It! The Terror from Beyond Space (1958) Trailer

It! The Terror from Beyond Space (1958)
Director: Edward L. Cahn;
STARRING:

Marshall Thompson ... Col. Edward Carruthers;
Shirley Patterson ... Ann Anderson;
Kim Spalding ... Col. Van Heusen;
Ann Doran ... Dr. Mary Royce;
Dabbs Greer ... Eric Royce;
Paul Langton ... Lt. James Calder;
Robert Bice ... Maj. John Purdue;
Richard Benedict ... Bob Finelli;
Richard Hervey ... Gino Finelli;
Thom Carney ... Joe Keinholz;
Ray Corrigan ... It

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• Atomic Age
• Sci Fi from the 1950s

[jimtrueblue99]

I love this movie. I love all the wild gunshots and flying bullets and grenade explosions and screaming shrapnel--in a SPACESHIP! I love how they try to gas the creature--apparently air doesn't circulate in that rocket. And how they try to electrocute it--in a metal spaceship that would conduct current everywhere! And then how they try to kill it with radiation--that affects nobody else on the ship. Who needs science in science fiction? Or even commonsense?

[RadiationCinema]

@jimtrueblue99 : You got it! 

[Magnolia296]

Don't compare this cheap trash to legendary Alien. Ridley Scott never heard about this movie when he was making his Alien and the main script writer of alien was influenced by another book

[RadiationCinema]

@Magnolia296 - You are a spokesman for Ridley Scott? In Fact, Scott has often said how much he loves 1950's sci fi.

[nr1osfan]

I read somewhere that this movie was the inspiration for the movie Aliens.

[RadiationCinema]

You are correct!

[skorzeny13]

I just loved this movie too... it scared the shit out of me when i was a little kid... and of course all spaceships need bazookas, m1 garands and boxes of hand grenades plus a few ladies to ummm make coffee? hahaha good stuff

[nicolashrv]

@nr1osfan this and at least 5 others. Space Vampires was one. In fact O'bannon often had to admit he stolen the alien script from hundreds of different sources.

[gaIIery]

@Magnolia296 I believe O'Bannon and Shusett gave credit to a comic book story called "Seeds Of Venus"

[drystyx]

When the film first came out in 1979, I could tell it was a remake of It! It's how I knew the way the film would end, any way. It wouldn't have been a huge coincidence if It! didn't spawn the film, but to think that Ridley never saw It! is ridiculous. Ridley obviously was paying homage to the classic sci fi film.

[PoppaBlue59]

This movie had been out for 4-5 years when I saw it. It scared th JeeBeebers outta me!

[DAVIDALD49]

Ridley Scott certainly new who Edward Cahn was. This is the basis for Alien.

[Magnolia296]

@RadiationCinema Scott just filmed Alien and didn't write it. Scriptwriters of Alien were influenced by another book released in early 70s. I don't remember the title but you can find it on IMDb (section - Trivia)