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Earth vs. the Flying Saucers

Duration:

83 min

Genres:

Fantasy | Horror | Sci-Fi

IMDB rate:

6.4

Director:

Fred F. Sears

Awards:

1 win

Details

Country: USA

Filming Locations: Hyperion Water Treatment Facility - 12000 Vista Del Mar, Playa del Rey, Los Angeles, California, USA

Cast

Actor

Character

Harry Lauter

Hugh Marlowe

Dr. Russell A. Marvin

Joan Taylor

Carol Marvin

Donald Curtis

Maj. Huglin

Morris Ankrum

Brig. Gen. John Hanley

John Zaremba

Prof. Kanter

Thomas Browne Henry

Vice Adm. Enright

Grandon Rhodes

Gen. Edmunds

Larry J. Blake

Motorcycle Cop (as Larry Blake)

Fred Aldrich

Airplane Passenger / Officer in Sighting Montage / Man in Saucer Attack (uncredited)

Nicky Blair

Military Officer at Experiment (uncredited)

Charles Evans

Dr. Alberts (uncredited)

Paul Frees

Alien (voice) (uncredited)

Duke Green

Bit Role (uncredited)

Clark Howat

Sgt. Nash (uncredited)

Don Marlowe

Bit Role (uncredited) (unconfirmed)

William Meader

Worker in Control Tower (uncredited)

Forbes Murray

Military Officer at Experiment (uncredited)

Mike Ragan

Bit Role (uncredited) (unconfirmed)

Alan Reynolds

Maj. Kimberly (uncredited)

Bert Stevens

Officer in UFO Sighting Montage (uncredited)

Arthur Tovey

Officer / Civilian at Military Conference (uncredited)

Dale Van Sickel

Man Crushed Beneath Wall (uncredited)

Frank Wilcox

Alfred Cassidy (uncredited)

Beal Wong

Chinese Radio Listener (uncredited)

Did you know?

Trivia

One of the scenes of a saucer attacking jets is actually based on footage of an air show crash.

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Columbia's publicity department created publicity stills using the cut-and-paste technique. The resulting stills of the flying saucers were vastly inferior to the special effects in the film itself. In fact, one of the more infamous stills shows Hugh Marlowe and Joan Taylor standing on top of the water in the middle of the Potomac River.

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Ray Harryhausen stated in his biography that this is his least favorite of his films.

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Goofs

When the aliens destroyed the navy ship, they gave the location as a longitude and latitude with no reference to north/south and east/west. Without these directions those two numbers could describe four different points on the globe.

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While they are aboard the flying saucer, Carol Marvin is shown to be hugging her husband in some shots and not in others.

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When Dr. Marvin is being interrogated by the officials, he complains that they've been there all night and that it's late, the others concur and the meeting breaks up. However, the window in the room plainly shows that it's broad daylight outside, and when Marvin subsequently drives to his hotel (and at one point states that it's now 4:30 AM) it's also clearly daytime.

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Quotes

Carol Marvin: My father! What have you done to him?

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Maj. Huglin, Liason Officer: [to Alien] What makes you think you can conquer us without a fight?

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Russell Marvin: [into tape recorder] July 16, to Internal Security Commission, re: Sky Hook. Summary and progress report, from project director, Dr. Russell A. Marvin.

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Faq

What is that Shakespeare quotation from?

When Carol Marvin (Joan Taylor) speaks into the translating machine, she quotes the first two lines from Portia's famous speech to Shylock in The Merchant of Venice. The entire speech reads:The quality of mercy is not strain'd,It droppeth as the gentle rain from heavenUpon the place beneath: it is twice blest;It blesseth him that gives and him that takes:'Tis mightiest in the mightiest: it becomesThe throned monarch better than his crown;His sceptre shows the force of temporal power,The attribute to awe and majesty,Wherein doth sit the dread and fear of kings;But mercy is above this sceptred sway;It is enthroned in the hearts of kings,It is an attribute to God himself;And earthly power doth then show likest God'sWhen mercy seasons justice. Therefore, Jew,Though justice be thy plea, consider this,That, in the course of justice, none of usShould see salvation: we do pray for mercy;And that same prayer doth teach us all to renderThe deeds of mercy. I have spoke thus muchTo mitigate the justice of thy plea;Which if thou follow, this strict court of VeniceMust needs give sentence 'gainst the merchant there.

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