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This Island Earth

2½ Years in the Making!

1955 · 1h 25m

Directed by Joseph M. Newman and Jack Arnold

6.0

TMDB audience score
249 votes, out of 10

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Synopsis

Aliens have landed and are hiding on Earth, but need Earth’s scientists to help them fight an inter-planetary war.

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Cast

  • Rex Reason
    Dr. Cal Meacham

  • Faith Domergue
    Dr. Ruth Adams

  • Jeff Morrow
    Exeter

  • Lance Fuller
    Brack

  • Robert Nichols
    Joe Wilson

  • Russell Johnson
    Steve Carlson

  • Douglas Spencer
    The Monitor of Metaluna

  • Karl Ludwig Lindt
    Dr. Adolph Engelborg

  • Regis Parton
    Mutant (uncredited)

  • Richard Deacon
    Pilot (uncredited)

  • Coleman Francis
    Express Deliveryman (uncredited)

  • Robert B. Williams
    Webb (uncredited)

  • Charlotte Alpert
    Metaluna Woman at Decompression Console (uncredited)

  • Spencer Chan
    Dr. Hu Ling Tang (uncredited)

  • Lizalotta Valesca
    Dr. Marie Pitchner (uncredited)