5 Shocking Secrets Behind This Island Earth Movie - Tragic Facts and Scandals Exposed
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- 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
One of my favorite movies - I love the idea that the scientists had to undergo a complicated engineering test before being recruited by the aliens.
The movie was so rewatchable up until the late 60's when 2001 was released in 1968. Makeup, effects, dialogue and acting was above average. I don't know how many times I watched it as a child in the 60's. It wasn't until 40 years later that I rewatched it and found it just as watchable. A true classic. Thanks for the review.
I grew up reading Famous Monsters magazine and it ran many pictures from This Island Earth. But in those pre-VHS days it was a long time before I finally got to see it. I love those old movies and this one stood out because of all the electronic gizmos. And, the movie is my age! I have the Blu Ray and put it on every summer when I have my own Sci-Fi Festival.
I saw this movie on its first release in the summer of 1955 at age 8. I have loved it ever since. It was one of the last movies filmed in the original 3-strip Technicolor process, first developed in 1933, and used until 1955. I researcd this film extensively in the 1980s with Robert Skotak, and interviewed several of the original actors and film crew. I also developed lifetime friendships with actors Jeff Morrow and Rex Reason, and film composer Herman Stein, who composed half of the music score. The composers were uncredited due to Universal's Music Director Joseph Gershenson insisting on sole credit.
When the scientist are having a dinner together one of them suddenly starts speaking Finnish. Just conjecturing, how many viewers actually could identify the languare?
According to the cast and crew, Jack Arnold did not re-shoot the Metaluna scenes, as is widely reported, but only substituted for a few days shooting when director Joseph Newman was out sick at home.
The Metaluna Mutant creature was designed by Millicent Patrick and Jack Kevan, who also designed the Creature From the Black Lagoon, but Special Makeup department head Bud Westmore took the credit.
I did an extensive interview with Roswell A. Hoffman, who was supporting the work of Special Visual Effects Supervisor David Stanley Horsley, ASC, on the optical printer, and my 1982 interview with him at his home in Beverly Hills opened up a window for me to see inside Universal Studios in the 1950s, and the making of all of their classic sci-fi and horroe B-movies, as well as their three A-productions of science fiction classics IT CAME FROM OUTER SPACE (1953) in 3-D, CREATURE FROM THE BLACK LAGOON (1954) in 3-D, and THIS ISLAND EARTH (1955) in Technicolor. These last three picures were not considered B-movies by the studio.
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It's hard to believe that 2001: A Space Odyssey was created just 13 years later, and Star Wars 9 years after that.
Well put together, and lots of information.
Thank you!
The only Metaluna woman shown in the movie was actress-model Charlotte Lander, a Las Vegas showgirl who was 6 feet tall.
It seems like 75% of the movie is devoted to getting ready to go to help the alien at his planet. And then once they get there they’re only there a short time before the planet is destroyed. It doesn’t make sense to me
Nope, no confusion here. The comet jockeys were the baddies and the big brows the good guys. OK, maybe Brack and the Monitor needed more fiber in their diet but, c'mon it's interplanetary war man!
And it had the Professor from Gilligan's Island.
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Not a bad movie. Entertaining and stupid at the same time . :O)
Great movie. Well before DEI
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