Space scientist Dr. Russell Marvin (Hugh Marlowe) and his wife Carol (Joan Taylor) are working on a secret missile project, but every time their rockets are launched, they are... more
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the widescreen DVD treatment rather because of its special-effects man, the legendary Ray Harryhausen.ATwilight Zonestyled voiceover introduces Dr Marvin Russell a...
the widescreen DVD treatment rather because of its special-effects man, the legendary Ray Harryhausen.ATwilight Zonestyled voiceover introduces Dr Marvin Russell a...
a solid script and competent performances, but some genuinely impressive stop-motion effects courtesy of one of the industry's uncontested masters, Ray Harryhausen. Scientist Hugh Marlowe (who faced a more benevolent invader from space five years earlier inThe Day the Earth Stood Still) discovers that UFOs are responsible for the destruction of a series of exploratory space rockets launched by his space exploration project. The saucers' helmeted pilots land on Earth and deliver an ultimatum to humanity via Marlowe.Harryhausen's painstakingly intricate saucers and the destruction they wreak (particularly during an assault on Washington, D.C.) are the film's unquestionable highlights, but Marlowe and Joan Taylor (as his wife/partner) are capable leads, and veteran B director Fred F. Sears doesn't let the dialogue and expositional scenes fall apart in between the barrage of effects.Earth vs. the Flying Saucersis a fun and effective slice of sci-fi that should please younger audiences as well as nostalgic return viewers. Sears later reused some of the effects footage for his jaw-droppingly awful 1957 effort,The Giant Claw. --Paul Gaita
a solid script and competent performances, but some genuinely impressive stop-motion effects courtesy of one of the industry's uncontested masters, Ray Harryhausen. Scientist Hugh Marlowe (who faced a more benevolent invader from space five years earlier inThe Day the Earth Stood Still) discovers that UFOs are responsible for the destruction of a series of exploratory space rockets launched by his space exploration project. The saucers' helmeted pilots land on Earth and deliver an ultimatum to humanity via Marlowe.Harryhausen's painstakingly intricate saucers andthe destruction they wreak (particularly during an assault on Washington, D.C.) are the film's unquestionable highlights, but Marlowe and Joan Taylor (as his wife/partner) are capable leads, and veteran B director Fred F. Sears doesn't let the dialogue and expositional scenes fall apart in between the barrage of effects.Earth vs. the Flying Saucersis a fun and effective slice of sci-fi that should please younger audiences as well as nostalgic return viewers. Sears later reused some of the effects footage for his jaw-droppingly awful 1957 effort,The Giant Claw. --Paul Gaita
Earth vs The Flying Saucers.
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~Introduction~
Aliens plan to take over the Earth.
~Synopsis~
Operation Skyhook, headed by Dr. Russell Marvin, is having problems. It seems all the rockets they send up into space are mysteriously disappearing. Dr Russell gets to meet the Aliens but he is tricked by them and a war between the Earth and the UFOs has begun.
Humanities only hope is for our hero to invent an anti-magnetic weapon ... ...of discs: 1 Classification: U
Run Time: 79 minutes Extras:
Harryhausen Chronicles: Some of his other works and illustrations of his trick photography.
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Actor(s): Hugh Marlowe, Joan Taylor, Donald Curtis, Morris Ankrum, Charles Evans, Larry Blake, Thomas Brown Henry, Harry Lauter, Grandon Rhodes
Director(s): Fred F. Sears
Genre: Science Fiction & Fantasy
Classification: Universal
Production Year: 1956
Colour: Black & White
Running Time: 1 hour 19 minutes
Video Category: Feature Film
Country Of Origin: United States of America
Plot: Zombie aliens arrive at a U.S. Army base to seek help for their dying planet. But the Army greet them with gunfire...
Release details
DVD Region: Region 2 (Europe)
Studio(s): SONY PICTURES HOME ENTERTAINMENT; CINRAM LOGISTICS
Release date: 14/10/2002
No of Discs: 1
Catalogue No: CDR 11102
Barcode: 5035822110236
Editor: Danny B. Landres
Special Effects: Ray Harryhausen
Screenwriter: George Worthing Yates
Producer: Charles H. Schneer, Ray Harryhausen
DVD Description
Space scientist Dr. Russell Marvin (Hugh Marlowe) and his wife Carol (Joan Taylor) are working on a secret missile project, but every time their rockets are launched, they are intercepted and destroyed by the more advanced technology of mysterious flying saucers hovering near the Earth. The alien race has completely surrounded the planet, giving the Earth sixty days to surrender. The enemy spacecraft appear indestructible, and Marvin sets out to find a weapon that can defeat them. The special effects of stop-motion animator Ray Harryhausen are legendary, most notably in the scene in which flying saucers attack the Capitol building in Washington, D.C.
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