";s:4:"text";s:4907:" A micro-budget science fiction romp with an unusual plot and a solid cast of competent B-feature actors. From IMDb: An alien being lands in Santa Monica. Phantom From Space is a bad film, but may actually be a fun reminder of comic books and science fiction serials. It is the very first sci-fi that I had ever seen. Phantom from Space Film Info Score: 4.4 / 10. van 18 stemmen Status: Released IMDb Release Datum: 1953-05-15 Lengte: 73 Minuut / 1:13 Regisseur: W. Lee Wilder Schrijvers William Raynor, Myles Wilder. Alpha Video has a release of this film on DVD with spectacular, color cover art, a quite nice print of the film, and a budget savvy price of around $5-$6 bucks! Then, when the alien arrives and things pick up a bit you realize you miss the talk!!!!! United Artists sure had a mess on their hands when they distributed Phantom From Space in 1953. The story is mainly about people running up and down hallways and stairs. As low-budget 1950's sci-fi stuff goes, this movie turns out to be relatively entertaining, certainly better than a lot of similar type movies from the era. This film had so many opportunities to be decent but missed out.
When it comes to 1950's sci-fi, there's good bad, and bad bad; "Phanton From Space" isn't bad, if you know what I mean. 11 out of 12 found this helpful Instead of thrills, the beginning offers a set-up of the boring police/news reporter/government agent business that seems to … I have to admit I really wanted to enjoy this film but the lack of any sustained action brought my rating down. Our cold war police force wants nothing more than to destroy him, without any effort to remedy the situation. 5 out of 6 found this helpful 7 out of 8 found this helpful For the most part the acting is bad. The director made a wise choice by taking off the aliens spacesuit(which was unbearably hokey). Community. A UFO is tracked from Point Barrow Alaska entering the earth's atmosphere traveling at some 5,000 MPH as it heads south some 3,000 miles down the Pacific coast it loses speed and crashes in the ocean off Santa Monica Calif. 34 out of 38 found this helpful Proof that you don’t need mega-bucks to … Goed, doet het werk van onderhoudend. “A little gem” “Better than you’d expect” “Phantom is good fun” “Underrated grade B sci fi” “Boring 50s sci fi” (IMDB reviews quotes). I noticed a comment that compared this to an Ed Wood film. 17 out of 21 found this helpful I generally LOVE low-budget Sci-Fi films from the 1950's, but you have to admit they also made some pretty darn stupid and pointless movies back them!
W. Lee Wilder, brother of the talented William Wilder, continued his descent into low-budget sci fi cinema oblivion with 1953' Phantom from Space. I sat through tons of stock footage and non-actors standing around talking about some weird guy wandering around in a deep sea diving suit.
There is a bit of cool trivia here though, Harry Landers who played police Lt. Bowers was a guest star on the very last broadcast of the original star trek series. A merry bunch of scientists, men of action and the ubiquitous woman with a good heart are trying to communicate with it and fail miserably. If one were to take the premise that a space creature was fighting for his existence on earth, you could make a pretty decent movie. Having no money to spend on special effects or makeup, producer-director William Lee Wilder did his best to entertain us with this light-weight tale about an alien who crashlands near the Griffith Observatory and tries to allude pursuing scientists. The ending tops all, thought, with a really cool effect that finally lets the viewer see the man behind the mask. Heck, there isn't even a sexy girl to keep us guys in the back row entertained. The plot, at times, actually is a tad interesting and isn't a complete waste of time. There's an interesting back story about the alien's arrival, your typical lab scenes played out with scientific endeavor, and an invisible alien that comes to play on the viewer's sympathy once it's learned that all he's trying to do is survive in Earth's atmosphere. Some of the sci-fi elements in this movie are interesting (the invisible alien being viewed under ultra-violet light, the description of foreign gasses the alien breathes in its helmet) while other sci-fi elements do not seem likely. He then thinks they attacked him because they were afraid of his flamboyant spacesuit, so he takes it off and continues his trip naked. It has trouble breathing on our world and everybody who gets a whiff of him tries to attack it.
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