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This Island Earth

2½ Years in the Making!

  • Movie
  • 1955
  • 1h 25m

Directed by Joseph M. Newman and Jack Arnold

6.0

TMDB audience rating
6.0 out of 10 from 249 votes

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Overview

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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Cast and crew

  • Rex Reason

    Rex ReasonDr. Cal Meacham

  • Faith Domergue

    Faith DomergueDr. Ruth Adams

  • Jeff Morrow

    Jeff MorrowExeter

  • Lance Fuller

    Lance FullerBrack

  • Robert Nichols

    Robert NicholsJoe Wilson

  • Russell Johnson

    Russell JohnsonSteve Carlson

  • Douglas Spencer

    Douglas SpencerThe Monitor of Metaluna

  • Karl Ludwig Lindt

    Karl Ludwig LindtDr. Adolph Engelborg

  • Regis Parton

    Regis PartonMutant (uncredited)

  • Richard Deacon

    Richard DeaconPilot (uncredited)

  • Coleman Francis

    Coleman FrancisExpress Deliveryman (uncredited)

  • Robert B. Williams

    Robert B. WilliamsWebb (uncredited)

  • Charlotte AlpertMetaluna Woman at Decompression Console (uncredited)

  • Spencer Chan

    Spencer ChanDr. Hu Ling Tang (uncredited)

  • Lizalotta ValescaDr. Marie Pitchner (uncredited)

Director
Joseph M. Newman and Jack Arnold
Writer
Franklin Coen, Raymond F. Jones and George Callahan
Cinematography
Clifford Stine