I recorded this movie on TCM with bad image that they allowed us,now on very first time officially in Brazil bring us the fully restored this amazing B-movie,all movie was made in studio sets,the rocks are phony,the tower is a drawing,even the harbor and the village were painted,but all this are wonderful sets and weird but somehow gave a charm to the picture and quickly became a classic B Sci-fi. All ellements of this marvelous genre are presents here,Edgar G Ulmer was one best director to work on tight budge,fantastically photographed in black and white picture!!!Resume:First watch: 2013 / How many: 2 / Source: DVD / Rating: 7

Boring, slow, Cheap, Background Movie, Like Background Music Decent acting, but still boring. Characters suck. Story goes nowhere. Can't remember the music. The sets were cheap. It's like watching a background movie, very boring, like listening to background music. Not recommended.Boring, slow, Cheap, Background Movie, Like Background Music Decent acting, but still boring. Characters suck. Story goes nowhere. Can't remember the music. The sets were cheap. It's like watching a background movie, very boring, like listening to background music. Not recommended.

Hey, I love cheesy Sci-FI, especially when it is more of a pseudo science fiction. This movie is just plain fun on all levels, from the sadistic Dr. who tortures the alien while communicating in geometry, a tactic still used in most educational systems. To Sally Field's mother as the damsel in distress. A solid win for the viewer, the added artistic touches like a fog machine running 24/7 for atmosphere combined with the spaceship that looks like a Christmas ornament gives the viewer a veritable cornucopia of swatches of video wallpaper that all together make one great piece of iconic kitsch. Also what movie from the United Kingdom would be complete without an American hero saving the day with the aid of Scotland Yard? The only bummer is I was hoping we would see Sally Fields mother in the film the way she was portrayed on the poster......not a chance, and it is too bad too, I liked that image on the poster...a lot.

(Some Spoilers) It's when famed Scottish Astrology Professor Elliot,Raymond Bond,spotted this heavenly body heading straight towards earth that he got in touch with his good friend back in WWII days American reporter John Lawrence, Robert Clarke, to get the first rights on breaking to the world this earth shaking story.Showing up at the dinky and fog covered town of Burry in Northern Scotland Lawrence is shocked to find that Prof. Elliot's assistant is the sleazy unscrupulous as well as brilliant Dr. Mears, William Schallert, who was just released from prison. To balance things out there's also the professor's daughter Enid played by Margaret Fields, actress Sally Fields mom, who's had a crush on the handsome American when she was a little girl back in war torn WWII England.As the brilliant professor Eillot calculated the heavenly body-that he named Planet X-that he's been tracking for the last two or three days is due to hit the earth on the evening of September 17,1950 just three days hence! And the the place it's to collied with on earth is no less then Burry Scotland! The very place where he and Enid make their home!Checking out the moors outside of Burry Lawrence and Enid spot this landing craft stuck in the soft fog covered earth. Later this alien the Man from Planet X, known as the X-Man in sci-fi lingo, played by midget actor Pat Goldin unexpectedly pop up out of the craft. Looking like the famous Tin-Man in "The Wizard of Oz" the X-Man suddenly suddenly go into convulsions in that his air,or whatever he's breathing, supply gets jammed in his space suite. With Lawrence and Professor Elliot helping the X-Man back to his feet he seems to become friendly to the earthlings whom he owes his life to. It's only when he's brought to Professor Eillot's home and greedy and rotten Dr.Mears begins to work the defenseless X-Man over to find the secret of his or fellow X-Mens ability to travel through space and build spaceships to do it with that he turns violent! Escaping from the Elliot house the X-Man uses his ray gun to turn the people of Burry into mind-controlled zombies and do the bidding of him and fellow X-Men who are planning to take over the earth and, in their planet about to become instinct of life, make it their home away home.***SPOILERS*** In order top prevent the X-Men from taking over the earth the local British National Guard is called in by Lawrence and Burry's Constable Tommy(Ron Engel), two of few men in town who weren't zombafied, in order to put an end to their plans. With Lawrence de-zombafying those already zombafied by the X-Man in getting the mind controlled population of Burry, that includes both Professor Elliot and Dr. Mears, back to normal it's now up to the British Army to put an end of this planned alien invasion of the earth by blasting the X-Man and his spacecraft to kingdom come! That's before he can set the stage for his fellow X-Men to launch their full scale invasion, D-Day style, of the planet earth. And the one person, or earthling, who's against that happening is non-other then Dr.Mears! As it turns out that besides him being a lowlife and rat faced bottom feeder, in getting information that would make him rich & famous from the X-Man, he's also a traitor to not only his country but his fellow earthlings! And like the traitor that Dr. Mears is he ends up getting exactly what he deserves! By him getting blasted by a squad of British Army bazooka men as he makes a run for it back to the X-Man's soon to be pulverized,together with the X-Man, spacecraft!