Plan 9 from Outer Space (1959)
Plan 9 from Outer Space (1959)
Plot.
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Cast & Crew.
Gregory Walcott
Jeff Trent
Tom Keene
Colonel Tom Edwards
Mona McKinnon
Paula Trent
Duke Moore
Lieutenant Harper
Carl Anthony
Patrolman Larry
Paul Marco
Patrolman Kelton
Tor Johnson
Inspector Daniel Clay
Dudley Manlove
Eros
Joanna Lee
Tanna
Lyle Talbot
General Roberts
John Breckinridge
Ruler
Edward D. Wood Jr.
Director
Conrad Brooks
Patrolman Jamie
Maila Nurmi
Vampire Girl
Bela Lugosi
Ghoul Man
William C. Thompson
Cinematographer
Criswell
Self / Narrator
David De Mering
Danny
Norma McCarty
Edith
Lynn Lemon
Reverend
Ben Frommer
Man
Gloria Dea
Girl
Donald A. Davis
Drunk (uncredited)
Johnny Duncan
Second Stretcher Bearer (uncredited)
Tom Mason
Ghoul Man (uncredited)
Karl Johnson
Farmer Calder (uncredited)
J. Edward Reynolds
Gravedigger (uncredited) / Executive Producer
Hugh Thomas Jr
Gravedigger (uncredited)
Pauline Reynolds
Woman in Telephone Booth (uncredited)
Clay Stone
Mourner Reading Bible in Opening Scene (uncredited)
James Miller
Man (uncredited)
Gordon Zahler
Music Supervisor
Media.
Details.
Release DateJuly 22, 1959
StatusReleased
Running Time1h 19m
Content RatingNR
Budget$60,000
Filming LocationsLos Angeles, United States of America
Genres
Wiki.
Plan 9 from Outer Space is a 1957 American independent science fiction-horror film produced, written, directed, and edited by Ed Wood. The film was shot in black-and-white in November 1956 (under the shooting title Grave Robbers from Outer Space) and premiered on March 15, 1957 at the Carlton Theatre in Los Angeles. Retitled Plan 9 from Outer Space, it went into general release in April 1959 in Texas and several other Southern states before being sold to television in 1961.The film stars Gregory Walcott, Mona McKinnon, Tor Johnson, and "Vampira" (Maila Nurmi) and is narrated by Criswell. It also posthumously bills Bela Lugosi (before Lugosi's death in August 1956, Wood had shot silent footage of Lugosi for another, unfinished film, which was inserted into Plan 9). Other guest stars are Hollywood veterans Lyle Talbot, who said he never refused an acting job, and former cowboy star Tom Keene.
The film's storyline concerns extraterrestrials who seek to stop humanity from creating a doomsday weapon that could destroy the universe. The aliens implement "Plan 9", a scheme to resurrect the Earth's dead. By causing chaos, the aliens hope the crisis will force humanity to listen to them; otherwise, the aliens will destroy mankind with armies of undead.
Plan 9 from Outer Space played on television in relative obscurity from 1961 until 1980, when authors Harry Medved and Michael Medved dubbed it the "worst film ever made" in their book The Golden Turkey Awards. Wood and his film were posthumously given two Golden Turkey Awards for Worst Director Ever and Worst Film Ever. It has since been called "the epitome of so-bad-it's-good cinema" and gained a large cult following.