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Director:
Writers:
Cyril Hume (screenplay)
Irving Block (story) ...
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Release Date:
15 March 1956 (USA) more
Tagline:
IT'S OUT OF THIS WORLD! (original print ad - all caps) more
Plot:
A starship crew goes to investigate the silence of a planet's colony only to find two survivors and a deadly secret that one of them has. full summary | full synopsis
Awards:
Nominated for Oscar. Another 1 nomination more
NewsDesk:
(38 articles)
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User Comments:
Brilliant: Undiluted Pulp Science Fiction on the big screen more (212 total)
Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| Walter Pidgeon | ... | Dr. Edward Morbius | |
| Anne Francis | ... | Altaira 'Alta' Morbius | |
| Leslie Nielsen | ... | Commander J. J. Adams | |
| Warren Stevens | ... | Lt. 'Doc' Ostrow M.D. | |
| Jack Kelly | ... | Lt. Jerry Farman | |
| Richard Anderson | ... | Chief Quinn | |
| Earl Holliman | ... | Cook | |
| Robby the Robot | ... | Himself | |
| George Wallace | ... | Bosun | |
| Robert Dix | ... | Crewman Grey (as Bob Dix) | |
| Jimmy Thompson | ... | Crewman Youngerford | |
| James Drury | ... | Crewman Strong | |
| Harry Harvey Jr. | ... | Crewman Randall | |
| Roger McGee | ... | Crewman Lindstrom | |
| Peter Miller | ... | Crewman Moran |
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Runtime:
98 min
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Color (Eastmancolor) (as Eastman Color)
Aspect Ratio:
2.55 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono (Perspecta Sound encoding) (Western Electric Sound System)
Certification:
Iceland:L | USA:Approved (certificate #17605) | USA:G (re-rating) (1972) | Canada:PG (Manitoba/Nova Scotia/Ontario) | Sweden:15 | Australia:PG | Finland:K-12 | UK:U | Argentina:Atp | West Germany:12
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The "electronic tonalities" created by Louis Barron and Bebe Barron were reused several years later in another science fiction film From the Earth to the Moon (1958) that was produced by RKO. more
Goofs:
Revealing mistakes: In the scene where the monster approaches the house from the southwest and Morbius commands Robby to destroy it, with Robby short circuiting due to logic conflict between obeying Morbius and knowing that destroying the monster (id of Morbius) would destroy his master, just before the shot ends after Robby is supposedly immobile, his arms wiggle. more
Quotes:
[Lt. Farman offers the brilliant but innocent Altaira some sugar for her coffee]
Altaira:
But you keep helping me. After all, you're not Robby.
Lt. Farman:
[chuckles] I wouldn't mind being Robby in certain ways. Uh, that's only in *certain* ways, of course.
Altaira:
I can see that was probably very clever, but I don't seem to understand it.
Lt. Farman:
There's no rush.
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Referenced in Daai chek liu (2003) more
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This is the Roman Empire of Science Fiction films. All films before lead into it, and all films since flow out of it. It captures the romance, the spirit, and the nifty look of 1950's pulp science fiction. This is one science fiction movie with a theme, not just eye candy. No matter how high humanity climbs on the evolutionary scale, no matter how advanced our technology becomes, we must never forget the primal instincts of our darker nature.
This film is a masterpiece.