☆ ☆ ☆ ☆
This Island Earth (1955) -- J. M. Newman
Fully prepared for
campy schlock (possibly of the most boring kind), instead I found This Island
Earth to be a fairly gripping episode of proto-Star Trek (the original TV
series). Sure, we've got 1950s acting
styles, dated technology, and actors never seen again, but sympathy is created
for Exeter, the man from the planet under attack, who needs Earth's atomic
energy scientists to help him sustain a force field shield. After a rather too
long prelude, things go from weird to wonderful, especially in the art-directed
exteriors of Metaluna. As a double
feature with Forbidden Planet (which it was), it couldn't be beat.
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