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The Man from Planet X
Why this pick
Its lonely Scottish-moor setting, spare production and enigmatic visitor create the same quietly uncanny, intimate kind of science-fiction tension.
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MOVIE1954 1h 15m GBR
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
A flying saucer is seen in the sky above the countryside by various eyewitnesses, including an American woman driving in her car. She crashes after being blinded by the craft's landing lights and deafened by its loud propulsion system. A stranger walks up to the car and sees that she is injured.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Willoughby Gray
Tom Harding
Arthur Young
Scientist
Kenneth Edwards
Charles Dixon
Stanley Van Beers
General
Patricia Neal
Susan North
Helmut Dantine
The Stranger
Derek Bond
Arthur Walker
Cyril Luckham
Dr. Meinard