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Alien
Why this pick
Its blue-collar spacecraft setting, isolated crew, and steadily tightening hunt turn the same hostile-stowaway premise into exceptionally tactile, claustrophobic suspense.
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MOVIE1958 1h 9m USA
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Why this pick
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The Angry Red Planet
Why this pick
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The Green Slime
Why this pick
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
In 1973, a nuclear power spaceship blasts off from Mars for Earth, bringing with it the sole survivor of the first mission, Col. Edward Carruthers (Marshall Thompson). He is suspected of having murdered the other nine members of his crew for their food and water rations, on the premise that he had no way of knowing if or when an Earth rescue mission would ever arrive. Carruthers denies this allegation, attributing his crew's deaths to a hostile humanoid life form on the Mars.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Marshall Thompson
Carruthers
Shirley Patterson
Ann Anderson
Kim Spalding
Van Heusen
Ann Doran
Mary Royce
Dabbs Greer
Eric Royce
Paul Langton
Calder
Robert Bice
Purdue
Richard Benedict
Bob Finelli