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Bud Brewster · Posted: Mon Dec 30, 2019 4:46 pm Post subject:

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Well, here we are . . . almost five months after I posted my carefully crafted summary of The Space Children on Wikipedia . . . and yet they've left it intact without chastising me for posting such a long and detailed description of the plot.

Bear in mind, guys, that I've submitted several other lengthy plot synopsis on Wikipedia for various movies. And yet I've frequently been soundly rebuked by them — after which my contributions were completely removed!

So, the fact that my The Space Children submission has survived this long is very gratifying! Very Happy

I'm proud of the fact that the entire web-surfing global community is now able to learn about the merits of this great movie from the very person who is the most devoted person to it!

Me. Cool

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Is there no man on Earth who has the wisdom and innocence of a child?
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How about the nuclear material was placed in safe storage until we could use the material (hopefully wisely) for peace and the children became the future leaders?
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Bud Brewster · Posted: Sun May 09, 2021 1:03 pm Post subject:

Bud Brewster · Posted: Fri Aug 05, 2022 8:06 pm Post subject:

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Here's a question: Will the aliens in this wonderful movie come back again to help mankind?

Here's a thought: After the alien (who looks like a 'solidified nebula) —

— much like the one shown during the title work and the one I found on line —

— and who helped mankind avoid making a terrible mistake before it rode a beam of light back to its mother ship —

— ever come back to follow up on our progress?

When the movie ends and Michel Ray's character answers this mother's question ("Will they ever come back?") he just says, "I don't know."

But if these benevolent and super-intelligent aliens sent an emissary to Earth to recruit our children to help it prevent mankind from destroying itself, they must believe we have the potential to someday join the other sentient species in the galaxy. Cool

So, the answer to the question which the mother of Michel Ray's asked him his obvious.

Yes . . . they will come back! 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)

Bud Brewster · Posted: Mon Sep 12, 2022 4:20 pm Post subject:

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I found some very interesting info on the TCM website concerning this movie and the short story that inspired it.
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According to modern sources, the name of Tom Filer's unpublished story was "The Egg" and it differed greatly from the Bernard Schoenfeld screenplay.

In Filer's story, Kathy, a young polio victim, finds an alien "egg" after a storm. Mysteriously told to protect the egg for ten hours, Kathy battles against her parents, neighbors and local authorities, who seek to destroy the ever-growing creature.

The egg then absorbs Kathy, only to suddenly vanish and leave the young girl cured of her lameness.

Modern sources state that the alien creature in The Space Children was built out of plastic by Ivyl Burks, the head of Paramount's prop department. In its largest state, the extraterrestrial prop weighed more than 1,000 pounds, measured five feet wide by ten feet long and contain over $3,000 worth of neon lights.
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I've always wondered about that amazing prop. It's impressed me since the day I first say it in 1958! 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)

Gord Green · Posted: Sun Oct 16, 2022 5:12 pm Post subject:

New one?

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Bud Brewster · Posted: Sun Oct 16, 2022 6:36 pm Post subject:

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Hot damn, it is indeed! Very Happy

Here's the one at the top of this thread, which is the poster my friends gave me for my 40th Birthday — 24 years ago! Shocked

But obviously you've found a fine variation of the poster. In fact, it's much better artwork in some ways. Very Happy

Bravo!

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

Gord Green · Posted: Sun Oct 16, 2022 10:45 pm Post subject:

Here's a few more I found, including a couple of foreign ones.

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There comes a time, thief, when gold loses its lustre, and the gems cease to sparkle, and the throne room becomes a prison; and all that is left is a father's love for his child.

Gord Green · Posted: Thu Oct 20, 2022 12:39 am Post subject:

This is a review that comes very close....

David-Puckett-17 June 2006

Last year I watched TCMs documentary WATCH THE SKIES. Seeing the clips from this movie, I vaguely remembered seeing it but wasn't quite sure. Since Steven Spielberg gushed about it I thought I would search for a copy.

I finally found a copy and watched it with my twin brother and a childhood friend of mine. Having seen it, I realize that I did see this movie. My brother and friend also remembered it and we agree that it was probably in the very early sixties. I was at most six years old at the time. When your six you don't concern yourself with the BIG MESSAGE.

What I really liked was monsters and aliens. This movie does not feature any exciting encounters with either. I guess the reason I liked it at the time was because kids were the main stars of the picture. They really don't do much, in fact nobody really does much in this picture, but that really doesn't matter.

Seeing it again as an adult, I am tempted to roast this movie for it's lack of production values, obvious low budget, lack of action and highly unrealistic storyline.

I agree with another reviewer, what is an unemployed drunk doing at a top secret missile facility. Why are children allowed to run all over the place? But why bother?

It doesn't really matter. There is a message here no matter how clumsily conveyed. The movie has good nostalgia value and that is probably the real reason I like it.
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There comes a time, thief, when gold loses its lustre, and the gems cease to sparkle, and the throne room becomes a prison; and all that is left is a father's love for his child.