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Movies: Earth Versus The Flying Saucers
The following is a movie I've watched and reviewed. Contrary to popular belief, I'm not selling DVDs. This is not a list of movies that tell you "the truth about UFOs". Simply said, I like movies. Each review is as simple and non technical as possible.
By Michele Bugliaro Goggia - last modified: March 30, 2006 9:28 PM
Full title: Earth Versus The Flying Saucers.
Year: 1956.
Director: Fred F. Sears.
Starring: Hugh Marlowe, Joan Taylor, Donald Curtis, Morris Ankrum, John Zaremba.
Language: English.
Price: 9.99 €
Rating: 
Description: Dr. Russell Marvin heads up Operation Skyhook, which is tasked with sending rockets into the upper atmosphere to probe for future space flights. Unfortunately, all the rockets are somehow disappearing. During the final rocket launching, a UFO lands and the military shoots at it, triggering the destruction of the installation and a cryptic warning from the aliens. In response, Marvin and his colleagues develop an anti-magnetic beam weapon to disable the flying discs. The weapon and the mettle of the populace of Washington, DC are soon put to the test.
Ray Harryhausen must be mentioned, since his superb stop-action animation is the real star here. Without CGI, he has created flying saucers that fly and crash onto the White House. The aliens step out in silver spacesuits that act as powered exoskeletons that enable them to walk while under Earth's gravity.
There is an interesting scene where an alien is subdued and the helmet wrenched off of his suit: before crumbling to dust in our atmosphere, you can see out-sized black eyes, no nose, and a slit-like mouth set in a light-bulb shaped head. I didn't think this idea of an alien occurred to anybody until the 1970's. It surely is a modern way of conceiving aliens, somehow more close to Close Encounters Of The Third Kind than to War Of The Worlds!
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