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.

Stephen Spielberg claimed Ulmer's movie's influence for his celebrated E.T. Enid and her father's surname is Elliot and the young hero of the eighties blockbuster is none other than Elliott.Coincidence? Made on a shoestring budget in six days in the settings of a movie telling the story of France's most famous heroine,"man from planet X" does predate E.T.; more than 30 years before ,the message is the same :in 1951,Ulmer broke with old habits that made the creatures from outer space scary monsters Our X man is alone,he is afraid,his face is some kind of inscrutable mask (or some kind of Pinocchio-like puppet or some kind of wistful clown);they did not have Carlo Rambaldi's technical abilities,then).The human beings (or at least Mears and the military men) are considered the bandits or the Indians in bad westerns ;the hero and miss Elliot play the same part as Elliott,but unlike SS,no happy end here.Geometry (and maths in general) could have been an ideal way to communicate;in " Contact" ,"they " used the prime numbers).Enid's last line hints at a missed opportunity.

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 !

Margaret Field, who died a month ago, appeared in some movies in the '40s and '50s, but then decided to concentrate on raising her family. Her daughter later became famous as a surfer girl, a flying nun, and a two-time Oscar-winning actress.One of the elder Field's movies was this quirky sci-fi outing from the early '50s. "The Man from Planet X" focuses on an alien who lands on a Scottish island while his planet is passing ours. While some of the scientists want to communicate with this new guest, one has less than noble intentions. Ridiculous though it may be, the movie is very enjoyable in every way. It's just fun to see an alien who looks like something from an Eastern European stop-motion cartoon.So, it shall go down in history that Sally Field's mother had an encounter with an extraterrestrial. Pretty neat. As for Planet X, I recall that Daffy Duck and Porky Pig tried to colonize it but had to contend with Marvin the Martian.