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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: Unrated
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: 9632
Studio: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Theatrical Release Date: 1956-07
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Space scientist Dr. Russell Marvin (Hugh Marlowe) and his wife Carol (Joan Taylor) are working on a secret missile project but every time their rockets are launched they are intercepted and destroyed by the more advanced technology of mysterious flying saucers hovering near the Earth. The alien race has completely surrounded the planet giving Earth the sixty days to surrender. The enemy spacecraft appear indestructible and Marvin sets out to find a weapon that can defeat them. The special effects of stop-motion animator Ray Harryhausen are legendary most notably in the scene in which flying saucers attack the Capitol building in Washington D.C.System Requirements:Running Time: 167 Mins.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: SCI-FI/FANTASY/FANTASY UPC: 043396226197 Manufacturer No: 22619
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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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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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EARTH VS FLYING SAUCERS-(Special Color Edition) was a good old sci-fi movie that I would consider a 3 to 4 star film. The great DVD transfer and new color process provided for a great show on a large screen TV and was very enjoyable. Those not in favor of colorized old B&W films should hear Ray's opinion on this matter, as he now says that if the low budget had permitted it, all of his films would have been in color.
The commentary was also very enjoyable as were the opinions expressed ... Read More
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Earth Vs. The Flying Saucers is pure 1950's B movie fare. The plot and acting are campy, the budget is minuscule, and it's filled with 50's sci-fi clichés, but the film had one thing going for it, and that was the stop-motion wizardry of Ray Harryhausen. Harryhausen's incredible talents made this film rise above other similar films of the era that have been long forgotten. Make no mistake about it...there's no way this movie would be released on a two DVD special edition over 50 years later without ... Read More
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