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This Island Earth

Movie
1955
1h 25m
NR
English
Science Fiction, Adventure, Horror
User Score: 
5.7
Critic Score: 
68
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Aliens have landed and are hiding on Earth, but need Earth’s scientists to help them fight an inter-planetary war.
This Island Earth Poster

This Island Earth

NR
Movie
1955
1h 25m
English
Science Fiction, Adventure, Horror
Aliens have landed and are hiding on Earth, but need Earth’s scientists to help them fight an inter-planetary war.
Rating
WATCHMODE
5.7
IMDB
This Island Earth (1955) on IMDb
CRITIC SCORE
68

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Rex Reason
Dr. Cal Meacham
Faith Domergue
Dr. Ruth Adams
Robert Nichols
Joe Wilson
Russell Johnson
Steve Carlson
Douglas Spencer
The Monitor of Metaluna
Richard Deacon
Spacecraft Pilot
Karl Ludwig Lindt
Dr. Adolph Engelborg
Coleman Francis
Express Deliveryman
Directed By: Joseph M. Newman
Written By: Franklin Coen (Screenplay), George Callahan (Screenplay), + 1 more

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moonkodi says...
7 years ago
The ideas and dialogue were probably edgy at the time, but now they've aged into a something funny. I still like the style of it.
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CinemaSerf
2 years ago
I remember watching this film on television in the 70s and loving it. Whilst I'm not quite so impressed by it now, it is still quite a clever sci-fi yarn about an alien species, themselves under dire threat of extinction, who come to earth to assemble a team of scientists to help save their planet f More
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Whitsbrain
5/10  3 years ago
Saw this a long time ago. I'm sure it was back in the early '70s on a TV station that ran Thursday afternoon Sci-Fi movies. I do recall thinking the Metaluna monster with the claw hands and brain-on-the-outside head was really cool (it still is). That mutant seemed really threatening at the time More
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John Chard
5 years ago
Captures the fear of the atomic age perfectly.

Carl Meacham is an atomic scientist, who after passing a cunning test, gets invited to work at a top secret lab out in Georgia by the rather odd looking Exeter. The project is apparently in the cause of finding world peace, and once arriving at his d More
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