This Island Earth (1955)
This Island Earth (1955)
Plot.
Where to Watch.
Currently This Island Earth is available for streaming online, rent, buy or watch for free on: Sky Store
Streaming in:🇬🇧 United Kingdom
Cast & Crew.
Jeff Morrow
Exeter
Faith Domergue
Dr. Ruth Adams
Rex Reason
Dr. Cal Meacham
Lance Fuller
Brack
Russell Johnson
Dr. Steve Carlson
Douglas Spencer
The Monitor
Richard Deacon
Spacecraft Pilot
Robert Nichols
Joe Wilson
Karl Ludwig Lindt
Dr. Adolph Engelborg
Regis Parton
Mutant
Jack Byron
Photographer
Robert B. Williams
Webb
Joseph M. Newman
Director
Coleman Francis
Express Deliveryman
Franklin Coen
Writer
Julia Heron
Set Decoration
Media.
Details.
Release DateJune 1, 1955
StatusReleased
Running Time1h 25m
Content RatingNR
Budget$800,000
Box Office$1,700,000
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This Movie Is About.
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This Island Earth is a 1955 American science fiction film produced by William Alland, directed by Joseph M. Newman and Jack Arnold, and starring Jeff Morrow, Faith Domergue and Rex Reason. It is based on the 1952 novel of the same name by Raymond F. Jones. The film, distributed by Universal-International, was released in 1955 on a double feature with Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy.
Upon initial release, the film was praised by critics, who cited the special effects, well-written script, and the eye-popping Technicolor as being its major assets. In 1996, it was edited down and lampooned in Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Movie, a spin-off of the popular film-riffing television series Mystery Science Theater 3000.
The 1952 novel by Jones was originally serialized in the science fiction magazine Thrilling Wonder Stories as three related novelettes: "The Alien Machine" (June 1949), "The Shroud of Secrecy" (December 1949), and "The Greater Conflict" (February 1950). Jones had taken the novel title from a line in Robert Graves' poem "Darien" ("It is a poet’s privilege and fate/To fall enamoured of the one Muse/Who variously haunts this island earth").