USA, 1956
80m
35mm film, Technicolor, “filmed in CinemaScope”, 2.35:1
mono, English
An American science fiction film directed by Edward Bernds.
Plot Summary
Following their successful mission to Mars, four astronauts return to Earth via a time warp that throws them into the 26th Century. There, They find the planet ruined by nuclear war where they struggle with mutant Neanderthals and giant spiders.
Credits
Crew
Directed by: Edward Bernds
© MCMLVI [1956] by Allied Artists Pictures Corporation
Allied Artists Pictures Corporation
Produced by: Richard Heermance
Production Manager: Allen K. Wood
Story and Screenplay: Edward Bernds
Assistant Director: Don Torpin
Set Continuity: Kathleen Fagan
Photographed by: Ellsworth Fredericks
Film Editor: Eda Warren
Print by: Technicolor
Music Composed and Conducted by: Leith Stevens
Music Editor: Neil Brunnenkant
[Sound] Recorded by: Ralph Butler
Sound Editor: Del Harris
Western Electric Recording
Make-up: Emile LaVigne
Art Director: David Milton
Set Sketches by: Alberto Vargas
Set Decorator: Joseph Kish
Cast
Hugh Marlowe ([John] Borden)
Nancy Gates (Garnet)
Nelson Leigh ([Dr Eldon] Galbraithe)
Rod Taylor ([Herbert] Ellis)
Shawn Smith [real name: Shirley Patterson] (Elaine)
Lisa Montell (Deena)
Christopher Dark ([Henry] Jaffee)
Booth Colman (Mories)
Everett Glass (Timmek)
Stanley Fraser (Elda)
Links
Extracts included in
A Century of Science Fiction (1996)
Press
1956
The Cinema (Today’s Cinema) no.7562 vol.LXXXVII (July 11 1956) p.10
Very wisely this film refuses to take itself too seriously. In fact it takes itself with a very large grain of salt and a healthy slice of cheesecake. When it remembers to do so, it trots out the “scientific” dope – genetic mutation through radiation to account for some splendidly grotesque monsters, airy references to Einstein’s concepts of the space-time continuum – but it does not scorn blondes in futuristic beachwear. […] It has lots of production quality, some well-built cuties, and smart direction which does not permit the audience an unfilled moment in which to have doubts. Good clean fun in the best sense of that battered phrase. – from a review by M.M.W.
References
Periodicals
- The Cinema (Today’s Cinema) no.7562 vol.LXXXVII (July 11 1956) p.10 – review (by M.M.W.)
Books
- Reference Guide to Fantastic Films by Walt Lee p.550-551 – credits
