The Man From Planet X (DVD)

The Man From Planet X (1951) Genre: horror/Romance/sci-fi Writer: Aubrey Wisberg & Jack Pollexfen Dir.: Edgar Ulmer Cast: Robert Clarke - John Lawrence Margaret Field - Enid Elliot Raymond Bond - Prof. Elliott William Schallert - Dr. Mears Roy Engel - Tommy the constable Plot: Scientists discover a large planet, planet X, on a collision course with Earth. John, an American newspaper reporter travels to Scotland to meet with Prof. Elliott who's been studying the planet. The Prof.'s daughter, Enid discovers a spaceship with a space man inside. The spaceman seems friendly at ...  Read the complete review

The Man From Planet X. ================== This movie starts with, some good special effects, of a planet spotted drifting through our system and it is going to come close to the Earth. The Planet named planet X, (how imaginative!) will be studied by many around the globe including Professor Elliot who sets up a small observatory in the remote moors of a Scottish island. He along with daughter Enid and Dr Mears, a former student and love interest of the profs daughter are soon joined by the obligatory Newspaper reporter that always seemed to be in these movies. They soon get a visit from a spaceship from planet X and the alien occupant of ...  Read the complete review

This movie was made in only six days, but is far better than some films which have taken a lot longer. The story concerns an alien who arrives on Earth to look for help for his freezing planet, but discovers that not all humans are prepared to help and as such he ends up being destroyed, along with his spaceship. Although the production values were obviously not high, there is tension in the film, and The Man From Planet X himself has a particularly ugly visage. One interesting point about the plot of the film is that the alien initially means no harm to the people of our planet, which is in contrast to many of the science fiction movies made around the ...  Read the complete review