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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Sony
EAN: 0043396226197
Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, Dubbed
Label: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Manufacturer: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Number Of Items: 2
Publisher: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Region Code: 99
Release Date: January 15, 2008
Running Time: 83 minutes
Sales Rank: 12552
Studio: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Theatrical Release Date: 1956
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Product Description:
Dr. Russell Marvin heads up Operation Skyhook, which is tasked with sending rockets into the upper atmosphere to probe for future space flights. Unfortunately, all the rockets are somehow disappearing. While investigating this strange occurrence, Russell and his new assistant/wife Carol Marvin are abducted by a flying saucer, where the aliens demand to meet with certain people in order to negotiate. But it was a trick; the aliens only wanted to kill them. The invasion has begun and if Russell and Carol can't find a way to get past their defenses and stop these creatures, it may be the end of the human race.
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A textbook example of '50s-era science fiction, Earth vs. the Flying Saucers boasts not only a solid script and competent performances, but some genuinely impressive stop-motion effects courtesy of one of the industry's uncontested masters, Ray Harryhausen. Scientist Hugh Marlowe (who faced a more benevolent invader from space five years earlier in The Day the Earth Stood Still) discovers that UFOs are responsible for the destruction of a series of exploratory space rockets launched by his space exploration project. The saucers' helmeted pilots land on Earth and deliver an ultimatum to humanity via Marlowe: fealty or complete annihilation.
Harryhausen's painstakingly intricate saucers and the destruction they wreak (particularly during an assault on Washington, D.C.) are the film's unquestionable highlights, but Marlowe and Joan Taylor (as his wife/partner) are capable leads, and veteran B director Fred F. Sears doesn't let the dialogue and expositional scenes fall apart in between the barrage of effects. Earth vs. the Flying Saucers is a fun and effective slice of sci-fi that should please younger audiences as well as nostalgic return viewers. Sears later reused some of the effects footage for his jaw-droppingly awful 1957 effort, The Giant Claw. --Paul Gaita
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First thing's first, as a movie it has many flaws, but of course you can't expect perfect Hollywood cinema here. But in terms of just plain sci-fi fun, this movie triumphs. Harryhausen's effects are as wonderful as always.
Now to ease your curiosity, I'll be the first to admit that while I'm 100% against the colorization of classic B&W films, they did a rare and remarkable job here. Every scene was carefully supervised by Harryhausen himself to make sure the colors are as authentic ... Read More
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Out of all the flying saucer / aliens from Mars classic movies there are, this is not too bad. (I rate "The Day the Earth Stood Still" as #1) The storyline is pretty decent and believable, and the special effects aren't too bad for the time. Nothing compared to todays standards of course, but overall, not bad. Definitely worth adding to your collection of 50's martian / monster movies. Also the actors really did a decent job. The ending is also pretty good. I give it a B+.
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I was unhappy with the item because.
1.It wouldn't play on my DVD player or my computer.
2. the warning that it has to be for a certain region needs to be put up front.
3. when you have to send an item back because it doesn't work it cost the consumer. its like a penalty .
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I wrote the Seller and Amazon because I was sent the wrong movie. I never received and answer from either one of them!
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From the opening scenes of the doofus Air Force fighter pilot to the ditzy airline stewardess dropping the passengers food; you're in for a real treat of 1950's science fiction. Woooooooooo! Just listening to the opening commentary will have you on the floor. Wooooooo! The dramatic "flying saucer music" will make you so tense, you'll pass gas in fear. Wooooooo!
Sit back and enjoy some terrible acting and really stupid-looking aliens. Woooooooooo! UFO's ! The Aliens have landed! Run ... Read More
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