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(This Island Earth)
A movie directed by Joseph M. Newman
1955 - 87 minutes - Color - Mono - 2.00 : 1
Number of reviews: 2
Total points: 31
Average: 15.50/20
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April 27, 2005
Very imaginative: a group of scientists receive a blueprint for a strange machine, which they succeed in constructing, thereby passing the test devised by aliens who are on Earth to get help from our planet's greatest scientists. The whole film takes place at breakneck speed, as the spacecraft must suddenly take off, reaching some unknown planet (in what seems like a few minutes) just in time for the planet to be almost destroyed, and the captured Earth people must fight their way back to the ship to escape, returning to Earth just as fast... Well, I don't think the film is in the class of the novel of the same name by Raymond F. Jones, but it's worth a look as a futuristic adventure that was, for its time, a state-of-the-art SF film.
March 11, 2002
It always amazes me now that I am older how some of the science fiction movies from the past were done so very good especially given the limit of spcial effects that the "now" generation has grown accustomed too. This is one good one. Very imaginative with really inspired effects by any standard. The views of the alien cityscapes are truely interesting and wish there was more to see not to mention a rather interesting storyline where an advanced alien race needs Earthmen's help to hopefully save their doomed planet.