The Messed Up Things In This Island Earth Movie No One Talks About

Jeff Morrow as Exeter
Faith Domergue as Dr. Ruth Adams
Rex Reason as Dr. Cal Meacham
Lance Fuller as Brack
Russell Johnson as Dr. Steve Carlson
Douglas Spencer as The Monitor
Robert Nichols as Joe Wilson
Karl Ludwig Lindt as Dr. Adolph Engelborg
Charlotte Alpert as Metaluna Woman at Decompression Console
Jack Byron as Photographer
Spencer Chan as Dr. Hu Ling Tang
Richard Deacon as Pilot
Coleman Francis as Express Deliveryman
Marc Hamilton as Metaluna Inhabitant
Edward Hearn as Reporter
Edward Ingram as Photographer
Orangey as Neutron--Cat
Regis Parton as Mutant
Manuel París as Dinner Guest
Olan Soule as First Reporter
Les Spears as Reporter
Lizalotta Valesca as Dr. Marie Pitchner
Robert B. Williams as Webb
Music by the great Kevin MacLeod

[@cindystrachan8566]

Love this movie. One of the better of the early movies of this genre.

[@bujmoose3992]

McMinnville Oregon is now the home of Howard Hughes "Spruce Goose" at the Evergreen Air and Space Museum.

[@williamcrane8236]

Most special Memories are the Mystery of This Island Earth. Mostly by Mystery Science Theater 3000. Really, both viewings are good. It's a good 50s era SciFi movie and it's absolutely Hilarious on MST3000.

[@MindHunger]

This Island Earth had a lot of influence with Gene Roddenberry when he began writing Star Trek. The upper decks exterior of the Enterprise, and the Star Fleet triangle, are both taken from space ship shapes in this movie. Rex Reason from this movie later starred in the Star Trek episode "Bread and Circuses".

[@hagerty1952]

Sounds like you had access to a copy of "The Saucer Fleet" for research! You hit all the same obscure details.

[@truejim]

Honestly, my recollection of this movie was loving the first act, then feeling disappointed by the end…the setup was better than the payoff.