Terror from the Year 5000 (1958)
1h 10m
Running Time
October 30, 1958Release Date
Terror from the Year 5000 (1958)
1h 10m
Running Time
October 30, 1958Release Date
Plot.
Prof. Erling and his financial backer Victor build a prototype time machine to snatch objects from the past. Latest find, a statuette, radiometrically dates to 5200 AD! When this draws colleague Richard Hedges to the island lab, Erling reveals that 20th-century objects put in the machine seem to be "traded" for analogous future objects by intelligent life. And on the sly, Victor's been trying to get a living visitor. Does the future need help, or is the present in danger?
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This Movie Is About.
Cast & Crew.
Ward Costello
Dr. Robert Hedges
Joyce Holden
Claire Erling
Frederic Downs
Prof. Howard Erling
Salome Jens
Future Woman / Nurse
John Stratton
Victor
Fred Herrick
Angelo
Robert J. Gurney Jr.
Director
Beatrice Furdeaux
Miss Blake
Henry Slesar
Writer
Robert Hathaway
Sound Engineer
Arthur Florman
Cinematographer
Dede Allen
Editor
Samuel Z. Arkoff
Executive Producer
James H. Nicholson
Executive Producer
Jack Dimond
Assistant Director
Emil Cadkin
Music
Richard DuPage
Original Music Composer
Rudolph Liszt
Makeup Artist
Gene Searchinger
Associate Producer
Beatrice Guerney
Production Design / Production Supervisor
William Hoffman
Production Design
Paul Csonka
Music
Jack Shaindlin
Music
Media.
Details.
Wiki.
Terror from the Year 5,000 (a.k.a. Cage of Doom in the UK) is a 1958 independently made American black-and-white science fiction film, produced by Robert J. Gurney Jr, Samuel Z. Arkoff, James H. Nicholson and Gene Searchinger; directed by Robert J. Gurney Jr, and starring Ward Costello, Joyce Holden, John Stratton, Salome Jens and Fred Herrick. The screenplay is based (uncredited) on the short story "Bottle Baby" by print/TV/film writer Henry Slesar that was published in the science fiction magazine Fantastic (April 1957). American International Pictures released the film as a double feature with either The Screaming Skull or The Brain Eaters.