

This Island Earth
2½ Years in the Making!
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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- Status
- Released
- Budget
- $800K
- Box office
- $1.7M
- Language
- English
- spacecraft
- flying saucer
- extraterrestrial technology
- mutant
- nobel prize
- space travel
- georgia
- resettlement
- alien
- nuclear scientist
- space
- scientist
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Release dates
United StatesUS
- Theatrical10 Jun 1955
United KingdomGB
- TheatricalPG22 Jun 1955
FranceFR
- Theatrical19 Oct 1955
GermanyDE
- Theatrical1225 Dec 1956
ItalyIT
- TheatricalT7 Jan 1956
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This Island Earth was released on 10 June 1955.
Audience reviews
2- J7/10
John Chard
9/9/2019
Captures the fear of the atomic age perfectly. Carl Meacham is an atomic scientist, who after passing a cunning test, gets invited to work at a top secret lab out in Georgia by the rather odd looking man known as Exeter. The project is apparently in the cause of finding world peace, and once arriving at his destination, Carl finds other notable scientists are also there, including the radiant Ruth Adams. As things…
- C7/10
CinemaSerf
11/14/2022
I remember watching this film on television in the 70s and loving it. Whilst I'm not quite so impressed by it now, it is still quite a clever sci-fi yarn about an alien species, themselves under dire threat of extinction, who come to earth to assemble a team of scientists to help save their planet from an enemy bent on destroying it. Jeff Morrow has the slightly conical head as "Exeter" - their leader who recruits Re…
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