USA, 1954
75m
35mm film, black and white, 1.78:1
mono (RCA Sound System), English
An American science fiction film directed by Sherman A. Rose.
Plot Summary
An army of alien robots attacks an American city. Strangers Nora King and Frank Brooks are left behind in the ruins and team up with couple Vicki Harris and Jim Wilson to try to escape the clutches of the robots but run afoul of psychopathic killer Davis.
Credits
Crew
Directed by: Sherman A. Rose
Copyright MCMLIV [1954] by Allied Artists Pictures Corp.
Allied Artists Pictures Corporation presents. An Abtcon Pictures, Inc. production
Produced by: Herman Cohen
Production Manager: Clarence Eurist
Screenplay by: Bill Raynor
Original Screenplay by: James Nicholson, Wyott Ordung
Based Upon the Story “Deadly City” by: Paul W. Fairman
Assistant Director: Jack Murphy
Script Supervisor: Dolores Rubin
Director of Photography: Guy Roe
Editorial Supervisor: Sherman A. Rose
Music Composed and Conducted by: Paul Dunlap
Orchestration by: Robert Miller
Sound: Earl Snyder
Sound Effects Editor: Kathleen Rose
Wardrobe: Robert Olivas
Makeup: Stanley Orr
Special Effects: David Koehler
Special Photographic Effects: Howard A. Anderson Co.
Art Director: James Sullivan
Set Decorator: Morris Hoffman
Property Master: Max Frankel
Production Secretary: Donna Heydt
Cast
Richard Denning (Frank Brooks)
Kathleen Crowley (Nora King)
Virginia Grey (Vicki Harris)
Richard Reeves (Jim Wilson)
Robert Roark (Davis)
Mort Marshall (Charles Otis)
Arthur Space (general)
Whit Bissell (scientist)
Jim Drake (lieutenant)
Steve Pendleton (colonel)
House Peters Jr (technician)
Alternative Titles
Cel: Ziemia – Poland
Invasão do Mundo – Brazil
Invasores de otros mundos – Mexico, Spain, USA (Spanish)
Obbiettivo Terra – Italy
Objectif Terre – France
Objectif, la Terre – Belgium (French DVD)
Objetivo: La Tierra – Spain (alternative)
Stohos i Gi – Greece
Στόχος η Γη – Greece
Цель – Земля – Russia
Links
Extracts included in
100 Years of Horror: Aliens (1996)
Monster Mania (1991)
More Human Than Human (2018)
See also
Mars Attacks! (1996)
References
Periodicals
- Daily Film Renter no.6988 28 October 1955) p.3
- The Hollywood Reporter vol.132 no.31 (22 December 1954) p.4
- Kinematograph Weekly no.2523 (3 November 1955) p.24
- Monthly Film Bulletin vol.22 no.263 (December 1955) p.183
- Motion Picture Herald vol.196 no.4 (24 July 1954) p.36
- Motion Picture Herald vol.198 no.2 (8 January 1955) p.274
- Today’s Cinema vol.85 no.7384 (28 October 1955) p.8
- Variety 29 December 1954
Books
- The Allied Artists Checklist by Len D. Martin p.128 – credits, synopsis, note
- American International Pictures: A Comprehensive Filmography by Rob Craig p.361
- The Aurum Film Encyclopedia: Science Fiction by Phil Hardy (ed) p.148
- Horror and Science Fiction Films II by Donald C. Willis p.385
- Reference Guide to Fantastic Films by Walt Lee p.475
- Rock ‘n’ Roll Monsters: The American International Story by Bruce G. Hallenbeck p.79
