Teenagers from Outer Space (1959)

Note des utilisateurs:

3.1/10   

Réalisateur:

Tom Graeff

Scénariste:

Tom Graeff (written by)

Release Date:

juin 1959 (USA)

Genre:

Sci-Fi | Horror

Accroche:

Teenage hoodlums from another world on a horrendous rampage!

Plot:

A young alien (David Love) falls for a pretty teenage Earth girl (Dawn Anderson) and they team up to try to stop the plans of his invading cohorts...

Plot Keywords:

Alien | Flying Saucer | Giant Lobster | Skeleton | Surrealism

Avis des utilisateurs:

Far Out

Ensemble

David Love	...	Derek
Dawn Bender	...	Betty Morgan (as Dawn Anderson)
Bryan Grant	...	Thor
Harvey B. Dunn	...	Gramps Morgan
Tom Graeff	...	Joe Rogers (as Tom Lockyear)
King Moody	...	Spacecraft Captain (as Robert King Moody)
Helen Sage	...	Nurse Morse
Frederick Welch	...	Dr. C.R. Brandt, MD
Carl Dickensen	...	Gas Station Attendant
Sonia Torgeson	...	Alice Woodward
Billy Bridges	...	Driver picking up Thor
James Conklin	...	Professor Simpson
Gene Sterling	...	The Alien Leader
Ralph Lowe	...	Moreal, Spaceship Crew
Bill DeLand	...	Saul, Spaceship Crew

Autre(s) titre(s):

Invasion of the Gargon (USA) (working title)
Killers from Outer Space (USA) (working title)
The Boy from Out of This World (USA) (working title)
The Gargon Terror (UK)
L'invasion Martienne (France) (DVD title) [fr]

Durée:

86 min | USA:72 min (DVD)

Pays:

USA

Langue:

Anglais

Couleur:

Noir et Blanc

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Son:

Mono

Classification:

USA:Unrated (2005 DVD release) | Canada:PG (Ontario) | UK:PG (video rating) (2004) | UK:X (original rating) (1960) | USA:Approved (PCA #19288)

Emplacements De Pelliculage:

Bronson Canyon, Griffith Park - 4730 Crystal Springs Drive, Los Angeles, California, USA

Company:

Tom Graeff Productions

Anecdotes:

The super alien apparatus with the dials was actually an old audio mixing device (from the days of the bulky vacuum tubes).

Goofs:

Factual errors: When Dr. Brandt removes the two bullets from Thor's shoulder, the bullets are not only 'pristine' and not the least deformed, they also still have the shell casings still on.

Guillemet:

Thor: I will find you. I will find you. I will find you. I will find you. Ahhhhhhggg.

Movie Connections:

Featured in Drive-in Movie Memories (2001)

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****SPOILERS**** With the explosion of youth-oriented movies mixed with science fiction coming out of Hollywood in the 1950's with movies like teenage Werewolves Frankensteins and Zombies a movie about teenagers from outer space couldn't be that far behind.

Landing in the outskirts of town a spacecraft with a number of the crew looking like they just came off the set of a beach party movie plan to release a horde of deadly Gorgans, a crustacean-like creature, that will grow to enormous sizes and devour the entire human race. Later the aliens plan to use the Gorans as lobster soup lobster salad and about a dozen lobster main course dishes to supplement their planets dwindling food supply.

Derek a sensitive as well as rebellious youth, just like the teenagers in many movies made at that time, gets very upset when his fellow spaceman,Thor,shots Sparky, a cute little doggie,who was barking at him and turned the poor pup into a bag of bones. Derek is also secretly reading "The Book",that has been banned by the Leader of his planet, and "The Book" is putting bad ideas into Derek's head of how his planet is being run.

The movie tries to be a little more adult then most teenage movies released at that time with Derek more interested in saving the Earth from the deadly Gorgans then wanting to party around and drive fast sport cars and make out with the girls like you would expect him to do in most teenage movies like this one.

The story is ridicules as Derek is being persuaded by his fellow teenager from outer space Thor in order to either kill him or bring him back home to the Leader. The leader we later find out is Derek's father. The scenes when Thor uses his disintegration gun to turn people and animals into skeletons and the sight of the deadly Gorgans are hilarious instead of scary as the makers of "Teenagers from Outer Space" would have wanted them to be.

The ending of the movie with Derek tricking his father, the Leader, and fellow spacemen into destroying themselves with him included was all too predictable and didn't come off as good as it would have if Derek were to be left alive with his earthling girlfriend Betty and live happily ever after.

You would have hoped that the heartless aliens would have seen the light by getting influenced by the loving and family oriented earthlings and thus be able to see the errors of their ways. Then they would have converted to become members of the human race, like Derek tried to do and become. But that as we all saw in the movie was sadly not to be.