Teenagers from Outer Space (1959)

A young alien and a teenage earthling fall in love, and plot to stop the alien's race from using Earth as a food-breeding ground for giant lobsters from their planet.

Director:

Tom Graeff

Writer:

Tom Graeff

Stars:

David Love, Dawn Bender, Bryan Grant

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
David Love	...	Derek
Dawn Bender	...	Betty Morgan (as Dawn Anderson)
Bryan Grant	...	Thor
Harvey B. Dunn	...	Gramps Morgan
Tom Graeff	...	Joe Rogers (as Tom Lockyear)
King Moody	...	Spacecraft Captain (as Robert King Moody)
Helen Sage	...	Nurse Morse
Frederick Welch	...	Dr. C.R. Brandt, MD (as Frederic Welch)
Carl Dickinson	...	Gas Station Attendant (as Carl Dickensen)
Sonia Torgeson	...	Alice Woodward
Billy Bridges	...	Driver Picking Up Thor
James Conklin	...	Prof. Simpson
Gene Sterling	...	The Alien Leader
Ralph Lowe	...	Moreal - Spaceship Crew
Bill DeLand	...	Saul - Spaceship Crew

Storyline

A young alien (David Love) falls for a pretty teenage Earth girl (Dawn Anderson) and they team up to try to stop the plans of his invading cohorts, who intend to use Earth as a food-breeding ground for giant lobsters from their planet. The invaders, who arrive in a flying saucer, carry deadly ray guns that turn Earth-people into skeletons.

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Plot Keywords:

giant lobster | flying saucer | power plant | betrayal | sabotage | 

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Taglines:

Thrill-crazed space kids blasting the flesh off humans!

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Genres:

Horror | Sci-Fi

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Certificate:

Not Rated

Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

3 June 1959 (USA)

Also Known As:

Invasion of the Gargon

Filming Locations:

Bronson Canyon, Griffith Park - 4730 Crystal Springs Drive, Los Angeles, California, USA

Company Credits

Production Co:

Tom Graeff Productions

Technical Specs

Runtime:

86 min 72 min (DVD)

Sound Mix:

Mono

Color:

Black and White

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

Final film of Dawn Bender. She would leave show business to become a schoolteacher. She has since retired.

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Goofs

When Thor shoots Billy in the car, the car automatically stops despite the fact that Billy was stepping on the gas to get away. The car should have kept going until it hit something.

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Quotes

[Upon discovering the skeleton in Simpson's office]
Hilda: I'm not going to keep a job where this sort of thing goes on.

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Crazy Credits

All of the film's main "Production Associates" (financiers) appeared in the movie under assumed names: Bryan G. Pearson (Thor, as Bryan Grant), Ursula Pearson - uncredited (Hilda, as Ursula Hansen), Tom Graeff (Joe Rogers, as Tom Lockyear), and Charles Robert Kaltenthaler (Derek, as David Love). Gene Sterling, also listed as a "Production Associate" makes a cameo as "The Leader."

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Connections

Featured in Elvira's Movie Macabre: Teenagers from Outer Space (2010)

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Soundtracks

Eerie Dramatic (L-653)
(uncredited)
Music by Spencer Moore

User Reviews

A commentary of the film! Not of an episode of MST3K!

First off, I would like to say that have actually seen the actual film in its original form, not from watching an episode of Mystery Science Theater 3000. So my comments are entirely based on my watching the film without the benefit of Rod, Servo and the rest of those imbeciles whose names I have forgotten.

The first thing that amazed me about this film is not that its makers managed to get this film released, the fact that they managed to sell a film so cheap looking to major studio like Warner Brothers. I would love to known what sales pitch they used to sell it to WB executives. This film by the way, turned up a support feature for the second Godzilla movie, GIGANTIS,THE FIRE MONSTER, which Warner Brothers also distributed.

The acting in the film is amateurish and dialog delivery is stilted. The actors delivery of the lines is reminiscent of the stilted dubbed dialog heard in those cheap Italian made spectacles that were just about to flood the American market when this film came out. The films plot is loaded with more holes than swiss cheese. Perhaps the most ludicrous element of the film is the Gargon, which is nothing more than a macro enlarged lobster (or is it a crayfish?). On the plus side I was surprised that director Tom Graef used more camera set ups and camera movement than is usually found in a lowbudget picture of this nature. This makes TEENAGERS FROM OUTERSPACE not as dreary as other very low budget films from the same period like THE ASTOUNDING SHE MONSTER.