ALL SCI-FI

[Bud Brewster]

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[Also released as: "Night Caller from Outer Space"]

This is the worst excuse for a poster I have ever seen. It looks like it was drawn by a six-year-old who knew very little about tanks, flying saucers, or women in negligees.

And the movie isn't much better . . .

John Saxon ("Battle Beyond the Stars") plays an American scientist working at a British observatory. He discovers that Robert Crewsden isn't the magazine editor he pretends to be — he's actually an alien from one of Jupiter's moons.

Crewsden's little office in Soho, England, is a front for the aliens' operations: the kidnapping of attractive models who respond to his ad in a cheesecake magazine.

The girls are being transported back to the alien's home world as child-bearers to help repopulate the planet. Sexy scientist Patricia Haines poses as a model to spy on the alien, but the plan seriously backfires.

Directed by John Gilling.
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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]

Jimbo Berkey's website, Free Classic Movies, offers these comments about The Night Caller, a very strange film from Great Britain.

Unfortunately, Jimbo has removed the film from his website (perhaps it's no longer in the public domain), so the jpegs that where with this post no longer work now.
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Bikini Girls and the Space Alien

So we have these photographs of beautiful young girls, and the photographs are 'alive' — some kind of 3-D thing where the background can move and change and the girl in the photo seems to come alive.

No, this isn't a Harry Potter plot.

We are back in 1965 London, and a strange sphere from outer space has landed in the countryside outside London. Doctor Jack Costain (played by John Saxon) and his assistant Ann Barlow (played by Patricia Haines) have locked the sphere in a storage room next to their laboratory.


They soon discover that the men from outer space can use the sphere to trans-mutate a creature from Ganymede, the third moon of Jupiter into the room with the sphere.

Medra, the man from outer space, is able to disappear and move from place to place without being seen. He steals a car from the research facility and heads for Soho, with all of Scotland Yard and the military on the search for him.

Soon young women begin vanishing from the streets of London, and it seems that all of the missing ladies have been reading copies of Bikini Girl magazine. Medra, the man from the planet Ganymede, is luring young women by giving them an incredible photograph that seems to be 3 dimensional.

With creepy 1965 organ music and eerie 1965 outer space sound effects, we're in on the chase for the creature that is kidnapping the young women of London.

Pop a big bowl of white kernel popcorn with plenty of warm melted butter drizzled over it and enjoy the show.

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

[Custer]

Looks like an interesting magazine, anyway — probably worth buying for the crossword section alone...



The novel it was based on was entitled The Night Callers — maybe budgetary considerations limited them to a single caller!

[Bud Brewster]

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A crossword puzzle? You mean like this one?






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

[Custer]

"Cheesey"...!!?