This Island Earth
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Actor: Faith Domergue, Jeff Morrow, Lance Fuller, Rex Reason, Russell JohnsonDVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown), PCM Mono; English (Original Language), PCM Mono
Format: Black & White, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 86 minutes
DVD Release Date: 1998-04-08
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Universal Studios
Summary of This Island Earth
Jeff Morrow stars in this 1950s science fiction classic about the exploits of a team of scientists who are abducted from Earth to help defend a far off planet from a malevolent alien race. Now, light years from home, they will face strange creatures, meteor storms and other hazards in their attempt to get back to Earth.A mysterious, pilotless plane carries scientist Rex Reason to a colony of America's best and brightest minds. They've been kidnapped by a dying alien race, the Metalunians, to repair their defense shield before their enemies destroy their world completely, toiling under their spying eyes and futuristic security cameras (two-way TVs that dominate every room). Jeff Morrow, under a raised forehead, bronze tan, and snow-white hair, philosophizes as Exeter, the thoughtful Metalunian torn between his duty and his morals as he forces the plucky humans to labor in his race's defense. The moody mystery of the first half turns to pure pulp adventure when the humans are transported across the galaxy to the battle-scarred world of Metaluna, under the threatening watch of a monstrous bug-eyed monster with a giant brain for a head and massive claws for hands. There's a genuine sense of wonder to Joseph Newman's intergalactic adventure, one of the most ambitious science fiction films of the 1950s. The story is simple space opera, but the futuristic designs of glass and metal, the marvelous alien makeup, and grandstanding special effects invest the film with a Technicolor splendor. Faith Domergue co-stars as a nuclear physicist and Gilligan's Island's Russell Johnson makes his first professorial appearance as a scientist. Science fiction auteur Jack Arnold was an unbilled codirector. --Sean Axmaker
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