PodBill Just what I expected

Sexyloutak Absolutely the worst movie.

FuzzyTagz If the ambition is to provide two hours of instantly forgettable, popcorn-munching escapism, it succeeds.

Darin One of the film's great tricks is that, for a time, you think it will go down a rabbit hole of unrealistic glorification.

qmtv 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.

Scott LeBrun "The Man from Planet X" is routine overall, but it has a reasonably interesting concept - that of a wandering planet that has left its orbit - and has enough heavy atmosphere to make it an entertaining view. Said planet will come closest to Earth around the area of an island off the Scottish coast. Soon the locals realize that a representative of an alien intelligence has landed. The amusing looking creature seems to be harmless at first, but when ambitious and greedy scientist Dr. Mears (the solid veteran character actor William Schallert) starts bullying the creature into giving him information, it changes its mind and gets hostile, turning Mears and others into zombie slaves. It's up to intrepid American reporter John Lawrence (Robert Clarke) to figure out a way to stop an invasion from taking place, and to get word to the authorities.B movie perennials Clarke and director Edgar G. Ulmer are in fine form here; Ulmer did a fine job of working his way around the low, low budgets of his films. Here he has the crew add fog to the sets of the Ingrid Bergman film "Joan of Arc" to create an eerie feel. There's a minimum of characters until the climax when citizens are mobilized against the menace; until then there's a rather intimate feel to the proceedings, and the pacing is deliberate, with a focus on mood and feel rather than action.The acting is sincere from all concerned, with Clarke a likable, low key leading man, and lovely Margaret Field (mother of Sally Field) an appealing leading lady. Schallert is malevolent fun as the self centered Mears; other nice characterizations are by Raymond Bond as eminent scientist Professor Elliot and Roy Engel as Tommy the Constable. Clocking in at a trim 71 minutes, "The Man from Planet X", written and produced by Aubrey Wisberg and Jack Pollexfen, is a good if not great little film worth a look for genre buffs.Seven out of 10.

paris_whitney_hilton_nyc I was watching this film last night and dozing off and on so I can't write a completely accurate review . A lady in Scotland gets a flat tire in the middle of nowhere . Instead of changing the tire or driving on the rim , she walks over to a glowing light she sees out there on the moors . When she gets up close to what looks a lot like a silver porta potty or giant Christmas tree ornament , a little guy with a big face resembling Pee Wee Herman, peeks out of a port hole and scares the living bejesus out of her . She runs home and tells her boyfriend to-be about it . I refer to him as the guy in the World War Two bomber jacket . He goes back to the site with his friend and they come upon the man from space . The little alien pulls a ray gun on the pair of earthlings but has a faithing spell and passes out . Instead of grabbing the ray gun , The bomber jacket guy decides to do a good deed and opens up an oxygen valve that makes the unconscious spaceman come to . That valve looked a lot like the old fashion petcocks on classic automobile radiators . Anyway, the two guys run away but the spaceman follows them home like a lost puppy . Our hero tries to communicate with the alien dwarf but the little guy is not too bright . Later on another guy who used to play Patty Duke's TV father roughs up the little fellow in what looked like a scene from good cop - bad cop . Anyway, the alien turns out to be a bad guy after all . He hypnotizes a lot of the townsfolk into digging holes around his spaceship . I thought they were going to grow a victory garden for him or something . It turns out that Planet X where he came from was going to pass by the earth . All his buddies were supposed to somehow jump off their planet and on to ours . But a few British soldiers fired a few rounds with their pop guns and foiled the plot to take over the Earth . During the battle , Patty Duke's father gets hit by shrapnel and dies . The other men had already wandered away because the hero convinced them to follow him . Planet X whizzes by the Earth at about a million miles an hour and disappears into deep space . The British bazooka team score a direct hit and the space ship goes up in smoke . Only the spaceman and Patty Duke's Father die in this no so exciting sci-fi movie . In the final scene the hero and his girlfriend go strolling near the seaside during a typhoon wearing their brand new overcoats .... The End ! ... Did people actually pay money to see this waste of time ? I think teenagers went to the theatre just to make-out while the little kids were more interested in the candy counter than the movie . ..... Definitely Not Hot !

dougdoepke What can you say about a movie that pays its male lead (Clarke) all of $210, total, or its director (Ulmer) $300, total. Or whose Scottish town consists of a painting hung on a wall. Actually, you can say a lot because moviemaker Ulmer is the Orson Welles of poverty row. So, almost by magic, he turns the two or three spare sets, foggy moors, and skimpy special effects into an atmospheric little thriller worth remembering. I still recall the audience shrieks from 60 years ago when the alien lunges, face first, at the window pane and us. I'll bet there wasn't a dry seat in the house.And what a strange alien he is. The only one I've seen who's so weak, he couldn't win a wrestling match with a jelly fish. No wonder he just wants to make friends. But with a mug like an Aztecan death mask, it's difficult. Then too, where did they get the design for the space ship. That too is like nothing I've seen, looking more like a Xmas tree ornament than anything else (as another reviewer points out). However, there is Sally Field's perky mom, Margaret, with a design I can really get into. Too bad our leading man is too busy saving the world to notice.Anyhow, 60-years later, it's still a good creepy film with an energized cast that don't seem to mind the poverty row paycheck.