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This Island Earth (1955)
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Reviews Counted:11
Fresh:7
Rotten:4
Average Rating:5/10
Runtime: 86 mins
Genre: Science-Fiction/Fantasy
US Box Office: $0
Synopsis: A team of top nuclear scientists is assembled by the mysterious Exeter at a high-tech laboratory in Georgia. His mission, kept secret even from the researchers, is to develop new sources of atomic... A team of top nuclear scientists is assembled by the mysterious Exeter at a high-tech laboratory in Georgia. His mission, kept secret even from the researchers, is to develop new sources of atomic energy, which are needed to defend his home planet, Metaluna, from its interplanetary rival, Zagon. When two of the recruits begin to suspect Exeter's true identity and motive, they attempt to escape. But before the runaways can reach safety, the aliens intervene and carry them off in a last-ditch effort to save Metaluna. [More]
Starring: Jeff Morrow, Faith Domergue, Rex Reason, Russell Johnson
Starring: Jeff Morrow, Faith Domergue, Rex Reason, Russell Johnson, Lance Fuller, Robert Nichols, Douglas Spencer, Karl L. Lindt
Director: Joseph M. Newman
Director: Joseph M. Newman
Producer: William Alland
Composer: Herman Stein
Reviews for This Island Earth
...even though its increasingly camp elements have aged poorly, it deserves respect as one of the more ambitious, grandiose, and important science fiction adventures of its time.
Slower-moving than it needs to be, but hardly the object of scorn MST3K would have us believe
An appalling film, but good fodder for the mocking in "Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Movie"
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