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Bud Brewster · Posted: Mon Apr 06, 2015 8:35 pm Post subject: Terror from the Year 5000 (1958)

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[Also released as: "Cage of Doom"]

Another of those movies with a plot that sounds wonderful when synopsized. Consider this one.

Several scientists on an island are playing around with a time machine which brings objects back from the future. They retrieve several interesting souvenirs: a cat with four eyes and a disfigured woman with glittering, hypnotic fingernails.

The lady needs men to help her build up the dwindling populace of the future (shades of "Devil Girl from Mars"). Salome Jens is the future woman (in her screen debut). She hypnotizes John Stratton into going back to the future with her, but Ward Costello wants to destroy her because she has contaminated the present with her radiation.

The special effects include some cartoon-animation bubbles which float around during the time machine's operation.

Directed by Robert Gurney, Jr. American International Pictures just loved to sneak in little promos for their other movies, so watch for a scene in which a couple goes to a theater where "I Was a Teenaged Frankenstein" is playing. (In Bert I. Gordon's "Attack of the Puppet People" John Agar and his girl friend go to a drive-in to see "The Amazing Colossal Man").
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Is there no man on Earth who has the wisdom and innocence of a child?
~ The Space Children (1958)

bulldogtrekker · Posted: Mon Apr 06, 2015 9:12 pm Post subject: Terror from the Year 5000

Another movie that I found to be totally totally satisfying. I recorded it on VHS a long time ago, and the tape deteriorated and I threw it away.

Never on TV. I remember Butch posting on the old All Sci-fi that it is no longer shown on TV, for some copyright reason.

Bud Brewster · Posted: Tue Apr 07, 2015 11:01 am Post subject:

This is one of the few pictures from this movie I could find. Hopefully somebody else will have better luck.
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Is there no man on Earth who has the wisdom and innocence of a child?
~ The Space Children (1958)

Bud Brewster · Posted: Wed Feb 01, 2017 1:22 pm Post subject:

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Grab this one from YouTube before they remove it! I have. Very Happy

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Is there no man on Earth who has the wisdom and innocence of a child?
~ The Space Children (1958)

bulldogtrekker · Posted: Wed Feb 01, 2017 5:57 pm Post subject:

Excellent find. I never expected to see this movie again. I looked for it for years and finally stop looking.

bulldogtrekker · Posted: Thu Feb 02, 2017 6:17 pm Post subject:

Bud and I watched this movie together by synchro-chat and it was a big disappointment. The lead actress, Joyce Holden, was very good and very quirky. She was easily the best thing about the movie. Here is a picture of Joyce Holden that Bud sent me through Facebook chat. I am very happy that Bud found this movie on YouTube.

Bud Brewster · Posted: Thu Feb 02, 2017 7:02 pm Post subject:

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Not one of the pictures I found really seemed to do her justice. She was such a girly, flirty, teasing sweetie.

A picture doesn't let us enjoy all her lovely feminine gestures.
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Is there no man on Earth who has the wisdom and innocence of a child?
~ The Space Children (1958)

Bud Brewster · Posted: Fri Dec 17, 2021 5:42 pm Post subject:

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As Bulldogtrekker stated above, he and I watched this movie back in 2017 while we chatted, but I can't remember much the film.

The download we used is not on the current laptop I'm using, and the YouTube version isn't very good. But I sampled a few scenes of the scientists in their lab, and I was impressed with the dialog when they discussed the way they were "trading" objects with a civilization in the future!

I'll think I'll watch it again sometime soon. It might give me some ideas for an "imaginary sequel" or a remake. Very Happy

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Is there no man on Earth who has the wisdom and innocence of a child?
~ The Space Children (1958)