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This Island Earth (1955)

Passed (US) | USA | English | 86 min

Directed by: Joseph M. Newman, Jack Arnold

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The electronic engineer Dr. Cal Meacham is a prominent scientist that is studying industrial application of nuclear energy and also a great pilot. One day, he receives a different condenser and soon his assistant Joe Wilson receives a manual instruction and several components of a sophisticated machine. Cal and Joe build a communication apparatus and a man called Exeter contacts Cal. He tells that Cal has passed the test assembling the Interocitor and invites him to join his research. The intrigued Cal decides to travel to meet Exeter that sends an unmanned airplane to bring him to an isolated facility in Georgia. He is welcomed by Dr. Ruth Adams but she mysteriously does not recall their love affair in the past. They team-up with Dr. Steve Carlson and they note that the other scientists in the facility have been transformed, having a weird behavior. They decide to flee in a car, but they are attacked by rays and Steve dies. Cal and Ruth also witness the facility blowing-up and they escape in an airplane. However they are pulled up into a flying saucer and realize that Exeter is an alien. Whal is the objective of the aliens?

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Cast & Crew

Joseph M. Newman

Director

Jack Arnold

Director

Jeff Morrow

Exeter

Faith Domergue

Dr. Ruth Adams

Rex Reason

Dr. Cal Meacham

Lance Fuller

Brack

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This Island Earth Trailer 1955

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Joe Dante on THIS ISLAND EARTH

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"This Island Earth" Trailer

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Release Date

USA

(New York City, New York, premiere)

1955-06-10

USA

No data

1955-06-15

No data

1955-06-27

Also Known As (A.K.A.)

This Island Earth

(Original title)

Más allá de la Tierra

Argentina

This Island Earth

Australia

Parent Guide

The "gore," such as it is, is limited to the following:

One character is left lying on a floor, bleeding from facial wounds and half buried in rubble.

Two Mutants (actually, one actor playing two parts in succession) threaten non-Mutant characters. These Mutants have oversized, exposed, and convoluted brains, apparent compound eyes, misshapen mouths, and claw-like pincers for hands and feet. One Mutant is instantly killed and buried under a pile of rubble when a meteoritic bomb strikes and partially levels the building he is in.

The other Mutant is bleeding, and another character says so. This second Mutant gives a character a serious abdominal wound, but the camera understates this. (The wounded man says that his wounds are fatal, but he might be speaking metaphorically or psychologically in that context.) To stop the attack, the leading man strikes the Mutant in his exposed brain with a blunt instrument four times. This causes the Mutant to lose consciousness but does not draw obvious blood or bodily fluids.

This same Mutant chases a woman across a ship's deck, briefly catches her and lifts her off the deck, but then loses his grip and falls, too weak to stand. He then disintegrates into thin air, leaving a thin deposit of apparent ash.

The hero and anti-hero get into a fight on the alien planet. The hero lands two blows, a left uppercut and a right cross, causing the anti-hero to fall unconscious. This character later wakes up, and the hero then threatens him with a rock to warn him not to resume battle. But the two men settle their differences non-violently when pressed by circumstance.

The leading man and lady witness two characters killed outright by directed-energy weapons fire. In addition, a house blows up (shown at a distance), and the leading man later protests the "mass murder" of the people inside it.

The anti-hero twice demonstrates the destructive capacity of the device he uses to communicate at long distances with the hero. These demonstrations produce obvious damage but no physical injury to any character.

The only other violent scenes are obvious allusions to war on an interplanetary scale, and depictions of bombardment and massive urban war damage to a futuristic city. This bombardment and damage continues, and indeed accelerates, during the action. In fact the bombardment rises to a climax as it causes a planet to transform into a star, with obviously fatal implications for anyone remaining alive on that planet. However, on screen, these scenes do not even rise to the level of depictions of artillery or aerial bombardment in typical war films of the period. (And by modern standards, these depictions seem tame.)

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