Protraph Lack of good storyline.

Spoonixel Amateur movie with Big budget

Pacionsbo Absolutely Fantastic

Rio Hayward All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

Michael O'Keefe Yes. it came out of the skies; a mysterious spaceship, being watched by Professor Elliot (Raymond Bond), lands in the moors of Scotland. An American reporter John Lawrence (Robert Clark) joins the professor in the investigation of the craft that resembles a diving bell. A distressed humanoid that piloted the craft tries to communicate that he is from a dying planet that desperately needs aid. Very low budget and the lack of lighting actually helps the atmosphere. And the alien is one of the weirdest looking visitors to step on our planet. There is more curiosity than fear generated. This film is directed by Edgar G. Ulmer and independently made and actually distributed by United Artists, no stranger to the genre. Who can't enjoy Black and White sci-fi?Also in the cast: Margaret Field, William Schallert, David Ormont, Gilbert Fallman and Roy Engel. You may recognize Harold Gould as a frightened villager.

utgard14 A strange visitor from outer space lands on a remote Scottish island where a renowned astronomer has set up an observatory to study the mysterious Planet X, which will pass close to Earth in a few days. The astronomer, his pretty daughter, his assistant, and a visiting American reporter make contact with the alien and try to communicate with it. But things take a turn for the worse when the assistant tries to use the alien for his own ends.The hero of the movie is played by Robert Clarke. With his pencil mustache, bomber jacket, and turtleneck, he's the definition of cool. William Schallert plays the villain. It's a different type of role than I'm used to seeing Schallert in but he plays bad very well. Margaret Field (mother of Sally) does fine as the astronomer's daughter and potential love interest for Clarke. Roy Engel is great in a small part as the constable. This is a very good, low-budget sci-fi film from the Golden Age of Sci-Fi (the 1950s). It's helped a lot by a short runtime and Edgar G. Ulmer's atmospheric direction. Most of the movie takes place at night, with lots of scenes on the fog-shrouded moors or the castle observatory. Creepy fun for fans of classic horror and sci-fi. Also, this was made back in the days when stories involving space and aliens were still filled with wonder and the fantastic, not the boring "realism" that permeates modern sci-fi. So here we have a big-headed alien in a neat-looking spacesuit traveling in an awesome rocket ship. Very entertaining for those who appreciate such things.

poe426 THE MAN FROM PLANET X has a lot going for it, not the least of which is an interesting premise: an alien from a dying world arrives on Earth (just ahead of the aforementioned dying world itself, which has been steered toward Earth), ostensibly to colonize this planet. His intentions may have been peaceful, but William Schallert as the greedy businessman "Mears" undermines any such peaceful intentions by capturing and torturing the alien. (Two years later, IT CAME FROM OUTER SPACE would use basically the same premise, although it would forego the Bush-Cheney-Rumsfeld approach.) Writer-director Ulmer makes the most of what little he has, shrouding the action and miniatures in mist and setting scenes at night (the old double-whammy of low-budget filmmaking). The alien himself isn't half bad, either (he definitely doesn't look Human), but his little ship is truly outstanding for such an obviously low-rent venture. At one point, a constable complains to reporter Lawrence: "You take the taste of the tea right out of my mouth." But it's Lawrence who delivers the best line of the movie when he tells his woman that it's best not to tell the world about the attempted invasion: "Knowledge would only bring more fear in a world already filled with it." Don't we know it...

paris_whitney_hilton_nyc I was watching this film last night and dozing off and on so I can't write a completely accurate review . A lady in Scotland gets a flat tire in the middle of nowhere . Instead of changing the tire or driving on the rim , she walks over to a glowing light she sees out there on the moors . When she gets up close to what looks a lot like a silver porta potty or giant Christmas tree ornament , a little guy with a big face resembling Pee Wee Herman, peeks out of a port hole and scares the living bejesus out of her . She runs home and tells her boyfriend to-be about it . I refer to him as the guy in the World War Two bomber jacket . He goes back to the site with his friend and they come upon the man from space . The little alien pulls a ray gun on the pair of earthlings but has a faithing spell and passes out . Instead of grabbing the ray gun , The bomber jacket guy decides to do a good deed and opens up an oxygen valve that makes the unconscious spaceman come to . That valve looked a lot like the old fashion petcocks on classic automobile radiators . Anyway, the two guys run away but the spaceman follows them home like a lost puppy . Our hero tries to communicate with the alien dwarf but the little guy is not too bright . Later on another guy who used to play Patty Duke's TV father roughs up the little fellow in what looked like a scene from good cop - bad cop . Anyway, the alien turns out to be a bad guy after all . He hypnotizes a lot of the townsfolk into digging holes around his spaceship . I thought they were going to grow a victory garden for him or something . It turns out that Planet X where he came from was going to pass by the earth . All his buddies were supposed to somehow jump off their planet and on to ours . But a few British soldiers fired a few rounds with their pop guns and foiled the plot to take over the Earth . During the battle , Patty Duke's father gets hit by shrapnel and dies . The other men had already wandered away because the hero convinced them to follow him . Planet X whizzes by the Earth at about a million miles an hour and disappears into deep space . The British bazooka team score a direct hit and the space ship goes up in smoke . Only the spaceman and Patty Duke's Father die in this no so exciting sci-fi movie . In the final scene the hero and his girlfriend go strolling near the seaside during a typhoon wearing their brand new overcoats .... The End ! ... Did people actually pay money to see this waste of time ? I think teenagers went to the theatre just to make-out while the little kids were more interested in the candy counter than the movie . ..... Definitely Not Hot !