La morte viene dallo spazio (1958)

Scientists discover that a group of meteors are hurtling on a collison course with Earth, and if they hit, the planet will be destroyed.

Directors:

Paolo Heusch, Mario Bava (uncredited)

Writers:

Virgilio Sabel (story), Marcello Coscia (screenplay)

Stars:

Paul Hubschmid, Madeleine Fischer, Fiorella Mari

Cast

Cast overview:
Paul Hubschmid	...	John McLaren
Madeleine Fischer	...	Katy Dandridge (as Madeline Fischer)
Fiorella Mari	...	Mary McLaren
Ivo Garrani	...	Prof. Herbert Weisse
Dario Michaelis	...	Peter Leduq (as Darrio Michaelis)
Sam Galter	...	Randowsky
Jean-Jacques Delbo	...	Sergei Boetnikov (as Jean Jacques Delbo)

Storyline

Scientists discover that a group of meteors are hurtling on a collison course with Earth, and if they hit, the planet will be destroyed.

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Plot Keywords:

mass panic | tsunami | radar screen | international cooperation | asteroid | 

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Genres:

Sci-Fi

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Certificate:

Not Rated

Details

Country:

Italy France

Language:

Italian

Release Date:

27 September 1961 (USA)

Also Known As:

Death from Outer Space

Company Credits

Production Co:

Royal Film, Lux Film, Lux Compagnie Cinématographique de France

Technical Specs

Runtime:

82 min

Sound Mix:

Mono

Color:

Black and White

Did You Know?

Trivia

The American copy of this film is in Public Domain.

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Goofs

In the control room there is a large world map which is drawn very poorly. One would expect such a map to be very accurate, but South America and Africa are clearly distorted.

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Crazy Credits

For the English dubbed version, director of photography Mario Bava's name is given as "Mario Baja." His camera operator, Ubaldo Terzano, is listed as "Uraldo Terzano."

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Connections

Edited into Out of this World Super Shock Show (2007)

User Reviews

Terrific Italian-French Science Fiction for the era

This movie is very good considering what a low budget it must have had. A combined Italian-French effort this film was the basis for Meteor, Deep Impact, and Armageddon many years later. The special effects are very good for the era. One of the most interesting aspects of the film is that it showed U.S.-Russian cooperation for peaceful means at the hight of the cold war, very different than most movies of the time. The other similar movie of the 1950's about a collision with Earth is When Worlds Collide. However even though When Worlds Collide is in color this is the better and more realistic of the two films. Also there is less damage to the Earth in this movie than in Meteor, Deep Impact, and especially When Worlds Collide where the earth gets completely destroyed. It is interesting to see primitive computers and airplanes of the time. If you like Deep Impact and Armageddon you need to see this film that those two movies were based on.