ALL SCI-FI

[Bud Brewster]

Kathleen Crowley ("Target Earth") hires Arthur Franz (Flight to Mars, Invaders from Mars, Atomic Submarine) to accompany her into the jungle to find her husband, who went searching for a lost satellite.





They find the satellite and the body of the husband, both embedded in a clear mass of living protoplasm the satellite brought back. The alien mass is periodically growing larger by drawing electrical energy from a vein of metal ore in the cave the dead scientist moved it to.





The growing mass threatens the world in some manner which escapes me, so Kathleen, Arthur, and his loyal brother devise a plan to overload the alien organism with one of those electrical feedback thingies that sci-fi screenwriters are fond of.





Beware of a long delay before they reach this rather impressive scene, but the drop-dead gorgeous Miss Crowley provides some persistent eye candy for male viewers.





Despite what every review I've read says about the movie, it's actually fairly entertaining. The jungle adventure that proceeds the discovery of the satellite and the alien mass is pretty good.





Directed by Paul Landres from a script by Pat Fielder based on a story by George Worthing Yates.

Unfortunately there are no official DVDs or VHS tapes of this movie. The downloads from Stagevu and Youtube look pretty bad. But the Youtube version can be used to make screen grabs that look surprisingly good when compared to the video itself — like these shots of Miss Crowley when she blatantly teases the audience during a scene in which she changes her clothes for real important reasons that develop the characters and further the plot.

Okay, I'm lying. But she sure looks good.











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

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FRANZ: Damn! Forgot to refill the iodine!
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...or not...

WayneO
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[Bud Brewster]

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YouTube now has a copy of this movie, although the picture is only fair.

_________________ The Flame Barrier (1958)


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