouest.
- Dr. E.J. Reynolds
- (as Richard Cutting)
- Mrs.Simpson
- (non crédité)
- Hank Jackson
- (non crédité)
- Newscaster
- (non crédité)
- Narrator
- (voix)
- (non crédité)
- Police Dispatcher
- (non crédité)
- Second Nurse
- (non crédité)
- Highway Patrolman
- (non crédité)
Histoire
Le saviez-vous
- AnecdotesThe meteor crash is footage of the spaceship crash from Le météore de la nuit (1953) which Universal produced four years earlier.
- GaffesThe town is ordered to evacuate, however when the monoliths reach the bottom of the canyon and someone on a rooftop sees them, you can see there are still many people walking around the town with no indication of evacuation.
- Citations
[first lines]
Narrator: From time immemorial the Earth has been bombarded by objects from outer space, bits and pieces of the universe piercing our atmosphere in an invasion that never ends. Meteors, the shooting stars on which so many earthly wishes have been born - of the thousands that plummet toward us, the greater part are destroyed in a fiery flash as they strike the layers of air that encircle us. Only a small percentage survives. Most of these fall into the water which covers two-thirds of our world, but from time to time, from the beginning of time, a very few meteors have struck the crust of the Earth and formed craters - craters of all sizes, sought after and poured over by scientists of all nations for the priceless knowledge buried within them. In every moment of every day they come from planets belonging to stars whose dying light is too far away to be seen. From infinity they come. Meteors!
[a meteor crashes against the Earth]
Narrator: Another strange calling card from the limitless reaches of space. Its substance unknown, its secrets unexplored, the meteor lies dormant in the night - waiting!
- ConnexionsEdited from Born to Be Wild (1938)
The Plot is pretty typical of the Sci-Fi Movies of the time..there is a town in the middle of the desert, a child who ends up traumatized by her first encounter with the "entity". The female lead is a fairly independent woman on her own making her living as a teacher..the male lead is a geologist who is in love with the teacher...and they find themselves instant "guardians" of the girl after losing her parents. Then, it's the race to find a way to beat the monoliths before it destroys their town. The only thing missing from this one is the usual Nuclear Radiation theory that was so prevalent in the Sci-Fi movies of this time. It's just a plain old fashioned meteorite that causes the trouble in this one!
Enjoy this great Sci-Fi "B" movie....!!
- PHeath60
- 7 mars 2004
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Détails
- Durée1 heure 17 minutes
- Couleur
- Rapport de forme
- 1.33 : 1