This Island Earth (1955) Reviews & Ratings

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This Island Earth reviews

This Island Earth holds a 6.0/10 average from 240 TMDB ratings.

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 p…
— John Chard (7/10)

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 R…
— CinemaSerf (7/10)

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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