The Man from Planet X (1951) on Netflix
Approved19511h 10mHorrorRomanceSci-Fi
Reporter John Lawrence flies to a remote Scottish island where his friend Professor Elliot has charted a planet nearing Earth. A spaceship lands on the moor and a humanoid visitor steps out.
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Plot summary
A previously unknown planet, which Professor Elliot calls Planet X, is moving toward Earth, and the professor invites his friend John Lawrence, an American newspaper reporter, to the remote Scottish island where he works so Lawrence can cover its approach. While they wait for the planet to come closest, a torpedo-shaped craft lands on the moor and a humanoid visitor emerges. Elliot and Lawrence try to communicate with the visitor and cannot. Dr. Mears, who works with the professor, learns that the visitor speaks in musical tones, and he wants the metal formula for the visitor's ship. The visitor depends on a tank of its own atmosphere to survive.
Cast
- David Ormontas Inspector Porter
- Gilbert Fallmanas Dr. Robert Blane
- Pat Goldinas The Man from Planet X
- Tom Dalyas Donal - a searcher
- June Jefferyas Wife of Missing Man
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about The Man from Planet X (1951)
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- Pat Goldin and dwarf actor Billy Curtis were both rumored to be the unknown actor who played the alien visitor, but Robert Clarke, often named as the source of the Goldin rumor, never actually knew his name, nor did cast members Margaret Field and William Schallert.
- In order to save money, the film was shot on sets built for the 1948 Ingrid Bergman film Joan of Arc, using artificial fog to change moods and plot locations and to hide the lack of backdrops and staged landscapes for the outdoor scenes.
- The alien can communicate using only modulated musical sounds, a concept later used in 1977 in Steven Spielberg's film Close Encounters of the Third Kind.
