This Island Earth (1955)

6.25
/ 10
4 User Ratings
1h 25m
Running Time

June 1, 1955
Release Date

Details.

Release Date
June 1, 1955

Status
Released

Running Time
1h 25m

Content Rating
NR

Budget
$800,000

Box Office
$1,700,000

Genres

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This Movie Is About.

extraterrestrial technology
spacecraft
mutant
georgia
flying saucer
space travel
resettlement
space
alien
scientist
interplanetary war
nobel prize
nuclear scientist
death ray

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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").

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