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Invasion of the Saucer Men (1957)
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PostPosted: Wed Aug 09, 2017 1:53 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Bud, I LOVE IT! You just need to add the tag line to the label: The Taste Is Out Of This World.

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PostPosted: Thu Mar 28, 2019 8:09 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote



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Odd mixture of sf alien invasion thrills and comedy, this is best known nowadays for the featured role by Frank Gorshin, who later became famous as the Riddler on the Batman TV show.

The plot is very similar to next year's The Blob. The young people are privy to the unexpected appearance of an alien threat — little green men — but are met with disbelief by the older generation and the establishment (the police).

This all takes place during one night, so most of the scenes are annoyingly dark. When I first watched this as a little kid, I admit that the alien's hands, with their bio-stingers, creeped me out.

Much of the plot involves a severed alien hand crawling around, usually inside a car. If it injects someone, that person probably will die, or so it seems.

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On the downside, the bulk of this film is pretty slow and just dull. There are numerous scenes, such as with a local farmer, that drag out and seem pointless. The highlight, late in the film, is a confrontation between one of the aliens and a bull.

But this is very low budget and even these scenes do not impress, coming across as silly and laughable. Though the aliens are of short stature, they are tough — bullets do not harm them — and the young folks need to find out their vulnerability to do them in.

There are parallel scenes of an army squad dealing with the landed alien saucer, but these are even more dull.

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PostPosted: Sun Jan 05, 2020 12:47 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

The flying saucer:







A model of the flying saucer (no longer available):








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PostPosted: Sun Jan 05, 2020 1:26 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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Thank you, Eadie!

That ship is really gorgeous! It's surprising that such a low-budget movie has such a beautifully designed saucer. It's a shame that the movie doesn't include scenes of it approaching Earth and landing in the woods. Very Happy

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PostPosted: Sun Jan 05, 2020 2:50 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

The ship was used in a couple of other movies. One in space in a movie who's title I can't recall, and as the alien craft in "The Invisible Invaders".

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PostPosted: Sun Jan 05, 2020 3:12 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Krel wrote:
The ship was used in a couple of other movies. One in space in a movie who's title I can't recall, and as the alien craft in "The Invisible Invaders".

It made a brief appearance at the beginning of the Outer Limits episode "Controlled Experiment," starring Barry Morse and Carroll O'Connor.
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PostPosted: Tue Jan 07, 2020 1:27 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

There were some good photos of the original model in the book It Came From Bob's Basement.
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PostPosted: Tue Jan 07, 2020 3:28 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

scotpens wrote:
It made a brief appearance at the beginning of the Outer Limits episode "Controlled Experiment," starring Barry Morse and Carroll O'Connor.

If it's the scenes showing the saucer in space, then that may have been what I was thinking of.

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PostPosted: Sun Mar 29, 2020 9:17 pm    Post subject: Invasion of the Saucermen Reply with quote

I've seen this a few times (the first in a drive-in around the mid sixties) but I've always by-passed it on Youtube for want of a better copy.

Was unsure I wanted it in my library, but what the hey? It's one of the few science fiction comedies worth re-watching.

Check around on Youtube for Frank Gorshin, one of the best of the stand up comedians and impressionists of the sixties.

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PostPosted: Mon Mar 30, 2020 1:40 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Krel wrote:
I haven't seen this movie, since the late 60s. It is based on the story, "The Cosmic Frame" by Paul W. Fairman. I read the story years ago, so the details are fuzzy. But the title should give you a hint about how the story ends.

Fairman also wrote "Deadly City", which mutated into the movie "Target Earth".
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PostPosted: Mon Mar 30, 2020 1:50 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

If nothing else, this movie had one of the BEST posters of the era! Too bad it didn't live up to it....BUT...What the heck...A twelve year old sci-fi geek of the Fifties would be DAMNED not to go to see this at his local Saturday matinee theatre! He would never live it down at recess on Monday!!!
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PostPosted: Mon Mar 30, 2020 12:12 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

alltare wrote:
Krel wrote:
I haven't seen this movie, since the late 60s. It is based on the story, "The Cosmic Frame" by Paul W. Fairman. I read the story years ago, so the details are fuzzy. But the title should give you a hint about how the story ends.

Fairman also wrote "Deadly City", which mutated into the movie "Target Earth".

If you've never read the story, there is a link to it in the "Target Earth" thread.

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PostPosted: Sat Nov 19, 2022 5:36 pm    Post subject: Re: Invasion of the Saucermen Reply with quote

Phantom wrote:
Was unsure I wanted it in my library, but what the hey? It's one of the few science fiction comedies worth re-watching.

I've never much enjoyed this one, and I don't think a better copy would help . . . Sad
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