It Conquered the World

It Conquered the World

Claire Anderson

Dr. Tom Anderson

Joan Nelson

Brig. Gen. James Pattick

Pvt. Manuel Ortiz

Sgt. Neil

Sheriff N.J. Shallert

Floyd Mason

Ellen Peters

Dr. Pete Shelton

U.S. Secretary Platt

George Haskell

Gen. Carpenter

Bazooka Soldier

The Monster

Originally, "Beluah" was built as a squat, flat-topped creature, under the mistaken belief that Venus had higher gravity than Earth's. (It doesn't; Venus' gravity is slightly less than ours.) When it turned out not to be imposing enough - and to actually be shorter than leading lady Beverly Garland - a tapering conical top was added to it.

Paul Blaisdell's friend Bob Burns restored the costume when it came into his possession long after Blaisdell's death. The photographs of it in his book "It Came From Bob's Basement" reveal it to be beet-red in color.

Peggie Castle was originally cast as Joan Nelson, but had to pull out of the project shortly before filming began. She was replaced by Sally Fraser, who did it as a favor for director Roger Corman, a friend, even though she was five months pregnant at the time.

The tires squeal on the dirt road at the end of the film.

Shortly after the power dies and Peter Graves' car stops, he and Sally Fraser start walking to Lee Van Cleef's house. They look up and see a plane explode. Graves asks Fraser for the time in case the police want them to be witnesses. However, they never bring up the plane crash to anyone, not even Van Cleef and Beverly Garland when they get to the house.

You can see the furniture castors that the creature is wheeled out on in several scenes.

Paul Nelson: He learned almost too late that man is a feeling creature... and because of it, the greatest in the universe. He learned too late for himself that men have to find their own way, to make their own mistakes. There can't be any gift of perfection from outside ourselves. And when men seek such perfection... they find only death... fire... loss... disillusionment... the end of everything that's gone forward. Men have always sought an end to the toil and misery, but it can't be given, it has to be achieved. There is hope, but it has to come from inside, from Man himself.

Claire Anderson: [raising her rifle] You think you're gonna make a slave of the world... I'll see you in Hell first!

Dr. Tom Anderson: He wants you on his side. Next to me, he wants you.